Teaching you how to make baked goods into delicious art every week. Join me for unique recipes, some goofs and fails, and crazy cake decorating techniques.
I recently posted a video tutorial and recipe on how to make edible/safe-to-eat cookie dough, and since I had a jar from DoughTO (a cookie dough pop-up shop in Toronto), and my own jar of homemade cookie dough to compare, I was starting to worry that I'd never finish the cookie dough on my own. …
Continue reading Vamping Up Vanilla Cake (Cookie Dough Cake Recipe)
I recently did a fun little Q&A on my instagram story, telling people to ask me any kind of questions they had about Cedrik (my fiancé) and I. Someone asked if we could make video where Cedrik bakes and I tell him what to bake, and it actually turned out to be quite the challenge, …
I’ve come to realize the simpler things in life, are often the most awe-inspiring. Lately, I’ve been experimenting a lot with “painted” cakes -- using coloured buttercream, and smearing it on to the cake as if it’s a canvas. I keep finding inspiration in flowers, and this time I stumbled upon a tin of culinary …
Hello beautiful people! Some of you may know that I do cake orders and make custom cakes for people in the area, so even though I mostly have free reign over my cake designs, I still have to follow a theme. Every once in a while, I make a cake all for myself and I …
So my last recipe (Matcha Almond Joy (Coconut Macaroon Recipe)) has matcha in it, and this weeks recipe/tutorial is also very full of matcha! What can I say? I am obsessed with, and LOVE the taste of matcha. Matcha and coconut are a wonderful pairing, but matcha and pistachio is basically a match(a) made in …
Hello friends! I haven't been posting recently since I've been doing a lot less recipe development, and a whole lot more cake designing, so I thought I'd write a post about my whole process behind designing a cake. Everything starts with an idea, of course. Usually my client will come to me with a few …
Every time I attempt to bake vegan desserts, I feel like I'm learning to bake all over again. However, there's nothing I love more than a challenge -- and that's exactly what vegan baking is to me. I decided that since we're entering the lovely month of September, and pears are in season, poached pears …
I always seem to have at least five or more egg yolks in my fridge at a time since I'm always making Italian meringue buttercream, which as you might know, requires A LOT of egg whites. I usually make leche flan in order to use up those egg yolks, but in order to change things …
This buttercream cake is made with layers of luscious lemon cake, sweet raspberry buttercream, and covered in gold drips. Pretty and delicious!
After seeing "birthday cake" everywhere, and being really confused about how "birthday cake" could be a smell or flavour of its own, I did some research. Turns out, birthday cake is just vanilla cake with sprinkles! The birthday cake flavour is really just the strong and familiar scent of artificial vanilla flavouring. I've been getting …
