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I make strawberry shortcake every. single. year. It is my go-to summer cake because it is so amazingly simple and delicious. I wanted to try and change it up this year and create a strawberry shortcake that was slightly different from all of my previous years, while still keeping the beautiful simplicity of it. So …
Live from my household/prison, I give you this matcha cookie recipe. I call this "quarantine baking" or "quarantine boredom" or simply just finding ways to use up my leftover black sesame powder and matcha powder in my cupboard. My whole family is home, and a full house means that the kitchen is almost always occupied. …
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I'm finally back to the wedding cake planning! I've decided to schedule in a few more cake flavour testings within the next month and a half, and hopefully I'll have my wedding cake flavour by the end of this year. I am getting very antsy about getting a move on with the next steps -- …
Every time I end up at Yonge & Dundas square in downtown Toronto, I always gravitate down Dundas to the Uncle Tetsu shops -- famous for their Japanese style cheesecakes, madeleines, and different flavoured cheesetarts. I always end up buying a box of cheesetarts with the assorted flavours of original, matcha, and chocolate -- six …
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It has been a while since I've written a blog post, and it’s because I’ve been working on a new series called Baking Basics, where I break down some super crucial, yet often overlooked tips when it comes to baking. The first five episodes are all about baking the perfect cake, and the sixth episode …
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 …
Sometimes I get this craving for coconut macaroons that hits me out of nowhere. In this case I kept thinking about Almond Joy chocolate bars, which sparked the craving for coconut, and then coconut macaroons. Now pair that random craving with a little (okay major) obsession with matcha, and that is how I came up …
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BONBON. Break it down now -- bon-bon. Literally translating from French to good-good. That's how good these are. Let me start off by saying I love chocolate. Now add in some flavours you don't always see in chocolate bars, and I will go crazy. I decided to make my own chocolate bonbons because I enjoy tempering chocolate …
I love many things in this world, with some of those things being cake, crepes, and matcha green tea. Combine it into one glorious thing and it becomes the matcha crepe cake filled with vanilla whipped cream. Yummmmmmm.
Hello everyone! I know it's been a while, in the middle of all my recipe testing and video editing, I ended up having cake orders and birthdays, so I am very sorry for the delay. I can't remember the last time I baked something only to have it make me want to pull my hair …
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