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I've been in the habit of looking at old photos from my travels a lot lately -- to the point where I think it may be a little bit unhealthy. The album I find myself gravitating to a lot lately, is the one where I was in the Philippines. Every time I look at it, …
Continue reading When the Churro Craving Hits (Churro Bites + Spicy Chocolate Sauce Recipe)
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 -- …
In the winter time, I was a regular vendor at a farmer's market at University of Toronto, and my best seller of this market was definitely these beautiful, two-toned, raspberry mango macarons. I never thought to do a recipe/tutorial for them because I was making them so often, but now that we are going through …
It's been a few months since I got engaged to my fiancé, and it almost feels like time has been flying by ever since. I have been looking into wedding planning, wedding dresses, endless amounts of vendors, guest lists, invites, you name it. I feel like I've gotten a good chunk of planning done, and …
Can you believe it's already September?! Before this summer started, I was excited for the summer sun to beam down on me, cute summer activities appropriate for warm weather, beach days, long days, late nights, BUT IN A BLINK OF AN EYE, it is now September and I barely got to do any of those. …
Is this something straight out of Willy Wonka? I often feel like the magic of decoration and pastry is what drew me into this whole profession. I feel like baking and pastry puts you in a position where you never stop learning, and when I get to try out new techniques, I feel like a …
Bonjour mes amis! Hello my friends! I've been finding myself going through so many changes in my life, which started out with job hunting, getting interviewed at multiple places, and then turning down job offers because everything changed and I've decided to move! So many things have happened in such a short amount of time …
Last weekend I made a last minute decision to go to Toronto’s Festival of Beer with my best friends and my fiancé. It turned out to be a great day spent indulging in beer, wine, tacos, oysters, and poutine, and performances by Ja Rule and Ashanti at the end of the night which threw me …
Continue reading 3 Healthy Breakfast Recipes for When You’ve Been Drinkin’
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 …
Continue reading Matcha Cheesetart Recipe (Inspired by Uncle Tetsu)
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)
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