Baby’s First Birthday Party
This time last year, Mike and I were on to the second hospital of Atlas’ birth story and starting to settle in to our new routine of daily trips to […]
This time last year, Mike and I were on to the second hospital of Atlas’ birth story and starting to settle in to our new routine of daily trips to […]
First comes Christmas, then a new year, and then it’s Mike’s birthday; for as long as I can remember our holiday season always starts with a sip of eggnog and […]
Macarons were alway my cookie-to-bake of choice. Learning to bake a consistent batch may have taken much frustration and a consecutive series of trial and error, but once baked, filled, […]
Making meringues or, as I like to call them, the halfway macarons [as they are step 1 in the process] may be twice the bake time compared to a macaron […]
Macarons are hard enough to pull off in the quietest of settings let alone under the pressure of an unpredictable sleeping baby who may wake up at any second. These […]
After the cakes, came the meringues! As I brainstormed quick + easy dessert ideas for the party, meringues were at the top of my list. They require few ingredients and, […]
The first item on my ‘to-bake’ dessert list was cake. As cake could be baked in advanced and frozen, I did all my cake bake prep first so that come […]
I now understand why baby showers are best celebrated while one is still pregnant. Once that baby is roaming the earth, your party planning productivity falls off a cliff and […]
As promised, here is macaron recipe #2. I landed on a more basic flavour to accompany the gingerbread macaron batch I shared earlier. The best part is, the extra ingredients […]
Holiday baking was in full force this week. The baking started with my lemon curd cookies and is culminating with, of course, my macarons. Before holiday 2017 is up, I’m […]