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 […]
Tag Archives: BAKING
A Birthday Cake Birthday Cake
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 […]
A Christmas Cookie Re-do
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, […]
Meringues 2.0
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 […]
Honeydew Matcha Macarons
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 […]
Meringues
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, […]
Let them eat cake!
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 […]
A Sip n’ See
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 […]
Vanilla and Cranberry Macarons
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 […]
Gingerbread Macarons
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 […]
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