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Daring Bakers January: Tuiles!

After missing last month’s challenge, I wanted to make sure I had time to do this month’s. And then… I found out I needed a root canal. No, I’m not joking. Fortunately for me, I wasn’t in the stage where the tooth is in such pain that you can’t function. We caught this pretty early, [...]


The Cupcakery

Cupcakes are a bit of a contentious issue here in Toronto. We argue about who has the best ones, who uses real butter in their buttercream, and if it’s really worth it to pay $3 for a single cupcake. There’s even a cupcake camp happening next weekend! For my birthday, I asked Rich to pick [...]


Holiday recap, part 4: keep your fork!

I know, I know. It’s mid-January and here I am with more holiday recap posts. Well, this one contains pie, so I hope you’ll forgive me for dragging things on. This recipe was really easy to make vegan. All I had to do was substitute for butter in the crust (by making it all vegetable [...]


Daring Bakers November: Delicious Caramel

This month’s recipe was Caramel Cake with Caramelized Butter Icing courtesy of Shuna Fish Lydon, as published on Bay Area Bites. Sounds tasty, right? The recipe involved a great deal of butter, sugar, and making your own caramel syrup to be used as part of the cake. Since Rich’s birthday is November 9th, I decided [...]


For Thanksgiving, to my lovely Mouseycat

Sorry I’ve taken a bit of a hiatus, folks. I’ve got more posts about Halifax on the way, and a few other things as well.  But I needed some time away from internet things. Thanksgiving here in Canada was the weekend of October 11th.  I had all kinds of plans to bake and cook and [...]