7 March 2011
Meringue cupcakes with raspberry curd
I don't remember having a "blanky," a "binky," a "dolly," or any number of "fill-in-the-blank-y"s growing up. Sure, I had my stuffed animals, but I never (...)
5 December 2011
Peach Crumble
I've been treating my feet like garbage lately, a fact which is evident by the blistered skin on my heels and the cuts on their tops.Hours in various shoes (...)
7 March 2011
Pecan Praline Cake
After carefully checking it for lingering traces of peanut butter, I plunge the blunt-end of a butter knife into my tall thermos. A simple twirl creates a (...)
9 March 2015
Chocolate and Oreo brittle cupcakes for a day at the lake
Towering over us, he was a monster. Stout, but still somewhere above the mark of six feet, he cast a shadow longer – and wider - than anything around him. And (...)
7 March 2011
Girly maraschino cherry lamingtons
I briefly considered opening this post with a paragraph-long deprecation of Valentine's Day, but I did something along those lines last year, so why do it (...)
23 February 2012
Grapefruit Cake
Over the past month, I've enjoyed waking up to quietness and going about my morning routine alone. I've become accustomed to the ease and speed of making (...)
8 January 2012
How to Make Swiss Meringue Buttercream
I receive A LOT of emails and comments about buttercream. I try to respond to them as thoroughly and promptly as I can, but sometimes I just don't have the (...)
10 June 2011
Mocha Cupcakes
All he had to do was laugh. Wearing yesterday's clothes, I woke up on my friend's living room floor hopelessly tangled in an unzipped sleeping bag. It was (...)
22 July 2011
Pineapple coconut cake with buttercream and Swiss meringue
It’s funny – I’m more reflective of the past year now, on my second blogging anniversary, than I was on my birthday. It seems a lot of things have changed (...)
2 November 2012
Spiced oat cake with ginger plum buttercream and oat crunch
I'm currently competing to win some prizes on Tate's Bake Shop's Facebook Page. Perhaps you'd like to enter yourself, or maybe you could spare me some votes (...)
1 August 2011
Chocolate cake with vanilla Italian meringue buttercream
Enjoying the damp, dark quiet of an unremarkable night, I'm walking alone on the sidewalk. It seems to move beneath my feet like a giant treadmill and I find (...)
10 January 2015
How to make parchment cupcake and muffin liners
When I was making these Cinnamon Fig muffins last weekend, I noticed, quite unfortunately, that I was out of liners. I consulted the interwebs for some (...)
25 November 2011
Cranberry and Orange Shortbread
Too short, too weak, too uncertain and too eager. That's me, a decade ago, at Grandma's side in the kitchen. Grandma, composed and efficient, effortlessly (...)
25 August 2010
How to Make Italian Meringue Buttercream
When choosing between Swiss and Italian Meringue Buttercreams, the latter is definitely the one I prefer. Although it contains the same ingredients, Italian (...)
7 March 2011
Heaven and Hell Cake
Exhausted and nauseous, I wobble on weak ankles as D, C and I walk along the stables to D's car. The paved surface below my feet is a refreshing change from (...)
14 January 2015
Southwestern Migas Quiche
As a child, true fear was found in the warmth between a hen and her eggs; soon and perpetually rooted in red ridges up and down the length of my pale freckled (...)
30 June 2012
Best birthday cake with sour cream chocolate frosting
It was 6 PM on a cool Sunday in May, and our waitress was enjoying the leisurely trickle of customers through the patio door. It wasn't really warm enough to (...)
7 March 2011
Chocolate cherry swirl cupcakes with cherry Italian meringue buttercream
"No! Not like that! Stop!" Petite, talkative and girly in every way, Ms. L holds a pristine spiral bound notebook over her crossed legs while passively (...)
12 February 2012
Peanut butter and chocolate hi-hat cupcakes
"Hey, I think sat behind you in Marketing last semester."I tugged the ear bud from my left ear, letting it fall neatly over my shoulder and turned to see the (...)
18 June 2011
Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
I don't remember much about her, I think solemnly as I gently tousle the impressive leaves clouding my sight. My palms are buried deep in my sleeves as I (...)
7 March 2011
Double chocolate macarons
As the shadows creep further across the uneven floor, I consider my level of productivity for the day and find myself completely unsatisfied. I feel as if I (...)
8 January 2013
Gingerbread monkey bread with creamy whiskey maple glaze
I hate being told to relax. Winter break is over now, and as I look back at how I spent it, I'm in a funk. I want to be more laid back and take more time to (...)
7 March 2011
Dandelion Macarons
I spent a lot of time outdoors as a little kid. My early years were passed in a very small town to which all the stereotypes apply.No stoplights. No (...)
