In case you haven’t noticed through my blog posts yet, I have a bit of a sweet tooth. And by “a bit of a sweet tooth”, I mean I have a hollow leg or three when it comes to sweets. I could eat dinner and be completely full, and still find room for dessert. I mean…it’s dessert!…
Cook-a-Longs R Us
Apple Pielettes & Other Domestic Stories
I came home today after work and started making the latest recipe for my online-bake-a-long group: the Apple Pielettes from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking Chez Moi. I decided that I wasn’t going to use the apricots, because I didn’t want to go to make a special shopping trip to buy them, and I switched out the…
Tiger Cakes & The Rare Case of Too Much Chocolate!
It’s post-Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada, and I feel like I ate my weight in stuffing this long weekend. I did manage to go on a bit of a hike yesterday, and came home all energized and feeling good (or at least less guilty about all that – very, very delicious – stuffing). And then…
Rewind! Chocolate Bubble Eclairs & an Apple Update
AN APPLE UPDATE: Guess what? Remember when I posted about how I had entered the Apple Crisp Recipe Competition for the Canadian Baking and Sweets Show? And how I was a finalist? It took place this past Saturday, and…I won! I came home with a gorgeous gift basket of cupcake-baking supplies as well as a…
All Things Apple, or Let Us Eat (Apple) Kuchen!
I have so many apple-y things to talk about that I don’t know where to start. So I’ll just dive right in! This week my on-line bake-a-long group is making Dorie Greenspan’s Apple Kuchen, from her Baking Chez Moi cookbook. It’s a cross between an apple tart and a custard, and reminds me so very…