I was chatting with a friend in Thailand on Skype last night (shout out to Henneth! FYI, check out his awesome paintings on flickr — so gorgeous!), and logged off so I could go write a blog post for Throwback Thursday, or as I call it around here, Memories of Meals Past. But I got…
Cakes
Nutella Buttons, and Why I Will Never Be A Skinny-Minny
Earlier this week, I popped my head into the DH’s man-cave and shook a jar of Nutella in his face. Me: Sweetie, don’t eat any more Nutella! Because I need it for a recipe. DH: I haven’t had any. Me: But it’s half gone! DH: I haven’t had any, I swear. Me: Really? Um…never mind!…
Triple Homemade: Lemon Curd-Filled Limoncello Cupcakes
My bake-a-long group is baking the Limoncello Cupcakes from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking Chez Moi cookbook this week, and oh, there’s just so much to tell you! So fair warning, today’s post might be a little long-ish. But the luscious photos will have you drooling all the way through! (I hope. I’m trying to improve my photography…
Memories of Meals Past: A Pink Cake & How to Make Your Own Food Colouring
‘Twas the DH’s birthday this past weekend, so I made him a cake. I asked him what kind of cake he would like; strawberry, he said! So a strawberry cake I made. It was a three-layer cake, and had strawberry-buttercream icing between the three layers, and as the crumb coat, and then the outside was frosted…
Memories of Meals Past: Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Icing. And Fibre.
Continuing along with my throwback Thursday series, Memories of Meals Past, here is today’s contribution: Last week was my mother’s birthday, so I baked her a cake. She’s not really one for your typical extra-fluffy-sugary-sweet-icing birthday cake, so I made her a carrot cake. My parents had come over to our end of the city…