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The holiday season is in full swing! Store displays are flashing with white, red, green and golds and the scent of baked goods and candy fill the air. My apartment is no different – the sweet smell of gingerbread was in this air this weekend as I prepped for my holiday photo shoot. Not for […]

I thought I’d end this month by discussing something I made at the end of last month – Marshmallow Ghouls for Halloween! I had, as usual, pretty elaborate plans for Halloween – I wanted to make macaroon candy corn, decorated sugar cookies, and these little ghosts. But as I had only a mere 4 days […]

I think I’m starting to get a hang of this buttercream thing. I think it helps having different recipes to test out various methods. This time, twenty-something chocolate cupcakes were topped with strawberry buttercream, which were then topped with the previously mentioned special-for-purchase raspberries. The cake I used was a classic dark chocolate cake that […]

(ah, will I ever format my pictures again? Maybe one day. But they actually look really decent before I do all ma fancy edging. So perhaps for quality’s sake, I’ll keep them….’raw’. Maybe borders?) I let Annie know that a cake was a comin’ her way – what flavour would she like? “Chocolate…” is the […]

It was T & J’s housewarming party and I warmed their house by bringing a cake! A belated birthday cake for J, actually – this creation was a tower of crepes topped with chocolate ganache and candied hazelnuts. Yes, I’m in a candy-ing phase… kind of like this summer’s ice cream blizzard. I had been […]

(sorry, no formatted pics this post – I spent this Sunday afternoon scrubbing my kitchen down = no time!) As I meandered the aisles of the local drugstore, I realized that the holidays were just around the corner. Well, less ‘realized’ and more ‘hit-in-the-face’ with all the seasonal chocolate already on display. Out with Halloween, […]