BA in Vancouver

So a new year, a new challenge. I feel like after Great British Bake Off, I was thoroughly baked-out. It was a great learning experience and I’m really glad I did it. I took a nice long break from any serious baking, aided with the fact that my oven was officially out of commission for […]

I feel like the last few batches of ice cream I’ve gone really heavy on the chocolate. Not that it’s a bad thing, but I needed a bit of a change. I have been toying with the idea of hazelnuts and came up with a potential combo for hazelnuts, cranberries & cherries. Unfortunately the local […]

I received this birthday cake request last year and I dutifully stored it in the back of my mind under “Cake Requests”. I find it pretty helpful to get requests – I have a good direction of what to prepare and I can explore how to really “kick it up a notch”. For those not […]

Two things I wanted to address here: 1) My mango ginger sorbet! I only make it once a year – when the ataulfo mangoes are in season and the prices aren’t too exorbitant. I was lucky to stumble upon a heaving bag of mangoes in the ‘discount produce’ section of a local market. Out of […]

I generally bake when: I feel inspired to create I’m craving something in particular I’ve been tasked (Mothership) Luckily the topic for this post is for “craving”. That particular craving was for lemon squares. I admit, I’ve never been a huge fan of lemon bars. They’re either too tart, too sweet or too artificial. Just…”too”. […]