Alana On Saturday Theresa hosted another Indian food dinner. Naturally I made more naan (I’m getting good at it!), but because it was our friend Pang’s birthday last week I also brought a giant cupcake. It may not look basic, but this was a pretty basic cake to make. Yeah, it was a box cake. … More Giant Maple Pecan Cupcake
Roopa My friend Chris was in town today, and we had decided on a baking/squash date weeks ago. We were thoroughly inspired by these amazing tea cakes by sprinklebakes, and originally were going to make them as cupcakes with a cardamom icing. I felt like procrastinating though, so I went and picked up a circle … More Earl Grey Poppyseed Tea Cakes with Cardamom Icing
Roopa I mostly see Valentine’s day as an excuse to bake things and decorate in an obnoxiously pink fashion. I have been baking the same chocolate cake/cupcake recipe for ages, because it’s nice to bake something that you know will turn out well. I wanted to try something new, so I was creeping around for non-heart … More Chocolate Valentine’s Day Cake with Raspberry White Chocolate Icing
Alana In January it was Mike’s birthday. He was going to celebrate on his actual birthday, but he waited to long to organize a party. Turns out he also didn’t organize anything for the next weekend, and waited until the night before his party (when we were out at a “Battle of the Bands” event … More Cinnamon Bun Birthday Cake
Alana Here we go (finally)! The cake for Stephen and Ash’s wedding day! The process of making the actually wedding cake spanned the course of three days. On the 29th we made all of the frosting for the cake, on the 30th (the day before the wedding) we baked all the cake and assembled each … More Wedding Cake Part V: The Final Episode
Alana In the past week, I have done a ridiculous amount of baking. I’m attending three family Christmas events, and have volunteered (query volun-told) to bring dessert dishes for all of them. I carefully selected three recipes for my festive baking marathon, the first being egg nog pound cake. This recipe turned out very well, … More Egg Nog Pound Cake
Roopa It’s finals time! I don’t know what it is about finals, but I become extremely efficient at doing all sorts of things unrelated to school. I read The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons in the last three days – an excellent book, in case you were wondering – did some packing, and made my teachers … More Bribery Cake
Alana For Stephen’s birthday (back at the end of August), Theresa, Roopa and I all got together to bake him a birthday cake. When I say that we baked a cake, I actually mean that we all got together at Theresa’s place, and while Theresa chipped in for the baking bit, Roopa bummed around on … More Lemon Blueberry Birthday Cake
Roopa I had a birthday outing last night and a few of my friends can’t really eat dairy, so I decided to try out a vegan cheesecake recipe from Minimalist Baker. I adapted it a little based on what I had, but they turned out really well! I asked for some constructive feedback from everyone, and … More Vegan Mini-Cheesecakes
Roopa It’s my birthday today! Yay!!! In honour of turning a quarter century, I decided to bake myself a butterbeer cake because butterscotch = amazing. I used Betty Crocker gluten free cake mix and made myself a mini cake, and used the remnant icing to make cupcakes. I based it off of these butterbeer cupcakes that … More Gluten-free Butterbeer Cake
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