Roopa The next bread from pastry school was bagels. The dough for this was quite a bit different than the other breads. Interestingly enough, the recipe was very similar to the baguette recipe but in different proportions. Bagels have one of the driest doughs. I never liked working with sticky dough, but after this class, … More New York Style Bagels
Roopa The second bread at pastry school was a whole wheat loaf. Due to all of the bran in whole wheat, you cannot actually make 100% whole wheat bread. there needs to be some bread flour mixed it. I don’t know if it’s even worth talking about how these breads tasted; everything I’ve ever eaten … More Whole Wheat Loaf
Roopa After a year, I’ve gone back to Pastry school!!!! Alana was supposed to join me, but sadly adulting and work got in the way :(. I signed up for Introduction to Breads after experiencing the joy of kneading dough last year. As usual, it was a wonderful time, and Chef Marco was a gem, … More Hard Bread Rolls
Alana I have had this avocado pound cake on my Pinterest baking board for forever, and last week I finally decided to give it a try! I think that it turned out well. I found it to be sweet without going over the top. It didn’t have the same texture as most pound cakes I’ve … More Avocado Milk Pound Cake
Roopa It was recently my co-worker David’s birthday, and he told me that he loves dark chocolate and marzipan. After looking through some rather elaborate recipes, I decided to stick to something simple and opted for these truffles from A Sweet Spoonful. I decided to make these the same day that I did my photoshoot … More Dark Chocolate Marzipan Truffles
Alana A few weeks ago I went a little bit scone-crazy. Mike and I made a day-trip to Jasper to go skiing at Marmot Basin. For those of you who are not familiar with Edmonton and Jasper, it is about a 4 hour drive between the two. Day trips are therefore totally doable, but you … More Scones, of Many Varieties
COLOURED RAINDROP CAKE Roopa My baking/photography collaboration project with the talented @diyonzigraphy Original design by A Song of Fire and Icing
Alana A couple years ago I made these cookies to bring with me to say thanks to the staff at Streetworks, the needle exchange program out of Boyle Street Community Services. They were well received but quite sweet. I came across these cookies when I was looking at my recipes, and woke up the next … More MiniEgg Easter Cookies II
Roopa I’m finally making things again! I have been on the road for the last two months (Toronto –> NYC –> Calgary –> Edmonton –> Winnipeg –> Italy –> France –> Germany –> Thailand) and have been doing more eating than baking. In Thailand, I was able to take a cooking class in between all … More Mango Sticky Rice
Alana A little while ago Theresa, Katherine, and I got together with our man-people for dinner. We all pitched in for dinner so, as always, I volunteered myself for dessert. I was flipping through my pastry school recipes and decided that I really wanted to bring a Japanese cheesecake. Theresa and I had been planning … More Matcha Japanese Cheesecake
Chateau Gateau 