Alana For Christmas Katherine and I both pitched to get Theresa the Duchess Bake Shop Cookbook. If you’re unfamiliar with Duchess you’re missing out on life. It’s a local Edmonton patisserie that has receive some pretty significant recognition. It was featured in Buzzfeed’s article “23 Bakeries Around The World You Need To Eat At Before You … More Macaron Gatueax Printemps
Alana Yesterday was my half-brother’s birthday so I offered to bake a cake for the party. He requested lemon, so I pulled up my post from Stephen’s Birthday Cake. I looked back on my previous post with this recipe and noted that I found the middle/non-blueberry layer a little bit dry. I figured I could … More Blueberry Lemon Birthday Cake II
Alana A friend of mine and Roopa’s is hosting a baby shower a little while ago. She needed a cake and came to us! Roopa is in Vancouver so I agreed to help out 🙂 We chatted a little bit about decorations, but we didn’t say too much about the kind of cake. I thought … More Chocolate Baby Shower Cake
Alana My family had a bit of a last minute Easter this year, so on Saturday I offered to bring some dessert. I decided it would be a good idea to practice one of the recipes from pastry school. The choux pastry with vanilla pastry creme seemed like a good choice because it’s nice and … More Paris-Brest
Alana I’ve made a lot of banana bread and love the recipe I have for Zucchini Brownies, but I have yet to try baking a zucchini bread. I figured it would make another good option for snacking in addition to the Banana Banana Bread I made to bring along to Jasper this past weekend 🙂 … More Double Chocolate Zucchini Bread
Alana Despite only being back home for a short time after my pastry school adventure, I’m off to spend the weekend in Jasper! This weekend is the Jasper Pride Festival, and I’m heading down with a few friends to celebrate and have a gay ‘ol time (pun!) This years theme is “From Jasper with Love “(James … More Banana Banana Bread II
Alana This pie needs no reason or explanation! I recruited Mike to help me because I hoped that he would have all the digits of pi memorized, so I could put on the pie. Sadly he doesn’t, so we needed to look them up on the Google. Engineers are so useless when it comes to … More Happy Pi Day!
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
Alana A week or two ago, Mike and I went browsing through the Old Strathcona Farmers’ Market. It is one of many farmers’ markets in Edmonton and runs throughout the year. If you’re ever in Edmonton, you should definitely stop by there 🙂 Anyways, while we were there I picked up a container of “Chickie Dough”, … More Chickpea Cookie Dough
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
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