Roopa Now that I’m on a macaron making mission, there will likely be a few macaron posts on here. I had some ideas of things to improve from last time (and a lot of excess ganache) so round 2 happened. I fixated on all the imperfections in the last post, but I neglected to mention … More Macarons 2
Roopa As per usual, I prematurely volunteered myself to bake for a work event and didn’t plan well or leave myself much time. It was a high tea, and after waffling between several options I decided on madeleines. I considered macarons, but I felt a bit nervous making them without having tested them in my … More Macarons
Roopa I believe that I’m now the annual Golf Tournament cake baker! Two years makes this annual, right? Now that it’s a thing, it’s forcing me to be creative. Last year’s cake looked like this, so obviously I needed to do something different this year. It’s a company tournament so I went with pretty safe … More Golf Tournament Cake: Year 2
Roopa Finally, a post! I’ve been travelling around Springfield, Charleston, and Lockport for the last weeks, so the baking time has been scarce. I’ve missed my kitchen! My coworker Praise’s birthday was a few weeks ago, and she mentioned a few different things that she liked. I decided to try combine them all into one: … More White Chocolate Mousse Cake
Roopa There are three class birthdays this week, so clearly, I got volunteered into making three desserts. The first choice was these cake batter blondies from Sally’s Baking Addiction. Originally I was planning on making a croquembouche, but then I decided I should probably pass school. They were a big hit in class, and basically … More Cake Batter Blondies
SKELETON CAKE Roopa I finally got to use my skeleton mold! There was nothing fancy about the baking of this cake – yay for Betty Crocker – since I didn’t have a lot of time. I think my vision was much cooler than the actual execution, but you can’t win them all. I used white … More Skeleton Cake
Roopa Alana went to make a Nanaimo bar cake the other day and came across this intriguing healthy cake recipe; it is a gluten free, lentil based Nanaimo cake. Lentils!!! I am no stranger to lentils, and actually quite enjoy them, but I’d be lying if I said they tasted like anything but health. Cake is … More Chocolate Lentil Cupcakes
VANILLA CUPCAKES WITH MINT ICING Roopa These are a remake of some Christmas themed cupcakes I made before. It was a little bit shambles – I didn’t have the right sprinkles, I didn’t have blue food colouring, my cupcakes baked funny, and they weren’t even very minty! But, I like the purple streaks! Small victories!
Roopa I had a reunion with my friend Kelsey for the first time in two years!! She’s off doing her doctorate in the United States, so we don’t get to see each other too often. Back in high school we used to love having baking dates, so some sort of baking was high on the … More Sea Salt Chocolate Cookies: V2
WHITE CHOCOLATE MOLASSES COOKIES Roopa To be perfectly honest, I didn’t really do much with these cookies. I was baking at my friend’s house and he really did most of the work. We used this recipe from Sally’s Baking Addiction with a few little changes: we only chilled the dough for about an hour, and we … More White Chocolate Molasses Cookies
Chateau Gateau 