Recipes

June 27, 2017 Cakes, Cupcakes & Icing And it’s not even my birthday! I saw this sprinkle loaf on Jenn’s Instagram last month and have been thinking about it NON-STOP ever since. I felt like it was everything good about Christina Tosi’s birthday cake without all the steps, wrapped up into a convenient loaf formation. The […]

Every part of my annual Champagne & Cookies Christmas party fills me with so much joy. I love spending the weeks leading up to it finalizing my baking list, stocking my freezer with treats, and then finally sharing them with all my friends. This is truly my favourite holiday tradition, and it just keeps getting […]

July 3, 2016 Frozen Baked Sunday Mornings is celebrating Canada Day today by remixing a classic Canadian dessert: Nanaimo Squares. My Mom always made these at Christmas time when I was growing up, but many Canadian families (ahem, Danielle) enjoy them all year round. For my American friends, here’s a quick lesson. A traditional Nanaimo […]

  Last year was my first time baking with rhubarb, and to say I was obsessed was an understatement. To that point, I had only had rhubarb in lackluster store-bought strawberry rhubarb pies, but for some reason, I just became totally fixated on it last spring. I think I made almost every single rhubarb or strawberry-rhubarb recipe on smitten […]

April 12, 2018 Bread And now presenting my favourite baking project so far in 2018: Chocolate Babka! I know I’m not the only person who first learned about Babka from Seinfeld (“You can’t beat a babka!”), and was reintroduced to it when I started reading Smitten Kitchen ten years ago. It’s a yeasted bread with […]

The darkest, dreariest month of the year is now behind us! Rejoice! February went by quickly (thank goodness), and I was knocked down by a stomach bug/flu (again), but did have a few highlights on the food front: Superbowl Sunday coincided with my Dad’s birthday this year, so we watched the game together and ate […]

June 22, 2010 Cookies Okay, so it appears I have more of a baking blog backlog than I thought! I’m on the case, and first up, a quick post about my second try at sugar cookies with royal icing. I made these for my niece Amy’s second birthday party, using the same recipe and steps as […]

May 20, 2018 Baked Sunday Mornings Now that my wedding cake experience is over, I hope to have a bit more baking time to get back into the swing of Baked Sunday Mornings! I may go back and post a few things to catch up, but for now, consider this my first recipe back. I made these […]

March 5, 2010 Pasta & Noodles My  mouth is watering just thinking about this. I was super excited to hit tomatoes on the re-introduction list. What more is there to say? I think everyone grew up eating some variation of this dinner. In our house, the sauce either came out of a jar or a can […]

August 18, 2015 Cakes, Cupcakes & Icing You may remember that when I left my old job at the beginning of last summer, my former co-workers sent me off with a two week farewell treat tour. They took turns either baking something or buying treats to bring in, as a thank you for all the […]

June 30, 2016 Monthly Recaps Summer has arrived in full effect, and I fully enjoyed it and soaked up as much of it as I could before being knocked out by a summer cold: My friend Weedy and her son Ronan had me over for dinner, and it was such a treat. Weedy’s signature summer […]

July 31, 2017 Monthly Recaps Most of this month was dedicated to baking and preparing for a very special 1st birthday party, which I’ll write more about next week, but here’s what else was going on in the meantime: Canada Day was a pretty big deal this year as we celebrated our 150th birthday. To […]

When I returned from Montreal, a package was waiting for me at home from Danielle. If you’ve been following along here at all, you know she’s responsible for introducing me to food blogs in the first place. Dani and I can easily spend an hour on the phone catching up on what we baked that week […]

February 18, 2014 Dinner Updated with a new picture May 25, 2016 I mentioned in my Blog-iversary post the other day that I wanted to stop feeling pressure to only post styled photos, because “Sometimes you make an amazing pizza and it’s 9pm, and it’s the most delicious thing you’ve eaten all week, and all […]