In the latest Monthly Musings post, I mentioned my blood orange addiction. We have thick wedges in the mornings as a kind of pre-breakfast appetizer – the two of us romantically standing over the sink with bright red juice running down our chins. Every morning, …
Can we talk for a second about gifting? I love to gift something extra thoughtful to loved ones, something that you can’t just walk into a store and buy. A batch of cookies, a bottle of homemade vanilla extract, a cute bag of homemade chocolate …
Hi friends! I’d like to take the chance today to tell you about my new favourite cookies: Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Cookies. They’re from The Cookie Book, and they’re the bomb.com. I accidentally stumbled across said book online randomly, and despite never having heard of …
Friends, hello! I’m sharing a cake today that is very close to my heart: Pear Spice Cake with Brown Butter Frosting & Dark Chocolate Drip. Every year, right around the beginning of Autumn, I make this Pear Spice Cake. It’s a welcoming ritual of sorts, …
Do you enjoy a good spot of therapy baking? I therapy bake nearly every week. Let’s face it – it’s cheaper than actual therapy, and the resulting side effects are considerably more delicious. If you’re like me (aka: still saving up for that fancy KitchenAid …
Real talk: can you ever have too many pie bar recipes? The answer must be no, because on my blog alone we already have four variations. Apple & Raspberry, Pecan, Plum & Blackberry, and a very early recipe for Lemon & Blueberry. It’s important to …
Basically, I saw everyone else on the internet making Alison Roman’s salted shortbread cookies, so I made Alison Roman’s salted shortbread cookies. It was a real life Mean Girls moment, and I’m not even ashamed to admit it. I had a serious case of FOMO. …
Because one type of chocolate is never enough to celebrate a birthday with. And guys, this birthday is a big one. Six years ago today, I made the decision to start my own food blog & created passionate baker. I threw myself head first into …
I know what you’re thinking: more pie? Can’t she even go four posts before blogging about pie again? Well, it would seem that I can’t. Having said that, this isn’t just any pie – this is a cider caramel apple pie from Erin’s fabulous book ‘The …
Day 4. No work, no leaving the house, no telephone network, no sunshine. We are slowly but surely running out of milk & bread, we’ve exhausted our supply of cookie dough, and we’re down to our last bottle of wine. Things are pretty grim. The …
Friends, welcome to the final installment in The Dough Diaries! I’ve been saving this post as the last for two reasons. The first, this is was the recipe I was the most excited about making. As soon as I saw Izy Hossack’s recipe for Cinnamon …
It’s time to admit it: I am addicted to making pie. I can barely go a week without making some form or other. Double crust, single crust, pie-crumble hybrids, hand pies. Usually all-butter dough, but sometimes a buttermilk flavoured one. All types of fillings are …
Let’s jump head first into the new year. We’re just coming out of those murky days surrounding the holidays & trying to get ourselves back into working shape. There’s a long to-do list to tackle before the week is out, including – but not limited …
Hello friends, welcome to a Gifting 101 segment! This time around, we’re whipping up a batch of Homemade Vanilla Extract for friends and loved ones. Can we take a moment to step back & think about how it’s nearly the fourth week in November. Where …
As promised, chocolate babka. Confession: until I started reading food blogs, I had never heard of a babka, chocolate or otherwise. This could be down to my sheltered Irish life, but babka was just one of those things that had never crossed my path before. …
As soon as I decided to do a dough series, I started rifling through all of my favourite cookbooks. I’ve been on a mission recently to use my cookbooks more, & this was the perfect excuse to explore new recipes. I wanted to have a …
Friends, welcome! I have two exciting things to share today & I can hardly wait! Firstly, this is the start of a new series in which I try to use up my fast expiring yeast. Every venture needs a catchy nickname, & ours has the …
Is it entirely blasphemous to say that I was never really all that into strawberries? I’d snack on them if they were sitting in front of me, I’d enjoy them as the garnish, but I was never entirely wowed. Clearly, I had never had a …