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Strawberry Tres Leches Cake

July 4, 2018 Cakes, Cupcakes & Icing
Strawberry Tres Leches Cake

My biggest frustration when it comes to baking is wasting time and money on a recipe that doesn’t work out. It doesn’t happen too often anymore, so when it does, I get super annoyed. That’s what happened with this Strawberry Tres Leches Cake. I was so excited to make it and bring it to Jenny’s […]

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Frozen Strawberry Cheesecake Pie

August 5, 2016 Frozen
Strawberry Slice

While I may not have figured out my signature summer cocktail just yet, here’s my Summer Sixteen signature dessert. I made this two weeks in a row, and considering I hardly every make the same thing twice, it automatically qualifies. This is what’s happening in this four layer party in a pie plate: Graham cracker […]

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Hazelnut Dacquoise

May 25, 2016 Cakes, Cupcakes & Icing

A few weeks ago I found an old plastic file folder at home that was full of recipes torn out of magazines in the pre-Pinterest days. I don’t think I had opened it over a year, but dumped it out to find about 80% of the recipes were from the LCBO’s Food & Drink magazine. […]

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Baked Sunday Mornings: Icebox Cupcakes with Homemade Chocolate Cookies

June 7, 2015 Baked Sunday Mornings
Icebox Cupcakes

Like so many other things in my foodie life, I had never heard of an Icebox Cake until I saw it on Smitten Kitchen a few years ago. The idea behind it is that you stack up chocolate wafer cookies with whipped cream, and let the whole thing set in the fridge overnight. The cookies […]

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Tres Leches Cake

May 5, 2014 Cakes, Cupcakes & Icing
Tres Leches Cake

I’ve been giving Tres Leches Cake the side-eye for years now. In theory, it always sounded good: a vanilla sponge cake, soaked with a mixture of three different kinds of milk, topped with whipped cream. In reality, I was convinced it was actually just a soggy mess, and I think I’ve bought the stuff to […]

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Dark Chocolate Pudding with White Chocolate Mint Whipped Cream {Gastropost Mission #91}

February 22, 2014 Gastropost
Mint Cookies & Cream Pudding

Gastropost asked us a tough question this week: Vanilla or Chocolate? I think it’s an easy answer. Do you ever find yourself with an intense craving for vanilla? No, I don’t think so. And that is why I’m on Team Chocolate. You’ll never find me taking shots of vanilla extract out of the bottle, but […]

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Baked Sunday Mornings: Chocolate Bourbon Tart

January 19, 2014 Baked Sunday Mornings
Chocolate Bourbon Tart

This week’s Baked Sunday Morning recipe is a Chocolate Whiskey Tart from the Booze section of Baked Elements. Some of the recipes in this chapter call for whiskey and some use bourbon, which let me to the following question: wtf is the difference? I did some google research, and my conclusion can basically be summed […]

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Pavlova with Lemon Curd & Strawberries + Mother’s Day Dinner {Gastropost Mission #51}

May 23, 2013 Gastropost
Mother

Mom’s choice for her Mother’s Day dinner this year was “some type of chicken casserole type thing and whatever else you think would be good”. Isn’t that the best, most easygoing dinner guest? Love it. I translated her request into the following menu: Chicken, Broccoli & Rice Casserole (this recipe from Annie’s Eats with white […]

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