It has been a while since I have made something from my childhood. I remember those days when my grandma would make us some sweet soup. My favorite is black sesame soup. I just love the taste but I hate the black bits that get stuck in my teeth after you eat black sesame seeds. …
Category: Dessert
Almond Cupcakes All Jammed Up
I love this simple vanilla almond cupcake. Its a great moist cupcake that you can add different icing flavours to make it unique. I decided to make the icing with some jam I recently made to make it a jam cream cheese frosting. Prep the ingredients. Remember to take out the eggs, butter and shift…
Carrot Coconut Cupcakes and White Chocolate Cream Cheese Icing
Carrot cake is best when you serve it with cream cheese frosting. It is even better when you serve it with white chocolate cream cheese icing! This recipe comes from another favourite cookbook: Rebar Modern Food Cookbook. This is no ordinary carrot cake. There are many additional ingredients found in this recipe. A lot of…
Cream Puffs: fill them, freeze them, eat them. A wonderful treat to beat the heat.
Cream puffs are a delicious treat for any time. They make great desserts for parties. The best part is that you can make a bunch of them and then freeze them just like profiteroles! You willl be able to have a frozen treat any time you like. Be creative with the filling. You can fill…
Coconut Rum Cupcakes
This is a must have for coconut lovers!! Coconut rum brings another level to the coconut flavour. Choose your favourite coconut rum and bake away! Begin by beating softened butter and slowly adding brown sugar. You want to combine the brown sugar until it becomes a light brown and the majority of the sugar has…
Tiramisu + Cheesecake = Heaven
Ever wanted to have cheesecake and Tiramisu together? Well now you can! This all started when I was going to make a Tiramisu but I was unaware of how many people were showing up to the party. Definitely one recipe of Tiramisu was not going to be enough. I looked and looked online for a…
Rock that Almond Roca!!
Warning!!! After reading this post, you may not want to eat Almond Roca ever again (ok well you may not want to eat the whole batch of Almond Roca). Almond Roca basically consists of sugar and butter with a little bit of almond and chocolate. Almond Roca can be a bit tricky to do on…
Yummy Flourless Cupcakes!!
My aunt has celiac disease, a disease that affects the small intestine. Gluten damages the small intestines and that is why celiacs go on a gluten-free diet. A couple of years ago, when my aunt discovered she was celiac, her life changed. She had to restrict many things out of her diet such as cakes,…
Celebrate Pi Day with Fake Apple Pie
Happy Belated Pi Day!! March 14 to some is Pi day (3/14 or 3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510 58209 74944 59230 78164 06286 20899 86280 34825 34211 70679…). Pi is an irrational number or a number that has digits that never repeat. To celebrate Pi day we eat pie. Of course…
Red Velvet Cupcakes
Red velvet cake has become a very popular cake. Red velvet is a basic buttermilk cake with red food colouring. No one knows the exact origins of the cake and some believe cocoa in the cake turns a reddish colour when mixed with vinegar. I have not proven this to be true but I believe…
EAT it NOW or EAT it LATER 