I haven’t updated in… a while. I didn’t do a whole lot of baking over the summer, actually, for a variety of reasons: summer is a socially busy season, I don’t have air conditioning and my kitchen gets way too hot to be bearable (which has also led to many cupcake icing disasters), and my roommate’s girlfriend was visiting from France for half the summer so it was harder to claim the kitchen all the time. I did bake a few things and photograph them with the intention of putting them up here, but then they went on the back burner, and now I forget where some of the recipes came from.

So, I’ll start over. With pumpkin pie. Continue Reading »

Life has been pretty busy for me lately. On top of working my regular full time job at a camera shop, I’ve also been working part time as a stagiaire at a bakery near my place. It was a big learning experience for me. The most major (and surprising) thing I learned is that I do not like working in a bakery! It’s tough work, let me tell you! And for those several months, I only once baked in my own kitchen. It just doesn’t have the same appeal to me as creating in my own kitchen. Continue Reading »

I don’t really do the whole New Years resolution thing. I feel like you shouldn’t need a new year to roll over in order to make positive life changes. Really, there is no better time than now to start doing what you want to do, right?

So I didn’t make any resolutions this year; however, midway through January something in my brain just clicked. I thought: it’s time to make some healthy life changes. Continue Reading »

I have so many memories tied to oliebollen.

As long as I can remember, oliebollen has been a part of Christmas on my dad’s side of the family. I remember eating them with my brother when we were young while waiting for Christmas dinner to be served. We would dip them in powdered sugar, and beg our Oma for a glass of Pop Shoppe “red pop.” I guess we didn’t know it was called cream soda. Continue Reading »

This Christmas post is a bit late, but to be honest with you, my sense of time has been completely skewed for at least the past month. That’s not to say that I forgot about Christmas. I mean, I think it’s literally impossible to forget about Christmas when people start putting up their Christmas lights before Halloween is even over (or in some cases, never even take them down at all, like one of our neighbors down the road), but when you work in retail at this time of year, and start working the exhausting hours, days just start blending into each other. Continue Reading »