“Here, taste this!” says Shake, rummaging in my office coffee supplies for plastic spoons. “I thought you could make something out of it!” And that, boys and girls, is love. When your guy knows that swiping the oddball items from a photo shoot so you can make strange kitchen concoctions... Read More

When it comes to crumb cake, I really have no idea what I’m doing. I’m not sure if I’ve ever had an “authentic” crumb cake, nor one that really excited me. But it still seemed like a good pairing for ice cream. You see, a friend of ours gave us... Read More

Been absent from blogging for a while, but I’m back with a toast to Fall. Honestly, here, the fall season isn’t much different from the rest of the year. The surf’s a little bigger, and in our apartment, it actually gets HOTTER, not cooler. That’s about it. But I like... Read More

When I took one of these mini cakes in to Shake’s office to share with his co-workers, one of them asked me, “What inspired you to make these?” I was sort of stumped. I’d come across a stunningly beautiful photo on Pinterest that led me to the base recipe, but... Read More

This is not an instrument of torture. On the contrary, it actually saves me quite a lot of pain and suffering during holiday baking seasons when I decide to make my famous-in-my-own-head French Apple Pie/Tarts. I don’t make them every year, but perhaps now that I’ve started this blog, I’ll... Read More