The Company My sister Shannon told me that Nestlé Carnation had come out with a variety pack of chocolate bar-inspired hot chocolates. I thought it was a brilliant idea! The Collection The one she got had Rolo instead of Turtles but also had After Eight and Coffee Crisp like mine. I thought $3.99 for 7 […]
Greta Podleski’s Yum & Yummer Chocolate Zucchini Muffins
Yum & Yummer is here! Greta Podleski‘s new cookbook is here and I could not be more excited to get cookbook reviewing. I started off with a classic! I used to make the Looneyspoon Chocolatey Chocolate Chip Zucchini Loaf all the time and think it is genius she renovated it from a 2-loaf recipe to […]
Podleski Sisters’ Peanut Butter, Oatmeal and Chocolate Chip Cookies
When I heard Greta Podleski was coming out with her own cookbook Yum & Yummer: Ridiculously Tasty Recipes That’ll Blow Your Mind, But Not Your Diet! I got super excited. So much so I pulled out The Looneyspoons Collection to celebrate. I made her and Janet’s Light and Lemony Poppy Seed Loaf which was a HUGE hit at […]
Strawberry Milk Chocolates & How To Temper Milk Chocolate
Homemade Fudgsicles Otherwise Known As Frozen Chocolate Pudding Pops
The Location While downtown over the insane long weekend celebrating Canada Day in Vancouver I discovered the store Cook Culture. Cook Culture is at 377 Howe Street at the corner of West Hastings and wow! I fell in love with it right away. Yes, very fancy pants with their Vitamixes… $200 copper bowls but…!!! The Inspiration They […]
Churned Old Fashioned Malted Chocolate Ice Cream
It has been HOT here in Vancouver! You know what that means?! Homemade ice cream! Oh yeah… Reg loves anything chocolate so I knew I wanted to make us chocolate ice cream but then I thought, what about MALTED chocolate ice cream? When I was a kid I loved everything malted: Malted Milk chocolate bar, […]
Product Review: Milka Chocolate
I recently discovered Milka Chocolate thanks to Killarney Market and to all my Facebook friends who confirmed its reputation for being some of the best chocolate in the world. The Shopping Originating in Switzerland, Milka Chocolate comes in a TON of different flavours. I wondered if these were just novelty ideas! So many creative ways to make a chocolate bar. […]
Mini Devil’s Food Cupcakes with Mocha Frosting
What do you do when you have a large class of drawing students to bake for to celebrate your last class together but only have so much energy? You turn to Martha Stewart’s Cupcake cookbook and take her recipe for Devil’s Food Cupcakes, divide the recipe in half and convert it to mini cupcakes. That way […]
Anna Olson’s Chocolate-Dipped Ladyfingers & Cookbook Review
I have had a blast working through Anna Olson‘s cookbook Bake With Anna Olson. From getting the cookbook signed in person by her through the trials and tribulations of making her focaccia, bagel bites and her Indian naan bread… I have enjoyed this baking journey and will continue to work through her cookbook and learn a ton. For […]
Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream
Click here for recipe As I type this it is SNOWING outside my apartment in Vancouver damn it but it was feeling like spring last week when I made this double chocolate peanut butter ice cream recipe by Joy the Baker. Imagine making chocolate ganache and chocolate pudding, mixing them together and then incorporating peanut […]