Hands up way-high if you love cream pie. Wave ’em in the air like you just don’t CARE if you love matcha green tea. This makes you a matcha cream pie friend o’ mine! This pie is extra easy thanks to a frozen Tenderflake pie shell. I’ve never used a frozen pie shell before but darn it, […]
Fancy Candy Drippy Cake!
Have you ever finished decorating a cake and you step back and you SQUEAL LIKE A TEENAGED GIRL AT A SLUMBER PARTY because you’ve fallen deep in love with your own creation?? But then you CRY INSIDE when you have to give it up even though you wish you could shellac it, mount it on […]
Fun and Easy Birthday Cakes: Playful Animals – Gettin’ Craftsy!
I’m very excited to announce that today my Craftsy class, Fun and Easy Birthday Cakes: Playful Animals, went LIVE! YIKES! I love my little animal cakes so much (honestly, I’d hug them and sleep on them like a pillow if I could) and I’m pretty stoked to share my techniques for these modern and whimsical […]
Casual Times One Bowl Chocolate Cupcake Recipe
This is kind of the set-it-and-forget-it of the chocolate cupcake recipe world. It’s the recipe I’ve been using for years, tweaked over time. It’s rich, dark, chocolate-y. Tender, not-too-sweet (Asian style!) and the secret ingredient is: full-fat coconut milk! Which keeps it…oh Gawd what’s another word for moist? It does give the cupcakes the slightest […]
Fuck Cancer Cake
On Monday I had my final herceptin IV treatment at the cancer agency. I had been counting down from 17 and it was finally the last one. For months prior, in my head I imagined what the day might be like – happy, jubilant, free. I had wanted to throw a huge backyard party loaded […]
Cakes + Hair + Photos
I got new photos taken. Mostly because I felt like I was living a hair lie with the long and flowing locks in my old pics.ย And then also because I’ve been feeling like a fresh little daisy of life. Like perhaps I’ve been born anew lately. Things feel like they’re looking up as I veer […]
Coconut Mini Cakes + Creamcheese Frosting
MINI CAKES ARE CUTE. People freak out over teensy things – like TINY DONUTS! (The only thing that would make that video BETTER is if a teeny tiny mouse on hind legs took a nibble out of it!) While these coconut mini cakes with cream cheese frosting would probably kill a small mouse (death by gluttony, […]
Drip Drop: How To Make A Drip Cake
Oh, the glorious beauty of the drip. My first experience with the drip was years ago, seeing this beautiful dark chocolate raspberry cake by Rosie of Sweetapolita. What makes the drip so appealing? I love its artful streaks, and the drama of the drip – it certainly has a painterly quality, a nod to modern […]
Layered Birthday Drippy Cake Recipe!
YAY for cake – and EXTRA BIG FULL CAPS YAY for the release of my sweet pal Tessa’s Layered cake book! Tessa is the creative force and pastry chef behind Style Sweet Ca – and her new cake book is exactly what I imagined it would be! Full of beautifully styled, DROOL-INDUCING photographs and packed with […]
To Touch A Dolphin
I can’t remember where my fear of LARGE MARINE MAMMALS originated from but certainly reading an excerpt from the book JAWS found on a family friend’s bookshelf as a young child did not help. The cover of the book alone was enough to terrify – a lone woman swimming at the surface in grey green […]
San Francisco Treat
Last week my sisters, mom and I went on a GALS ONLY trip to SAN FRANCISCO to celebrate my mom’s birthday! Our family has such a fondness for the city – we grew up visiting there at least once a year, and we had a shared family apartment close to Chinatown. We power-ate and power-walked […]
Put An Egg On It: Easy Easter Cake! (With A Miffy On Top)
Put an egg on it! Not just any candy eggs – these dreamy milk chocolate marshmallow eggs from Sugarfina! Who can resist Easter candy? It’s so pastel-cute and crispy-chocolatey delicious it’s practically evil, and they make the perfect decoration for an insanely easy Easter cake. I piped this crazy buttercream cake with vanilla buttercream using […]
Kawaii Rainbow Cookies!
Happy Spring! Rebirth, growth, flowers, extra sunlight – all the good things! Cookies – put a face on it! I just can’t not put a face on things. Addicted to kawaii forever. Addicted to weird and wonderful anthropomorphic animals and happy-faced food items (orย sad faced lazy egg food items). I remember getting thisย hamburger panda stationaryย in […]
Pink + Blue Macarons + Je T’aime
My journey of macaron making started at pretty much the EXACT same time as my breast cancer journey. So weird. I only just realized this. Macarons kept me from going down a horrible, mental insanity-inducing mind spiral from hell – it was the day after I was told I had breast cancer. I was baking […]
Pink Rainbow Cake + Balance
Balance. A tense, tip-toe walk on a tight rope pulled taut, between two buildings, holding onto a pole. Working through the changes in my body, the build up of white chalky pills disintegrating down my throat, tiny particles floating and clinging to invisible cells, maybe doing their job, maybe not. I feel like tamoxifen is […]
Marshmallow Toasted Spelt Brownies
Little pizza slices of toasted marshmallow spelt brownies heaven. Inspired by my sugary pal Sarah‘s recipe for “garbage brownies” from her very fun cookbook The Sugar Hit! Garbage = throw in whatever you’ve got. I had spelt flour, coconut sugar and EGG WHITES. I garbage-d it up in a pretty healthy way I guess?? They fulfilled my […]
