A confession: I’m a huge lover of soft, almost gooey cookies; for example, I love biting into a soft, super chocolatey, chocolate chip cookie, and letting the aromas and flavours of good quality chocolate and vanilla roll around on my tongue. How could people not love the intense flavour melding with a gooey cookie? In…
The 2013 Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap!!
Yay! I’m so excited! I’ve just received the email confirming my participation in this year’s cookie swap! I should receive the two names and addresses of the Canadian food bloggers to whom I’ll be sending a dozen of my most favourite cookies by this coming Monday. Now, to narrow down the choices for which cookie…
Top Ten List: Favourite Food Bloggers
When I started this list, I didn’t realize that my favourite food bloggers were virtually all women, but there you go. (Apologies to David Liebowitz; for the record, Not A Woman). Bakerella (Angie Dudley) – This woman’s passion for cakepops and making the most adorable little edible characters using nothing but her imagination and incredibly…
TravelScapes: Christmas in Missouri
Let’s take a trip in the Way Back Machine (not to be confused with a Hot Tub Time Machine), and let me tell you about my vacation in Missouri over the Christmas holidays of 2001. I had decided to come home and go back to college full time after bumming around on walkabout for 5…
Commission Tales: The Cutest Little Hallowe’en Cake
This past weekend was my beloved little nephew’s first birthday party, and I was asked to bring the cake and some decorated sugar cookies. I’m so there! I also was tasked with making a little smash cake for him so that he could enjoy his first taste of cake too. Done and done! As he…
Recipe and Tutorial: Chocolate Hazelnut Toffee Biscotti
Hoo boy! I am giving you the recipe for one of the most delicious cookies in my arsenal! …hmmm, arsenal….why does that word look so RUDE? I don’t want to talk about cookies in my arsenal….I think I need food. My mind wanders when it’s hungry. Back to the point! Yes, these biscotti are frelling…
BirdHouse Diaries 