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Cookies, Holidays / 13.04.2017

Hello, friends! Today I'm sharing how to make a big bunny cookie that's filled with sugary goodness! It's so big, in fact, that you'll need to recruit friends to help you eat it, or you can just keep it all to yourself! Of course, you can also make these cookies with a smaller cookie cutter - in fact, any shape you have handy will do! Years ago at my shop, we made these "Confetti Clocks" for New Years Eve celebrations, which were the same concept, just in a...

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Cookies, Recipes & Tutorials, Royal Icing / 09.02.2017

Hello, hello! I'm back with another recipe! With Valentine's Day just around the corner, I thought that these cute (and relatively easy to decorate) cookies were the perfect thing to share so that you can bake them at home! I originally created these for the first time when my bakery was open, back in 2015, as a way to use up spare edible gold paint. They were a quick way to decorate cookies to keep up with the demand and also, they're simply pretty. In my opinion, a pretty...

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Cookies, Royal Icing / 05.02.2017

Hi, friends! I've had many requests for a post detailing everything that is royal icing, so finally, here it is! The information below is much of what I cover when I host my Sugar Cookie Decorating Workshops. It's a long read, but hopefully you find it packed with good information and tips that will help you achieve icing perfection! Let's get started...

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Cookies, Ice Cream, Other Sweets, Recipes & Tutorials, Videos / 07.07.2016

Hello from under a pile of scrawled recipe notes! I've been trying to keep up with regular blogging, but have been having such a tough time balancing, well, everything as of late. Between recipe writing and testing for my upcoming baking book, a whole lot of wedding clients and my less-than-smooth-sailing personal life (I'm recently single), things have been a little bit hectic....

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Cakes, Cookies, Frostings & Fillings / 31.01.2016

Happy almost-February to you, friends! February is one of my favourite months because it plays host to my most-loved baking 'holiday' of the year - Valentine's Day! All of the pastel pink gifts, endless chocolates and fancy love-themed candy in the grocery store aisles make me pretty darn excited to get into the kitchen and bake pretty things!...

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Cookies, Holidays / 20.12.2015

Hello from inside a cloud of icing sugar! It's been crazy over at my house lately and I almost always have cookie icing (or some other sugary substance) in my hair or on my clothes these days. I've been known to leave trails of flour from the kitchen to the pantry or living room and often, something even ends up on the dog if he's hovering by my feet while ingredients are flying. It happens! As stressful as the holidays can be, I always find that being in the kitchen...

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Cookies, Holidays, Recipes & Tutorials, Royal Icing / 08.12.2015

Hello and happy December! I'm so excited that it's FINALLY sugar cookie season! I'm in the kitchen constantly and of course, I make sugar cookies all year round, but it's only at this time of year that I can make them in festive shapes without people looking at me like I'm living in some sort of weird Christmas bubble. So bring on the trees, reindeer, snowmen and everything in between...

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Cookies, Frostings & Fillings, Recipes & Tutorials / 16.11.2015

Hello from atop a pile of blankets in my living room! We are still waiting for some of our furniture to arrive from Vancouver, so in the meantime, we have been sitting on blankets the floor. I feel like I'm 18 again: a new place to live, almost no furniture, sitting on the floor and eating cookies - ha! The good news is that all of my baking equipment and supplies just arrived, which are the most important items of all...

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