Halloween cupcakes? Been there. Done that. I was looking for a challenge so I decided to try my hand at the latest baking trend – Cake Pops.

Bakerella recently published a book on making cake pops called, surprisingly, Cake Pops. I bought the Kindle version (which I’m disappointed in). It has some good tips but for [...]

I recently got my hands on Baked: New Frontiers in Baking. It’s cookbook from a Brooklyn bakery and the recipes looked pretty good. There were three recipes that I immediately wanted to try: almond green tea cupcakes, root beer bundt cake, and chocolate malt cake.
You know about me and cupcakes so of course that’s the [...]

I started knitting my Aestlight Shawl back in May while I was traveling in France and Switzerland. I never really got beyond the garter triangle and it lingered all summer.

Recently I got some inspiration to finish up old projects and I managed to knock out the rest of this shawl pretty quickly.
It did take me [...]

My Dad’s birthday was a couple of weeks ago on 10-10-10 so I decided to bake him a special cake. He LOVES peanut butter so I went hunting for a peanut butter cake online. The problem is that my mom and I both don’t like peanut butter. So I had to find something everyone would [...]

I was procrastinating this weekend when I thought- Hey I should make a crochet version of La Neckerchief! Hookers deserve cool neckwear too.
So a grabbed some Berocco Peruvia and an H hook and got started. This crocheted up very quickly. When I got to the end I as worried about running out of yarn [...]