French Onion Soup

I’d like to proudly say that this is my first actual original recipe. I’ve tried out tons of other French onion soup recipes but so many of them call for wine, or they’re too complicated with all these random liqueurs to put in them. I say, NOTHXGAIZ cause that requires extra money at the LCBO and I’d rather spend that money on flour or sugar for my next baking endeavour =P

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Space Invaders Pixel Cookies

PEW PEW! I decided to embrace the ultimate nerd baker in me this weekend by making these really awesome yet really time consuming cookies. It was like, let’s take the inner child that still wants to play with PlayDoh, but make that PlayDoh delicious and edible. Not like Poseidon’s salty sphincter. Happy Belated Birthday to Matt! I told you I’d make these for your birthday like ages ago…so, here they are! I have a dozen set aside for you. Cause you rock.

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Peanut Butter Cups

Or should I say, Lisa’s Peanut Butter Cups? Doesn’t have the same delectable ring as Reese’s though. I love the combination of peanut butter and chocolate about as much as I love lemon. I’m actually surprised I haven’t done more posts using this delicious combination of flavours. But yeah, these were actually really easy to make. I thought that it’d be hard to coat the sides in chocolate evenly, but alas, it wasn’t.

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Marshmallows

I think one of my favourite things about camping are the s’mores. Graham crackers with melted chocolate and ooey gooey toasted marshmallow squished in between. Accompanied by a glass of cold milk. YUM. But yeah, when I first started baking, joyofbaking.com was basically my go-to-guide for baking. I really like that website because the creator, Stephanie, always puts really cool histories of the recipe into her introductions.

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Cucumber Avocado Soup

Hmm. I’m going on a little bit of a food blog RAMPAGE right now. But it’s because there are so many things I want to make! In my last post I talked about things I ate at the wedding I was just at; this soup wasn’t at the wedding but it was something Chris’ mom ordered at a restaurant. It seemed really intriguing and I wanted to try it. It was quite interesting, to say the least. 

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Strawberry and Spinach Salad

The thing about going to places where there’s TONS of food (aka a wedding) is that I get to try so many different things that I want to eat. The wedding I was just at had probably the best potato salad I’d ever had, a variation of this salad, delicious cabbage rolls, the best chicken I’ve ever had, and strawberry shortcake! And somebody had cucumber soup, which really intrigued me. I think that may be my next adventure, but for my current endeavour, the strawberry salad I had was really good. The one at the wedding had a creamier sauce, but I was more interested in a light, oil-based one instead of cream-based.


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Lemon Cupcakes

I’m pretty sure you folks are well aware that I love lemons a lot. The crisp, sweet taste just makes everything better. I baked these cupcakes for one of Chris’ cousin’s weddings because I didn’t know what else to give them other than a bottle of wine. And I really like piping?

So the instructions for this recipe weren’t really that logical, so I’ve altered some of the steps to make for a better batter and stuff.

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Chewy Oatmeal Cookies

 Be amazed that this picture actually did not require any editing whatsoever. Ignore the fuzzy mess in the background. I was pretty impressed by the awful lighting in my kitchen. My white balance isn’t even that bad! And my little cup of perfectly white milk just looks grand beside this plate of cookies. I feel like this should be beside the fireplace for Santa or something. Why the baking rampage you ask? Today was a very sad day, so naturally, I baked cookies.

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Lemon Cheesecake Tart

Yet another summer goal that has been completed! I had such a hard time trying to pick which tart I wanted to make. I saw this really pretty white chocolate mousse cake with strawberries on top, but that meant that I’d have to use a glaze, and then slice a bajillion strawberries, AND mousse uses a crapton of egg whites… I just couldn’t be bothered. So I opted for the website that got me interested in baking in the first place: www.joyofbaking.com. 

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