The June Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Jasmine of Confessions of a Cardamom Addict and Annemarie of Ambrosia and Nectar. They chose a Traditional (UK) Bakewell Tart… er… pudding that was inspired by a rich baking history dating back to the 1800’s in England.
I was a little nervous when I saw this months challenge. [...]

It is amazing what smells can do. The smell of pine trees evokes memories of Christmas tree hunting. The smell of tomatoes on the vine will always remind me of summers in my moms backyard. The smell of the roasting pork from the sandwich shop down the street makes my stomach rumble.  And apparently the [...]

With Memorial Day behind us now,  it is officially time to start enjoying our favorite summer treats. For many, those treats involve ice cream and my favorite summer treat is no different.  It was the summer break of my junior year when my good friend Natalija and I decided that our treat of the summer [...]

So I was craving chocolate the other day, well ok I am always craving chocolate, but I finally decided to do something about it yesterday. I am a sucker for brownies and cookies so I figured why not put them together? And how about I throw in some dark chocolate chunks for good measure. They [...]

The April 2009 challenge is hosted by Jenny from Jenny Bakes. She has chosen Abbey’s Infamous Cheesecake as the challenge.
This being my first time participating in the Daring Bakers, I was very excited to see that the challenge for the month was cheesecake.  We were given a lot of freedom to do what we wanted [...]

While I love too cook, baking has always posed a few challenges for me. When I started this blog a few months back, I promised myself that I would experiment more with baking.  As you can see by my dessert page I have had some successes, but for some reason chocolate chip cookies were always [...]

Well Easter is just a few days away now. Ryan and I don’t usually do much to celebrate it but I can’t resist all of those Easter candies that you can find in the stores so I usually buy a few bags. This year I bought those Hershey’s Extra Creamy Chocolate Eggs and somehow found [...]

When I was in high school one of my really good friends introduced me to a little something called Nutella, and I have been addicted ever since. If you aren’t quite sure what Nutella is, it is a hazelnut spread popular in Europe but you can get it here in the US in just about [...]

If you haven’t noticed by looking at my dessert page, I personally love chocolate and last week I had a big craving for something chewy, chocolatey and peanutty.   These little gems are a result of that craving. I used super moist triple chocolate cake mix, melted butter, brown sugar and chocolate peanut butter morsels [...]

Being part Filipino, lumpia was a big part of my household growing up. What is lumpia you ask? It is the Filipino version of an egg roll. While I was growing up we always had some savory lumpia in the freezer and it was always at all of our family functions. What we never had [...]