Birthday cake for a little monkey!

This past weekend one of our neighbour girls turned 1! 

A marble cake was requested, and the theme? A pink monkey cake! How fun is that?

Hello 'Baby Brain'!

I’m not sure if it is the often blamed ‘baby brain’ or if I am just losing it, but apparently my last FOUR posts have not gone up. Which has made for a sad and lonely blog over the last 2 weeks or so!

Is blogger down? Nope

Computer crashed? Not at all

Did I leave all of those posts in DRAFT instead of publishing them? Yup

Sigh

To apologize, is a picture of me looking all chubby and round (at 20 weeks) to make it up to you:

I mean seriously, just look at those cheeks! (both on my back end and my face, they are all filling in nicely…oy)

SO! I have a backlog of fun posts for you! I am trying to decide whether to back-date them and post them when I had originally intended (For example, Day 5 of doughnut week should have gone up on June 22, etc., le sigh) or whether to start fresh and move forward :)

Happy Canada Day!!

Happy Canada Day everyone! I hope it is full of fun, food, family, and fireworks!!!

Here are some tasty Maple Cupcakes with a Vanilla Bean Swiss Meringue Buttercream to help you celebrate!

Doughnut Week! Apple Cider Doughnuts

Day 4 of Doughnut Week! Yay! Recently on my facebook page I put out a request for doughnut suggestions, and "Apple Cider Doughnuts" came up.  These sounded new and delicious!


Since I had never heard of these doughnuts before, I did some quick searching and found out that they are a New England thing, and have quite the cult following!  I read through a few different recipes and this one from  Smitten Kitchen seemed to combine everything that people wanted in a recipe: perfect texture, a nice apple cider flavour, and it gave two popular ways to finish them off.  

Doughnut Week! Baked Blueberry Doughnuts

After two days of deep frying, you might be wondering what has gotten into me? I mean really, me deep frying in my kitchen?? I used to think that was something that would never happen in my house!


Buuut then the pregnancy cravings hit.  Well, the pregnancy craving.  So far in my 19 weeks I have craved one thing and one thing only: doughnuts. Soft, delicious, still warm doughnuts.