Do you guys remember last August when I flew out to San Diego to hang out with Amy and attend BlogHer '11?
Well guess what?? Today Amy is flying in to hang out with me and check out what Canada has to offer!
She will be here for the next week, I cannot wait! We plan on eating copious amounts of poutine and donairs, checking out the mountains, visit WEM, and who knows what else :) I just hope this pregnant lady has enough energy to keep my guest busy!
This past weekend a great friend of mine married her perfect guy. The wedding was so much fun, with lots of tasty food (how can you go wrong with a Ukrainian wedding?), great friends, and an awesome reason to celebrate!
I was so honoured when they asked me to make the wedding cake and cupcakes! The wedding colour was orange, and while the bride requested vanilla and chocolate for the cupcakes, I was given free reign with the wedding cake flavours.
Remember these doughnuts and how they blew my mind because they were just SO good and the brown butter glaze was insane?
I found another use for that tasty tasty glaze :)
I had some leftover in my fridge after the doughnuts had disappeared, just taunting me to dig in with a spoon. But I held strong! Instead I made some chocolate cupcakes, topped them with some vanilla bean swiss meringue buttercream, drizzled them with the remaining glaze, and BAM, proceeded to shoved them in my face.
So. Good.
In May one of our closest friends gave birth to an insanely cute little boy, Emmett! This little dude is so awesome; we couldn't be happier for the new parents.
My friends and I eagerly waited until we could throw little Emmett and his mom a prime baby shower. Since our friends spend almost every weekend in the summer camping all over Alberta, we decided that a camping-themed baby shower would be perfect!
We served all sorts of camping themed food such as mini burgers and mini hotdogs
This past weekend we celebrated my sister's...21st birthday! (again?)! Yay!
She had originally requested a lemon poppyseed dessert, but then we found out that a family member was allergic to poppyseeds so the morning of her birthday I woke up and had no clue what I was going to make!
Another one of my sister's favourite desserts is strawberry shortcake, so I decided to make a vanilla cake and fill it with vanilla buttercream and strawberries to try and bring some of the flavours together.
