I made these one day when I was bored and wanted to use the blow torch again. I made chocolate cupcakes and put crushed thin mints in them. The meringue was made from egg whites, and I tried to amp up the flavors by adding raspberry powder at the end. The thin mints permeated throughout…

Summertime can be fun, but it can also be boring. My friends, Karla and Liz, and I were bored one summer day, so we decided to bake a six-layer cake. Just “normal” teenage girl things. We used Australian baker Katherine Sabbath’s raspberry and cream striped buttercream cake recipe. I wanted to show my friends that…

Ok, this is not a baking post, but my family and friends volunteered to cook for the homeless at the Rescue Mission in SLC. We volunteered alongside my mother’s church group. We had a friend who went through the program who lived there for almost a year. He always thought that fresh beef burgers would…

Another s’mores dessert- since macarons are egg white and sugar, like marshmallows, they are the perfect backdrop for s’mores. These are filled with marshmallow and chocolate ganache, dusted with graham cracker crumbs. I made these because I was bored. During the “macaronage”, the process of folding the dry ingredients into the egg whites, I over-mixed…

I made this super fun cake for one of my friend’s sisters, Olivia, for her birthday. The cake had graham flour and 2 kinds of frosting- a milk chocolate frosting and a meringue frosting. I decorated it with store-bought graham crackers, mini-marshmallows, and a s’mores chocolate bar. The best part was getting to use a…

One of the most important things to learn about macarons is getting the consistency right so you can pipe them without having them spread too much. And forming a good “foot” on the macaron (the rough edge at the bottom that forms while baking) is a sign of a well-made macaron. If they are too…