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Maple Walnut Cake with Chocolate Ganache

November 11, 2014 Cakes
Maple Walnut Cake with Chocolate Ganache

This maple walnut cake with chocolate ganache is a vanilla cake is wrapped in maple frosting and filled with chocolate ganache. Dotted with maple candied walnuts, this cake is ready to bring maple to your kitchen in cake form. Cake is one of my favorite things to make. I love the process of dreaming up what the […]

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Pumpkin Spice Candy Corn Cookies

September 25, 2014 Dairy-Free
pumpkin spice candy corn cookies

These pumpkin spice candy corn cookies taste like Fall on a cloud. Soft, sweet, with a hint of spicy. Fall is my favorite cooking season. It’s the time when I eat all the cinnamon in my kitchen, bring out my pumpkin spice, and make the pumpkin flavored version of everything. I recently found some pumpkin spiced […]

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Candied Yams

September 18, 2014 Asian Dishes
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These candied yams are coated with sweet hard candy on the outside for a crunchy bite into soft fluffy yams. An extra special treat! I try to stay away from deep frying. But occasionally  the desire for crunchy food overtakes and deep-frying goodness happens. This dish is the perfect dessert or side-dish to complete your […]

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Caramel Blondies

September 5, 2014 Cookies
caramel blondies

Hello! My family went to Canada for a week last week on vacation. We visited Banff and Jasper National Parks and both where astoundingly beautiful (pictures to come!). However after one week of traveling I missed home cooking, my oven, and DESSERT. Also the amazing California sunshine. These caramel blondies are the first thing I […]

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Green Tea Caramel Cupcakes

August 22, 2014 Cakes
green tea caramel cupcakes

Green Tea is one of my favorite flavors because it’s so calm and soothing. When I drink green tea it makes me feel like I’m sitting at a breezy place (the beach in San Diego is my favorite) in a soft armchair enjoying good weather. Besides liking the tea itself, I’m obsessed with any food […]

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Chocolate Cigars

August 21, 2014 Dairy-Free
chocolate cigars in ice cream

Chocolate cigars make beautiful decorations for ice cream, cakes, cupcakes, cheesecakes, and make any dessert look instantly fancier. They are also not that hard to make! So you can have beautiful cigars in no time, and also make a big batch of chocolate cigars in advance and freeze them to add to any dessert you like. […]

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Healthy Salted Caramel Sauce

August 15, 2014 Dairy-Free
Healthy Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce

Homemade salted caramel drizzle is amazing. Especially when it’s sans heavy cream and butter.  Even though this caramel is healthier, it still has all the delicious taste of salted caramel made with cream and butter = can we make an extra jar please? This caramel is also easier to make than traditional salted caramel so you […]

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Berry Vanilla Birthday Cake

August 8, 2014 Cakes
Berry Vanilla Cake

This is my favorite style of cake. A simple white cake decorated with chocolate swirls, chocolate words, and fresh red berries. The berries make the cake taste light, perfect for Spring and Summer. Unlike fondant cakes or cakes with fancy royal icing flowers, all you need to decorate this cake is a few simple tips […]

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Daisy Fondant Cake

August 1, 2014 Cakes
daisy fondant cake

I made this cake for my friend Grace’s birthday, and it was one of the funnest cakes I’d ever made. This cake is 100% vegan from the cake to the decorations 🙂 The flowers and colors were so fun to do, the perfect evening activity when you’ve spent your daytime looking at a computer screen […]

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Raspberry cupcakes with surprise center

July 17, 2014 Cakes
vegan raspberry cupcakes with surprise center

Hello there! I’m super excited about these cupcakes, because in addition to being delicious and vegan (code: healthier) they have a surprise center! I bought a cupcake corer when I started med school last Fall, but school and classes got in the way and anywho this is my first time using it (but will NOT […]

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