Tag: sweets

  • Coconut Rasberry Cheesecake

    Whelp. I have good news and bad news (and really, the bad news is just for me. This post is all delicious goodness for you guys). I discovered an amazing dessert recipe (It’s on the autoimmune protocol diet too! More on why I’m temporarily following this diet here). And even though coconuts are fairly benign…

  • Macarons

    Upon the suggestion of my good friends Patti and Maryann, I decided to give macarons (or French Macaroons) a go. I’m glad I did. All the research I did on them before setting out to actually make them made me nervous, like I was going to have to watch 8 batches fall before I was…

  • The Sweet Life

    It’s not the taste of sweets so much that I adore, it’s really their beauty that makes me drool. I’ve been sneaking peeks at too many baking blogs lately — you know, the ones that highlight a treat a day with photographs of pastries stacked on glass plates, cookies sitting next to cool glasses of…

  • Blerg

    Turns out I’m not so great at sewing by hand. If I didn’t get so frustrated each time I messed up, I’m sure that the learning curve wouldn’t be so huge, but for the most part I just get mad when I make something that doesn’t turn out as I envisioned. It’s the part of…