Life and Baking: Fail, Learn, Repeat

Have you ever baked something and thought it was perfect, only to serve it to people, taste it, and realise something went terribly wrong? Yeah, that happened to me, on New Year’s Eve (what a way to start 2019 right? <facepalm>)

How My Life Changed When I Stopped Drinking Sugar In My Coffee

I know you’re expecting to read some wonderful I’m-no-longer-a-sugar-addict story, or that I miraculously lost 5kgs since I’ve picked up this healthy habit, but no. It’s not one of those stories. It’s actually very boring; because to tell you the truth, I don’t feel the changes I expected.

Friend or Food?

This coming weekend China will be celebrating its annual dog eating festival. This has activists up in arms across the globe and for obvious reasons. Many cultures consider dogs to be pets, friends, and certainly not food. This raises some uncomfortable, but necessary questions. Who decides which animals are fit for consumption, why is it […]

The Year of Health

Resolutions! It’s that time of the year and in spite of my reluctance to jump on the resolution bandwagon, in the end (or should I say beginning) I decided to set goals for myself. I do however have a slight alteration to the Classic Resolution. I struggle to finish projects and maintain my goals, so […]

Life = Cupcake

Baking has always instilled fear in my heart. I was horrible. My fudge either resembled a sticky toffee mess, or was burnt to look like something from Middle Earth. Not pleasant. My baking excursions usually ended with dessert in the trash, and me crying on the kitchen floor. So, needless to say, I decided from […]

Recipe: Chocolate Beer Bacon Cupcakes

One of my favourite TV shows is 2 Broke Girls. Those short 20-minute episodes are filled with clever comebacks, hilarious scenarios and of course my favourite, humor for the dirty-minded. Near the end of season 1, Max bakes this incredibly weird cupcake, the Beer Batter Maple Bacon Spring Break Cupcake and it sounded deliciously different. […]