When I saw this recipe over at France’s Beyond the Peel, I knew I would have to make it! I love that it uses wholegrain flour, has honey in the icing, and 3 whole cups of zucchini! Not to mention the chocolate and espresso combination has to be one of my favourites!
Chocolate Zucchini Cake (adapted from Beyond The Peel)

1/2 cup melted coconut oil (or softened butter)
1 1/4 cup raw cane sugar (1 3/4 cup coconut sugar)
4 eggs (*I used Ener-G egg replacer for 4 eggs)
1/2 cup full fat yogurt (*I …

On Friday it was my friends birthday and I was super stoked to be able to make her birthday cake for her. Since she is turning 21, I thought a Vegas themed birthday cake would be appropriate.
The big bottom layer was a white cake with maraschino cherries and white chocolate chips. It was frosted with my favourite Italian buttercream, flavoured with vanilla bean and white chocolate.
The dice were both a devil’s food cake layered with a delicious chocolate cocoa fudge icing, and chocolate ganache.
I woke up the next morning with …

I know I’m a healthy-food blogger, but I really do love to bake. I like the process of baking much more than I like eating baked goods. I would rather bake a bunch of things and give them away. I just find that baking is so calming- I bring my laptop to the kitchen (yes, it is coated in flour and has flecks of icing over the keys), turn my itunes on as loud as possible, zone out, and bake. A half hour or so later, I have made something …

Several months ago my cousin asked me if I would be interested in making the cake for their wedding, along with some cupcakes- of course I jumped at the chance! I had never made a wedding cake before and was looking forward to figuring it out, and hopefully building something beautiful! It was a huge undertaking, and much of the last couple weeks have been spent deciding on flavours, baking, baking, baking, cutting out fondant flowers and of course, decorating. They really gave me free reign to do whatever I …

After months of preparation, this weekend we held a surprise wedding shower for my cousin’s wife-to-be. There was plenty of decorating, and of course, FOOD involved. I also made a wedding shower cake, and I will be making their wedding cake in a few weeks time, as well. I thought I would share with you a little of what was served that night.
The spread: curried asparagus bites, tapenade tomatoes, prosciutto-fig roll ups, stuffed mushrooms, goat cheese-peppercorn potatoes, asian noodle salad, mexican salad, spinach salad, orzo salad, roast beef bunwiches, tortellini …

Sorry for the lack of posting in the past few days! It’s been a couple of stressful, not-so-fun weeks, but I’m back for a special post on…birthday cake! Birthday cake is an occasional indulgence, and more often than not I don’t even end up eating birthday cake, but I do love to make them. Today is my good friend Erika’s 20th birthday, and I will be turning 20 in exactly two weeks. Erika, myself, and a few of our friends are going to be celebrating our birthdays in Whistler for …

I wanted to share this with you guys because it’s super exciting for me- my first paid job! I had a friend approach me needing something as a special surprise for his girlfriend of two years (what a nice bf!). The only problem was that she ‘only likes boring vanilla cupcakes with boring vanilla icing’. He wondered if I had any ideas on how to spice this up. After some thinking, I decided to put a special twist on Pioneer Woman’s ice cream flower pot, and Bakerella’s cupcake pops.
I made …

I’ve been interested in raw foods for a while now but I hadn’t yet dabbled into the actual ‘cooking’/eating of it- until now. I decided I would make a raw cheesecake. As I study to become a holistic nutritionist, I think it is very important to experience many different ways of eating, in order to be able to give effective information to my future clients. I’ll definitely be trying more raw foods but I will probably stick to savoury recipes. I was thinking of purchasing a pack of cookbooks from …

What better way to welcome Spring than with a lovely Hummingbird Cake! This was my first time trying a hummingbird cake and I must say….DECADENT. LUSCIOUS. WONDERFUL. It was delicious! This cake was polished off in no time at all! It was densely packed with the goodness of bananas, pineapple, pecans and spices and the addition of cream cheese frosting just made it to die for! I was curious as to how this cake obtained it’s name, but it seems there are about a zillion explanations for this question. Some …

In September it was my boyfriend’s birthday, so I really wanted to make a special cake. I decided it was time to try out rolling fondant. For this cake, I decided to cover it in white fondant and then ice the logo of the BC Lions football team in coloured buttercream. My boyfriend has seasons tickets for the lions so we had been to a few games together and watched the rest on TV. I was really proud of how it turned out, as it was my first time using …