The Art Of Baking

Lenny the Cupcake is excited about finding this giveaway! Right now "Cozy Homes Scenes" is having a great big giveaway to win cupcake supplies! If you love to make cupcakes or just love to bake,then this is something for you. :).  This whole prize pack is value at more then $30 and some of the items include a cupcake cookbook and a really cute cupcake apron.  So if your interested in entering this giveaway click the highlighted red link. Also for more information this contest ends on June 5th and is open to U.S and Canadian residents :). So hurry on down and get your entries in because you dont want to miss out on this. 

Picture of me with my new haircut I had a couple months ago. Doesn't it look like a author shot that could be on a cookbook  :P No new baking today :(. However its still exciting over here because I've been receiving  lots of coupons including one for a free box of cereal! Woot! and I have two giveaway wins that will be here anytime.This time its jewelry wins and they are beautiful pieces. I'll have to take some pictures of me wearing them with some outfits I think would suit them well.Plus I have some freebies I sent out to receive. It is giveaway wins and freebies that make checking the mail awesome.  Now your probably wondering what I sent out for free samples umm. Should I tell you or keep it a secret? ummmmmm... ehh I cant keep a secret at all lol.  Well I sent a few and I'm still searching for more because Its quite addicting once you find a few and then find more. For me there's so many freebies I miss out on being in Canada, but I love supporting Cana...

Just Wednesday I received a parcel in the mail and it was my giveaway win from 6 bittersweet of a silpat baking mat. I have never owned, used or even felt a Silpat baking mat before, so it was exciting to have a new product added to my baking collection especially since I've heard a lot of good things about it. If the professionals rave about it I am sure I'll like it to once I try it out.Now I wont be held back with certain recipes that need silpat mat. I can create some delicious treats with this product.So thank you 6 bittersweet for the great giveaway and the sweet note,plus thank you to Silpat :).  Hey wait!....   I'm not done yet with all the excitement. On Thursday night I baked my first batch of perfect topped muffins! :).I have never been able to till now to create a muffin top shape that was correct. For everyone that has made muffins before know what I mean on the right or wrong shape. I have practically made all the other shapes in previous recipes inclu...

When you see their is lots of peanut butter in the fridge and you really want to bake. The first thing that pops into your head is old fashion peanut butter cookies, right? They are delicious and simple to make, but sometimes you get bored of the same simple cookie over and over and you want to change it up. Well here I wanted to mix it up a bit too and make a recipe of something I have never made myself before with peanut butter. Many probably have made a version of this or even use the exact same recipe as me. Its all a learning experience for me first hand. I have never attempted until now to make sandwich versions of peanut butter cookies because most of the time I had scarce ingredients or the length of time just did not work. But I had the time now to put my whole self into the recipe. No distractions for a new recipe.  I actually started off with this recipe with a missing ingredients. But don't fear I didn't leave it out I just made a homemade version of it. Can yo...

 It seems whenever Easter comes around there is always leftover candy hanging about that no one likes and  most of time people are on candy withdraw after. Well if your someone that did have leftover candy during that time.You might want to try this recipe on for size for next years leftover Easter candy especially for chocolate items.   For me I really wanted to make a tube cake since I have never really made one and I also wanted to incorporate leftover candy. So what I did was I easily adapted a coffee cake recipe with ingredients I had in the kitchen. I made myself a streusal topping without brown sugar and had sliced apples as my choice of fruit topping. Along with that I added a special surprise layer inside of chopped mini eggs and eggies which gave a melty texture to the middle of the cake.Plus I even added a little rum flavoring to replace vanilla. The apples paired well with the moist and flavorful cake and the chocolate gave a ting of dark chocolate sweetne...

I am finally getting into the mood to start up my blogging again. So I guess I'll take it slow by sharing with you guys my most recent baking and what has been happening overtime. Since my last post I have been keeping busy with baking and doing some exercise here and there. I also won a giveaway of a beautiful vintage brooch that I gave as a gift for Mother's day and just recently I won 3 new giveaways. As of now I am waiting till they arrive;however one of the gifts is a silpat baking mat and I am super excited to try it out for the first time. I've heard nothing but good things about it and the professional pastry chefs use them so I guess I can't go wrong. So has anyone tried the silpat baking mat? and what are your thought on it? I would love to hear from everyone :) Anyways I guess everyone was wondering where "The Art Of Baking" was, no new blog posts!:S. Well don't be worried I just took a break and I am making sure blogging doesn't consume ...