Merry Christmas! And the winner is…

Merry Christmas everyone! Today is my last day of work before a 4 day weekend. And then next week is also a short one but a BIG one with orders. A birthday party, and two weddings including one on New Years Eve. What a nice way to ring in the new year. Sorry about posting… [Continue Reading]

Favorite Things – Day 5 aka THE LAST DAY!

Happy Friday everyone! I hope you enjoyed learning about some of my favorite things that I use in the kitchen. This next thing is my MOST favorite thing! It’s like my kitchen security blanket. When I can’t find it, I panic. I absolutely love this cool tool that just came out earlier this year. Metro… [Continue Reading]

Favorite Things – Day 4

Since I’ve started baking professionally (I use that term loosely), I find myself preferring to know the weight of the ingredients in the recipe vs using measuring cups. A couple years or so ago, I saw ATK (America’s Test Kitchen) do a test on kitchen scales and when I saw this one, I immediately wrote… [Continue Reading]

Favorite Things – Day 3

I can never have too many bowls. Right now I own 1 set of glass mixing bowls (3 in the set), 1 pyrex glass mixing bowl, 2 batter bowls, 3 stainless steel slip proof bowls, 1 stainless steel restaurant bowl and these beauties: Zak Gemini Mixing Bowls I bought these bowls at Home Goods as… [Continue Reading]

Favorite Things – Day 2

One day down, four more to go! Today’s favorite thing is…. Baker’s Secret Basics Pans These are the preferred pans that I use in my home kitchen. I’ve tried more expensive pans, like Wilton and All-Clad and I can honestly say I think these do a great job. I own the 12 cup muffin/cupcake pan,… [Continue Reading]

Favorite Things – Day 1

I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about the things that I covet the most in the kitchen that a home baker could use as well. So I decided to do a Top 5 kinda thing, ala Rob Gordon, and post about each thing through out the week. So my first favorite thing is…….. [Continue Reading]

Halloween Cupcakes 2009

Halloween Cupcakes, originally uploaded by kristin_a. Happy Halloween! Sorry I’ve been lax in my updates. Here are some pictures from an order I received for a party down in San Diego last weekend. The order was for 7 dozen in 3 flavors. The party had 40 RSVPs. At 7 dozen, that gave each guest 2… [Continue Reading]

Happy 27th Birthday Brother!

My brother turned 27 this year. And it was a good birthday.

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