Have you heard of those wreck the dress photo shoots? A newlywed who probably spent her entire wedding day vigilantly guarding every last inch of white floof on her dress dons her bridal whites again. Only this time, she goes nutso and jumps in a lake or climbs a tree or runs through the rain while a photographer snaps away. Whatever she loses in ( Read more... )

As promised, I'm posting two fantastic ways to use the homemade croissants that I KNOW you're thinking of making. Right?! Am I right?! You should go for it ( Read more... )

THANK YOU so much for your votes in Project Food Blog! Willow Bird Baking is one of only 100 blogs to make it to round 4! To say I'm thrilled is an understatement ( Read more... )

Some of you have been following my Croissant Challenge, in which I encouraged folks to take on croissant making for the first time. Croissants are actually not that difficult -- but are a long process -- and the results are amazing ( Read more... )

A huge part of the mission of my food blog, Willow Bird Baking, is encouraging home cooks to make things they might have written off as too difficult before. I'm passionate about this because that's how I've advanced my own kitchen skills through the past years -- by repeatedly tackling recipes I wasn't sure would work. The feeling of ( Read more... )

Awhile back I posted my homemade, buttery croissants and revealed that they were my proudest kitchen achievement by far ( Read more... )

This is the first recipe from my Secret Secret Garden Party. It's also my proudest kitchen achievement. I know to some people it seems silly to work for two days on something you can go to the bakery and buy, but hopefully some of you understand. Hopefully some of you have felt the joy of pulling something out of the oven that you worked your ( Read more... )

I am so excited to finally share what I've been working on for weeks -- months! -- with the world!

My sister, Sarah, is a bibliophile. She loves reading all sorts of books. One day she confided to me that her absolute favorite book of all time was the classic children's novel, The Secret Garden. This sparked my curiosity since I had passed ( Read more... )

To recap: I'm a pastry chef student at a culinary school in Toronto, Canada.  I make gud things ta eats.

This week was a triple-header; bagels and croissants and danishes (oh my!).  Sadly, I was too busy to take pics of the danishes (boo!), but I did bring home some of the croissants and bagels, and managed to take a picture or two in between my ( Read more... )

Tonight I kept things simple and cheesy. I knew with my fiance loving cheese so much that as long as it has enough cheese it doesn't have to be fancy. LOL ( Read more... )