I don't have an internet connection at my new apartment yet. Besides the inevitable withdrawal symptoms (mostly the inexplicable urge to check SOMETHING every 5 seconds in lieu of my email), I'm kind of enjoying it? I miss being able to blog without heading to a cafe, but other than that, I feel like I have more of a grounded real life ( Read more... )

The story/tone of this blog entry was inspired by Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper and Ms. Bel, the kind and lovely lady who commissioned me to make her a cheesecake. For the concept of this post, I combined my recent patron de gâteau's lactose intolerance with Gilman's female protagonist's gradual madness over her room's yellow ( Read more... )

Everything’s been a little bit stressful and crazy lately. The Husband has been working especially hard and has been completely exhausted, so I thought I’d bake him a little something to cheer him up ( Read more... )

We've all been there before.

There may be many methods of making it, but there's only one way of eating it. The humble cheesecake could bring out your inner predator. Come, indulge that hunger.


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This recipe contains bailey's alcohol.. so don't have one too many slices! :)

100g/3½oz butter

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  250g/8¾oz biscuits, crushed
  
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  600g/1lb 5oz cream cheese
  
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  25ml/1fl oz Baileys
  
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  100ml/3½oz icing sugar
  
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  300ml/10½oz double cream, whipped
  

People will seriously swoon when you show up with these cake balls. SWOON, I tell you. Red velvet cake and cheesecake and chocolate?! They're supremely delicious. They're also, despite looking really fancy, surprisingly straightforward to make. That being said, cake balls and pops are always fiddly the first time you make them and they require a ( Read more... )

Hello! Here's a really easy cheesecake recipe that I wanted to share.


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Mike loves clementines (or 'tines, as we call them), and I was going to take him a bushel last time I went to Raleigh, but I opted to make a big cheesecake with them instead ( Read more... )

Anyone ever heard of Milnot Cheesecake? I hadn't either. It was apparently all the rage back in my Great Grandma Thelma's day, however. It was a cool, lightly lemony dream of a dessert. The no-bake mousse-textured "cheesecake" on a graham cracker crust was served chilled straight from the fridge ( Read more... )

I just posted a round-up of the top 11 recipes of 2011 on Willow Bird Baking and I wanted to share them here. You all have been so supportive of all my bloggage and I really cannot thank you enough!

Below the cut you'll find the Top-11 links and one recipe that I'm reposting: the #1 favorite recipe of the year!


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