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Why Mise En Place Matters

Even though there are plenty of chefs and home cooks who think that mise en place (the act of having all of your ingredients prepped before you begin cooking or baking) is a waste of time. In all honesty, there was a t…
Interview with a Food Stylist

This is a guest post from CakeSpy. Talk about a job that sounds delicious and glamorous: food styling for cookbooks! But is it really as non-stop fun as it sounds? This is a question that occurred to me while working w…
Kitchen Fail: Macarons

Floating on my overinflated ego, created by my semi-successful first macarons, I figured that I could whip up a more complicated batch easily. Oh, how wrong I was.
Baileys Blondies

This is a guest post from Kirbie's Cravings. I made one other Baileys inspired dessert this week before deciding I needed to save the rest for drinking. I wanted to make some fudgy brownies and decided instead to make…
Foods I Want to Learn How to Make

Over the past few months, I have grown to like cooking and making food for my boyfriend and his mother and family. During the weekends, when it's freezing cold or just one of those lazy Sundays that we're both not busy,…
Recipe: Vanilla Cupcakes

Up until a few days ago, I always made cake and cupcakes from a box. With the holidays and school over for the semester, I had more time to try new recipes. One recipe I came across was for Amy Sedaris's Vanilla Cupca…
Fifteen Weeks of Sweat and Tears in my Baking class

It's been a while since I've last blogged for IReallyLikeFood and it feels great. This semester I took Baking & Pastry Arts 1 and it was intensive, tiring, stressful, exciting, and educational. The experience in the…
Recipe: Rolled Sugar Cookies

With the holidays in full swing, it's only natural to make a lot of desserts and treats for your family and friends. On Christmas Eve, I made sugar cookies with a friend using a recipe that can be found here.
Britishly Delicious: Battenberg Cupcakes

This is a guest post from CakeSpy. CakeSpy Note: This is a guest post from Nicola Cappin of Sunningdale Cakes. The Americans have their cupcakes, the French their macarons, but the British are just plain bonkers for B…
Cookbook Review: Good Housekeeping Little Book of Baking

This is a guest post from CakeSpy. Today, I asked my cupcake (which lives on a pony): "What do you think of this book?" It has a big name for a tiny book: Good Housekeeping The Little Book of Baking: 55 Homemade Cookie…