Category Archives: baking

Best EVER Chocolate Cake

It seems like with me joining Steeped Tea I have gotten off track with interntional recipes.  I definitely will continue cooking around the world but lately I have gotten requests from my customers to provide some recipes for either baking with tea or treats for a tea party.  In my search to find a chocolate cake [...]

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Tea and more tea!

Having a love of tea makes it difficult for me to control myself arond anything tea related.  I guess it’s not a bad addiction to have, tea is, after all, very healthy! And it’s the best thing to have around when company shows up. Like the great quote from Gladstone goes:  ”If you are cold, tea [...]

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My Tea Escape

It’s no secret, I love tea! I would be a bonafide TEA NUT if my place (an my funds) weren’t so small.  But whenever I get a chance to I like to look up new tea reviews and articles and try new, or old favourite, types of teas.  Most of my loose tea comes from [...]

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Some Favourite Cookies

I thought I would take a short hiatus in following my international recipe dictionary and instead of going on to Nepal, next on my list of recipes to try, I want to add an entry about cookies. After all, this is the one season of the whole year when the most amount of cookies are [...]

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Iraqi Pastries

Sorry about the big gaps between entries. I’m in the process of moving and it’s difficult to sit down and write when there are a million other things on my mind. What’s funny is that while I am busy doing the other million things I have my blog entries on my mind so it’s a [...]

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An international staple…Birthday Cake!

A very good friend of mine asked me to make the birthday cake for her eight year old son. I was a bit nervous at first because I haven’t really decorated a cake all by myself before. I have always had some help in that department. Baking? BRING IT ON!!! Decorating? um… I am very [...]

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