Raspberry Pancake Canapes. I had a ton of raspberries from my garden, leftover fluffy pancake batter from Sunday morning’s breakfast + extra berry buttercream from a cake order today. Boom, boom, BOOM! 
Find the recipe here
The long weekend is in sight and I’m excited to host a Red & White BBQ. I know, so original I’ve never hosted a “themed” party before so this should be interesting. Today is TUESDAY and we already bought 80% of all the food we’re going to cook. The last thing I want to do is hit the stores last-minute. I absolutely HATE long line-ups and tonight was pretty bad as well. Maybe people are catching on and shopping early as well… darn it! Stole my idea!
We bought all the meats/grill foods and all the red and white foods are up to ME! They will be purchased over the weekend (our party’s on Sunday). I haven’t thought of what to do for dessert yet but here are some easy and yummy(looking) treats that I found. Click the titles for the link to the original website. Enjoy
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Red Velvet Strawberry Trifle
via Taste & Tell Blog
One thing I love to do is to give to others. It can be anything from a cookie to a handwritten note – I love little tokens of sentiments. I started a tradition ever since I discovered my passion for baking and that is to give treats out to my friends on my birthday. Around the end of April I begin to brainstorm what I would like as my treats. It has to be delicious and photograph well (It’s not my style to give out ugly and disgusting treats 
!) It also has to be something that I don’t offer regularly and that is unique.
Last year, I had my birthday at Panorama Lounge and gave out spicy cheese crackers in mini pink polka dot take-out boxes. This year was very last minute as in less-than-24-hours-before-my-dinner last minute! :S I came up with Chipster Brownies – brownies baked with chocolate chip bits in them. I also got to use my square muffin pan which was also a treat.
Chipster Brownies
INGREDIENTS
1 pkg brownie mix
1 pkg cookie dough, frozen
METHOD
PREPARE the cookie dough and brownie mix as directed on the packaging.
SPRAY a 9 x 13 non-stick baking pan or line a baking pan with tin foil.
BREAK pieces of the cookie dough and randomly place it in the pan. Pour the brownie batter so it covers the cookie dough. Alternate the cookie dough and brownie batter steps and top it off with the rest of the cookie dough.
FOLLOW the baking directions on the brownie box.
Enjoy!
THANK YOU everyone for the birthday wishes! I had an awesome and relaxing day yesterday… I wish every day was my birthday I’m currently editing photos from yesterday’s trip to Guu Izakaya so I will be posting soon! At the end of a full day walking ALL OVER downtown (the BF didn’t let me take the subway and it was RAINING TOO!), I came home to find 300 birthday messages. You all sure know how to make a girl feel blessed! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
My WHAT’S COOKING magazine came in today and I found these cute Watermelon Pops I want to share with you.
I love how they look so summery! Can’t wait to make these
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