My friend Jason’s bubble tea house, BeBoBa, sells fluffernutter sandwiches- which makes me totally jealous of everyone at Lane Tech High who gets to go enjoy one for lunch every day. So I made these cupcakes in which to drown my sorrows. The baked pretzels get a little soft, but the salt tastes really [...]

CM Punk
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I just want to thank my friend CM Punk for wearing my shirt like, all over the place on his Wrestlemania diary. I got a bunch of cute messages from his female fans on My Space including one girl who said at first she was jealous [...]

I sold out of Bake and Destroy shirts again today, and I’m down to two zip-up hoodies. I’d love to get more screen printed but I just found out my summer (aka FINAL) semester is going to cost about $3000 more than I expected. So until I get around to placing another order with Black [...]

The search continues for a smores cupcake that isn’t too sticky to eat, looks cute and doesn’t involve me using the cone method of filling cupcakes, which I am way to lazy to do. This was round three in the search. So I’ve done vegan that were severely lacking marshmallow-ness; messy, messy Cakespy [...]

I set out last fall to write a profile of Chef Dimitri Fayard for Chicago Magazine. I say “set out” because what resulted was a sprawling biography, based on several interviews with Dimitri and his wife Keli, various people at the French Pastry School and even an editor at Pastry Art & Design magazine. I [...]

Girls Rock Chicago
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About Girls Rock Chicago (from their site)
Girls Rock! Chicago is a 501(c)(3) non-for profit organization dedicated to fostering girls’ creative expression, positive self-esteem and community awareness through rock music. Through our music education programs for girls ages 9-16, we are committed to educating girls about the [...]

Sweet Cobra’s guitar player, Mat Arluck is going through his second battle with cancer. He had 3 major surgeries in January to remove tumors from his liver and spine. In addition, he spent 3 weeks in the hospital and is set to do 4 weeks of radiation to follow up. The long term prognosis [...]

Chicagoist
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The Chicagoist posted an interview with me today. I already got one shitty comment, so that’s pretty awesome. Of course it’s from someone who spells poser with a “u” like a total asshole. I’ve been baking with my mom since I was a little kid, but apparently since [...]

Disillusioned by the number of professional bakeries using cake mix- you know who you are- these Aussies started a crew of from-scratch only bakers. Now we’ve all been guilty of turning to Betty Crocker from time to time but I stand before you to making the commitment to knuckle up and bake from scratch only [...]

After exchanging candies with friends from Pittsburgh to New Zealand and Australia I thought it’d be fun to exchange them with friends from all over the damn place. So I created a Swapbot candy exchange and I want you to join. The rules are simple:
Spend at least $10 on unique candies from your area. [...]