Happy Halloween, everyone! I hope you have a super fun costume planned for trick or treating tonight! I don’t think I could ever top my costume from last year: But I found a creative way to dress up as a recognizable character AND stay warm-ish while surviving the cold San Franciscan nights. I dressed up as the fictional Polynesian goddess of life, Te Fiti, from Moana. In the movie she has long, mossy sleeves on her earthen dress and I knew I could make that into a cozy costu

Episode 5: Call Me Butter [Beer], Cuz I’m On A Roll Happy spooky season, y’all! 🎃🕸️🕷️🦇⚰️👻 After a brief hiatus, Baking and Boozing is back! I knew from day 1 that I wanted to invite this particular friend to be my guest for this October episode of spooky baking, and she brought the house down with her witch hat, spooky clothes, funny faces, and her absolutely amazing personality 💜 Check out these delicious Harry Potter themed treats! Pumpkin Pasties Ingredients 15 ounce

Did you miss your letter to Hogwarts, too? I cry about it all the time. I would have been a model student at Hogwarts. I always loved the thought of using a cheering charm. And I’m endlessly entertained by this passage about Harry and Ron from HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban: "Harry slightly overdid his [Cheering Charm] out of nerves and Ron, who was partnering him, ended up in fits of hysterical laughter and had to be led away to a quiet room for an hour before he was ready t

We’re all familiar with the movie Office Space, right? So if I tell you that for the last 72 hours I’ve wanted to go all Office Space on the smoke detector in my apartment, you’ll understand what that means… It’s possessed. Truly. I’ve changed the batteries, reset the system, disconnected the base from the wall... None of it has stopped the beeping. Couple that with the fact that my parents are staying with me this week, and the defective smoke detector is in the guest room

Ok kids, it’s story time! Wayyyyy back in the spring of 2020 (when we thought this pandemic would be over before Easter - HA!) my Man Candy™ was told by the US government that he [we] would be moving to San Francisco. Not only did that news make me insanely happy, but it also gave me something to look forward to during those dark beginning-of-the-worldwide-pandemic days. That filled my little event planning heart with joy! One of the things that I started planning was my 35th

I’m really bad about learning my lesson. Usually I have to make the same mistake three or four times just to make sure that it’s really a mistake and THEN I learn from it. Which is how we got today’s pastry. Remember the pineapple incident from a few weeks ago? Well in all honesty that was entirely my fault. However, this week’s issue was not my fault! Let me set the scene: I was placing my order for grocery delivery. I ordered two limes. The day they fulfill your order, the

I feel like 2020 has been more than enough to deal with so I don’t want to offer any tricks to you. That must mean that you’re getting a treat! That’s right, I have a brownie recipe waiting for you at the bottom of this post. Woohoo! But before we get to the recipe, I want to share with you my treat this week: The Sorting Hat! In the HP book series, Harry Potter's boarding school, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, had 4 “houses” that the students were divided into b

This week concludes my spooky photo series, and next week will kick off my official holiday mode baking, and I have to admit that I am SO excited. But while I can still let the spookiness of Halloween linger I definitely will. This is why I started learning all about a celebration that takes place shortly after Halloween and allows some of the themes of Halloween to continue. To start with I’m not really going to explain all of the intricacies of the origins of Halloween (and