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Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Bake Off

08/16/2021 By Queenie Leave a Comment

When I first came to the U.S and took a bite of the chocolate chip cookie provided at my college's orientation, I had serious doubts. They were dry, greasy, and wayyyyyy too sweet. I was so confused over the years that everyone except me seems to love chocolate chip cookies. It turned out, just like what converts me from a pie-hater to a pie lover, I just never had a good one. Because of my horrible first impression of CCC, I rarely eat them nor bake them until this year I had a good CCC from Metropolitan Market here in Seattle. That magical ...

Big Crumb Rhubarb Coffee Cake

04/20/2021 By Queenie Leave a Comment

Last year around this time, I was four months into studying LSAT full time while taking care of an infant. We were two months into the pandemic. I remembered those hard days and how going to the grocery store felt like a vacation. And I wrote this post "When there's rhubarb, there's hope" to cheer myself up when I saw rhubarb in the grocery store. What a year. I'm so grateful now we're fully vaccinated. To celebrate and to mark an ending for this unusual year, we took a mini road trip to Whidbey Island with little croissant. Oh boy. Does it ...

London Fog Chiffon Cake (and things I’ve learned so far from opening an online bakery)

I’m back! I was planning to get the “Mini Apple Cake Bake-off” post up before Thanksgiving, but who knew my little bakeshop actually SOLD OUT for Thanksgiving and also went full capacity on Christmas?!!! Oh well, now the holiday rush was ...

Apple cakes I’ve baked so far (plus recipes I want to bake next!)

I’m very into fall baking this year. And I started early, like I cracked into my first can of pumpkin in late August. I have always loved baking with pumpkin, but this year my obsession is apple. Specifically apple cakes. Picking the right recipe is ...

Meet Good Day Baking Co.!!!

I did a thing. It might be the closest thing I could have done to my ultimate dream (AKA opening my own bakery) while still sticking with the plan of going to law school in 2021. I opened an online bakeshop!! Okay, so first thing first - why did I ...

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Little croissant’s first birthday + DIY cake smash photo!

Little croissant is 15 months now, and I just started to edit his cake smash + birthday photos. If it tells you something, prepare to have a similar rhythm for life when you become a parent But wow how time flies. I still feel like making Mini ...

Perfect Peach Pie + BYE LSAT!

I AM FINALLY DONE WITH LSAT. I hope y'all can feel my excitement with these all cap letters. The funny thing is I’ve wakened up at least 3 times the night before score release day, with vivid nightmares of scoring only 129 (120=0 in LSAT world), ...

Rhubarb pie yogurt cup

Now we all live in this crazy time, what do you miss the most from your normal routine? I definitely am missing the small things that I don’t even think are important in my daily life. Going to the farmer’s market, eating in a restaurant, talking to ...

When there is rhubarb, there is hope.

I’m not gonna lie. The last few weeks or months are not easy. I remembered sobbing silently on NYE after little croissant was asleep and thought “wow 2020 was not off to a good start”. And it wasn’t. I shouldn’t have complained. I am so grateful for ...

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Pumpkin Angel Food Cake with Cream Cheese Glaze

We came back early from China, unexpectedly. It is kind of a bummer to everyone, especially little croissant’s grandparents and great grandparents. They teared up when saying goodbye to little croissant and I have never seen some of them ever teared ...