How to Make Frosting From Scratch : Baking Techniques

The Best Pasta Sauce

How to Make Choose-a-Frosting Cupcakes

Raspberry Chocolate Cake

The secret ingredient in this moist cake is mayonnaise, which gives it a shelf-life of 1 week in the fridge – if you can resist eating it before then, that is!

ngredients

• 40g butter, melted, plus extra, softened, to grease
• 100g (1 cup) Dutch cocoa, (see top tips) plus extra, to dust
• 250ml (1 cup) buttermilk
• 3 eggs
• 300g (1 cup) whole-egg mayonnaise
• 440g (2 cups) caster sugar
• 225g (1 1/2 cups) self-raising flour
• 120g (1 cup) ground almonds
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 150g frozen raspberries
• 100g dark chocolate (55% cocoa solids), very finely chopped
• 1 pomegranate, seeded
• 175g icing sugar, sifted
• 20g flaked almonds, roasted
  
  Please check out Taste Of Home for more tastey recipes http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/raspberry-cake

The Best Bread in Canada

The best bread in Toronto need not additional adornment. A really well-made olive loaf, French baguette, or even multilingual bread can stand alone, leaving the butter to melt solemnly to the wayside. Yes, I've always enjoyed that moment of glee, arriving at a bakery at just the right time to grab a still-warm loaf and pull it apart and snack on my way home.

Of course, a ragged, torn loaf makes subsequent sandwich preparation a little more difficult, but it's worth it for the fresh-out-of-the-oven crisp crust, and warm chewy center  These bakeries have perfected their loaves, many using only natural ingredients and kneading the dough by hand.

http://www.steamykitchen.com/75-baking-the-perfect-loaf-of-french-bread.html Visit this website for how to make a perfect french loaf 

The Best Ice Cream in Town

Dutch Dreams is like a wonderland of sugary, nutty, and fruity goodness. Once you finally tear your eyes away from the kitsch and hone in on the ice cream offerings, you’ll get your pick of Rum Raisin, Birthday Cake, Chocolate Fudge and more, plus fresh fruit and whipped cream on top, of course. If you order a double-scoop,

http://www.davidlebovitz.com/2007/07/making-ice-crea-1/ Check this website

Google Analytics

Google Analytic is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website.

Google Analyic measure:

Pageview:

A pageview is recorded every time a page is viewed. every time the trackpageview method is executed in the script.  When a visitor hits the back button, a page view is generated.  when a visitor hits refresh, a pageview is created.  every time a page is opened in the browser, regardless of whether it has been cached, it generates a pageview

Visit:

Google Analytics focuses on visits.  this is simply a series of pageviews that a single visitor makes at a time. A visit ends after the visitor either closes the browser or is inactive for 30 minutes

 

Total Visitors:

 Google Analytics emphasizes visits over visitors because of the inherent inaccuracies of trying to track individual users

 

Bounce:

A visit with one pageview. It doesn't matter how long the visitor was on the page or how they left. Technically, it's a visit with only one interaction. Any Event Tracking calls would negate this. Generally speaking, it's just a one-page visit, though.

 

Time on Page:

Time on page is measured by subtracting the time a visitor hit a page from the time they hit the next page

 

Time on Site:

This is the sum of all times on page for a visit. Or, more accurately, it is the difference between the time they viewed the first and last pages in a visit. Note that viewing pages in different tabs doesn't affect this. Google Analytics simply sees a string of pages being viewed in chronological order, without any reference to multiple tabs or windows

 

New Visitor

A visitor who did not have Google Analytics cookies when they hit the first page in this visit. Should the visitor delete their cookies and come back to the site, they would be counted as a new visitor.

 

Returning Visitor

A visitor with existing Google Analytics cookies. Those cookies typically will also record the number of visits the visitor has made to the site.

 

Pages/Visit:

Pageviews divided by visitors.

 

Direct Traffic:

Ideally, this is the traffic that came to a site via bookmarks or by directly typing in the URL. In reality, it is the traffic for which the code couldn't determine a source. Depending on the site and the browser, some links may not show a referrer and instead would be categories as direct.  

 

Referring Sites::

This is traffic for which (1) a referrer was identified, (2) the referrer is not a search engine and (3) there are no campaign variables. This should only represent free traffic, friendly referrals to a site. If campaign variables are used, no paid traffic should be attributed toward referrals.

 

Search Engine Traffic:

Google Analytics automatically categorizes traffic as coming from a search engine if the referring URL is from its list of known search engines and there is a search term identified in that URL. Both organic and paid search engine traffic is put into this group.

Bakerbots

Bakerbots is just eight weeks old and only open on weekends and evenings, but it has already earned a reputation for some of the best ice cream sandwiches around.It" is Bakerbots' assortment of cupcakes, cookies, cakes and macarons, mostly sold on weekends but with the odd little batch available during the week. The shop is open just between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. from Tuesday to Thursday, primarily to sell ice cream treats.Bakerbots' chalkboard menu has suggestions for ice cream/cookie combinations, so I take its advice and opt for an Everything cookie with Burnt Marshmallow ice cream. The cookie looks pretty big, so I opt for a half sandwich ($3.50) instead of a whole ($5.50).

 Bakerbots is open Tuesday-Thursday: 6-10pm, Friday: 4-11pm, Saturday 11am-11pm, Sunday 11am-8pm

The Best Custom Cake

The best custom and wedding cakes in Toronto look far too good to eat. While layers of delicious cake and buttercream are just waiting for consumption below that surface of fondant or extra buttercream, it seems almost a shame to dissect what otherwise would be considered a work of art. The bakeries on this list combine their winning cake recipes with creative structural ingenuity (yet, for some reason, mainstream architects get all the glory), producing celebration centerpieces that will certainly get guests talking.



http://www.personalchefapproach.com/blog/making-truly-creepy-cakes-best-costume/Check this website for the weirdest custom cakes ever  

The Worst Foods For Your Skin

We never stop battling with our skin. Just as it seems we've finally conquered acne, it's already time to fight fine lines and wrinkles. And all the while we're navigating SPF and vitamin D -- skin care is certainly tricker than those face wash commercials would have us believe.
Try as we might to find the perfect product for our own unique combination of problematic skin, it turns out wemay want to approach skin care from the inside out.
Yes, what you eat -- and drink -- can keep your exterior in excellent condition. There are foods to keep skin hydrated and soft and foods that protect skin cells from damage (i.e. wrinkles). And there are even foods that might hurt our skin. 
 like SALT

Too much salt can cause some of us to retain water, which can lead to swelling





SHRIMP

Shrimp, crab, lobster -- and also certain leafy greens like seaweed and spinach -- are naturally high in iodine, and a diet with too much of this element can lead to acne





PASTA

 Pastas and cakes, and even corn syrup, are best avoided for dewy skin (and maybe even for maintaining weight loss). Foods that are considered high glycemic can cause rapid spikes in blood sugar. A small Australian study from 2007 found that eating a low-glycemic diet reduced acne in young men. But Schultz says there will need to be more research before we truly understand the relationship.

However, if glycemic index does prove to be related to skin problems, and you find yourself breaking out after eating something like French fries, it may be due to the starchy insides rather than that greasy, golden exterior, according to YouBeauty.com.

Goodbye Gluten and Hello Delicious

Toronto new 100% gluten free store & catering " GBG"

Starting soon, the store will be offering “Cooking Gluten Free” Classes in our Gluten Free, Nut Free kitchen. Whether you’re looking for new recipes or how to make delicious baked goods or meals, GBG – Goodbye Gluten will show you how everything can be absolutely yummy, but still 100% Gluten Free.For those of you with other food allergies or dietary restrictions, we will also bake and cook items that cover other sensitivities including – Nut Free, Dairy Free, Lactose Free, Soy Free, Corn Free, Salt Free, Sugar Fee and our very popular Vegan foods.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/gluten-free-diet/my01140

Check the Gluten Free website 

The Best Italian Pasta in Toronto

 Enoteca Sociale prepares its pasta with careful caress each day, making it nearly impossible not to inhale the plate once it is placed before you. Try to think of the labour that went into each piece, and it might help you to try to slow down your pace. Using locked-down classic Roman recipes, Sociale hand-cuts its pappardelle and ravioli, makes its own spaghetti and fettuccine, providing the ideal bases for its fillings and sauces

Health Benefits of "Green Tea" yum yum

One of my fav beverages is "Green Tea" lots of research focused on green tea's impact on heart disease and cancer problems , today green is the most widely consumed beverage in the world , hundreds of millions of people drink tea and studies suggest that green tea has many health benefits. In traditional chinese and indian medicine green tea used as diuretic that help rid the body of excess fluid and improve heart health.
studies suggest that Green tea may help treat the following:

1- High Cholesterol
2- Cancer
3-Bladder Cancer
4-Diabetes
5- Liver Disease
6-Wieght loss

People in Asian countries more commonly consume green tea while black is the most popular in the USA.

Green Tea