Land of the maple syrup everything. I went to Montreal for a day this weekend, and I found a lot of cool bakeries. There was also a bakery/ice-cream parlor that sweetened everything with maple syrup. When we were walking around the Quartiere Chinois, we found a super cool Asian bakery that had all kinds of cakes, pastries, and cookies. The one that looked the tastiest was this one that was a pineapple pastry filled with anko (sweet bean paste). We went to a cupcake shop/ice-cream parlor and bought a lemon cupcake for my mom, and it was soft and lemony all the way through! We had quite lot of fun, and the ice-cream was delicious (my sister got maple sugar, and I got lychee)!
Hope these pictures help show off how awesome Montreal is:
Well, my family had some friends over, so we decided to make brownie sundaes! As usual, I used the Baker's One-Bowl Brownies recipe, but this time I made them in a different pan. I used a 10-1/2 inch spring-form pan with parchment paper in the bottom, and I greased it with butter-flavored Crisco. I baked it for 30 minutes, and voila! Brownie pie! We had different ice-creams, sprinkles, toppings, and whipped cream, too. It was a huge success, and a tasty one at that. You just can't go wrong with this recipe. And the retro-riffic cake tin is from Glitterville.
