If you want to see us baking together and some silly moments, be sure to check out our video <3 These vegan raspberry tarts were actually for my brother’s school project, where he had to translate a recipe in French. Paying it forward, one sweet bite at a time, and it makes my house smell good in the process :) But whenever I do bake, I feel this satisfying feeling that I’m sharing a little good in the world. I don’t tend to bake that much anymore–partly because of my hands/eczema, but also because my metabolism can’t handle 3 batches of macaron testing or cupcake testing like it used to. He was probably around 8 or 9 at the time, and it had been about 3 or 4 years of me being in university in Ottawa, so I had spent nearly half his life away from home. It almost made me want to cry–a little out of love, and a little out of guilt. He responded with, “Yes! It smells like Lisa.” There was one time around Christmas time, I had been baking and my friend who was visitng asked my brother if he liked the smell of cookies. When I was in university, I’d come home and bake cookies for my little brother because he didn’t really like sweets that much except for my soft baked chocolate chip cookies (the key is to underbake them!) I guess I baked them so much that he began to associate the smell of baked goods with me. I wouldn’t say that it’s the reason why I like baking, but it’s definitely one of the things I love about baking. It reminds me of that one pretty terrible movie with Mandy Moore, Diane Keaton, and Gabriel Macht before he got big with Suits. In Because I Said So, Mandy Moore bakes up a batch of cookies right before her date shows up at her house so that her house smelled like cookies, and that sort of stuck with me. Every now and then, when I have the ability to bake again, I’m reminded how much I love the smell of caramelized sugar wafting in the air after a batch of cookies or pie goes into the oven. With the eczema on my hands, it’s been hard for me to have the mobility to work with dough and be able to wash my hands without excessively damaging my skin. These vegan raspberry tarts are a simple treat
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