My two weeks at home has been amazing, and sadly, it comes to an end today. I’m getting on a plane tonight (unless Mother Nature has other plans), headed back to snow and school. I just wish I could pack my little bug in a suitcase and take her with me. The weekend has been…
Tag: Beta5 Chocolates
Contracts & Caramels
Against my better judgment, I decided to study in my room today. On my bed. This isn’t atypical behaviour on my part – it actually is very much typical and usually works out just fine. What’s concerning about it this time, though, is that exams are literally around the corner and my focus is nowhere to…
Chocolate Cure
When they say chocolate solves everything, they aren’t lying. I can 100% attest to that fact, and especially if it’s a Beta5 chocolate bar. I don’t like the fact that I live 4000 km from Beta5, but thankfully I have parents who don’t mind being tasked with picking up my favourites and sending them over….
Ice Cream Sandwiches Take Eight: Peach-Jasmine
My Vancouver summer, along with my ice cream sandwich sampling, is quickly coming to a close. This past weekend, we tried Beta5 Chocolates’ peach-jasmine creation: local peach ice cream sandwiched between two jasmine-tea-infused cookies. I don’t particularly like jasmine tea, but it was subtle enough (yet very much recognizable) that I actually enjoyed it. My…
Family Weekend: Sunday
Sunday was a little more relaxed, spent just with my parents and brother on Granville Island, another favourite spot of mine in Vancouver. While my dad helped my brother pick up supplies for the upcoming semester at Opus (they bond over things like that), my mom, Stella, and I took a walk around the island,…
Ice Cream Sandwiches Take Seven: Strawberry Cheesecake
Once again, Beta5 Chocolates has proven that when it comes to ice cream sandwiches, it can do no wrong. Today, we tried strawberry cheesecake: homemade graham cookies sandwiching mild cheesecake ice cream and strawberries. What I love about Beta5’s ice cream sandwiches is the perfect cookie to ice cream ratio. I feel like the original Klondike…
Ice Cream Sandwiches Take Five: Beta5
Showing no signs of slowing down, my ice cream sandwich tasting took me back to Beta5 Chocolates, this time for dark chocolate raspberry and black forest. As expected, they were both fantastic, but if I had to choose a favourite, it would have to be dark chocolate raspberry: two thin, dark chocolate cookies sandwiching pink…
Ice Cream Sandwiches take two: Mint Chip
I’ve been eating a lot of ice cream sandwiches lately – not really unusual I guess, given the warm-ish weather and my giant sweet tooth. What I didn’t expect was to try (and fall in love with) a mint chocolate chip version. It was another one of Beta5 Chocolates’ amazing creations: pale, earthy green mint ice cream with…
Ice Cream Sandwiches
I think the first ice cream sandwich I ever had was the classic Klondike Bar – vanilla ice cream sandwiched between chocolate cookies. Then it was one of those frozen-solid chocolate chip cookie ones at Disneyland. I didn’t make it to the Trout Lake Farmers Market for an Earnest Ice Cream sandwich yesterday, but I…
Saturday Sweets
S’mores-a-jar from Beta5 Chocolates: milk chocolate mousse, smoked aerated chocolate, toasted marshmallows, chocolate twigs, and graham crackers. It’s their April dessert-in-a-jar feature, and a great little play on the real thing. I might as well talk about their April cream puff ring, which I tried a few days ago: chopped toasted hazelnuts, filled with a…
Easter in Instagrams
1. Bunny ears. 2. Peeps from Beta5 Chocolates. 3. Balloon. 4. He is Risen. 5. Sunny walks with Mom. 6. Apple-lemon-ginger. 7. Pistachio-cherry & vanilla.
Saturday Sweets
White- chocolate-orange choux, vanilla choux, yuzu-glazed double-baked almond croissant and pain au chocolate from Beta5 Chocolates. Russian tea-cakes from Black Rook Bakehouse.
Pup & Grub 