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You guys may have noticed that I’ve been a little quiet on the blog front for the past few months. There’s certainly a good reason for that.

I’m so happy and excited to let you guys know that I’ve been busy developing recipes for The Flavor Bender Cookbook, coming out on December 12th, 2017! So go ahead and mark your calendar (and make room on your book case). 🙂

This has been a dream of mine for so long, and it’s finally coming true!

Let me tell you a little bit about the book – it’s tentatively called “Secret Layer Cakes” and published by Page Street publishing company. As you can tell by the name, it’s a baking book with 60 amazing cake recipes  (with photos accompanying each one), with delicious (and secret) layers coming together to impress and surprise your friends, family, guests and whoever you serve them to! Creating this book has been such an exhilarating experience. It’s an incredible amount of work (recipe testing 60 cakes, and then re-testing over and over and over isn’t exactly a cakewalk), but I’m ready!

I guarantee that the book is going to be gorgeous with lots of flavor-bending recipes for you to feast on. It’s certainly different from the first “recipe book” that I ever created as a kid with paper and ribbon holding it all together (with pictures cut out from newspapers and magazines). 🙂

The first draft of my cookbook is already completed and handed in, and I’m currently going through the process of photographing a lot of cakes. Obviously, newspapers cutouts aren’t going to work anymore. Follow me on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, and stay tuned for all the latest details. I’ll be sharing short videos and photos of sneak peaks along the way!

It’s been tough keeping this a secret for a while, but I’m excited more than ever now! 🙂

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Hi! I’m Dini, a third culture kid by upbringing and a food-geek by nature. I was born in Sri Lanka, grew up in New Zealand and lived in Australia, and then the US, before moving to and settling down in Canada. My food is a reflection of those amazing experiences!

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