A love for creating recipes, cooking, and sharing tasty food
As I had a few bananas that were perfect for banana bread, it was time to whip up another loaf. But as the Hubby is a huge chocolate lover, I wanted to do a chocolate banana loaf. I found this
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When you need something chocolatey and comforting, chocolate chewy meringue cookies are the cookies to make. They are one of my all-time favorite cookies. You get that chew from the meringue, the rich chocolate taste from the cocoa, and they
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I came across a photo of haupia pie and knew immediately I wanted to make it, on looks alone. Haupia pie is a fairly simple pie to make and reminds me of chocolate silk pie, but with a coconut kick.
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Rumballs are a Christmas staple in my house. Easy to make, delectable, and always a hit for giving away as presents or at Christmas parties. The chocolate ones are actually a family recipe of a friend. Our friends had ladies
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I’m not a super huge fan of cookies, but I do go through phases of craving them and monster cookies are at the top of my list when it comes to wanting a cookie. I love a crunchy texture and
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I thought I would put all my icing recipes into one spot. This icing I used on my 2013 Christmas cakes and used for batch of a gingerbread cupcakes to use the rest of the icing. A smooth cream cheese flavour.
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For Easter dinner I had the inspiration (and craving) to make a Mounds Cake. Chocolate cake with heaps of coconut icing. I found a recipe for the icing on Sally’s Baking Addiction. I chose it as it seemed to make
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The Hubby loves orange anything and randomly sends me recipes to try. The latest was an orange pound cake from Seasons and Suppers. I gave it a try, but as the one thing the Hubby loves more than orange anything,
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Due to the extraordinary year it’s been, my birthday was a very quiet affair. Where we are, things weren’t super locked down and we were able to have 2 couples over for a visit. I didn’t feel like doing a
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I went on a bit of cooking and baking bender this weekend. I start pulling out cookbooks and get in a mood where I want to try everything. Today’s experiment was a chocolate pecan pie from The Ghiradelli Chocolate Cookbook.
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