A love for creating recipes, cooking, and sharing tasty food
Poppyseed chiffon cake is an old-fashioned recipe and I discovered it when my mother-in-law made it years ago. It’s like an angel food cake that has been glammed up and was one of my favourite desserts that she made. Poppyseed
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This delectable chocolate coffee ice cream is from Nigella Lawson’s No-Churn Coffee Ice Cream and is ridiculously easy to make. I put a twist on it, using chocolate sweet and condensed milk. I have a small addiction to the Keg’s
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The Hubby and I love Thai Coconut Rice Pudding, but it has to be a certain consistency. I’ve made it a few times and it was always too thick and gummy. I saw the image of this Thai Coconut Rice
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Truth be told, both the Hubby and I didn’t start to like Nanaimo Bars until just a few years ago and I’ve never made them before. But I saw this newspaper clipping for the original Nanaimo Bars recipe and decided
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I had a bunch of blueberries to use up in my freezer and was seeing company today, so decided a blueberry pie was in order. I’ve made berry cream pies before, but not a traditional blueberry pie. The secret to
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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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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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This lemonbar cupcake was made as a farewell cupcake to my sisters, when I left the province and moved to the coast. I tried to get a nice almond buttery cupcake on the bottom, filled with the tasty lemon curd,
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These Toffee Apple Cinnamon Buns are a combo of Jamie Oliver’s Toffee Apple Buns and my mother-in-law’s cinnamon buns. I first saw Jamie Oliver making his toffee apple buns, which looked absolutely delicious, and made them as directed. I have
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Maple Guinness Bacon Cupcakes are my contribution to the bacon craze. Its a salty and sweet combination with a light bacon-flavored buttercream and the bacon bits adding texture to the batter. The Guinness adds a rich deep flavor, offsetting the
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