A love for creating recipes, cooking, and sharing tasty food
I’ve always been scared to try madeleines. They always gave the impression of being hard to do, in the way that fancy French desserts are wont to do. But with a birthday dinner for my mother and one of my
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I had to start my baking early this year as we are seeing folks starting this weekend. I went a bit old school and nostalgic and made some butter pecan tarts. I tried to dig up my mother-in-law’s recipe, but
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I had quite a bit of fresh squeezed lemon juice to use up after zesting a bunch for cookies. So I went searching for recipes. Earlier this year, I had bought a small tin of lemon thins and really wanted
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When I saw these on a facebook post from The View from Great Island, I knew immediately that I wanted to try making them. I adored the idea of polar bear cookies! These were my first gingerbread cookies (the traditional
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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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Fresh fruit is now showing up at the farmers’ markets and one of the fruits in season is apricots. I didn’t want to make my usual crisp and decided on an apricot cobbler. A quick look-see showed a recipe for
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I adore lemon bars. They are so bright and refreshing and make the perfect summer dessert. I found a lemon bars (with shortbread crust) recipe on Sally’s Baking Addiction. The only change I made was to add some culinary lavender
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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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I was going to make some berry muffins with streusel topping, but had some bananas I was going to make into banana bread.v So I mashed the two ideas and since when making muffins, it’s go big or go home,
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Rhubarb is starting to be plentiful in the stores and our tiny new rhubarb plant isn’t near ready to harvest. So that means the start of rhubarb everything. I recently made a rhubarb cream pie and just tried another old-school
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