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This Easter was very quiet and the only function we had was meeting my mom for supper. As I wanted to leave her something as a treat, I decided to take an apple pie. This hit two birds with one
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Christmas wreath cookies are, hands down, my absolute favorite cookie. In fact, I rarely make them because by the time they are all made, I’ve literally eaten half the cookies. Then the half that did make it, are generally eaten
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I saw a post on Confessions of a Cookbook Queen‘s site and was instantly reminded of this my mother-in-law’s Caramel Marshmallows. This is an old school recipe and were put out every Christmas. They are probably my second favorite Christmas
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Tis the season for bountiful fruit and veg and that includes pears. Neither the husband or myself are huge “must have pears!” people, but when I was at the market, these pears were laying there. Perfect and unbruised, they were
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I offered to bring a dessert to a friend’s BBQ and was originally planning on bringing frozen lemon squares. But as I had a bunch of apples and a couple peaches to use up, I decided to go with apple
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A coworker had a birthday last week and I decided to bring in cupcakes. I knew she loved chocolate and coffee so decided to combine the two into a chocolate espresso cupcakes, filling it with homemade dulce de leche. I
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The original recipe for this pie was a rhubarb cream pie of my mother-in-laws. Rhubarb or strawberry rhubarb were the only flavours she made. She thought I was totally thinking outside the box and it was crazy wild when I
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This batch of lemon curd was intended to be filling madeleines, but I found that there wasn’t enough being injected into the cookie. As a filling for a cupcake or spread on a piece of toast, it would be stellar.
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I came across this recipe for lemon posset through Facebook and by the pictures alone I knew I wanted to make it. The facts that it was made with three ingredients, looked like a lemony, silky, spoonful of heaven, and
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I don’t know how I came across this recipe for almond flour strawberry shortcake cake, but I’m glad I did. It was very easy to turn fully low carb with the substitution of Splenda for the sugar. I also changed
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