Just wanted to upload some pics of this delicious fresh cherry filling I wrote about in a previous post. This stuff is totally rad, or cool, or spazz-tastic or whatever the kids are saying these days…lol… This recipe came together perfectly the first time, which is always a good thing, especially when your ingredients are…
Category: Recipes
Recipe Post! Ultimate Milk Chocolate-Toffee Cookies
Ok, these cookies are seriously a weakness for me. I can’t make them more than once or twice a year for myself, or I will eat Every. Last. One. I lovelovelove the interplay between the milk chocolate and the toffee, with the added little “kick” of the instant espresso powder which bumps up the flavour…
Recipe Post! Fresh Cherry Pie Filling
One of my absolute favourite times of the year is harvest season for fresh Ontario Cherries! Ranier cherries are delicious, and so are most other US-bred cherries, but there’s just something to be said for those sweet, deep-purple fleshed Ontario sweet cherries that makes my tastebuds weep with joy! …too florid? My apologies. I just…
Foccaccia, where have you been all my life?
Is there any smell more enticing than Freshly Baked Bread? I wonder if sometimes I became a Baker just so I had an excuse to be around loaves of delicious bread all day. Granted, these days all I smell is whatever coffee of the day I’m drinking from “The Bux” or Second Cup, as I…
The Good News…and the Bad News…
The good news is, I finished the Baby Shower cake due today. Yay! First occasion cake I’ve done in a while. I noticed that some of my decorating skills are somewhat rusty, and I struggled with certain aspects of decorating this cake that I normally would have managed with no problems. It also didn’t help…
Baby Shower Cake: Gluten Free Baking?
I have the great opportunity to make a baby shower cake for one of my work colleagues this week. I’m actually looking forward to it, as I haven’t baked anything… Not. A. Thing…in a few months now, and I’m starting to jones for the smell of OMG CAEK in my home again! The catch? The…
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