Rum Balls Recipe
Rum Balls…Dark Rum balls: the ultimate Christmas treat. Of all the baking I do for the men on my husband’s crew at work, these are the favourite, hands down. Last year I made 200 and they were devoured in hours….
Category: Recipes
Gingerbread Cookies with Pepper
Gingerbread Cookies with Pepper…No Christmas Cookie Exchange is complete without a spicy gingerbread cookie piped with white royal icing. There’s just something about crunching into these cookies and tasting the deep molasses flavours that epitomizes the holiday for me. While you’re baking and decorating have a mug of mulled wine (or virgin eggnog for us breastfeeding moms!) with Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” on the radio and your home will truly be a winter wonderland.
Gingerbread Bars Recipe
Gingerbread Bars Recipe…Christmas is coming and that means it’s baking season. Every year without fail I make the same three favourite recipes: gingerbread bars, gingerbread cookies, and rum balls (stay tuned for links!). My husband isn’t a sweets guy, but even he can’t resist these delicious Christmas desserts…
Praline Recipe
Praline Recipe…Canadian Thanksgiving evokes thoughts of gumbo, cornbread, bananas foster, and pralines. Wait, what?! It’s true! In our house this year we skipped the traditional turkey meal and did something completely different: an authentic New Orleans menu!…
White Macarons with Sweet Cream Filling
White Macarons with Sweet Cream Filling…I recently had a macaron making party. Two of my friends came over with all the ingredients and I showed them how easy it is to make perfect, fool proof, beautiful cookies…
Hello Dolly (7 Layer Magic Cookie Bar) Recipe: The Chocolate Toffee Edition
Hello Dolly 7 Layer Magic Cookie Bar Recipe…When I bake, I usually want nothing short of extravagance, high praise and admiration for my extreme baking prowess (like macarons, see my tutorial simplifying them here, I promise they are easy!). But sometimes you want a dessert recipe that is fast, easy, simple, foolproof and crowd pleasing without the headache of particularly whipped egg whites or fancy baking dishes or rare ingredients. Enter the Hello Dolly, aka the Magic Bar, aka the Seven Layer Bar, aka the Seven Layer Magic Cookie Bar. These things will knock your socks off, they are ah-mazing: so sweet, so delicious, so easy, and oh so so good…
Valentine’s Heart Macarons with Chocolate Berry Filling
Valentine’s Heart Macarons with Chocolate Berry Filling…Macarons are not hard to make. They require some practice and some technical skills, but once you’ve baked them a few times they really aren’t difficult at all. I have a post here all about how to make perfect macarons–easy, fast and no swearing involved!…
Christmas Candy: Sponge Toffee
Christmas Candy: Sponge Toffee…Thanksgiving is over, and you know what that means? It’s Christmas! Time for baking and cinnamon pine cones and “Home Alone” and endless trips to the post office for packages…
Pumpkin Spice Macarons
Pumpkin Spice Macarons…Pumpkin pie flavoured macarons, could it get any better? The most wonderful, little, luxurious cookie combined with the most inviting, warm, fall flavoured spice. Perfection!…
Fireball Whisky Pumpkin Pie
Fireball Whisky Pumpkin Pie…Pumpkin pie is a fall recipe necessity. Pumpkin pie made with Fireball Whisky is on the next level! Because why have just regular, boring, plain old pumpkin pie when you can add flaming hot cinnamon booze to it…
turquoise toffee 