Yesterday I took on The Food Network Cooking Club Challenge for the month of May and made my TV baking teacher Anna Olson’s White Chocolate Banana Loaf. Delicious! It was genius to make a banana bread with pastry flour, the result is super light and not super dense like some banana breads can be. The […]
Breadmaker Recipe: Apricot Bread
Homemade Cookie Challenge: Chocolate Chip Cookies
The Chemistry of Cookies: Why the heck did that happen?
To understand the fundamentals of cookie baking, let’s talk about the basics. Most cookies begin with creaming butter and sugar together. How many times have we done this and had NO idea why it was really necessary? Yes, everything has to come together but is there more going on here than putting a batter together? […]
Recipe Review: Lebanese Baklawa
Do you have what it takes…to make cookies?!
There are few things I find more frustrating than being in the middle of combining butter and sugar only to realize I do not have any eggs, or vanilla, or parchment paper… I put together a list of what we need for baking cookies to avoid this from happening. INGREDIENTS: All Purpose Flour Sugar – […]
Basic Foodie Tutorial: Cookies in Seven Easy Steps
Foodie Club: Let’s make cookies!
Cooking Tutorial & Recipe: How To Make Beet Chips
I was craving something crunchy the other day which often happens to me. I’m more of a chips person than a cookies person which is very, very bad! I don’t allow myself to eat chips anymore and have even forbidden salted shelled sunflower seeds because the salt kicks my blood pressure way up. I bought […]
Tutorial: How to make homemade muffins
On this Earth Day in Nova Scotia it’s dark, wet and dreary. The perfect day to make a cup of tea and indulge in a beautiful strawberry margarita muffin. My own invention. Yup, this strawberry-inspired recipe is going in the cookbook too. I think I’m onto to something here! There are a couple of general […]