Pin ItI have a lot of cookbooks on the go right now so when Agate Publishing wanted me to review Pat Sinclair’s Baking Basics and Beyond I said yes, as long as I just read the book and did not have to do recipe testing. They said that was fine. Then I got the book. […]
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No-Bake Low-Fat Strawberry-Rhubarb Cheesecake
Thanks Ava for the inspiration and suggestion! With us being on holidays, I wanted to make a no-bake cheesecake that wasn’t a cholesterol bomb. Cheesecake is Reg’s favourite dessert and I knew we would end up eating all of it ourselves (and we did over time). I turned this recipe into a low fat version […]
Food Network Canada’s Cooking Club Challenge: Laura’s Craggy Chocolate Cake
Love that this month’s Cooking Club Challenge at Food Network Canada is a baking one! You can see all the mid-month round ups of Laura Calder’s Craggy Chocolate Cake here. There is still time to participate so go here for the recipe! When I saw that it was a flourless chocolate cake, I just had to make it […]
Royal Wedding’s Groom’s Cake: Chocolate Biscuit Cake
Last weekend there were three special events: two birthdays and Easter. I decided to make the groom’s chocolate biscuit cake that will be served at the royal wedding. If it is good enough for royalty, I was hopeful it would be good enough for my friends and family. Let’s be honest. The formal cake is […]
Rachel Allen’s Sticky Toffee Pudding
It has been cold and snowy and miserable here so I wanted to make the ultimate comfort food. On a rare sunny but brutally biting frozen day, I made Rachel Allen’s Sticky Toffee Pudding. I had this oddly-named treat for the first time at Moxie’s and totally fell in love with it. I thought it was going […]
Product Testing & Tutorial: How to bake and decorate a two-tier cake from scratch
Shelagh Duffett’s Blueberry Orange Cake Recipe
Today is the last day to go to this post to enter the contest for Shelagh Duffett‘s cookbook! I just had to end the giveaway with a celebratory cake and what says Nova Scotia more than blueberries in August? The great news is this cake can be made with frozen blueberries and enjoyed all year. Scroll down for complete […]
Recipe Review: Kevin Ryan’s A-Number-1 Banana Cake
The lovely and most awesome Ava recommended this recipe for A-Number-1 Banana Cake at allrecipes.com and I just had to try it out. I had bought a ton of bananas on sale and wanted to do something different with them. So I gave the recipe a shot! Whisk together the dry ingredients. Cream butter, white sugar and brown sugar. […]