You know it is warming up when all I can think about are cold specialty coffee drinks! They are my absolute favourite and while on a pandemic walking odyssey yesterday I noticed even the local Starbucks in my new hood was closed. No takeout even. Doors locked, lights off. Blender Boyz to the rescue!!! Our […]
DIY Old School Caramels Recipe & Tutorial
I have been really wanted to learn how to make candy. All different kinds of candy. It started before Christmas. I wanted to give homemade caramels as little treats and I wanted to make it old school style. The Tools & Preparation For this recipe I did want to use a digital candy maker thermometer […]
Suzie the Foodie’s Salted Caramel Ice Cream
No Fail Salted Caramel Sauce
Valentine’s Day Dark Chocolate-Covered Heart Caramels
These beauties were all inspired because I asked myself the question, can you make caramel in the microwave?! Turns out you can! Quite easily and within six minutes. But then what? I had to do something more so I made my own candies by coating them in a chocolate glaze. I also made them romantic […]
Bobby Flay’s Pumpkin Bread with Spicy Caramel Apple Sauce
Is there any ingredient inspired more by autumn than pumpkin? I don’t think so! I really wanted to get into the October spirit and bake with it. So I was thrilled to find this pumpkin loaf recipe in the recently published Bar Americain Cookbook written by Bobby Flay and published by Random House of Canada. It […]
Fine Cooking’s Roasted Figs with Caramel
Food Network Cooking Club Challenge: Laura Calder’s Creme Caramel
This month’s Food Network Cooking Club challenge is Laura Calder’s Creme Caramel. There is lots of time to participate so please join us if you dare! Creme Caramel, you are so misunderstood. Looking at your recipe, you come across as so simple to make. So, dare I say, easy? Sugar, whole milk, vanilla bean, eggs, […]
Christmas Cookies: Caramel Pecan Treasures
The Crème Brûlée Odyssey
The rich smooth-textured dessert is known as Burnt Cream in England where is has been popular since the seventeenth century. It was not, however, until late in the nineteenth century that the French term crème brûlée, which means precisely the same thing, became popular and the dessert became standard fare in many American restaurants. ~ […]