A lovely woman bought me a foodie gift recently and I wanted to bake her some cookies. I found out her favourite flavour is lemon and got baking! I thought I had lemon oil but I didn’t. I just used a lot of lemon zest. Feel free to help the lemon flavour burst by adding […]
Easy & Elegant Shortbread Cookies
Reg and I were invited to a belated Robby Burns birthday celebration and I promised to bring shortbread cookies. They are not always the most exciting of cookies but there is some real magic that can go into making them. First, I wanted them to be more than just circles of flour, butter and sugar […]
Peanut Butter Pudding Cookies
Printer-Friendly Recipe I do not know what has happened to me. I was never a huge fan of peanut butter but lately I have been craving it! When I saw Sweet Pea’s Kitchen recipe for her Peanut Butter Pudding Cookies, I was intrigued. Instead of using Reese’s Pieces and Peanut Butter Chips I decided to […]
White Chocolate Pumpkin Snickerdoodles
Click here for printer-friendly version of recipe I had some leftover canned pumpkin pie filling and decided to see what it would be like to bake pumpkin into cookies. I discovered this recipe by Sally’s Baking Addiction and gave it a try. Please note: these cookies require 1/2 hr minimum of chilling time in the fridge! […]
Puff Pastry Sweet Palmiers or Elephant Ears
President’s Choice The Reverse Decadent White Chocolate Chips
PC The Reverse Decadent White Chocolate Chips was one of the many holiday items that President’s Choice sent me! They also sent me these fantastic measuring cups that I am just loving! Heavy duty and not flimsy at all. But back to the The Reverse Decadent White Chocolate Chips. These are the chips you find in their […]
Chocolate Raspberry Meringues
It has been so cold and dry here that I naturally started to think about meringues. The less humidity, the better the odds that I could successfully experiment with them. I have been in a particularly mad scientist-y kind of mood lately. The Technique & Recipe I began with my egg-separating station. I got four […]
Halloween Boo Berry Cookies
Jane’s Subway White Chocolate and Macadamia Nut Cookies
I know a lot of people prefer Subway’s chocolate chip cookies but for me, it is their white chocolate and macadamia nut cookies that get this foodie all excited. When Jane wowed me with her recipe for THE Subway Chocolate Chip Cookies and then sent this recipe for my personal favourite, of course I had to test […]
Review of Pat Sinclair’s Chocolate Chip Cookies Deluxe & Baking Basics & Beyond Cookbook
Pat Sinclair really understands baking. I have been so impressed with her book Baking Basics and Beyond: Learn These Simple Techniques and Bake Like a Pro published by Agate Publishing. When she wrote about a “Toll House” cookie combining butter and shortening to create a softer texture, I had to try them! The Recipe I used the Wonder Plunger Measuring […]