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Skinny strawberry shortbread trifle
Well, hello, hello, hello. A colleague asked me the other day if I was still baking… and I had to confess that I hadn’t really baked very much since I returned to work from maternity leave in January. With a 4.5 year old and a 1.5 year old, I’m not quite at the point where…
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Mini double-chocolate zucchini muffins
Greetings, readers. It’s been a while, I know. I’ve been back to work since the beginning of January and I’m still settling into the working-mom-of-two routine. Most days I’m up around 5, before running out the door to get to work around 6:30. Then the minute I return home, it’s full steam ahead, getting dinner…
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Donna Hay’s flourless chocolate cake
I made this flourless chocolate cake for our annual cousins’ Christmas get-together after my cousin, the host, requested a dessert that was gluten-free. I was a bit hesitant as I’d made a flourless chocolate torte before that I wasn’t too crazy about. You can read that blog post here. But the new recipe I found…
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Kid-friendly Red Lobster Cheddar Bay biscuits
I don’t often blog about savoury recipes but these cheddar biscuits are so good, and so worthwhile, I decided I must tell you about them. I have a long love-hate relationship with Red Lobster biscuits. As a rotund kid I didn’t think twice about finishing off the basket before ordering my usual meal of popcorn…
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Frosty peanut butter cup Christmas trees
These small peanut butter cup Christmas trees were one of those Pinterest projects that looked really, really easy. In fact, I thought the hardest part would be sourcing the specific sized peanut butter cups I would need to make these. That turned out to be the easy part, maybe because there were oodles of fun-sized…
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Dare-to-dream Christmas wish list
I hesitated to write my foodie Christmas wish list this year as I have in years past – partly out of laziness, partly because I aim to do everything in moderation these days. And if I were to knock all of the items below off my list, I’d be a glutton. However – and this…
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The Pioneer Woman’s French breakfast puffs
I keep calling these donut puffs but they are anything but. Despite their donut hole-like appearance, they are slightly larger, and these are more like a super-dense muffin, heavy and loaded with sugar and butter. Not surprising, since they come to me by way of The Pioneer Woman. I know she first learned how to…
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The ultimate cookie swap addition: Chef Michael Smith’s Sparkle Cookies
If you’re like me and attend a holiday cookie swap every year, these sparkle cookies should be in your repertoire. I purchased Michael Smith’s latest book and when I got to the back of the book, the desserts section, I was rather somewhat taken aback to read that the sparkle cookies were among the best…
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Cinnamon rice-pudding with cherry compote
It all began with a recipe for Ottolenghi’s chocolate-dipped florentines I saw on another blog. My curiosity was piqued and I first purchased the Jerusalem cookbook, in which Yotam Ottolenghi teams up with his friend and co-owner of his restaurants, Sami Tamim. The flavours in that book are very, very familiar to me. As the…
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