Four-Ingredient Cookies
Yes, you can start with these four basic ingredients but then add whatever you like – ground flax seed, pumpkin spice, dried cranberries, pumpkin seeds, walnuts and white chocolate chips all make great additions. Yield: 12 cookies Ingredients: 6 very ripe bananas, mashed 2 c quick-cooking oats 1 tsp cinnamon 2 Tbsp chocolate chips Directions:…
Christmas Sugar Cookies
These are a really nice, soft sugar cookie, perfect for decorating. A good decorating tip when using royal icing is to outline the cookie first, allow it to harden, then fill in the rest, that way it doesn’t spill over the sides. Yield: 24 cookies Cookie Ingredients: 2 1/4 c flour 1/2 tsp baking powder…
Mark’s Almond Cookies
This recipe came from a good friend of mine who is a great home-chef in his own right. They are up there with the Copycat Big Soft Ginger cookies as my favourites to make at holiday time – soft and chewy! Yield: 30 cookies Ingredients: 1 c salted butter, softened 1 c white sugar 2…
Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies
Use a seedless jam for these yummy thumbprint cookies. This recipe makes a small batch of 12-14 cookies, feel free to double it! Yield: 12 cookies Ingredients: 1 c flour 1/4 tsp salt 1/2 c salted butter, softened 1/4 c packed brown sugar 1 egg 1/2 tsp vanilla extract 1 Tbsp water 1/4 c finely…
Cherry Balls
I’ve seen these called “snowballs”. A little maraschino cherry wrapped in shortbread, they’re one of my mom’s oldest recipes and were on every Christmas cookie platter. Yield: approx. 25 cookies Ingredients: 1 c salted butter, room temperature 1/4 c white sugar 1 tsp vanilla 2 c flour 12-15 maraschino cherries icing sugar Directions: Preheat oven…
Chocolate Caramel Squares
My mom has been making these squares since I was a little girl, they are ALWAYS everyone’s favourite. But, at around the age of 12, I completely overdosed on them and couldn’t touch them for decades after that. Only in the last couple of years I have ventured to have one, and I forgot how…
Copycat Big Soft Ginger Cookies
It’s like they’re from your favourite barista bar! These cookies are so deliciously spicy they are one of my favourites to make at the holiday time. The best kept secret to big, soft, chewy cookies is refrigerating the dough! If you don’t refrigerate the dough is too warm and it will spread out to thinner,…
Irish Cream Chocolate Chip Cookies
Coffee and Irish Cream is my all-time favourite drink treat and this is like having it in cookie-form! Ingredients: 2 1/2 c flour 3/4 tsp salt 1 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1 1/2 tsp instant espresso powder (I use Nescafe Gold) 1 c salted butter, room temperature 1 c brown sugar 1/2 white…
Soft & Chewy Snickerdoodles
A classic snickerdoodle recipe … my husband’s favourite. A little known cookie secret – the key to big, soft chewy cookies is refrigerating the dough before cooking! Yield: 24 cookies Ingredients: 1 c salted butter, room temperature 2 c white sugar 2 eggs 2 tsp vanilla extract 3 c flour 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2…
Glazed Lemon Cake
Dinner at the in-laws? Bring this dense, moist, not-too-sweet lemon cake for dessert. Ingredients: 3 c flour 1 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp salt 1 c butter, softened 2 c sugar 3 eggs 1/2 c sour cream 1/4 c lemon juice 2 Tbsp lemon zest 1 tsp vanilla 1/2 c buttermilk Glaze Ingredients: 1 1/2…
Peanut Butter Swirl Brownies
This recipe takes my super-easy “Best of the Brownies” recipe, which I’ve copied below so you don’t have to flip back and forth, and a decadent peanut butter swirl to make these “Better than the Best of the Brownies”. I mean, peanut butter and chocolate is really the best thing on earth, isn’t it? Brownie…
Anzac Cookies
ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. Anzac Day is a National holiday down under commemorating Australian and New Zealanders that served. As for the Anzac cookie, it is debated whether they were baked by women to send to the men fighting, or if they were baked and sold by women to raise…
Flourless Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Make sure you let these cool completely before removing them from the pan, they will be very soft!! Ingredients: 1 c smooth peanut butter 1 c packed brown sugar 1 tsp baking soda 1 large egg 1 tsp vanilla Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine all the ingredients then drop into 6 large cookies…
Strawberry Almond Cake
I made this beautiful cake for my daughter’s 12th birthday. I buy these fantastic highly-concentrated LorAnn flavour oils from my local Bulk Barn, they are perfect for creating intense baking flavours. Ingredients: Cake: 1 c egg whites 3 c all purpose flour 1/2 tsp salt 2 tsp baking powder 1 c butter, softened 1 1/2…
Simple Buttercream Icing
For cakes or cupcakes, this icing is very quick and easy to make. Ingredients: 1 c vegetable shortening 1/2 tsp clear vanilla extract 1/2 tsp almond extract 2 Tbsp water 3/4 c cocoa powder (optional, if making a chocolate buttercream) 4 c icing sugar Directions: Beat together the vegetable shortening, clear vanilla extract, almond extract…
Sweet & Salty Toffee Popcorn
Sugar is funny stuff. You have to work with it for many years before you learn what you can and can’t get away with. Tip #1: Once you bring the sugar and water to a boil, DO NOT stir or whisk, and DO NOT walk away. I’ve made both of these mistakes many times making…
Scottish Shortbread
My Daughter: “Oh, that’s good!” What she meant was so buttery, flaky and yummy. Ingredients: 2 c all purpose flour 1/4 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1 c butter, softened 1/2 c powdered sugar Directions: Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a small bowl. Set aside. Beat butter and powdered sugar until light…
Portuguese Porridge (Papas)
My Portuguese man has been talking about his mother’s Papas recipe that he and 4 siblings used to eat for breakfast since I met him. When I made coconut rice pudding last weekend he said it reminded him of Papas and so today he recreated his mother’s recipe.We made it two ways, one with the…
Coconut Rice Pudding
My daughter says rice pudding sounds gross, rice & pudding shouldn’t go together. And I agreed with her until I tried this SOB and now it’s one of my favourite desserts. This makes a creamy pudding. If you like your rice pudding a little thicker use 1/2 c of rice, instead of 1/3 c. Ingredients:…
“Best of the Brownies”
This recipe was printed in our local newspaper over 30 years ago as the winner of a brownie bake-off between Girl Guide troupes. My mom clipped it out and ever since then it has been our family brownie recipe – it really is the best I’ve ever tried, and super quick and easy to make.…
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