Baking – Page 2

Copycat Coffee Shop-Style Pumpkin Spice Muffins

During PSL season you can find versions of these amazing muffins everywhere. Can you call them healthy because they have vegetables in them??? Mmmmm …. maybe not! For a health-ier version you can substitute the vegetable oil with plain greek yogurt. Just pour yourself a cup of double-double dark roast and enjoy. Ingredients: Muffins: 1Continue reading “Copycat Coffee Shop-Style Pumpkin Spice Muffins”

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 1/2Continue reading “Strawberry Almond Cake”

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 extractContinue reading “Simple Buttercream Icing”

Two Ingredient Bagels

This recipe has been floating around the internet for a couple of years now, so who knows where it started but it’s a good one! The dough can be made into pizza crust, buns or bagels, and sort of has a sourdough flavour. I make my own self-rising flour in a double batch then saveContinue reading “Two Ingredient Bagels”

Irish Bannock

Here’s a tip when a recipe tells you to “cut in” cold butter. Use a cheese grater to grate the butter into the flour then use your fingers to rub it into even smaller pieces. Here’s another tip for kneading dough. Sprinkle a little bit of flour on the kneading surface and on top ofContinue reading “Irish Bannock”

Cast Iron Cornbread

I always figured anything that was a staple back in the ‘old days’ should be super easy to make and not require any fancy kitchen gadgets. For this incredibly moist cornbread all you need is a cast iron pan, a stove, two bowls and spoon. Perfect on the side of Mexican Chicken Soup. Ingredients: 1Continue reading “Cast Iron Cornbread”

Bakery-Style Cinnamon Oatmeal Muffins

Buttermilk and sour cream are two ingredients you can add to any baking recipe and it will just kick it up a notch. If you don’t have buttermilk you can replace it with milk ‘soured’ by adding 1 Tbsp of lemon juice or white vinegar to it. You can also use large flake oats inContinue reading “Bakery-Style Cinnamon Oatmeal Muffins”