Try baking these chocolate chip peanut butter cookies during your isolation! If you’ve looked at our cookie archive, you can see that I love cookies with chocolate. I also love peanut butter (like most North Americans), but I’m not a fan of those plain peanut butter cookies. You know, the ones with the fork tine […]
baking
Easy Standard Sandwich Bread
A few years ago, I started making my own sandwich bread on a biweekly basis. Good bread is really expensive here in Toronto (like at Cobs Bread), and cheap bread is really bad! And cheap bread is not even that cheap. As we are always looking to cut costs, I decided to bake my own […]
Applesauce Cake with Caramel Icing
This applesauce cake is studded with walnuts and raisins and topped with an easy caramel icing. It’s a perfect autumn dessert, but Toronto is still cold and snowy and grey, so it still feels like November! The applesauce cake also perfectly showcases my favourite caramel icing. Most caramel icing recipes I’ve seen call for a […]
Buttery Scones
We only grew up eating scones because I had read about them and wanted to make them! Our mom is German and didn’t grow up eating these either. I was confused as to why some recipes referred to these as ‘scones,’ and others as ‘biscuits,’ when they seemed to be the same. We also didn’t […]
Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake
I used to bake this cinnamon streusel coffee cake when I was in middle and high school. Neighbours on our compound would often come over for a visit and some coffee or tea. My mom liked how I was always eager to bake a treat for them! When I was a kid and I would […]