I made a chocolate chip walnut pumpkin spice bread using up leftover pumpkin from Ryan’s Thanksgiving pumpkin pie. Last year, I made these walnut raisin pumpkin spice muffins, but I wanted to do something new this time around. A can of pureed pumpkin here in Canada is 796 mL, or about 27 oz. Many pumpkin […]
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Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
This is my go-to oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipe. It’s simple but delicious! I always use quick oats for baking these cookies since they are more easily incorporated into the dough than large flake oats. This recipe is also very easily doubled if you are making cookies for a larger crowd. You can also use […]
Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
This banana bread recipe is adapted from one in the Family Fun Cookbook that I received for my 12th birthday. In this case, I dialed down the sugar a bit and added the chocolate chips. Every time I think of banana bread, I remember a certain incident at the kids’ camp where I worked for two […]
Soft and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
If I were to choose my favourite dessert, I think I might have to choose the rather simple combination of cookies and milk. And my favourite type of cookie is the chocolate chip cookie. I don’t care for sugar cookies; cinnamon-flavoured snickerdoodles are alright once in a while; anything with raisins is an automatic ‘no.’ […]
DIY: Hot Chocolate Mix
I don’t know how to skate or rollerblade, which is a bit uncommon for a Canadian. When I was in primary school, our class would walk to the skating rink for skating lessons. Most of my friends took figure skating classes and were zipping around the rink while I clung to the side walls. When […]