I made individual strawberry shortcakes as Tomiko’s ‘birthday cake’ this summer. Luckily for us, Ontario strawberries are in season and they are so sweet and delicious! I made her a strawberry rhubarb charlotte a few years ago, so check out that showstopper of a dessert! The recipe makes about 14, so there is enough for […]
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Quick and Easy Caramel Icing
Most caramel icing recipes I’ve seen call for a candy thermometer and closely watching a pot of melting sugar so that it doesn’t burn. Time consuming and tedious. So here I’m sharing a quick and easy caramel icing recipe that I discovered. I’ve used it to frost plain vanilla or white cakes, so that the […]
Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies
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 […]
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 […]