Desserts

I like cake, and I like cake texture: light and springy and soft. But I do not like my brownies to look, feel, or taste like cake*. Without being sickeningly sweet and heavy, I want my brownies sweet enough a small piece is enough, super moist and just the right density that the weight of a small piece is a…

Carrot Cake has been kind of vilified for decades because people long ago decided a perfectly good cake needed additions like pecans and pineapple, while coconut basically has no place in a recipe except in a Pina Colada recipe. Remember that people also came up with a hot dog Jello dish (google it if you don’t believe me!), so we…

These ginger molasses cookies are one of our favourite cookies. They have a wonderful chewy texture, a large part thanks to the extra baking soda, with the sweet richness from the black strap molasses and spices results in me having to hide the cookie jar so they last more than a day. I have tried other qualities of molasses like…

These Apple Fritters are probably the least healthy thing on this website, but also one of the tastiest! There is probably no tastier carbohydrate, than deep fried, sweet dough. Just my opinion, but it’s probably a pretty popular one! The only way to make deep fried, sweet dough any better, is for it to be fresh out of the fryer.…

We don’t keep a lot of recipes from “way back when” (I started learning to cook) because there was such a big learning curve for me. In other words, most of it was not worth remaking and I didn’t have the experience to fix problem recipes. All I had was printed or written copies as I was learning both before…

Cinnamon Rolls are something that most bakers have their own “best ever” recipe for, and I’m one of them! It’s getting a little harder to make breads that require rolling, thanks to arthritis, but this is one recipe that is worth popping an Advil for. We’ve been using this recipe for 9 years – it was originally added to the…

My parents were not what one might call spectacular in the cooking department, but I did come away from my childhood with a love of my dad’s spaghetti sauce, and his rice pudding. Rice pudding is a delicious way to use leftover rice, but it’s so warm, comforting, and filling, that it’s not unreasonable to make rice in the evening…

  Our favourite apple crisp recipe. Use good quality, fresh apples (we use gala for everything).

  Ice cream replaces other cream and milk options in this holiday favourite, going on 8 years in a row!  

  Fantastic chocolate cookie with a gooey surprise inside.

This Caramel Pecan Pie recipe has seen many pecan haters grudgingly admit that pecans can be good. Good enough to ask for it next time, and good enough to be disappointed if it’s not included. I bribe the kids into unwrapping the caramels – they don’t mind with the first one stuck in their mouths! – and it’s pretty easy…