I serve this cheesecake cold with warm caramelized apples. It’s so good together! The contrast of...
Cheesecake with Caramelized Apples
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Baking Recipes
Pumpkin Shaped Alfajores
Melt in your mouth Alfajores get a bit of autumn flair when they are shaped like a pumpkin. The...
Peach Filling
Peach filling to make ahead and keep so you can enjoy baking with summer peaches longer. It is...
Blueberry Store Bought Muffins
Big fluffy, moist and tender blueberry muffins with a crunchy streusel topping, like you bought...
Cherry Frangipane Tart
Cherry Frangipane tart is a classic combination of cherries and almonds. This is glistening whole...
Brioche Bread
Brioche bread is soft and fluffy, made with a slightly sweet enriched dough of butter and...
Strawberry Custard Tart
A classic fresh strawberry and custard dessert layered over a chocolate coated, crisp, melt in...
Biscotti with Brazil Nuts
Biscotti is a twice baked cookie. It is shaped long, then baked, cooled, then baked again...
Oat Flour Banana Bread
Delicious Banana Bread with a few changes like substituting satisfying oat flour for all purpose...
Chocolate Candy Cane Christmas Cookies
Also known as the Christmas go big or go home cookies. Not to mention Santa’s favourite. Well,...
Cuccidati Italian Fig Cookies
These beautiful little bites have a rich fruit filling that has the popping crunch of dried figs....
Orange Cream filled Sandwich cookies
More than just a cookie! Orange brandy cream filling sandwiched between melt in your mouth...
Whipped Shortbread Cookies
These are always good. Melt in your mouth, delicate, delicious and versatile shortbread cookies...
Mini Jam Tarts
Mini Jam Tarts are a nice change for the cookie tray. These are sweet and simple to make with a...
Sweet Potato Pecan crunch Pie
This sweet potato pie has a smooth light texture from the cream and a buttery brown sugar topping...
Chocolate Covered Mint filled Chocolate cookies
A crisp rich dark chocolate cookie, not too sweet with a minty cream filling coated in chocolate...
Chestnut Flour cookies, Wheat Free
Chestnut flour gives these cookies a richness and a natural sweetness, they go well with chocolate...
Pumpkin Scones with Maple Glaze
Pumpkin scones are always appreciated as the temperature starts to drop. Dipped in a maple glaze...
Coconut Raspberry Jam Tarts
Break time does not get much better than with these Coconut Raspberry Jam tarts. They seem like...
Pound Cake like from the Store
This is a buttery soft pound cake that melts in your mouth. Keep some frozen, sliced for coffee...
Sugar Plum Almond Torte
This sugar plum torte is so full of flavours and textures. It's like an almond torte, with a...
Plum Ricotta Cheesecake
Cooked Italian Plums and Ricotta cheese are classic together. Scatter some almonds, and a drizzle...
Oven Dried Strawberry Muffins with Streusel
Adding just a little bit of sugar to strawberries and baking them in the oven gives the...
Rhubarb Swirl Cheesecake
This light textured cheesecake has a refreshing sweet tart swirl of rhubarb sauce baked in,...
Strawberry Rhubarb Pie with Crumble Topping
This Strawberry Rhubarb Pie is so delicious, with it’s crumble topping of oats and butter baking...
Homemade Cherry Pie recipe
Fresh cherries have a short season, so a fresh Cherry Pie is very special. Most baker type people...
Scones and Biscuits, some information
We were just talking about scones and biscuits- again. I have gone through a biscuit, tea...
Basic American Coffee Shop style Scone
Here is a delicious Basic American Scone recipe and by basic I mean the base, the grand foundation...
Plain Cream Biscuits
Difficulty: NO Some people say Southern biscuit baking is an art. And then there’s this...
British style Scone recipe
A British style scone recipe is different from a North American style scone recipe in that it has...
Chocolate and Cinnamon Babka Bread
This beautiful Babka needs a lot of rising time and a stand mixer or a regular one and a love of...
Vegan Vanilla Cakes with Vegan Buttercream Frosting
This is a light and moist vegan vanilla cake that again, you won’t need to make any apologies for...
Easy Classic Pizza Dough recipe
Making fresh classic pizza dough is much easier than it seems, and worth it. With this Easy...
Strawberry Loaf Cake
This is such a beautiful loaf cake. I love to watch this simply spiced Strawberry Loaf rise. As...
Vegan Chocolate Layer Cake
You won’t have to explain to anyone that you didn’t use eggs or butter or sour cream, etc. unless...
Vegan Chocolate or Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
This is a smooth frosting that is useful not just for those who do not consume eggs or dairy, but...
Carrot Cake with White Chocolate Cream cheese Frosting
This is the tastiest Carrot cake with a most delicious white chocolate cream cheese frosting. I do...
Chocolate Hot Cross Buns
I recently saw Chocolate Hot Cross Buns and thought, what a great idea! Same soft yeasty bread and...
Hot Cross Buns
Don’t make me sing One a penny, two a penny...most people don’t know much more of the song. Ha...
Flourless Chocolate Cake
This melt in your mouth Flourless Chocolate Cake hits all of the senses. It is rich and...
Flourless Lemon Meringue Roulade
Lemon Meringue Roulade with raspberry pureéLemon Meringue Roulade is mouthwatering, lemon cream...
Chocolate Coconut Candy bar Cookies
I have been known to mess with my own recipes, like adding extra chocolate bar. I have also been...
Baked Guinness Stout Cheesecake
This Baked Guinness Stout Cheesecake is incredibly good. I eat it slowly savouring every...
Irish Oat Flapjacks wheat free
Irish Oat Flapjacks are crisp and chewy oatmeal bars, not unlike a granola bar, because it has...
Irish Apple Cake with crumb topping
Irish Apple Cake, as most fruit desserts, are about the fruit. Crisp cooking apples that are on...
Chocolate Guinness Stout Cake
You do not have to make a Chocolate Guinness Stout cake just for St. Patrick’s day. Another plus...
Hobnobs with Chocolate Wheat free
This is my Hobnobs blog. Next to the chocolate chip cookie, Chocolate covered Hobnobs are the best...
Cream Scones
These are delicious, on the sweeter side, melt in your mouth cream scones. I cut in diamonds...
Whole Wheat Biscuits
I put in my notes, “These are the puffy ones!” I suppose any biscuits can turn out puffy with the...
Triple Layer Chocolate Cake
Everyone has a chocolate cake. This is mine. Triple layer chocolate cake with chocolate frosting...
Dulce De Leche Brownies
Melt in your mouth brownie, soft dulce de leche and chocolate chips give texture Someone said to...
Bran Muffins
We all need a little help sometimes. Each one of these fluffy delicious bran muffins is made with...
Valentine Heart Mini Cakes
Valentine Cakes, you know, for Valentine’s Day! These are cute too, because they are Valentine...
Vanilla Swiss Roll Cake
After all the egg beating, it comes together quickly, and you will feel very satisfied to see what...
Matcha Cake Roll
For a luncheon, Family Sunday dinner, Christmas or Valentine’s day. So go bake yourself a cake...
Orange Shortbread Cookies
I love these cookies. I love lots of cookies, but the texture of this shortbread, with the...
Chocolate Ganache Cream Filled Shortbread
These chocolate filled shortbread cookies are not too sweet because they are filled with a ganache...
Chocolate Shortbread
This is an absolutely delicious chocolate shortbread that I like to cut in a traditional bar...
Cranberry Scones with Lemon Glaze
Fresh cranberries are so good for you. They are full of fibre, vitamin C and antioxidants and...
Lemon Loaf Pound Cake
My Lemon loaf pound cake has sour cream and lemon juice in the cake for extra moistness and taste...
Chocolate Mini Mochi Cakes
These chocolate mochi cakes are nice and softly chewy. Squishy like a “squishmallow”. (Those...
Chocolate Chip Cookies, soft
Blog post title, "What makes a chocolate chip cookie crispy, chewy or big and soft?" Or "What's...
Chocolate Marshmallow Soy nut or Peanut butter Bars
This is SO easy and SO good. If you forgot you were supposed to take office snacks or bake for a...
Chocolate Caramel Millionaire Shortbread
My sister went to Leith’s Cooking School of Food and Wine in London. After she graduated, one of...
Banana Triple Layer Cake
This recipe came about by accident. I’ll fess up, no one knows this but you. I was making a carrot...
Wheat Free Baked Banana Pudding Cake
I was going to make my baked lemon pudding, but I had all of these bananas. So Wheat Free Baked...
Banana Cream Pie with Oatmeal Crust
This is not the place for your overripe bananas. This is where you will need just ripe bananas....
Buckwheat Banana Muffins sweetened with Dates
This tastes like a soft, fluffy, moist, buckwheat flour muffin. It does not taste like it is...
Banana Bread
When bananas are too ripe for much else, they are perfect for banana bread!I have seen many...
Dried Blueberry Teacakes
We have Biscuits and Scones, And tea biscuits and Teacakes. A teacake, well, it could be...
Blueberry Scones
Blueberry scones? Blueberry biscuits? Unlike biscuits, scones usually don't use baking soda with...
Blueberry Layered Oatmeal Squares
This is another recipe where you could use convenient year-round frozen blueberries if you wanted...
Blueberry Cream Layer Cake
I usually decorate it in a way that suggests that you cut it in 12. That is because it is easier...
Blueberry Cheesecake Coffee Cake
The sum of the parts sounds like a quote by a cook, but it actually has to do with math. If you...
Blueberry Buckle
The blueberry buckle is a variety of cobbler, but much more lovely than it's cousins, "Betty" and...
Blueberry Brie Phyllo Pastries
These are so nice because you can prepare them in advance and pop them in the oven like nothing...
Blueberry Afternoon Dessert Bread
Or Afternoon Tea, Second Breakfast, or First. I don’t really know what else to call it. Until I...
Oatmeal White Chocolate & Cranberry cookies
Cranberries are considered a superfood, and are naturally less sweet so they won’t cause your...
Oatmeal Irish Soda Bread
Irish Soda Bread is a type of quick bread. This is a rustic and crusty bread. The kind to serve...
Oatmeal Muffins
When does streusel not make something better? I have made these without the streusel though and...
Oatmeal Hemp Bars
These oatmeal hemp bars taste really great and have a soft chewy texture. I use organic butter...
Oatmeal Wheat Free Chocolate Chip Cookies
These are light and crisp and the chocolate chips shine in the texture of the cookie. You don’t...
Oatmeal Brown Sugar Shortbread
These are buttery and a bit chewy but crisp on the outside. Very unfussy to just press the dough...
Black Bean “Brownies” with Oatmeal flour and Avocado
These are wheat free and can be made vegan if you don’t use honey. You could use maple syrup...
Oatmeal Date and Walnut Cake
My mom made something like this when I was little. After we would all go to school, she and the...
Oatmeal Scones
Scones? Biscuits? Well, off the top of my head, scones are more Scottish, or English tea time,...
Overnight Oatmeal bread
I found a recipe years ago that used leftover oatmeal and I thought it was brilliant. Hmm, I have...
Oatmeal Pudding – Donegal Irish Oat Cream
Donegal is on the shore of the west side of Northern Ireland, full of beaches, castles and...