I promised my nieces Halloween Cookies. “Aunt Holly, will you bake some Halloween cookies?” No problem. “Fancy-spooky decorated ones?” Ummm… Sure kids, why not. I used to love baking elaborately decorated sugar cookies for Christmas, but that was back when I had a large kitchen to work in with lots of counter space to roll out dough. Now I have a tiny apartment kitchen … [Read more...]
Thick & Chewy Muffin Tin Sugar Cookies
It's been awhile since we last baked something together, so when the big kid asked if we could make cookies for Family Day I said yes. Poking around the kitchen to see what ingredients we had at hand it was decided that we would make sugar cookies. We assembled all of the ingredients on the dining room table, dumped things into our over-sized bowl and mixed and mixed and … [Read more...]
Lego Cake, Nailed It! #CakeWreck #NailedIt {Wordless Wednesday}
As I've admitted before, I am a lousy baker. My sister on the other hand usually manages to bake up some pretty tasty stuff (like these Eggnog Snickerdoodles or this Chocolate Dipped Biscotti). However this time..... Awesome Lego birthday cake photo courtesy of Doug Cornellus. Slightly less awesome "Nailed It" version courtesy of Holly Pageau. … [Read more...]
Real Deal Chocolate Chip Cookies {Paleo Recipe}
Grain/gluten free chocolate chip cookies (CCCs) that actually taste like the homemade ones I enjoyed growing up are hard to come by. After searching high and low, and trying what feels like a bajillion CCC recipes, I do believe I found THE ones. Appropriately named “Real-Deal Chocolate Chip Cookies”, these do live up to their title. Danielle Walker, popular Paleo food blogger … [Read more...]
Eggnog Snickerdoodles {Recipe}
Christmas cookie time, right? I saw eggnog in the grocery store and couldn’t resist. Eggnog Snickerdoodles are my absolute favourite holiday cookie so I thought I would bake some and share the recipe with you. Enjoy! Eggnog Snickerdoodles For the dough: 3/4 cup butter at room temp 1 cup sugar ½ cup eggnog 2 egg yolks 1 tsp vanilla 2 ¼ cups flour 1 tsp baking … [Read more...]
Chocolate Dipped Biscotti {Baking Gluten Free with Pamela’s}
I don’t eat gluten free, but my Mom does so I often cook gluten free. She was diagnosed with Celiac Disease before I was born. There were a lot of trips to health food stores and questionable GF products when I was younger. I have not so fond memories of muffins with the texture of hockey pucks and breads that were somehow magically both soggy and dry at the same … [Read more...]
Super Blueberry Banana Bread {Recipe}
I love baking. I really wish I didn’t, but I do. Spending time to make tasty treats always feels like time well spent, but I know I should be cooking something healthy-ish. My favourite thing to make is blueberry banana bread. If you’ve made banana bread before you know that when bananas are overripe they are PERFECT for baking banana bread. It’s getting to the point that I buy … [Read more...]
Super Simple Robot Birthday Cake {Recipe}
This cake didn't go exactly as planned. It was quite nearly a bit of a cake fail, truth be told. But the end result was cute enough, and tasty enough, that I thought I'd share the how-to with you all. Super Simple Robot Cake Ingredients: * 2 boxes of cake mix (I used Betty Crocker Super Moist Rainbow Bit Cake Mix. Most likely could be done with one box, … [Read more...]
Birthday Cake Panic, Baking with my little Cake Boss….
I have never made a birthday cake. Ok, technically that's not 100% true. My mom loves to tell the story about how I made her a birthday cake by mixing flour and other various substances in a pile on the kitchen floor when I was about G-Girl's age. But since becoming a mom myself I've managed to get through five birthdays with the big kid, and two with the little one, all with … [Read more...]
The best part of helping to bake…..
The best part of helping to bake is licking the spoon! … [Read more...]
Raspberry Banana Bread Recipe
Last week Jen over at Mom vs. the Boys posted a Banana Raspberry Muffin recipe that got me thinking, "Hmm, raspberry and bananas together? That sounds tasty!" I decided it was time to dust off my banana bread recipe and make some slight alterations. A good friend gave me her chocolate banana bread recipe a few years back. I always make it sans chocolate because my husband … [Read more...]