Blog Post List

This blog post list contains the most recent blog posts from The Messy Baker in reverse chronological order. You can also browse by recipe category or use the search function.

No-Churn Raspberry Ripple Ice Cream When I was a child, ice cream was a black-or-white choice. Vanilla or chocolate. Those were the two standard grocery store options. If we were lucky, Mom would bring home a carton of Neapolitan with its impressive layers of chocolate, vanilla...

Orange Dream no-Churn ICe Cream Well, that took longer than expected. I'd meant to take a week off to clean up some of the maintenance issues on the blog and -- gulp -- do my taxes. (Thanks to the pandemic, the Canadian tax deadline has been...

No recipe today. Instead, a Mother's Day tribute. This is my mom in a pose that shows off her hands and gives a glimpse of the diamond ring I was obsessed with. It NEEDS LEMON My mother puts her hands on the kitchen table, one...

Orange Crispy Rice Squares It snowed today. It's the second week in May, and instead of planting pansies, I'm wondering where the snow shovel is hiding. So, as all good bakers do, I turned my back to the window, faced the stove, and created a more...

Citrus-Topped Poppy seed bars I'm feeling wistful today. Maybe because Mother's Day is approaching and for the first time in years, I won't be at the same table as the Woman Who Gave Me Life. (Don't panic. My mother is alive and well. I'm observing pandemic...

Indian-Spiced Roasted Cauliflower Soup You can't make a zebra change its stripes, or a leopard change its spots, or a cook change her favourite spice combinations. I am partial to Indian and Mexican flavouring, so have cumin, coriander, and various chilis at the ready. You'll find...

Salted Caramel Brownie Cookies These are the cookies that Jack built. Sort of. I adapted them from Leite's Culinaria, who got them from Katie Workman. I've no idea what inspired her -- other than chocolate brownies -- but they're ideal for chocolate lovers. They're so...

Image by Jennifer Pallian No recipe today. This story is the introduction to my first cookbook, The Messy Baker. It explains why chocolate chip cookies are my favourite comfort food. I stand on a chair pulled up to the counter. My nose hovers near my...

Easy Orange Buttercream Icing I'm a big fan of citrus. If a dish tastes flat in almost any way, my first thought is to add lemon juice, orange zest or a hint of lime. Most of the time this small adjustment delivers big results. While there's...

No-Egg SPice Cake This week, my grocery store had flour aplenty, but not a single tin of baking powder. Of course, for the first time in a decade, I was out of baking powder. And when I can't have something, I crave it. The second I saw...