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.

Apple CHips Yesterday, I posted about root vegetable chips. Today, the chips are made of fruit. Spring is not the best time of year for apples. While the produce section boasts apples year round, by the time winter is over, the Macs are long gone and...

Crispy Root Vegetable Chips So far, I haven't noticed a shortage of root vegetables. The produce section in the local grocery stores has plenty of potatoes, beets, turnips, parsnips, sweet potatoes and even rutabagas. The only issue you might have with this recipe is finding the...

Classic Split Pea and Ham Soup I first posted a recipe for classic Split Pea and Ham Soup more than a decade ago. The soup hasn't changed but a few questions have cropped up over the years. If you're new to this type of soup or...

Image by Rachael Gorjestani. No recipe today. Instead, here's a short story. Mom cools the hard-boiled eggs in cold water while my sisters cover the kitchen table with newspaper. Dad locates the colouring packets and wire dippers Mom diligently saves each year. He straightens the bent ones...

Semi-Sourdough No-Knead Bread two ways. I'm impatient. Spontaneous, spur-of-the-moment concepts intrigue me. Once I've got the hang of something, I like to move onto the next shiny challenge. Follow-through and maintenance suffocate me. I offer my neglected and haphazard filing system as proof.  Given my capricious nature, sourdough and...

flourless chocolate chip peanut butter cookies This recipe was inspired by my cousin Donna. She loves chocolate and isn't all that into baking, so this one's right up her alley. Recently, she asked if it was okay to put chocolate chips in my Buttery Oatmeal Squares....

Image by Laura Miller 3-Ingredient Nutty Granola Bars The grocery situation changes almost constantly now. A couple of weeks ago, the local supermarket had no toilet paper and no flour but plenty of eggs. Last week, I nabbed the second last bag of flour and picked up...

Vanilla Buttercream Icing When I was a kid, we used to ice sugar cookies with vanilla buttercream. Mom didn’t use a recipe. She'd drop a dollop of butter in a bowl, sprinkle it with icing sugar, add a splash of vanilla, and drizzle in just enough...

No-Egg Browned-Butter Cake Crazy as this sounds, not everyone likes chocolate. My ultra-hyphenated Egg-Free Depression-Era Chocolate Cake was popular with the chocolate crowd, but some vanilla fanciers felt left out. To keep the peace, I set about making a vanilla variation. In the chocolate version, the...

A recipe from my mother's personal collection. She would print in neat all-caps for friends and family,. . No recipe today. Instead, a short story. My mother’s recipe box is a colour-coded, multi-tabbed wonder. Before the Internet coughed up recipes on demand, family, friends and virtual...