Bake with abandon!
CRANBERRY-ORANGE OATMEAL WAFFLES Pancakes in the Patio is a long-standing summer tradition in our family. Father’s Day usually kicks off the outdoor pancake season. Canada Day, the August Civic Holiday, and birthdays keep the tradition going straight through to Labour Day. Any time the weather …
brown butter icing I promised you a recipe for brown butter icing a while ago, back when I posted my recipe for No-Egg Browned-Butter Cake. It took a while, but here it is, in all its decadent, messy glory. The resulting icing tastes a bit …
Either Way Marinara Sauce Pardon me for bragging, but this sauce is pretty good. Okay. It’s really good. How do I know? Recipe tester feedback. They liked it. A lot. This recipes from my first book, The Messy Baker: More than 75 Delicious Recipes from …
No-Churn pralines and Cream When I was a kid, store-bought ice cream was plain and simple. Chocolate, strawberry, or vanilla. You might get a carton of Neapolitan on a special occasion or some Spumoni at Christmas. But if you wanted fancy, you had to get …
Classic Rhubarb Pie I grew up with a scrappy patch of rhubarb in the back garden that survived the coldest, snowiest winters — despite neglect bordering on abuse. I assumed rhubarb was a hardy Canadian crop, bred for our climate. Not so. Rhubarb originated in …
No-Churn Chocolate Crackle Ice Cream In a classic case of “Do as I say, not as I do” I decided to place the plastic wrap OVER the container of ice cream, not directly on the surface. I know better, but I did it anyway. I …
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, …
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 …
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 …