Check out this new recipe! Deliciously comforting apple cake…great with coffee or tea and also as a dessert with, perhaps a dollop of ice cream or whipped cream! Or if you are really wanting to live dangerously…for breakfast! For the recipe click the “Recipes” tab at the top of the page. And as they say … Continue reading Scandinavian Apple Cake
Ramps and Rhubarb! Yes, we are up to our knees in both! We fired up the stove at #5 this week stocking up our larder and freezer using these delectable spring delicacies. You can’t go wrong with rhubarb muffins or rhubarb coffee cake. A must in our house is making the annual batch of rhubarb ketchup. Ramps aka … Continue reading 2 “R’s” of Spring
An easy to make cake that is moist, light and full of the fall spices we all love so much! In my books, if it’s made with buttermilk then I’m sold! Makes A 9” Square Pan 1 ½ cups granulated sugar 2 eggs 1 cup tinned pumpkin or homemade puree** ½ each vegetable oil & … Continue reading Pumpkin Gingerbread Cake
The local blueberries are in! Have I been busy or what, making all sorts of wonderful things with them. This is an easy cake to put together, is really, really good and could be served for dessert, with afternoon coffee or tea, or as a guilty pleasure, for breakfast. Enjoy! You can use frozen blueberries … Continue reading Blueberry Cake Topped With Almonds
For a printer friendly version of this recipe, click here. A moist, spicy, quick to make, cake, that is great with not only coffee, we’ve had it for breakfast too! It freezes very well. Makes One 13 x 9 x 2” Cake 1 ½ cups unbleached flour ½ cup whole wheat flour 2 tsp. baking … Continue reading Zucchini Coffee Cake
For a printer friendly version of this recipe click here. I made this quintessential English cake for my birthday last year…it’s the bomb and from now on “The Birthday Cake” It’s not difficult to make and just plain awesome! 8 oz. butter, room temperature 8 oz. berry sugar (Rogers make it) 4 medium eggs (6 … Continue reading Victoria Sponge Cake
Well, the push is on! Phyllis, the elf, has been baking up a storm, menu planning for Christmas and New Years, making lists, inviting guests, accepting invitations, putting up the decorations and last and perhaps not the most fun, cleaning the house! Just a few stocking stuffers left to get and the gifts are ready … Continue reading What’s Been Cooking Lately…
I know that this weekend is Canadian Thanksgiving and we are all geared up for our Thanksgiving dinner event whether it be a beautifully browned roasted turkey or in our case a loin of pork with gingersnap sauce ( the recipe to be posted next week). My mom made the best pumpkin pie, if you … Continue reading Autumn Menus
Makes A 9 or 10” Bundt Cake (Approximately 12 – 16 servings) A really good bundt cake. My Dad loved spice cakes of any kind, so we always baked a spice cake for his birthday. I guess it’s genetic! Always popular when I made it for work, usually for a corporate luncheon around the end of … Continue reading Gilded Pumpkin Cake
