Silky Smooth Almond Custard
This easy almond custard recipe is light and soft, made with a milk base instead of heavy cream. It has a silky mouthfeel with just a brush of sugar and…
Watermelon Lemonade Ice
A fruit ice is the perfect cold dessert for summer! Here’s a simple recipe for watermelon lemonade ice that you can prep in no time…and later enjoy on the porch…
Simple Panna Cotta with Blood Orange Sauce
Panna cotta is an impressive dessert–but it’s so easy to make! You can even prepare it ahead of time, which makes panna cotta the perfect dessert for company. Try topping it…
Maple Custard Cups
Traditional custard recipes use eggs to achieve both thickness and a richness of flavour. This rich maple custard dessert recipe is sweetened entirely with maple syrup! Some people scream for ice…
Clove and Cardamom Poached Pears
These spiced, poached pears are cooked in honey water, and flavoured with cardamom, cloves, and lemon. They’re perfect for an elegant dessert on their own, or served with ice cream!…
Perfect Pie Crust
Homemade pie crust is frugal and melt-in-your-mouth delicious! Here’s how to make a perfect pie crust from scratch using just flour, salt, butter, & water. Have you mastered the homemade…
Deep Dish French Apple Pie with Salted Dark Caramel Sauce
‘Tis the season for comfort food! Last week I shared a recipe for Cheeseburger Skillet, and today we’re jumping to dessert with a Deep Dish French Apple Pie, drizzled with…
Fresh Strawberry Pie
I can’t think of a more delicious way to showcase fresh strawberries than in a cold, lightly sweetened, bursting-with-juice strawberry pie. This dessert will be the show-stopper at your 4th of…
Rich Strawberry Shortcake with Cream Cheese Filling
Here is a recipe for strawberry shortcake with a rich egg biscuit base and whipped cream cheese filling. It’s easy to make and not too sweet! Berry picking shouldn’t be…
The Ultimate Ice Cream Recipe Roundup
Summer is my favourite season, but it whirls by so fast that sometimes I can hardly soak it in before it seeps into autumn. This year I’m getting a jump…
Thick Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
These chocolate chip cookie bars are the perfect all-occasion dessert. They’re sweetened with sucanat and studded with walnuts and chocolate chips. Some things turn out just the way you want…
Gooey Butter Cake with Cream Cheese Filling
This completely from-scratch, cream cheese filled gooey butter cake is lightly crispy on the edges and deliciously chewy as you get further in. My journey to gooey butter cake began…
{In Season} Black Raspberries
What’s in season… Black Raspberries Scientific name: Rubus occidentalis (eastern North America variety) or Rubus leucodermis (western North America variety) Harvest season: July (usually just a short three weeks!) Special properties:…
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Warm chocolate chip cookies and a glass of milk. I can think of few snacks more delicious, and few with more childhood memories. I was so pleased with how this…
Carrot Cake with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting
This moist, naturally-sweetened carrot cake is laced with walnuts and topped with whipped cream cheese frosting sweetened with maple syrup. A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to join…
Crème Brûlée
Custards are my favourite desserts of all time. They always have been and always will be. Why? They are rich, elegant, and deceptively simple. When I try to think of…
Fresh No-Bake Blueberry Pie
This pie is summer. It requires fresh blueberries, so it can only be made at the height of the season soon after a day of picking in the fields. I…
Summertime Lime Pie
July is for pie, am I right? Much as I enjoy pumpkin and pecan pies, summer pies are so integral to the season that their lack would feel as incomplete…
Thanksgiving Feast
We had an eventful time celebrating with our family clans on Friday and Saturday last. But Eric and my first Thanksgiving day as a couple was a simple affair at…
Berries and Cream (A Dessert for Peter Rabbit)
We love having simple berries and cream for dessert. This little recipe was inspired by Peter Rabbit and our visit to Hilltop Farm, the home of Beatrix Potter. “I am…
Fruit Feature: Blueberries! (part 1)
Occasionally, I have been pleasantly plagued by the question of what my all-time favourite berry is. Anyone with me on that? Well, after dipping into a handful of freshly-picked blueberries…