We’ve got school bake sales and cookie plates a-plenty this week. Time for a new [old] cookie recipe! This is a fresh take on a favourite cookie of ours…. A chocolate cookie exploding with chips and bits of Andes Mint. And, a recipe that’s nut free and easily doubled! What could be better than Double Chocolate Cookies […]
Today is the day when we bake ALL of the Christmas Cookies! In addition to the world-famous Nestle Tollhouse Cookies recipe on the back of the bag and Better Homes & Gardens’ recipe for Gingerbread Cookie Cut-Outs, we’ve developed an immense list of ORIGINAL Christmas Cookie recipes that we love to bake each year. After six years […]
TODAY’S FAMILY ADVENT CALENDAR MUST DO is a MUST DO x 2! I. Plan Christmas Dinner Original Photo [in Pink]: Chicks That Mix, White Peacock Events Blog Today, we will sit around the fire and plan our Christmas Dinner. Partly because I have a rather culinary-based Christmas Wishlist this year and partly because I want to take a turn from last […]
What would the first week of Advent be without a little holiday baking? We always wanted to test-drive a coconut macaroon. And, over the past few months, we did so. Today’s the day we go from test-drive to license-to-thrill. Here’s our best-ever recipe for the Chocolate-Dipped Coconut Macaroons we’ll be making today. It’s a slightly […]
Since I need to incorporate more iron into my daily fare, I decided to revisit one of our most popular recipes, Chewy Granola Bars, and try to amp up the iron content while dialing down the refined sugar. The first step was to swap the traditional corn syrup with a mix of blackstrap molasses, which is […]
Today, we will be putting together some gifts for the teachers. We thought we’d package up some gift cards, bottles of wine, tins of tea, or bags of coffee beans with something homemade. Of course, we know what everyone really wants…. Well, first, there’s your Christmas list…and then…and then… Luckily, there is no more perfect cookie on […]
Okay folks, today’s the day. Get out your sacks of flour, your butter blocks, your monster egg cartons, your pounds of chocolate, your sprinkles and your pastilles, your chopped nuts and your, your, your everything! It’s our annual Holiday Cookie Bake Off! Today, we will be making: Cookie Meteors, Santa Baby Cookies, Pfeffernüsse, Reverse Chip Brookie […]
Oh, this is going to be a good day! You’re going to want to twirl and tap a tap tap! Today’s the day we make Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Cookies! Can you handle it? Prepare to be amazed by our fantastic peanut butter cookies, dipped in chocolate and, if desired, covered in toasted coconut or […]
It’s the last day of November and the second day of Advent! There’s no better way to kiss this month goodbye AND to welcome the Christmas season than to make a classic cookie! My Nana made the best Italian Lemon Knots. Just after Blaise and I got married, I visited her for a week and took advantage […]
Now featured on Huffington Post Canada! For the long bus ride up to her school’s camp-out, Bea wanted a nut-free, pumpkin version of the amazing cookies we made last month. So, to work we went, and came up with these beauties: Chewy Pumpkin Cookies with Butterscotch and Chocolate Chips! Fasten your seatbelts, pumpkin lovers. We’ve outdone […]
As featured on HUFFPOST LIVING CANADA When I was a very little girl, my parents worked late hours, and we often had a family member come over to babysit. I always loved it when my grandaunt Veronica came over, because she was known for her sweet tooth. Along with a few bars of chocolate [for a […]
You know, we don’t always do our own baking! In a neighbourhood like ours, it’s pretty hard to take a pass on the spectacular treats on display in the local windows and shops. Last weekend, we had a piano recital to provide for and lots of practicing to fit in beforehand. So, instead of baking, we […]
SPAAAAAACCCE COOKIES!!!!! The theme of our March BreACK! 2015 is “Imagined Galaxies.” And we’re sticking to that with one bang-up good treat. The characters in the story I wrote for the kids to read and illustrate this week kick back and relax by making cookies in a skillet on their space-ship. They dump whatever treats they […]
Our March BreACK! 2015 is all about imagined galaxies and other worlds. For the first treat of the week, and to make sure we have an appropriate St. Patrick’s Day Green Dessert for tomorrow, we’ve knocked down our favourite chewy brownie recipe and built it back up with a bunch of chocolate mints. It’s GALACTIC! And, […]
Bea’s a “Sheep-slash-Goat.” So, she wanted to have a special treat for the upcoming Chinese New Year. With her tea fancy in full bloom, we picked up some David’s Tea Matcha Matsu Green Tea powder and got to work coming up with a matcha sugar cookie we could cut with our brand new coat cutter. […]
January was a long month of colds, sniffles, dental work and self-restraint! Time to live a little! Get into the spirit of St. Valentine’s with this super awesome chocolate chip peanut-butter brownie heart.
Stir-Up Saturday Reverse Chip Brookie Cookies The kids have been dying to recreate a cookie they often choose from a local bakery – a half-chocolate white chip and half-vanilla chocolate chip cookie. Their bakery cookie of choice is just fine, but it’s a bit high on the shortening and a bit too crispy for my […]
Throw-Back Thursday Play Holiday Floor Scramble and Christmas Clue, Revive the Holiday Shadow-Puppet Theatre and Make Butterbeer Blondies Today, we are revisiting ALL of the homemade classics. We’ll be playing with our Holiday Floor Scramble and our Christmas Clue Board Games. We’ll get out our Holiday Shadow Puppet Theatre and Christmas Shadow Puppets and improvise a […]
