Gingerbread Loaves
It’s no secret that I adore gingerbread. While I’m very partial to crisp gingersnaps, my real favourite is the spicy, sticky, thick sort my Nana used to make. Usually, I employ a traditional 7″ square tin with a loose bottom, but this novelty pan...
Ginger Spiced Plum Streusel Pie
Plums are the perfect fruit pie filling with their firm, tart flesh, easily separated from the delightfully small pit. When you’re preparing fruit, it’s good to have a high fruit-to-stone ratio! This recipe is further enhanced by the single pastry crust...
Chocolate Chocolate Cake
Some occasions demand the chocolatiest of chocolate. Like birthdays, special celebrations, and those days where nothing else will do but melt into a deliciously tender and moist slice of chocolate cake: no elaborate decoration, just swirls of silky Chocolate French...
Strawberry Shortcake
The scrumptious combination of strawberries and cream was originally brought to us from a very surprising source: His Eminence The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Thomas Wolsey, Catholic Bishop and chief advisor to King Henry VIII. One would have thought Wolsey had...
Mixed Berry Tart with Lattice and Flower Crust
Fresh, local summer fruit is beginning to appear at the farmer’s markets, but not fast enough to furnish a fruit pie, so I tapped into my stash of Trader Joe’s frozen mixed berries and cherries. I had a hankering to play around with a complex latticework...Follow Us
