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Recipe: Natural Red Velvet Cake
It’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow! Perfect time for a natural red velvet cake – and it’s naturally coloured, not with a whole bottle of chemical food colouring – yuck. What’s the secret? Beets! Also – my recipe is a bit on the healthier side with using bananas instead of butter. Ingredients 3 cups of cake flour 2 1/2 tablespoons of cocoa powder 1 teaspoon of kosher salt 2 teaspoons of baking powder 1 cup of mashed bananas (about 3) (or butter) 2 tablespoon vanilla extract 2…
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Recipe: Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies
What else can you do with a box of cake mix? Make cookies!! Let’s get baking these chocolate cake mix cookies. Ingredients box of chocolate cake mix 2 eggs 1/2 cup of canola oil 3/4 cup of Skor bits 3/4 cup of Reese’s peanut butter chips Mix the first 3 ingredients together. I find that it’s better if you mix it all by hand – using your mixer adds in too much air. Next, gently stir in your candy. Roll into 1 inch balls and…
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Recipe: Homemade Apple Sauce
Who doesn’t like homemade apple sauce? Even for the simple fact that it makes your house smell glorious – like a cool fall afternoon…the kind of day you feel like watching a football game outside. Yes, please! Ingredients 10 apples (a variety) 1 orange half a lemon 1/2 cup of brown sugar 1 stick of salted butter 2 tablespoons of cinnamon 1 teaspoon of all spice and nutmeg First – you need to peel and core all of your apples – then cut into quarters.…
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Recipe: Nutella Stuffed Cupcakes
Love nutella? Love chocolate cupcakes? Well, here’s a treat for you! This morning I felt like baking, but no way my husband was going to eat 24 mini cupcakes and 6 full size ones – so I baked away and brought them to my gym – the staff were super happy!! Ingredients cake mix box (plus ingredients to make) 1 cup nutella box of chocolate pudding mix white chocolate chips The secret to this recipe – it’s quick. The trick, however, is that the pudding…
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Recipe: Square M&M and Oreo Cookies
Love Oreo cookies and M&Ms? No, you don’t…well, then pick something you love and add it to this square cookie recipe! But…if you do, then you’re in luck! Time to try these square M&M and Oreo cookies. I noticed some cookies like this on Pinterest one day and I though, wow…inspiration!! Time to bake up! They are easy to make and they go quickly. I start with my chewy cookie recipe: Ingredients 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon backing soda 2 teaspoons corn starch 1/2 cup…
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Recipes: 12 Days of Cookies
Okay – Christmas is 5 days away…WOW!! Have you done any baking? Best get on it. Baking yourself is so much better than buying at the store – so warm and fresh. Don’t you just love freshly baked goods? 3ten.ca celebrated earlier this month with the 12 days of cookies, now, here are all the recipes, brought together. You can make them all in one day, like I did! It was a 14 hour cookie making day, so I don’t suggest that, yet it’s possible.…
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Recipe: Cookies n’ Cream Cookies
Like, or love rather, Oreo cookies? Then you’ll love these cookies n’ cream cookies from 3ten.ca. Celebrating day 7…I know, I left you hanging for a day or two, but the 12 days of cookies is back! These cookies are soft and taste like actual cookies n’ cream ice cream. We (or my husband, actually) eat them up! Ingredients 1 cup of soft salted butter 1/2 cup of packed brown sugar and white sugar 1 package of vanilla pudding mix 2 eggs 1 teaspoon of…
