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Recipe: Monster Cupcakes
Monster Cupcakes with purple vanilla buttercream. Yummy and just in time for Halloween. Ingredients Make your favourite white cake recipe (or use a box if you wish) and add 4 drops of deep green food colouring…mosterlicious! These green bat cupcake liners are from Bulk Barn – and so are the monster sprinkles. Perfect for monster cupcakes. I love the purple. Fill your liners to the top…makes for big cupcakes! Time to make the icing! Vanilla Buttercream 1 cup butter (soft) 3 cups icing sugar 1…
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Recipe: Rhubarb Pie
It’s a true summertime treat – rhubarb pie. It grows like crazy in my garden so I bake a lot with it, or sometimes just dunk it in sugar and eat it raw. Here’s what you need for this tart treat! Ingredients 6.5 cups of chopped rhubarb 1.5 cups of sugar 3 tablespoons of corn starch dash of salt dough recipe – try 1-2-3 Here we go – lay out your floured area to work on your dough. Roll it out well, but don’t over…
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Recipe: Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
These cookies are super chewy. Like perfection chewy. The best chewy chocolate chip cookies. What’s the secret? It’s corn starch…odd, eh? But it works! Ingredients 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon backing soda 2 teaspoons corn starch 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/2 cup white sugar 1 cup butter 2 eggs 1 tablespoon vanilla 2 cups chocolate chips First – mix the first 3 ingredients together and set aside. In your stand mixer, mix the sugars, eggs, butter and the vanilla until consistent. Then, add in the…
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Recipe: Blueberry Buttermilk Muffins
Blueberry? Buttermilk? Why not! Muffins that are oh, so good. Ingredients 1/2 cup regular flour 1 1/2 cup cake flour 1/2 cup raw sugar and white sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 eggs a full cup blueberries 1 cup buttermilk 1/4 teaspoon of salt First – cream together the eggs, both sugars and the vanilla. Then, add all the other ingredients except the blueberries. Mix well. Slowly add the blueberries and make sure your mixer is set on stir, otherwise it’ll breakup the berries and the…
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Recipe: Cranberry Bars
Have you ever had Starbucks’ Cranberry Bliss Bars? They show up under the clean glass display case sometime after the American Thanksgiving and make my holiday season blissful. I used to work at Starbucks in California when I was younger and I fell in love with the heavenly treat (that and coffee!). Below is my quick interpretation of cranberry bliss. Ingredients 1/2 cup butter 1 1/2 cup graham cracker crumbs Can Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk 1 cup flaked white chocolate, coconut and dried…
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Recipe: The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies – Oilers Edition
New York Times rated this recipe the best – like truly the best. One thing, however – you must cook them properly! In this edition, since the NHL decided to come back to life and wake up our city, I though, what better way to show some spirit than with some good eats. Ingredients 2 cups minus 2 tablespoons of cake flour 1 2/3 cups of all purpose flour or bread flour 1 1/4 teaspoons of baking soda, powder and coarse salt 2 1/2 sticks…
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Recipe: 1-2-3 Dough
1-2-3 dough is super simply, super versatile and super delicious! Here I’m using it to make a pumpkin pie (that recipe to follow very shortly…). Ingredients 3 parts flour (1 cup) 2 parts fat (1/2 cup butter) 1 part water (1/3 cup water) want to make it a bit sweet? add 2 tablespoons of sugar Make sure the butter is room temperature – mix small chunks of the butter in with the flour and then slowly add in the water. Roll into a ball and…
