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Recipe: Homemade Reeses Bars
Who doesn’t love Resse’s Peanut Butter Cups? With Halloween right around the corner, these homemade Reeses bars are a wonderful treat to make and eat while you watch “it’s the great pumpkin patch, Charlie Brown!” This recipe is no bake, which is awesome. Ingredients 1 cup of melted salted butter 2 cups of honey graham cracker crumbs 3 tablespoons of brown sugar 1 3/4 cups of powdered sugar 1 cup of smooth peanut butter a tablespoon of vanilla 2 – 2 1/2 cups of chocolate…
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Recipe: Pumpkin Spice Cookies
It’s fall – and what better way to celebrate October than with pumpkin spice cookies! These cookies are healthy and pack a lot of flavour. Try them today (or tomorrow). Ingredients 1 cup of flour and cake flour a teaspoon of baking soda and ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg, all spice and salt 6 tablespoons of salted butter 1/4 cup of sugar 1/2 cup brown sugar 1 1/2 cups of pure pumpkin puree an egg 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract 1 1/3 cups of…
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Recipe: Candy Corn and White Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
Halloween is almost here and with this season comes candy corn! I’ve never been a big fan of candy corn, however, in this recipe I wanted to try them because of their colour. Let me tell you, these candy corn and white chocolate chip cookie bars are great! Last weekend I spent my Saturday baking about 8 different recipes and out of the 8, which I will share over the next week or so, this is my favourite. Bake up and eat up. Ingredients 1…
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Recipe: Apple Butter
Fall is here! Oh, and so is thanksgiving – happy thanksgiving to all my Canadian fans! When October hits I know it’s time to pluck the apples from our tree. Last year we pruned it, so it didn’t produce any apples. This year, however, the apples were plentiful. Time for apple butter. Here we go…apple butter in the slow cooker. Much like the strawberry-ruhbarb butter I made last month, this one has little sugar and keeps for about 4-5 weeks in the fridge. Ingredients 5…
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Recipe: Summerlicious Rhubarb Squares
Summer and rhubarb just go together. No rhubarb? No summer! This recipe doesn’t depend on strawberries – nope – this recipe lets the rhubarb shine all by itself. Time for summerlicious rhubarb squares. Ingredients 6 cups of chopped rhubarb 2 cups of sugar 1/4 cup of water 3 tablespoons of corn starch a tablespoon of vanilla 1 1/2 cup of oats and brown sugar 1/2 cup of cake flour 1 cup of white flour 2 sticks of butter 1/2 cup of walnut pieces First –…
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Recipe: Baked French Toast
Love french toast? Hate eating in shifts or eating a lukewarm breakfast? This recipe for baked french toast is here to save you! Try it…it’ll make a great father’s day treat! Ingredients 1 loaf of artisan french bread (about 450g) – next time I’ll use two…I explain below 8 eggs 500ml of half and half a cup of milk 2 tablespoons of sugar 1/4 cup of brown sugar a tablespoon of cinnamon 1 teaspoon of nutmeg and all spice a tablespoon of vanilla salt butter…
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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…
