I’ve always enjoyed baking out of this book, as many of the recipes are over-the-top and loaded with chocolate. It’s also rare to see a cookie recipe calling for IQF cherries, so my curiosity was piqued.I started with the cherry dough, omitting the food colouring, and substitu...
I watched the CNBC mini-doc “Costco Craze” recently. It turns out that overspending is a common thing amongst Costco devotees. From not labelling aisles to having constantly changing SKUs, the store is designed to get you coming back and buying things you didn’t know you wante...
Muffins really are just small, unfrosted cakes, so why not a carrot cake muffin? This recipe comes from the Recipes for Health column of the NYT, explaining the use of whole-grain flour and reduced sugar and fat. I didn’t have whole-wheat pastry flour, so I used a mix of regul...
Last week, we started by making the hamantaschen fillings. For the apricot one, we used a mix of unsulphured and sulphured dried apricots. You can use the latter if you don’t want a dark colour. Instead of orange juice, we substituted water to cut down on the sugar, as well as...
Producing this cake is a labour of (dessert) love. There are seven separate recipes to make, specialty ingredients and tools to acquire, and a significant amount of time to invest. Even though the end result was one of the tastiest cakes I (or my guests) have ever had, it fall...