For a crowd-pleasing dessert to be served at our post-wedding party on Saturday, I wanted to make a cheesecake that featured Kahlua. We have a lot of bottles of the coffee-flavoured liqueur, but I wasn’t satisfied with any of the recipes I found. Then, I stumbled upon this rec...
I’ve known about this cookie for some time from Candy, but only recently bought a copy of the cookbook they’re from. It’s a labour intensive recipe, requiring two doughs and lots of chilling time. Earlier in the week, I made a full batch of sweet tart dough, ensuring that the ...
In preparation for a wine, cheese and dessert post-wedding reception we were hosting at the house, I made these bars ahead of time and froze them. They weren’t very much work at all to make. Instead of key limes, which I find frustrating to juice because of their size, I used ...
I really felt like something made with cornmeal so I turned to this recipe for a breakfast treat. Using the cranberry variation (which just increases the sugar to 2/3 cup and replaces cherries with 2 cups cranberries), I whipped these up in no time at all. They made 10 large, ...
The idea was to use a big 3L basket of apricots (plus a handful of raspberries and blackberries) to make a yummy tart, and to use up an old piece of almond paste. Unfortunately, this tart was a bit of a disappointment. The pat-in crust was simple, as was mixing sugar and corns...
Instead of the original crust recipe, I used the newer CI vodka crust recipe. My peaches were very juicy and there was probably one cup of liquid in the bowl after I mixed in the sugar and tapioca powder. I didn’t use any of the extra liquid, and the pie turned out fine. The l...
Dr. S recently signed up for a subscription to the online version of Cook’s Illustrated. I like this magazine a lot and have always felt that subscribers should get access to it for free, so I grumbled about having to pay. But it’s a couple of bucks a month and even though it’...
We’ve been really busy with travel, vacation and wedding planning so there hasn’t been much time to bake. While we were at a cottage, I made crowd-pleasers like blueberry scones and mixed berry pie. This holiday weekend, I had time to try something new and bake a little snack ...
