baking
chocolate cheesecake muffins
These muffins are the bomb. Especially when warm from the oven. A cream cheese centre breaks through the chocolate surface, willing you to bite into its muffiny goodness. Willing you to eat three, maybe four in a row. Rosie Beaucoup used to make these muffins when I was growing up. My mother was famous for…
Read Morealmond cookies
Do you like almonds? Yah, you do. Who doesn’t like almonds? And who doesn’t like a good almond cookie? If you tell me you don’t like almond cookies I’ll have to hit you hard in the face. Chewy almond goodness. These little babies are one of my favourite holiday cookies. Yah, you could make them…
Read Morefudge brownies (so easy a monkey could make ’em)
I’ve been making these brownies for a long time. I think they were the first thing I ever learned to bake. They are tasty and easy to make in a jiffy – like, say, if some doofus shows up on your doorstep and you have nothing to serve with tea. You can get these into…
Read Morechocolate chip cookies
What? You don’t feel so good? You’ve got the sniffles? Your kid just got arrested? I’ve got just the thing. Cookies. Chocolate chip cookies. The first time I made these cookies, I had planned to take them to an elderly neighbour who had slipped and fallen in her home, breaking three bones. As I stood…
Read Moreblackberry cobbler
. . . Remember the blackberries 2.0 picked for me? Sure you do. Well, I decided against jam. Instead, I decided to make a blackberry cobbler for dessert this evening. Let’s face it, if the berries are free, you can do whatever you want with them. No need to preserve them. Gobble them up all…
Read Moreblueberry grunt
Whenever I make blueberry grunt, I think of my brother. Mostly because when we were kids we would replace the word “grunt” with an actual grunt. It was endlessly entertaining. (For us.) (Only us.) Sweet, juicy blueberries combined with soft dumplings. If lovin’ this is wrong, I don’t wanna be right. Apparently, wild blueberries are the…
Read Moreemily’s ridiculously simple banana bread
For some reason, 2.0 and I have been talking a lot about banana bread recently. It’s not the kind of thing that we have conversed about much in the past, but I haven’t been able to get it out of my head. So, after allowing some bananas to get nice and ripe on the counter, and after banging…
Read Moreto die for blueberry muffins
Things are finally settling down here at the Cat Farm, so to mark the occasion, I made blueberry muffins for breakfast. I threw some huge organic blueberries into our grocery cart last night, thinking we could have them with yogurt and bran buds (make fibre your friend), but woke craving something warm from the oven.…
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