For the Love of Baking
We’ve been having a heatwave where I live right now, so it’s the perfect time for barbeque! Throughout BBQ season, I like to have homemade burger buns on hand. We use them for traditional hamburgers, veggie burgers, or even pulled pork. I find the homemade buns taste better than most store-bought and don’t fall apart as quickly when you are eating them.
I wanted to create a tart that tasted like the caramel macchiato coffee I used to love drinking in my early twenties. Here is what I came up with!
This week was my husband’s birthday, so of course, I had to make another cake! Two flavours that my husband loves are banana cake and cream cheese frosting. I was inspired to combine those two elements with a bananas Foster filling, which contained bananas and toasted pecans in brown sugar and rum caramel.
Yesterday was my birthday! This was my 2nd birthday on lockdown, so I decided to make myself a birthday cake. Since we were celebrating both my birthday and Mother’s Day this weekend, I thought that something spring-themed in both flavour and decoration would be nice.
I was inspired by a French YouTube video to make a lemon-lime tart. After 3 tries, I made the perfect tart!
My Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies filled with Dulce de Leche were so tasty and have been such a popular recipe, I decided to try another stuffed cookie. This time decided to work with my Next Level Chocolate Chip Cookies. I thought they would be too sweet with dulce de leche inside but figured some chocolate ganache would work well.
My latest YouTube video is about my Maple Bacon and Pecan Sticky Buns! I have made these several times now and just love the soft moist buns and the flavour combination of the maple and brown sugar with a slight spicy kick of chipotle powder. The salty crunch from the bacon and pecan topping is out of this world!
After watching an episode of the Spring Baking Championship I was inspired to make a “Hot Cross Bunny.” The result was both cute and delicious!
I LOVE making biscuits. They are the perfect accompaniment to soup or stew and in the winter, I generally make them at least once a week. Over the years, I’ve picked up a few tricks that make biscuits with lots of flaky layers every time! I have shared this recipe before but this time, there is a YouTube video to go along with it 🙂
Focaccia is a favourite in our family! We love this particular recipe because it makes a spongy, flavourful bread. You can alter the base recipe with the toppings of your choice, including tomatoes, fresh herbs, olives, potatoes, peppers and many more! I have even used this recipe to make focaccia art! Given how much we …