It’s Day 3 of the 12 Days of Cookies! And today we have a yummy cookie with a bit of history! Oatcakes are a crisp, shortbread like cookie (or biscuit) that’s lightly salted and makes a hearty snack. It’s common to have them with tea or coffee in the afternoon. Oatcakes came to the Maritimes…
12 Days of Cookies… Day 2 — Romanian Turtă Dulce
My paternal grandparents were Romanian and although we had some Romanian style dishes growing up, my gramma never made Romanian sweet treats. At church I always looked at all the Romanian desserts and wondered what they tasted like! Today, it’s Day 2 of the 12 Days of Cookies and I’m super excited to be making…
12 Days of Cookies… Day 1 — Sugar Plum Shortbread Cookies
Welcome to the 12 Days of Cookies once again! We had so much fun last year making an assortment of cookies! It was wonderful because after the 12 Days, we had a bunch of yummy Christmas cookies ready for our holiday platter…and cookies we even enjoyed in the new year! So we decided to bake…
Chocolate Chip Sourdough Bagels
I had a lot of sourdough starter and thought I would make bagels for something different. This is an overnight sourdough bagel dough and so easy to prepare! These bagels have a rich sourdough flavor but are studded with chocolate and are absolutely scrumptious! They are more dense, but could be lightened up by adding…
Apple Fritter Bites
I always enjoy apple recipes! I happen to have a couple of apples that began to go soft, so I decided to make these yummy apple fritter bites! These taste similar to a delicious apple fritter donut. These bites are moist and fluffy, packed with crunchy apples and cinnamon, and topped with a spiced sweet…
New York Style Chocolate Chip Cookies
We love chocolate chip cookies and decided to make these New York style chocolate chip cookies which are packed full of chocolate chips and are a lot larger than a typical cookie. These chewy cookies go great with a glass of milk and are oh so good! These cookies are super delicious and works better…
Candle Making at the John Walter Museum
My girls and I had a lovely time at the John Walter Museum in Edmonton this afternoon! We had an afternoon of candle making and cookies which was lots of fun! Since there were so many of us, we broke up into two groups. We started off at John Walter’s second house which he built…
Irish Barmbrack
I love making different recipes from different cultures and enjoy sweet baked Irish recipes. Barmbrack is an Irish quick bread that is packed full of raisins, and sometimes cherries. In Irish Gaelic Bairín Breac is Barmbrack where Bairín means bread and Breac means speckled. I could not find much history on Barmbrack but I did…
