Tag: Sweet

Cakes and Cookies

Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies

When I used to work on the Halifax Waterfront I sometimes went to grab lunch at the wonderful “Cabin Coffee” Café . This little place has the most amazing atmosphere, a cozy and homey one. Imagine a cold winter day and you’re sitting at the café having your hot soup and yummy sandwich in front […]

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Blueberry Grape Cake

The great cooking website Food52.com was having a contest. The theme of the contest was grapes; anything you can make with grapes. Knowing how much my family loves my Tanned Apple Cake, I decided to use its base and create a new filling – a grape filling. I added some blueberries to the mix as […]

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Apple Spice Muffins

Whether you like it or not it is the apple season. Apples are everywhere and it’s not only beautiful and tasty, it’s healthy too. I know, I know, it’s not as healthy when you put it in a muffin, but let’s just pretend 🙂 and anyways, there is no doubt that the sweet smell of […]

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Double Chocolate Muffins with White Chocolate Chips

Who doesn’t like chocolate muffins? We all do! But what would you say about a double chocolate muffin? A muffin with chocolaty flavor and some white chocolate chips in it. This was so easy to make. I made it with the kids and they loved it. Of course, the muffins didn’t survive long. I added […]

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Pineapple Muffins

We bought a fresh Pineapple about 2 weeks ago and placed it in the fridge to avoid the annoying fruit flies. It didn’t prevent the fruit flies from coming into my kitchen, but it did make us forget about the existence of the poor pineapple.

Cakes and Cookies

Chocolate Chip Cookies & Puffs

My kids wanted to make cookies and I had a bag of chocolate chips so what’s a better way to use the chocolate chips and satisfy the kids than making chocolate chip cookies? Why does the heading of the post say “Puffs”? well…we were being creative 🙂

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Hamentaschen, Oznei Haman or Poppy Seed Triangles – Either Way These Are Great!

Purim is probably one of my favorite holidays, even though being a child I used to be disappointed every single Purim. We used to have a “Mishloach Manot” exchange in class when I was in elementary school, it’s like a cookie exchange event 🙂  and every year I used to work so hard on my […]

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White Chocolate Cookies

Every time I go shopping for groceries I keep reminding myself to buy something sweet to go along with my morning coffee or late night tea and when I get to the cookies aisle I stand there, looking at the variety and realizing that it’s either not looking tasty enough, the box is too small […]