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Continue reading →: Merry Christmas (cookies)!
I hope you are all having a wonderful Christmas with family and friends, and if you aren’t celebrating Christmas today, that you are having a great day and that somebody made you cookies. 🙂 From top left: Plain and Chocolate Cherry Shortbread, Salted Caramel Macarons and Mexican Chocolate Macarons (recipes…
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Continue reading →: Guinness Gingerbread with Tangy Orange Cream
The holiday season provides great opportunities for baking things other than cookies, so I’m taking a break from Christmas cookie posts to share the delicious gingerbread cake I made last week for a work potluck. I’ve had this in mind for a few weeks since being inspired by Frugal Feeding’s…
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Continue reading →: A Non-Traditional Black Forest Torte
A good friend of ours celebrated a birthday last weekend, and after some not-so-subtle inquiring, Nate and I discerned that his favorite cake is black forest. Which made me happy because I have been looking for an excuse to make this fantastic version with Grand Marnier soaked cherries, espresso whipped…
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Continue reading →: Olive Tapenade & Sourdough Lavash
Third savoury recipe post in a row – this might be some sort of record! I promise I will be back with the sugar-and-butter-laden baking posts soon – there’s a lot of Christmas baking going on these days, plus there was a birthday cake last weekend… In addition to being…
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Continue reading →: Three-Cheese Tomato and Sausage Pasta SauceHappiness is a bowl of pasta. Top it with rich, cheesey tomato sauce spiked with homemade Sicilian sausage and you’ve got euphoria, as far as I’m concerned.
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Continue reading →: Whole Grain Levain for Bread Baking Day #54For a while I’ve been searching for a “country style” rustic sourdough loaf with some whole grain in it to bake as our daily bread, and after lots of trial and error, I finally settled on this formula, based on a recipe from Chez Pim. I was already planning on…
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Continue reading →: Daring Bakers: Christmas CookiesHoliday season is the time for sharing and Peta of Peta Eats is sharing a dozen cookies, some classics and some of her own, from all over the world with us. Christmas cookies have a very special place in my heart. I’ve written about this before, but suffice to say…
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Continue reading →: Salted Butter Caramel Apple StrudelAlmost every fall, I end up with a whole bunch of apples from my Mum (usually from the tree of a friend of hers), and more often than not, those apples end up in one of my very favorite things to make: apple pie. For me, fall is not complete…
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I’m Korena: cook, baker, dirty-dishes-maker. My favourite things include flour, butter, sugar, and chocolate.
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