Carrot Cake Cupcakes for Cupcake Day 2025 in support of the OSPCA

(you know your cupcakes are the right choice for an OSPCA fundraiser when they get a reception like this from your resident feline 😉 ) Did you know – today, February 24th, is Canada’s Cupcake Day – raising money for the Ontario SPCA. That’s right –  today is all about cupcakes – and raising money … Read more

Tuesdays with Dorie: Brown-Sugar Oat Squares from Baking with Dorie

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Brown-Sugar Oat Squares is a recipe you all need in your back pocket – made with ingredients and equipment you probably have on hand already, they come together in no time and are deliciously more-ish! These reminded me a little bit of my ANZAC … Read more

Mini Nutella Ganache Tarts for World Nutella Day 2025

Happy “World Nutella Day″ ! Yup, it’s a thing! Originally created by Sara from Ms. Adventures in Italy and Michelle from Bleeding Espresso, World Nutella Day is a day to celebrate, get creative with, and most importantly, eat Nutella.  In 2015, Sara transferred World NutellaÂź Day to Ferrero (the makers of NutellaÂź) to help it live on … Read more

Les Petits Chefs (pĂątissiers) make mini jam crumble tarts (again!)

Last week the Petits Chefs worked on a favourite recipe of mine – Mini Jam Tarts with a Crumble Topping! A previous iteration of the club (pre-pandemic when we had a proper space to work and much more equipment) made this recipe but I realised that I hadn’t actually written up the recipe properly so … Read more

12 Days of Holiday Treats 2024: Chocolate Wheatie Cookies

Scroll to the bottom of the post to get ALL the “12 Days” recipes from 2019 – 2023! Welcome to Day 4 of The Twelve Days of Holiday Treats! Once again, this year, from December 1st-12th I’ll post a new holiday treat recipe every day – inspiration for your holiday entertaining! The recipes I’m sharing … Read more