Tuesdays with Dorie: Szarlotka from Baking with Dorie

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Szarlotka is a kind of Polish apple pie. This website gives a nice explanation: It’s based on a buttery shortcrust, filled with spiced shredded apple, optional custard or meringue and topped with crumble or an additional layer of pastry. Baked until golden, it’s served … Read more

Brown Sugar Spice Muffins with Nectarines on a colourful plate with dots.

Cook the Book Fridays: Brown Sugar Spice Muffins from Everyday Dorie

(for those of you wondering about my absence from this site in the spring and my surgery in May, I’ve written it up here. I know my “Dorista” friends were surprised when I missed a few deadlines…)   This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook, Everyday Dorie. Brown Sugar … Read more

Strawberry Cheesecake- Chocolate No-Bake Trifle in a bowl on a wooden table with a silver spoon next to it.

Tuesdays with Dorie: Strawberry Cheesecake-Chocolate No-Bake TRIFLE from Baking with Dorie

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Strawberry Cheesecake- Chocolate No-Bake Pie sounds like a (delicious) mouthful but alas, the pie version of this was not meant to be for me this week. I mistakenly thought DIGESTIVE biscuits would be a good substitute for the graham crackers in the crust (I am … Read more

Dorie Greenspan's Mixed Berry Pie from Everyday Dorie on a blue plate with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Cook the Book Fridays: Mixed Berry Pie from Everyday Dorie

This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook, Everyday Dorie. Mixed Berry Pie was the perfect multi-day recipe for this not-quite-back-to-normal-recovering-from-major-surgery baker. I made the pie pastry one day and assembled it the next – and it was a great way to take advantage of VERY local berries: Backyard blackberries … Read more

Dorie Greenspan's lamingtons with coconut and sprinkle coating on a baking tray covered in parchment.

Tuesdays with Dorie: Lamingtons from Baking with Dorie

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Lamingtons are a bake I am very familiar with, having grown up in Australia and they are one of my favourite things to eat, though because they are messy to make, I don’t make/ eat them often. I’ve written about them before on this … Read more

Close up of Dorie Greenspan's Cottage Berry Cobbler with Jostaberries and Blueberries in a white enamel dish.

Tuesdays with Dorie: Cottage Berry Cobbler from Baking with Dorie

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Cottage Berry Cobbler is the perfect recipe for early July in Ontario as berries are just coming into season (strawberries have already been gracing the shelves of our produce stores and market stands for a few weeks!). For this recipe, I chose to use … Read more