Confession time: I wrote this recipe up because I really just wanted to show my virtual cooking campers how to make these cookies. They are THE BEST. I actually cannot make them very often or unless we have company because I just eat them all. Did I mention that they are the best? As I’ve … Read more
Is this not the prettiest cookie you’ve seen? I know you’re wondering how those chocolate chips turned pink. I bet you ‘re thinking that it’s white chocolate with food colouring, right? WRONG! The beautiful pink hue is from the gorgeous Ruby Couverture Callets I received from the kind folks at Callebaut last week. I’ve worked … Read more
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie and it’s COOKIES. Chocolate Chip Cookies. Specifically, CHEWY chocolate chip cookies (my favourite kind!). Dorie says: I can’t imagine a time when I won’t be creating new chocolate chip cookies. This latest addition to my collection is chewy and … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi was a lovely cross between chocolate chip cookies and shortbread that *felt* slightly healthy because of the buckwheat flour. Dorie’s using an interesting technique of toasting the buckwheat flour gives these even more of a nuttiness than the buckwheat does on its own (hence the … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies was a big old chocolate chip cookie bar with some dried apricots and coconut, baked in a cast-iron pan. An interesting concept (I’ve baked cakes in cast-iron skillets before but not cookie bars) and one I was not able to minify because I didn’t have a … Read more
Today’s book review is about not judging a book by its cover. I remember the first time I read about Jackie Kai Ellis and thinking “Wow, she has such a great life!”. Founder of the successful Beaucoup Bakery and The Paris Tours, Jackie seemed to have it all – living between Vancouver and Paris, a … Read more