Scroll to the bottom of the post to get ALL the “12 Days” recipes from 2019 – 2023! Welcome to Day 2 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
Scroll to the bottom of the post to get ALL the “12 Days” recipes from 2019 – 2023! It’s that time of year again! Welcome to Day 1 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 … Read more
Did you know? Today, November 24th is Fairy Bread Day! Hold on… what’s FAIRY BREAD? A favourite childhood treat in Australia, that’s what! Right up there with a sugar sandwich (yup – white bread, butter and sugar, a VERY occasional treat), fairy bread was something you got to eat rarely – mostly at birthday parties. … Read more
Today would have been my mum’s 82nd birthday. Sadly, this is the first birthday she’s not with us to celebrate and I’d be lying if I said it isn’t a hard day for us all. Mum was the baker, the cook in the family and she relished this role. It wasn’t a chore to cook … Read more
This week in Les Petits Chefs baking club we made Strawberry Cheesecake Cake Cups – an easy, no-bake dessert that’s a riff on a recipe I shared last year. That recipe uses mascarpone and a strawberry sauce where you cook the strawberries but today’s recipe is simplified a little – using cream cheese and a … Read more
This week in Les Petits Chefs baking club, we made muffins! Primarily because last weekend I had excess blueberries and bananas at my house and wanted to use them up so some food-waste avoidance became recipe testing for this session with the students! I riffed on my easy banana chocolate chip muffin recipe and subbed … Read more