Posts by Mary-Lee
Spiced Chocolate Chip Cookies With Raisins and Nuts
We are going camping next week. Not the “canoe and only what you can carry” type, but the full-on “glamping” version – complete with fridge, freezer, A/C and running water. My husband says it’s not real camping. I say it’s really the best camping for me and my sanity. What kind of treat to you take camping,…
Read MoreNo-Bake White Chocolate & Raspberry Cheesecake
This has been a hot, dry summer where I live, but the raspberries were abundant at the local pick-your-own farm. My son and I spent one very warm morning picking raspberries for jam. Besides ending up with a scratched arm (mental note: wear long sleeves!) I had enough left over after making the jam, to fill…
Read MoreChewy Ginger Zinger Cookies
Crackly, sugar-topped spicy ginger cookies. Since I was a kid, they have been my favourite cookie to dip into milk (sorry chocolate chip). My Dad used to buy the hard and very spicy “snap” version when I was younger. I guess that’s why I used to dip them – it softened them and made the spice bearable…
Read MoreRaisin Scones
Apparently I pronounce the word “scones” wrong. I grew up in the Canadian Prairies and have been informed by my dear husband that we prairie people pronounce some words differently than those “out east”, this being one of them. I say scONs while many here say scOHnes. Regardless of how you pronounce it, these are…
Read MoreSommer Kitchen Pudding Cake
I worked as a full-time waitress at a small, family-owned restaurant one year after high school to earn money for college. Mr. and Mrs. Penner (the owners) were the sweetest people and they put up with my many mistakes and steep learning curve when I started. I didn’t walk fast enough, I had a terrible…
Read MoreBack to the Basic Ingredients
I am a transplanted prairie girl who loves basic ingredients – flour, cocoa, chocolate chips, sugar, butter, cream, etc. If a recipe had exotic ingredients in it, chances are that we weren’t able to find them in my small town, so I have historically stuck with the basics. About nine years ago, however, I found…
Read MoreI Love Cookies! (and Chocolate Chip & Peanut Butter Cookies, too)
I have always enjoyed cookies – making them, eating them, sharing them. In my years of cookie baking I have collected a few treasures that I like to make over and over again because of their consistent ability to please the palate. My children also have a few favorite cookies that they like to sneak…
Read MoreWho is Sweetie?
If you are new here, you might wonder where the name “Sweetie Treats” originated from. Well, it all started some years ago when my two daughters were pre-schoolers. When asking them to do, or not do, something, I would call them “Sweetie” (I still do!). This eventually led to them playing their version of “house”,…
Read MoreBanana Bonuses
Do you ever go through a cycle of loving bananas, getting lots of them, and then discovering, after a few days, that you just don’t feel like eating them any more? My family will sometimes go on a streak of eating bananas every day for a full month, and then, without explanation, they just stop.…
Read MoreIced Sugar Cookies
My children are getting to the age where they can bake on their own. One of my daughters loves icing a lot so she decided to try making my favourite iced sugar cookie recipe because it had icing. The first time I helped her bake them she realized that she loved the raw dough just…
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