Coffee-Time Treats
Chewy 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 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 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…
Read MoreNever Fail Brownies
This old recipe that I found when I was in high school has become a family favourite. It was nestled in the middle of a purple, yellow and white Kinette Cookbook from the 70’s. By the time I moved away from home, the recipe page had become yellowed with use, splotched with butter and sugar…
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