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Prior to last month, I had spent exactly zero minutes of my life thinking about date cake, craving date cake or noting the absence of date cake in...
There are kitchen discoveries that lead to nothing but trouble. The first time I caramelized sugar, I knew I was ruined. Why would anyone want to eat drab white sugar if they could eat it cooked to a 100x as delicious toasty amber syrup? The first time I tried browned butter, I went on a...
Cranberries are, for me, one of the best things about late fall and they show up right in time, just as all of the other colors disappear. The ginkgo trees, always one of the last November holdouts, simultaneously ejected their green/yellow leaves last week and ever since, pretty much everything...
Given that finishing off the month November without a single slice of pumpkin pie is, for me, practically a crime against the season, it’s rather sad that this 8-plus year old site has only a single iteration of it, that it’s from 6 years ago, and not even the one I make on an annual basis. The...
I have a complicated relationship with sweet potatoes. I think they’re one of these wonder vegetables — impossible to mess up cooking, pretty consistently delicious whether you buy them freshly-dug from the farmers market or from a grocery chain, aglow with vitamins A and C and chock full of...
Photo © Con Poulos
By Sarah DiGregorio
Using old-fashioned, less-refined sweeteners, baker Cheryl Day adds flavor complexity to a Thanksgiving classic.
Of the three essential Thanksgiving pies—pumpkin, apple and pecan—pecan is the most polarizing. Some people look forward to it all year, while...
Photo: Lyndsay Sung
It’s hard not to love adorable blog Coco Cake Land. Its author is Vancouver-based mother and self-taught baker Lyndsay Sung, who also takes all of its photographs.
If you live in Vancouver, you can special-order Sung’s cakes. Lucky. If you don’t, you can follow...
Ingredients
350g brown sugar
1 vanilla bean, split, seeds scraped
5 pears, peeled, cut into 2cm slices
60ml dessert wine
1 orange, rind thinly peeled and juiced
1/2 lemon, rind thinly peeled and juiced
4 eggs
200g butter, melted and cooled
260g plain flour
1 tsp baking...
Ingredients
125ml extra virgin olive oil
2 large brown onions, chopped
200g minced beef
4 garlic cloves, finely chopped
1 tsp smoked paprika
1 tsp ground cumin
1/2 tsp chilli powder
1/4 bunch oregano leaves, chopped
sea salt and freshly ground pepper
1/2 bunch flat-leaf parsley...
Ingredients
600g carrots, peeled and diced
125g sugar
300ml thickened cream
100ml orange juice
Method
1. Cook the carrots in a pot of simmering water until tender (about 20 minutes), then drain and leave to cool. Heat the sugar and 300 millilitres of water in a small pan while...
Ingredients
Scones
300ml milk, plus extra to brush the scones
2 pinches saffron
150ml cream
2 tsp baking powder
450g plain flour, plus extra
50g butter, chilled and diced
½ tsp salt, plus extra
Marmalade
3 lemons
200ml lemon juice (about 3 large lemons)
400g castor...
Cake for breakfast? Don't mind if I do.
There's no coffee in coffee cake...it's meant to GO WITH coffee. (Apparently, there is an internet controversy about this.) You know, I might just start slipping the word "coffee" into every cake title to make cake for breakfast more...