Butter Tarts

Buttery pastry gives way to sweet, just so slightly runny brown sugar filling full of tender raisins in this Canadian classic Butter Tart. I use premade tart shells when I am making butter tarts. I do have a beautiful pie crust recipe, you can check it out here, but it is a lot of work…

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Grapefruit Curd

This Grapefruit Curd features the best of the season. Citrus Season There is nothing better in your local produce section right now then the citrus fruit that is available. The selection of oranges is vast, from regular navals, mandarins, tangelos, to Seville and blood oranges you can’t go wrong. Though no matter how fabulous that…

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Gingerbread Whoopie Pies

These Gingerbread Whoopie Pie pair the classic flavour of gingerbread with a creamy vanilla buttercream filling. My love of gingerbread  Gingerbread, a flavour close to my heart. If you look up at the top of the page you will see a section titled Gingerbread Houses, after you’re done here jump over and take a look!…

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Cream Puffs

cream puffs

These easy to make Cream Puffs are easy to whip up and everyone will think you put in a ton of effort. Simply a pate a choux made with water, butter and flour, baked until crisp, filled and topped they are perfect bit sized or for a full-sized dessert. Cream Puffs Cream Puffs   Save…

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Scratch Pumpkin Pie

This inexpensive and easy to make Scratch Pumpkin Pie features the best of season and common pantry ingredients for a shop stopping dessert! I have always wanted to make a pumpkin pie from scratch so when I spotted the baby pie pumpkins at work I bought some immediately. It is almost as easy as opening…

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