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Delicious Red Velvet Swig Cookies Recipe
Red Velvet Swig Cookies are so very good. You will want to bake these right away. But to be clear, you are going to need to read through to the very end to get the scoop on the yummiest Red Velvet Swig Cookies recipe around. If you are a cookie fanatic, as I am, then these are going to make your day! Red velvet cakes and baked goods are incredibly popular. The red velvet base adds a depth to any baked goods or cookie recipes you have. But it’s challenging sometimes to find that perfect flavour combination. We happen to think these easy swig cookies are exactly what…
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15 Outstanding Homemade Butter Tart Recipes
The number of butter tart recipes in Canada could fill a book on its own. I mean is there anything more Canadian than Butter Tarts? Every single Canadian Mom or Grandma has butter tart recipes to boast about. In fact butter tarts are one of my favourite desserts. They are even yummier than my second favourite – lemon tarts and desserts. So let’s talk butter tart recipes. Butter Tart recipes are generally pretty simple to find and if you start to ask around you will see that everybody has an opinion on what kind they love. Soupy, liquid, buttery gooey butter tart recipes are my personal favourite. I am definitely…
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Twenty Sweet Easter Treats to Enjoy!
It’s finally spring! That makes me happy for a few reasons. I mean I love that it’s that much closer to summer and summer is my favourite of all the seasons. But winter is a close second actually ever since we started skiing. So, when the skis go away and the snow disappears I need some Easter treats to look forward to. My Twenty Favourite Sweet Easter Treats Grandbaby Cakes – Carrot Cake Pound Cake Family Food and Travel – Easy Easter Cupcakes Food n Service – Easter Sugar Cookies with Jellybeans Cincy Shopper – Easter Pretzel Chicks The MondayBox – Sheep Cookies Sugar Spice and Family Life – Bird…
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Traditional Peppermint Hot Cocoa Cookies
These Traditional Peppermint Hot Cocoa Cookies combine some really great and comforting flavours. There’s nothing better than the taste of peppermint during the holidays. It’s one of those tastes you either love or hate, I think. My kids for the longest time would say it’s too spicy, or too hot if I ever gave them peppermint. To this day only one has warmed to the notion of minty tastes and foods and baked goods. Did you know that peppermint actually dates back to the Egyptians? It’s true. In fact, peppermint was found dried in Egyptian pyramids as early as 1000 BC. Peppermint was then brought here and grows wild. There…
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25 Creative Halloween Cupcakes
Creative Halloween cupcakes are fun for all ages. If your child’s school still has Halloween parties, or if your tween/teen gets invited to a seasonal dress-up party, then you know you need to have something cute to make and take. Well, hold the presses because I have a great collection of some of the cutest Halloween cupcakes around. From creepy brains and standard Halloween spiders to cute owl cupcakes, there’s a little of everything here. Maleficent cupcakes with horns are crazy fun. Here’s some of my favourite picks for cute treats this Halloween. Creative Halloween Cupcakes are always a huge hit and Halloween is the perfect time to bring out…
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Pumpkin Treats Almost Too Good To Share
I was an adult before I grew into my love for all things pumpkin. As a kid, pumpkin never appealed to me as a food, or a flavour. It was fun to carve and sometimes a treat to make pumpkin crafts, but I would never have eaten pumpkin treats. Adulthood has some benefits and thankfully tastebuds mature sometimes. Even if you all like different things in your family, that’s okay, because some things are too good to be shared – like these pumpkin treats This roundup of beautiful pumpkin treats knocks my socks off. I probably wouldn’t have thought to put together Cranberries and Pumpkin. But these cranberry pumpkin muffins…
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30 Delicious Pumpkin Recipes
It’s that pumpkin spice time of year. Now admittedly I am a summer girl and find little that is redeeming about the changing seasons. But for pumpkin and squash. These delicious pumpkin recipes will remind you of home and make everyone feel like Fall is the best season of all. I have a few solid performers that the entire family loves here when it comes to pumpkin. Pumpkin cookies are so good and pumpkin soups make for some of the best pumpkin recipes you could ever imagine. Pumpkin cheesecake too! That’s one of my favourite kinds of cheesecake – the perfect flavour combination. As for these little gems though, pumpkin…
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A New Twist on Traditional S’Mores Treats
S’Mores Treats are the ultimate summer indulgence. Perfect for a campfire and equally memorable just for a night at home after a day spent enjoying summer vacation. They are synonymous with camping too, aren’t they? So simple to make and so good after a day spent outdoors hiking, fishing, swimming or relaxing at the beach. One year I visited Daytona Beach for a media trip and the resort I stayed in with a bunch of other travel writers offered a s’mores kit for every visitor. LOVED that. Traditional S’Mores are so easy to make and great to share with friends and family. These are not your traditional S’Mores treats, but many…
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Picture Perfect GT Vanilla Cupcakes
I love vanilla. Vanilla ice cream, frozen yogurt and regular yogurt and vanilla cupcakes too. There’s a very comforting taste about vanilla. Even the smell is calming and centering. So I hope you find these GT Vanilla Cupcakes taste as good as they look. MAKE THESE Georgetown Vanilla Cupcakes Now Here are the directions to make these gorgeous treats. Trust me, these are perfect for a party and I think they’d be the sweetest treats imaginable for a baby shower or a baby’s first birthday kind of affair. Of course, these GT Vanilla cupcakes are a massive hit even if you simply want to make dessert tonight and impress your…
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Celebrate With Candy Bubble Gum Freak Shakes
By now you’ve heard of freak shakes. A glorious excessive sweet celebratory shake that just screams summer. I’ll be honest I think I could manage about one of these a year at best. But it would be worth it. This candy bubble gum shake is the perfect way to kick summer holidays off this year. I plan to make a bubble gum crazy shake for the last day of school with my kids. Crazy shakes, or freak shakes, are a huge craze right now. And there are as many different shakes as there are candies out there. So really, you could make these with whatever you have on hand at home, or…