Soft and chewy Funfetti Cookies are filled with creamy white chocolate chips and crunchy, colourful sprinkles. I like to use rainbow jimmies — but you can use any colour sprinkles you like. You can press a few extra sprinkles into the tops of the unbaked cookies for an extra pop of colour. Ingredients: 3/4 cup…
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Mom, writer, lover of all things chocolate
Lemon Ricotta Cake
This traditional rustic Italian cake can be whipped up easily with pantry ingredients and little fuss. The ricotta in this recipe creates a tender, hearty crumb while the lemon adds brightness and flavour. I like to dust the cake with powdered sugar before serving — but it’s just as delicious without it. Ingredients: 1 1/2…
Chocolate Sheet Cake
Sheet cakes are awesome because they are so easy to make and they don’t require any fancy gadgets or skills. This Chocolate Sheet Cake is moist and rich and topped with a light and fluffy chocolate frosting. It’s the easiest cake you’ll ever make! Ingredients: 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour 2/3 cup cocoa powder 1…
Lime, Coconut & White Chocolate Chip Cookies
These thick and chewy cookies are a luscious combination of zesty lime, tropical coconut and creamy white chocolate. The additional egg yolk in the batter makes for an extra rich cookie. I like to sprinkle a little shredded coconut and lime zest onto these cookies once they come out of the oven for an…
Carrot Sheet Cake
I love sheets cakes because they’re so versatile and uncomplicated to make — there’s no messy cake layers to stack or fancy frosting techniques. This carrot sheet cake is very moist, loaded with sweet carrots and spiced with cinnamon. I like to top it all off with a vanilla cream cheese frosting. You can also…
Sweet Italian Taralli
These crunchy, not-too-sweet cookies are made with white wine and a splash of anise-flavoured liqueur. They may seem quite simple and homely, but they’re actually highly addictive — it’s impossible to eat just one! I’ve attempted to make these taralli many times over the years, with limited success. After trying countless versions of this recipe…
Crispy Oatmeal Cookies
If you like cookies with crispy edges and a chewy centre, these are the cookies for you. The oatmeal in this recipe is ground to a fine powder before being added into the dough, giving these cookies a lot of texture without being too hard and crumbly. You can customize this recipe by using any…
Chocolate Bundt Cake
Nothing makes me happier than a dessert recipe that’s simple, requires few dishes and gadgets to make, and involves chocolate. This rich one-bowl chocolate cake has become my go-to recipe when company’s coming or if I just need chocolate cake in a hurry. I like to drizzle a decadent chocolate ganache over this cake once…
Lemon Poppyseed Bundt Cake
When it’s the dead of winter in our neck of the woods, tropical citrus fruit season is at its peak. That makes this the perfect time to bake with the sunny flavours of lemons, limes and oranges. My Lemon Poppyseed Bundt cake is super light and tender, thanks to the addition of tangy buttermilk. Laced…
Soft Sugar Cookies
These soft, pillowy sugar cookies topped with royal icing and sprinkles are a festive holiday treat. My kids love to slather copious amounts of royal icing and sprinkles on these and leave them out for Santa and his reindeer. I think Saint Nick and his team really like these cookies because they always eat the…
Gingerbread Loaf
Sometimes I feel like I’m the only person in the world who actually likes gingerbread. I also genuinely love fruit cake… What’s not to like about the comforting combination of warm molasses, sweet cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and spicy ginger? It just screams Christmas to me. The scent of this bread baking makes the entire house…
Cranberry Trifle
This cranberry trifle is a show-stopper and made the December 2017 cover of Panoram Italia magazine. It’s a riff off a recipe I found in a grocery-store calendar from 1989 my mother had hidden in the bottom of a kitchen drawer. That recipe called for store-bought pound cake and vanilla pudding, which I have replaced…
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