Applesauce Cake with Caramel Icing

Applesauce Cake with Caramel Icing

This applesauce cake is studded with walnuts and raisins and topped with an easy caramel icing. It’s a perfect autumn dessert, but Toronto is still cold and snowy and grey, so it still feels like November! The applesauce cake also perfectly showcases my favourite caramel icing. Most caramel icing recipes I’ve seen call for a […]

Buttery Scones

Buttery Scones

We only grew up eating scones because I had read about them and wanted to make them! Our mom is German and didn’t grow up eating these either. I was confused as to why some recipes referred to these as ‘scones,’ and others as ‘biscuits,’ when they seemed to be the same. We also didn’t […]

Samosa Chaat

Samosa Chaat

I love samosa chaat! We made this samosa chaat recently when Tomiko bought 100 samosas from Samosa King. If I were to make them myself, I wouldn’t want to waste them by chopping them up. However, if you ever find yourself with a glut of samosas, this is the perfect way to use them up! […]

Black Chocolate Bundt Cake

Black Chocolate Bundt Cake

This black chocolate bundt cake uses black cocoa powder in the cake and the glaze, so it turns out black as night! Black cocoa powder is the intensely dark cocoa powder that is used to make Oreos. It has become more common recently; I get mine from Bulk Barn. This cake is really easy to […]

Crispy Honey Mustard Roast Duck

Crispy Honey Mustard Roast Duck

This honey mustard roast duck is a recipe from my German aunt. Roast duck is a common dish served at Christmastime in Germany, and aunt’s mother, Oma Ella, would raise ducks herself. If serving a meal for a larger group, then they would roast a goose. Roasting the duck at a low temperature helps keep […]