I’ve never been a fan of macaroons, those dry and crumbly egg white confections. And I always found that coconut got stuck in my teeth. These macaroons, on the other hand, are chewy and dense and full of coconut flavour while the oats give more structure to the cookies. The sweetened condensed milk make the […]
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Dark Chocolate Cookies with White Chocolate Chips
These dark chocolate cookies with white chocolate chips are crisp around the edges but delightfully chewy in the middle. The cookies are so dark because of the significant amount of cocoa powder added. The white chocolate chips added a nice contrast to the black cookie dough. And Ryan and I threw in some butterscotch chips as […]
Matcha Cupcakes with Matcha Frosting
Now that it is dark and cold, I feel like baking all the time. Bread, muffins, cookies, cakes…and cupcakes. Matcha is a fine grade of powdered green tea, and here Ryan and I incorporated a few tablespoons of precious matcha into rich cupcakes. To increase the matcha intensity, we also added a tablespoon of matcha to […]
The Year in Books: December with I Love Macarons by Hisako Ogita
In December,I am more closely looking at I Love Macarons by Hisako Ogita. I first read about macarons when I was devouring food blogs back in university, around 2006/2007. They seemed to be a mysterious, legendary delicacy that I had no hopes of finding in the small university town of Guelph. Fast forward to today, you […]
Matcha Swiss Roll Birthday Cake
I have been baking my own birthday cakes since I was about 13 years old, and in the past several years I have insisted on making birthday cakes for my family too. This year I made Tomiko a White Chocolate Raspberry Layer Cake and I made our brother Karlos a Chocolate Turtle Layer Cake, and I […]