Butterkuchen was a specialty of our Oma’s, and she would make it for special occasions or just Kaffee and Kuchen – the German version of teatime. Oddly enough, it took ages for me to actually get the written recipe (maybe because I needed the translation?). This recipe is mostly by touch and feel. The dough should […]
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Tea Cakes and Honey Butter
These hot, yeasted tea cakes are perfectly matched to luscious honey butter. Eating them makes me feel like a pioneer woman or something! This recipe uses a yeasted batter, but it only needs to rise for one hour. You can easily whip up these tea cakes and have them ready at teatime; just serve them instead of […]
Cthulhu Bumbleberry Pie
Ontario strawberries are now in season, and since Ryan has been wanting to make his own pie for quite a while now, he made this Cthulhu bumbleberry pie over the weekend. Somehow he had found the Cthulhu Pie by Sandy Yoo, and of course he had to recreate it. The pie crust was a pâte […]
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
This is my go-to oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipe. It’s simple but delicious! I always use quick oats for baking these cookies since they are more easily incorporated into the dough than large flake oats. This recipe is also very easily doubled if you are making cookies for a larger crowd. You can also use […]
Mint Iced Tea with Pansies
When Meinhilde and I were nine and ten years old respectively, we moved to Saudi Arabia. Riyadh, our new home in the middle of the desert, had two temperatures: hot and hotter. As a couple of Canadian kids, we weren’t accustomed to hydrating ourselves very often. In Saudi we learned to drink a ton of water. […]