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Last week I wrote about the joy of having 2 dozen pounds of unsalted butter neatly stacked in my freezer. However, this happiness is easily usurped by seeing 7 varieties of holiday treats (cookies, bark, brittle) neatly packaged and ready for giving. The sight of this never fails to fill me with delight and serenity. [...]

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      Apparently, this year in desserts, cupcakes are out and macarons are in. Macarons, not to be confused with macaroons, are the new darling of the pastry world. These are French macarons we are talking about here (one o), made with ground almonds, not American macaroons (two oo’s), and made with coconut. Essentially [...]

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A few weeks ago, my daughter sent me a BBM from her dorm room at College, asking me to please buy a bag of Oreo cookies for when she came home for the long holiday weekend. Huh???  Usually she asks me to bake some decadent cookie, so the store-bought request was odd. When I asked [...]

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  If you have been following along for the last few days you will know that I am struggling to come up with dried fruit desserts for my cooking class on Tu B’Shvat desserts.  Dried fruit desserts are not something I am well versed in.  I think I met the challenge quite well with Tu B’Shvat [...]

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  In my continuing quest to uncover dried fruit and nut desserts for my Tu B’Shvat cooking class, I uncovered this little gem.  These adorable little cookies are called “Meneinas” (pronounced Meh-NAY-nas) and they may be singly responsible for making me reverse my former position on not liking dried fruit desserts.  I feel like Sam [...]

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Day 8: Packaging

On the eighth day of holiday baking, my true love threatened to leave me if I didn’t stop tempting him with cookies everyday.  Good thing my baking was all done.  Now for the fun part, packaging and labelling.  I am always on the lookout for interesting containers to pack up the treats in.  I found [...]

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  On the seventh day of  holiday baking , my true love brought to me: a heating pad and thermometer. No, I’m not sick with fever and chills.  Those are just some essential tools to temper chocolate.  The recipe for these cookies comes from the December 2008 issue of Martha Stewart Living.  I dreamed about these [...]

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On the sixth day of holiday baking, my true love brought to me a microplaner to zest lemons.  These lemon coconut cookies may look Plain Jane,  but once you bite into one you will realize they are anything but.  They have a complex depth of flavour.  So tender, they just melt in your mouth.  Betcha [...]

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  It seems like only yesterday I was going on about how wonderful it is when a product delivers as promised.  Oh wait, it was yesterday.  Yes people, my wonderful new beater blade has bit the dust.  Serves me right for bragging about it.  On the 10th batch of the Toblerone shortbread I was making, [...]

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On Day two of my holiday baking adventure, I made Toblerone Shortbread.  I got the idea for these cookies from  pastry chef Anna Olson.  She was preparing them on Cityline TV.  She made a basic shortbread and topped each one with a chunk of Toblerone.  I decided to kick it up a notch and mix [...]

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