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Recent Posts Tagged With 'individual dessert'

Aug 14

Flourless Chocolate Cakes with Chocolate Glaze & Sugared Berries

Hope everyone is enjoying the weekend and the beautiful weather.  I can’t believe summer is almost coming to an end and the kids will be back to school soon.  The winter months always seem to drag on yet summer seems to just fly by. I mentio (read full article)

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Aug 04

Blackberry-Almond Shortbread Squares

I really need to start exercising some restraint at the farmer’s market.  If you could only see my fridge during the summer months.  I have bowls and bowls of juicy berries and fresh fruit of all kinds.  I always way over buy.  The three of (read full article)

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Aug 02

Chocolate Mud Cake, Dark Chocolate Ganache and Sweet Glazed Cherries

I was entertaining over the weekend and wanted to make an extra special chocolate dessert, something simple yet luxurious.  Donna Hay’s Chocolate Mud Cake with Dark Chocolate Ganache would be perfect.  When I was flipping through Donna’ (read full article)

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Jul 21

Oreo Cookies and Cream Cheesecakes

I have yet to meet a person who doesn’t like Oreo cookies.  Who could resist cream-filled, chocolate sandwich cookies?  Not Me!  Especially the double-stuffed Oreo cookie, it’s one of the best cookies for dunking into a cold glass of m (read full article)

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Jul 14

Lemon Curd Meringue Nests

I can’t believe it is Wednesday already, this week is flying by.  I’ve held off posting because my site was to have been transferred to a new hosting company on Monday, then it was changed to Tuesday and now it looks like the magic day i (read full article)

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Jul 06

Chocolate Salted-Caramel Cakes & Mini Cupcakes

What a frustrating weekend with a few lessons learned.  Most important lesson; never make a change to your website minutes before your web developer is closed for the long weekend, if something is going to go wrong that’s usually when it happe (read full article)

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Jun 25

Blueberry Cheesecake Pots

Two posts in one day (One-Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes with Creamy Peanut Butter Frosting), I know, pretty silly, but I couldn’t help but share this recipe for Blueberry Cheesecake Pots that I just made.  It took me all of about 20 minutes to make (read full article)

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Jun 25

One-Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes with Creamy Peanut Butter Frosting

For the last few weeks I’ve found myself thinking back to my years in elementary school, not really sure why.  It could be Marly’s series, Real People, Real Names. Marly’s had me thinking about my proper name, the name my parents c (read full article)

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Jun 18

Chocolate Custard Tartlettes

It’s been a very quiet week, not much happening on the home front.  In fact a new friend, Marly, mentioned I was probably feeling a bit of after party sadness now that my niece V’s bridal shower has come and gone, I believe she is right (read full article)

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Jun 11

Mango & Lemon Syllabub – Quick & Refreshing Dessert

A couple of weeks ago I reached out to my Facebook visitors and asked them what type of dessert they would like to see in one of my upcoming posts.  It was a little surprising that most were looking for either a dessert with mangoes or one with bana (read full article)

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Jun 04

Chocolate Explosion – Chocolate Hazelnut Tart

Last fall, Liana and I attended Jamie Oliver’s talk  in Toronto, on the Food Revolution.  Jamie also engaged in a question and answer period after his talk.  He had us laughing one minute and then in the next minute he had the audience analy (read full article)

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May 28

Lemon Tassies – Mini Dessert – One-Bite Delight

What a week, I am so happy it’s coming to an end.   I’ve had a difficult week, I needed something to get my mind off the elephant in the room,  I decided to get myself back in the kitchen doing something I love, baking.  It’s not (read full article)

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May 20

Warm Strawberry Cake, Baked In A Teacup & Hazelnut-Orange Rochers

Liana and I had an amazing time at the Xavier Rudd concert last night.  Xavier had the entire audience up, dancing and singing.  The light show was amazing.  He wowed us with his talent for playing various musical instruments (didgeridoos, guitars (read full article)

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