Desserts & Baked Goods
Banana Walnut Crunch Doughnuts
“Baked doughnuts are a super quick alternative to fried ones. They come together with just a whisk and are ready in a snap. This is a perfect recipe if you are trying to find a way to use that ripe banana in your freezer and are sick of making banana…
Whipped Shortbread Thumbprints
“I bring my grandmothers’ old recipes up a lot because they are so important to me, almost like being able to ask them questions about baking from beyond the grave. When I somehow misplaced my maternal grandmother’s handwritten whipped shortbread recipe I was totally devastated. I looked everywhere to no…
Apple Cannoli
“We love this classic Italian dessert because you can truthfully fill the shells with whatever is in season! They’re a flaky pastry vessel for anything sweet and delicious. We initially brought this on the menu and filled it with a vanilla aquafaba, then changed it to this Apple Butter for…
Easy Filled Coiled Pastry
Lesna banitsa so sirenje “I developed this recipe because, as much as I love the process of making Bourek or Banitsa, it is a labor of love and I don’t always have the time. I experimented with rolling out store-bought puff pastry dough very thinly with flour, and the result…
Nutty Chocolate Chip Cookies
“This is the cookie that put Maman on the culinary map! We’ve shipped thousands across the country for weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, and — our favourite — “just because I love you” gifts. Gooey on the inside, crisp on the outside, salty, crunchy, and sweet, these cookies even earned a spot…
Apricot Raisin Cake
“In many communities in Newfoundland, it’s a long-standing tradition to include a blank recipe card with a bridal shower invitation so that the bride-to-be has a collection of tried-and-true recipes to use during her married life,” says Marsha Tulk, one of the authors of 2022 Shortlisted Cookbook, Food, Culture, Place:…
Empire Cookies with Gin Glaze
“The Empire cookie goes by many names—Belgian biscuit, biscuit bun, German biscuit, double biscuit—and is apparently related to the Linzertorte, which I suppose it must be, in as much as any jam-filled pastry is,” says Camilla Wynne, author of 2022 Shortlisted cookbook, Jam Bake: Inspired Recipes for Creating and Baking…
Baileys Pecan Butter Tarts
“Butter tarts, a Canadian classic, are the subject of much debate: to add or not to add raisins. If you are among the roughly 10% who insist they must have raisins in them, I am sorry, but I am just not a fan of raisins in desserts,” says Jenell Parsons,…
Easy Pecan Pie Bars
“These gooey Easy Pecan Pie Bars are …full of decadence,” says Julie Albert and Lisa Gnat, authors of The Bite Me Balance Cookbook. “They’re like handheld tasty treaties, smoothing the way with their thick layer of caramelized pecan pie filling sitting atop a buttery shortbread crust. The laid-back cousin to…