Tag Archives: baking


Add a Healthy, Tropical Twist to Your Cooking

Coconut Oil has Been Creating Quite the Stir Lately Continue reading

Chewy Toffee Bars

Ingredients: ¾ cup unsalted butter, plus extra for the pan 2 cups brown sugar 2 cups all-purpose flour 2 tsp baking powder Pinch of salt ¾ cup pecans, chopped 2 eggs 2 tsp vanilla 3 MACKINTOSH TOFFEE bars, smacked Method: … Continue reading

Chocolate Chip Cookies

What’s better than good old-fashioned ooey-gooey chocolate chip cookies? Continue reading

Chocolate Zucchini Bread

Can’t get em’ to eat their veggies? This easy to make Chocolate Zucchini Bread is not only chock full of goodness, but chock full of chocolate too! Continue reading

Comfort Food: Bake Something Delicious

Bake up some delicious, nutritious goodness for this November day with a recipe for Butternut Squash Maple Walnut Scones. #nomnomnom Continue reading

Goodness! Bake Something Nutritious and Delicious

  Here’s an easy weekend recipe that’s good in all the right ways. Enjoy! Butternut Squash Maple Walnut Scones Makes 12 Scones Dry Ingredients: 1½ cups whole wheat pastry flour ¾ cup rolled oats ¼ cup coconut sugar or brown … Continue reading

Halloween Treats: ScAERO Spider Brownie Pizza

Halloween + pizza = YUM, right? But what if you add spiders to the equation? EEK! Fear not, spunky parent. Your goblins and gobblers will love helping to make the “spiders” on this ScAERO Brownie Pizza. Ingredients: 12 (7.3 g) Nestlé ScAERO … Continue reading

Healthy Baking = Love from the Kitchen

Winter Snow Days and Valentines celebrations are the perfect occasions to bake something special and show our nearest and dearest we’re sweet on them. Who doesn’t love a treat that’s still warm from the oven? The delectable aroma in the … Continue reading

Healthy Holiday Desserts

  by Lauren Follett, BA, RHN, Registered Nutritionist At this time of year, desserts and sweets are everywhere: gingerbread, chocolate, shortbread, Nanaimo bars; they can be difficult to avoid or resist. These traditional desserts are typically high in refined sugar, white … Continue reading

Holiday Baking: Almond Biscotti

Tis the season to get your baking on. Whether you started your sugar cookies and Nanaimo bars back in October or you’re just now getting into the swing of seasonal traditions, this time in the kitchen can be a lot … Continue reading

Open Faced Cherry Tart

Making and baking a traditional pie crust is more challenging than this open-concept cherry tart pastry. The cornmeal adds an extra dimension to the crust, as do the almond-flavoured macaroon cookies. Continue reading

SweetCheeks’ Carrot Cupcakes with Lemony Frosting

This recipe from SweetCheeks Kitchen is gluten-free, dairy-free, Vegan and yummy! Cupcakes (makes 12) 1 ½ cups sugar ¾ cup oil 1 tsp vanilla 3 tbsp flax ½ cup non-dairy milk (soy or coconut work best) 2 ½ cups carrots, … Continue reading

YUM Files: Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

  It might be too early for holiday baking, but it’s a perfect day to slide a wholesome treat out of the oven. And your whole family will appreciate a batch of freshly baked cookies. Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies 1/2 … Continue reading