Classic Crumb Cake

This weekend I used another recipe from The Allergen-Free Baker's Handbook. It is described in the book as a classic coffee cake. You can also watch the author Cybele Pascal make this recipe in a Martha Stewart clip here on the author's website. This was another easy recipe! While it was baking Mr.K and my …

Donuts

After being back in Orlando last week and having more treats at the Babycakes Bakery I came home with a craving for some donuts! This past weekend I tried a recipe from the Babycakes Covers the Classics cookbook. I made the plain cake donuts, with cinnamon sugar sprinkled on top. They tasted pretty close to what you …

Blueberry Boy Bait

This past week I made this moist, buttery coffee cake with its crisp, cinnamon-sugar topping from The Allergen-Free Baker's Handbook. It's based on an old-fashioned recipe from the 1950s, called Blueberry Boy Bait, a coffee cake named for the effect it had on teenage boys. You can also find the recipe here on the author's website. It …

Mother's Day Cupcakes

Yummy vanilla bean cupcakes.

Birthday Time!

Over the weekend it was birthday time for my Dad and Mr. K's Dad. Their birthdays are one day apart, so we had both of our families over for cake. This year it was a white cake with a chocolate whipped filling, and buttercream icing, topped with writing in chocloate. Everyone seemed to like it!

Banana Pound Cake

Another copycat recipe from the Fast Food Fix book - Starbucks Banana Pound Cake. Whenever I make this Mr. K has to take an extra piece or two for his co-workers as they have become addicted to it as well!

Pumpkin Carrot Cake

More pumpkin! This time a mix with carrot. I used a recipe found on Kraft Canada, linked here. Very tasty, and everyone enjoyed it!

Pumpkin Pound Cake

I recently checked out a book at the library called, "Fast Food Fix", by Devin Alexander. In this cookbook are all kinds of restaurant favourites, but she makes a copycat version of them with half the fat & calories. I decided to give her version of Starbucks Pumpkin Banana Pound Cake a try since I …