Happy Easter, bakers! This week our assignment was to whip up some delicious toffee, which was fun for me as I like any excuse to use my candy thermometer. I first made toffee years ago using this recipe from Smitten Kitchen, and I was amazed at how easy (and dangerous) it was to essentially make......

I wanted to make my new co-workers a St. Patrick’s Day treat, and I knew right away that I would make these cupcakes. There are already a couple iterations of this Guiness chocolate cake with Baileys frosting in the archives; the first was a simple one layer cake, and the second was a super-hydrated bundt......

I consider myself to be a banana bread expert. No recipe in the world will ever live up to the banana bread my Mom made when I was growing up, which is perfect in every way. Since I already know I’ll never find a better recipe, I have a lot of fun trying BB variations......

I really haven’t been able to keep up with the Baked Sunday Mornings crew this year, which makes me quite sad. Now that things have settled down with my work life, hopefully I can get back on track. Plus I have a whole new group of recipe tasters/testers to impress! And here we have the......

I finally had a minute to get back into Baked Sunday Mornings this weekend, and what a perfect recipe to find on the schedule! I’ve made these Brewer’s Blondies before, and they are the epitome of Blondie perfection to me. They’re chewy, buttery and rich with perfect edges. The “Brewer’s” component comes into play because......

Yesterday was my niece’s 11th birthday, and her birthday request was a Reese’s Cake she saw online (shout out Lizzy T). I took that idea and ran with it, using inspiration from Yo’s Chocolate Peanut Butter Mega Cake to create this beauty. Here’s how I did it: Baked up the quickest and easiest Chocolate Cake recipe......

And now presenting my favourite baking project so far in 2018: Chocolate Babka! I know I’m not the only person who first learned about Babka from Seinfeld (“You can’t beat a babka!”), and was reintroduced to it when I started reading Smitten Kitchen ten years ago. It’s a yeasted bread with a rich chocolate filling that......

A few years ago, I was invited to a YEASTER party, and had such a good time that I knew one day I would steal this idea for a celebration of my own! I was sort of boycotting all Easter gatherings this year due to a stressful time in my work life, so the timing was......

Our assignment this week for Baked Sunday Mornings was a batch of Black Forest Cookies. The Baked Boys took the classic Black Forest flavours and turned them into a cookie with lots of chocolate, dried cherries and white chocolate chips. Personally, I’m anti-Black Forest everything, and you can read more on that here, from when we......

Yes, we all agree that Pumpkin Spice-flavoured things have jumped the shark, and everyone is over it. I propose that we now move on to Chai Spice in our baked goods! It’s still in the same cinnamon/ginger/nutmeg family, but with a few additions: cardamom, cloves, allspice and black pepper. I love drinking hot chai during the......