Summer Fun Fridays: National S’mores Day with Hershey’s & Camp Bondfire

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Happy National S’mores Day!  The first recipe for S’mores was published in a Girl Scout guide book back in 1927.  Since then, it has become a summer and camping favourite and has been adapted into many other products and recipes.  There are s’mores granola bars, s’mores ice cream, s’mores cookies, and so much more! Recently [...]

Pumpkin Week!: Cranberry Pumpkin Cheesecake

  Ingredients: 16 oz. softened cream cheese 1/2 cup sugar 1 tsp. vanilla 2 eggs 1 – 15 oz. can pumpkin 1 tsp. cinnamon 1/2 tsp. each nutmeg, ground ginger, ground cloves pinch of salt a 9 inch graham cracker or chocolate crumb crust 1 cup cranberry sauce Instructions:  In a large bowl, mix together [...]

Pumpkin Week!: Pumpkin Brulee

Ingredients: 4 cups heavy cream 2 tsp. vanilla extract 16 egg yolks (you wanna make brulee, you gotta crack a lotta eggs!) ¼ cup brown sugar ¾ cup white sugar 1 tsp. ground cinnamon ¼ tsp. salt ¼ tsp. ground ginger 1/8 tsp. ground cloves 1 cup canned pumpkin puree ¼ cup white sugar Instructions:  [...]

Tasty Tuesday: Easy Pumpkin Swirl

Easy and Delicious Pumpkin Swirl I posted this two years ago but it’s such a delicious recipe and my all time favourite pumpkin recipe in fact, that I thought I’d share it again.  This pumpkin loaf, similar to a jelly roll, is my most requested recipe.  Every fall I get calls from each school/office I [...]

Pumpkin Week!

My daughter’s first Hallowe’en, age 4 months Pumpkins are pretty popular this time of year so I thought a “pumpkin week” would be appropriate.  I suppose I should begin this post with a confession – I hate pumpkin pie.  I have this thing about texture, you know?  Love the taste of bananas, can’t eat fresh [...]

Tasty Tuesday: Thanksgiving Favourites: Maple and Cheddar Apple Pie

All this week in honour of Canadian Thanksgiving, I’m sharing some of our favourite Thanksgiving recipes here.  This recipe is adapted from the October 1 issue of Family Circle magazine.  It was our dessert for Thanksgiving dinner.  Our usual favourite apple pie is my apple cream pie and prior to this, I’ve never been able [...]

Irish Soda Bread Cookies

Here’s the final recipe from last night’s In the Kitchen with Cyn.  This is basically the same recipe as used for Irish Soda Bread, a staple of St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, but made into cookie form instead.  They are slightly sweet cookies, with a bit of a biscuit like texture to them.  Here’s the playback [...]

Red Velvet Pancakes

(Not a great picture….it was really late last night and I was super tired when I took it so I’ll take another for you!  It looks a bit dark but that’s from the cocoa in the mix) Last night was the first In the Kitchen with Cyn Live Interactive Webtv show.  I was super nervous [...]

Candy Canes!: Updated

Update:  YIKES!  I forgot a recipe when I first typed this up!  Scroll down for Candy Cane Fudge. The Legend of the Candy Cane It is said that the candy cane is symbolic of Jesus.  Red is for the blood that Jesus shed when He died on the cross.  White is for His purity.  It’s [...]