Scones are the perfect weekend breakfast and it's probably one of the easiest things you can bake. By definition a scone is a quick bread, no yeast required, no rising, you just pretty much mix all the ingredients together. Scones are also very versatile. They can be made savory or sweet. I like them both ways but I do prefer a sweet scone. This is a simple recipe that uses fresh blueberries and chocolate c ...

Muffins are probably one of the first things I learned to make, but I still remember the days when I used to buy the muffin mix and use that to make muffins. Little did I know how easy the batter really is to make. I love to make all sort of muffins, but probably the most popular muffins I make are these banana nut muffins. For these muffins I wanted them to have a bigger top, so in order for this to happen ...

This was my first time making brioche bread. I've been wanting it to make for a long time, specifically Ina Garten's Brioche bread recipe from Barefoot in Paris: Easy French Food You Can Make at Home. I'm not one to be afraid of making any type of bread, I love it and enjoy it. But a brioche bread isn't just like any bread. Brioche is in fact a pastry, a french pastry. It is very high in butter and eggs and ...

I've finally made the perfect biscuit. I don't know what was in my head to make a mozzarella biscuit. Well I'll tell you what. Personally I like mozzarella cheese over cheddar cheese, and that's the only cheese I had. Usually I make these biscuits with buttermilk, but I didn't have any, so I used regular milk. I wasn't sure how these puppies were going to turn out, but I was going for a big and fluffy biscu ...

Have you ever watched the show "The Best Thing I Ever Made/Ate"? Well I love to watch that show. Most of the stuff on there looks fairly complicated, but Duff Goldman was on the show and he said the best thing he ever made and ate is his family's apple strudel. The reason this stood out to me is because I love apple strudels, and usually they're fairly easy to make. So, seeing as I'm not one to back down fr ...

Before you hate me for putting bacon on everything, hold on! These donuts are baked! So to me, that makes these donuts healthy. That's right! I'm really thinking that bacon need its own category on this blog. Bacon makes the world go round. :) I think this is what they refer to bacon mania! I am a bacon enthusiast! I am part of "Bacon Nation", I am a bacon freak. Whew, that makes me feel better! I think us ...

Yes, that's right, today's featured recipe is Monkey Brains. This delicious sweet bread, has many other names as well. Probably the most known is Monkey Bread. Other names it goes by is bubbleloaf, sticky bread, coffee cake, but my favorite name for this is Monkey Brains. Not to gross you out, but the name reminds me of the movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom when Indiana and the lounge singer are di ...

Honestly, how many recipes for jam filled buns can one person have. Well I love any type of jam filled buns, so I will try all sort of recipes, in search for the ONE. I love this type of sweet yeast dough. I like to fill them with different things, add raisins to them, or just plain. The possibilities are endless. In Romania, there are many such recipes and they are very popular. These buns are so tender an ...

It's been a gorgeous weekend here in Calgary, sunny and the temperature has been great. These are the days when I love being here. It actually feels like spring! I'm not fooling myself, I know more snow is to come, but for now I am happy. So to celebrate such a great weekend, I decided to make a scrumptious caramel pear pie. I've never made pear pie before, so I wasn't sure how it was going to end up, but i ...

Don't laugh at the name of this dessert! OK, you can laugh, it is funny. I have no idea why it's called sex in a pan, maybe because it's so good. I remember a long time ago, before I was married, and used to live on my own, one weekend my friend came over and she introduced me to this dessert. I had no idea what it was, but she promised me I was going to love it so we made it. Oh my God, it was unbelievable ...

This is a super easy recipe for a classic Margherita Pizza. My husband is a huge Pizza fan and as I've said before we make Pizza almost every weekend  at home. However, we wanted to try something that's a little bit healthier and this Margherita Pizza is just that. We've never had Margherita Pizza before but we're always on the lookout for new Pizza recipes. While we were on wikipedia researching the histor ...

If you've ever been to a Chinese bakery you have seen this type of meat buns among many other delicious goodies. These buns are also called pork buns, or Char Siu Bao which basically is a barbecued pork filled bun. They can be either steamed or baked as I chose to make mine. I have never tried the steamed ones, only baked, but I'm sure they are just as good. Char Siu refers to the pork filling and bao means ...

I love to bake breads, all kinds of breads. Recently we discovered a bakery close to our house that has a lot of great goodies. We bought this cranberry bread and it was good, but it was kind of lacking in cranberries. So I thought why not try and make one myself. Except I wanted to make it a bit more special and decided to add some cream cheese filling as well. You know until recently I was sort of afraid ...

This week I am in Dallas, Texas for some training. Now let me tell you my luck. I was so excited to come to Dallas, primarily to get some warm weather in February, but with my luck, the pilot informed us that the weather in Dallas was actually colder than it was in Calgary. I mean how could this happen to me. Everyone I've talked to here say they hardly ever get snow, and the day I arrive in Dallas it snows ...

I've probably impressed you by now with my baking skills, if not please let me believe I have. Ignorance is bliss after all. :) But if I haven't, I will impress you with this cake. So it's not one of those gloriously decorated cakes that took hours to put together, but for me taste always comes first and this cake definitely has that. This cake was so good it should be banned, notice I said was, as in the p ...