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Cardamom Macarons With Blueberries And Cream Cheese

Try this recipe for Cardamom Macarons With Blueberries And Cream Cheese from the cookbook Bakeland. The bright color of the blue anemone, common in Norway in the spring, is a lovely sight on the otherwise brown forest floor. The petals are usually royal blue or purple, in stark contrast to the…

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Caramelized Plums With Yogurt, Honey And Gingerbread

Food entrepreneur Devin Connell, co-owner of Delica Kitchen and and founder of the new website Crumb, shares her recipe for Caramelized Plums With Yogurt, Honey And Gingerbread.

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Ask A Chef: Sticky Pear Pudding

Chef Jay Nutt of Mount Julian restaurant shares his recipe for Sticky Pear Pudding. Q: I recently stayed at the Viamede Resort in Woodview, Ontario, and fell in love with the food at Mount Julian restaurant. Our meal was finished off with a mouthwatering sticky pear pudding. If I could make that…

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Ottolenghi’s Mont Blanc Tarts

Try this recipe for Mont Blanc tarts from chefs Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh’s cookbook Sweet: Desserts From London’s Ottolenghi. Named after the snowy mountain they resemble, Mont Blanc tarts — with their white meringue, whipped cream and tan-colored chestnut purée can often taste more fabulous than they look, with all…

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Ottolenghi’s Chocolate, Banana And Pecan Cookies

Try this recipe for Chocolate, Banana And Pecan Cookies from chefs Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh’s cookbook Sweet: Desserts from London’s Ottolenghi. The secret here is to slightly underbake the cookies, which keeps them soft and fudgy. It’s for this reason that they’ve never become a feature in the shops, particularly in the…

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Ottolenghi’s Cinnamon Pavlova, Praline Cream And Fresh Figs

Try this recipe for a Cinnamon Pavlova, Praline Cream and Fresh Figs from chefs Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh’s cookbook Sweet: Desserts From London’s Ottolenghi. This is a stunning dessert for a special occasion. It also has a nice element of surprise, as the meringue base is not quite what you might expect: gooey…

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Lynn Crawford’s Harvest Apple Pie

Try this recipe for Harvest Apple Pie from celebrity chef Lynn Crawford’s cookbook Farm To Chef: Cooking Through The Seasons. I love pie. A good apple pie stuffed with just-picked apples tossed with cinnamon, nutmeg and sugar nestled in a buttery crust . . . oh yes, that’s what I’m talking about.

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Blueberry Pie French Toast Muffins

Try this recipe for Blueberry Pie French Toast Muffins from The School Year Survival Cookbook, written by Laura Keogh and Ceri Marsh of The Sweet Potato Chronicles.

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Mom’s Mud Pie

Try this recipe from chef and restaurateur Colin Tooke of Toronto hot spots Grand Electric and Electric Mud BBQ. “The most brainless dessert ever. My mom made this creamy mocha pie on our birthdays. Everyone loves it. Don’t bother with fancy ice cream, because all you taste is…

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David Rocco’s No-Bake Cheesecake

Aside from the cookies, this lush, simple cheesecake contains no extra sugar. The ricotta is the star of the cheesecake — use the best and freshest you can find.

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How To Make Canada’s Best Butter Tarts

Food editor Kristen Eppich shares a recipe for the best butter tarts in Canada, from 13th Street Bakery, and three scrumptious variations. Perhaps the most hotly debated dessert in the country, the butter tart was created during pioneer times when ingredients were sparse. Whether it’s at Marty’s World Famous Cafe in…

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Tarte Au Sucre (Sugar Pie)

Try this recipe for Tarte au Sucre from the cookbook Feast: Recipes & Stories From A Canadian Road Trip. Pâtisserie Rhubarbe is a pretty little shop in Montreal with cakes, tarts, pastries, and house-made popsicles sold from a window during the summer. They also do a big, pecan-rich…

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13th Street Bakery Butter Tarts

Food editor Kristen Eppich hails these butter tarts from 13th Street Bakery in St. Catharines the best ones in Canada. “The pastry is delicate yet sturdy, and the filling is just gooey enough. What’s the trick? The tarts are baked in silicone muffin cups. Anything that bubbles over forms a sugary crunch,…

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How To Make A Carrera Marble-Inspired Cake

If you follow House & Home on Instagram, you know that we recently reached 200 thousand followers on the social media channel! To celebrate, we got a Carrera marble-inspired cake from Toronto bakery Le Dolci, and we’re sharing the tutorial on how you can…

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Mimi Thorisson’s Salted Butter Chocolate Cake

Try this recipe for Salted Butter Chocolate Cake from French food blogger Mimi Thorisson’s cookbook, French Country Cooking: Meals And Moments From A Village In The Vineyards.