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Chocolate Mini Egg Scones

We love a scone, and if we had our way, every gathering would feature one!

Good Luck Irish Cookies

To top off a St. Patrick's Day meal, Connie bakes these appropriately Irish cookies. "But they taste good anytime," she...


Pistachio Cookies

"This wonderful pistachio cookie recipe is fun to make and everyone will be impressed with how pretty the green colouring...


Chocolate Quick Bread

"My husband and I both enjoy cooking, but the baking is left to me. Our sons loved this chocolatey quick...


Easy Gingerbread Cookies

This dough for these easy gingerbread cookies is perfect for creating people, animals, or just about any shape you want...

Old-Fashioned Rhubarb Cake

"My great-aunt gave me this rhubarb cake recipe. It's especially delicious when rhubarb is in season, and tastes even better...


Rhubarb Cranberry Cookies

"I like the sudden hit of sweetness when you bite into the white chips. It really complements the tart flavour...

Bacon Breakfast Cookies

"Chock-full of bacon, cornflakes and raisins, these cookies are a handy breakfast on the go." — Louise Gangwish, Shelton, Nebraska


Pineapple Carrot Cake

"This moist cake with cream cheese frosting is the best I've ever eaten. It's so simple, too, because it uses...


Carrot Honey Loaf

"As a busy health-care professional and mom, one of the most meaningful gifts I give to the people I love...


Carrot Spice Thumbprint Cookies

"Carrot cake is a family favourite, and these delicious cookies taste just like it with shredded carrots, dried cranberries, toasted...

Carrot Sheet Cake

"We sold pieces of this to-die-for carrot cake at an art show. Before long, we sold out of all the...


Carrot Blueberry Cupcakes

"Carrots, blueberries, pineapple and zucchini make an interesting and delicious combination in these unique little treats." —Patricia Kile, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.


Wonderful Carrot Cake

"This healthy carrot cake recipe is moist, tender and delicious. Kids will love it because it's sweet, and you'll love...


Carrot Cupcakes

"To try to get my family to eat more vegetables, I often 'hide' nutritional foods inside sweet treats. The carrots...


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Pizza in a Mug

Enjoying your pizza via a mug is an easy way to practice portion control. “If you’re someone who can take...

Miniature Peanut Butter Treats

"This recipe is one of my family's favourites, and I make the treats a lot, especially at Christmas. I have...


Soft Beer Pretzels

"I'm always looking for new ways to combine fun flavours, and what goes together better than beer and pretzels? Not...


Sticky Toffee Pudding with Butterscotch Sauce

"The classic Sticky Toffee Pudding is a traditional dessert in the United Kingdom. I love that I can just stay...


Tiny Tim’s Plum Pudding

"In A Christmas Carol, everyone claps for plum pudding. Our family has made this pudding our own tradition, and it...


Upside-Down Fruitcake

"I get tired of people bad-mouthing holiday fruitcakes. It's one of my favorite holiday flavours and I look forward to...


Gingerbread with Fig-Walnut Sauce

"I experimented with aniseed this past holiday season and fell in love with the licorice flavour. It really enhances the...


Incredible Coconut Cake

"I found this coconut cake recipe in a newspaper many years ago and modified it to suit my taste. This...


Italian Cream Cheese Cake

"Buttermilk makes every bite of this awesome Italian cream cheese cake recipe moist and flavourful. I rely on this recipe...


Grandma’s Molasses Fruitcake

"This dense, dark, moist fruitcake was my grandmother's recipe. The flavour just gets better and better as it sits in...

Best Red Velvet Cake

"It's just not Christmas at our house until this festive cake appears. This is different from other red velvet cake...


Grandma’s Christmas Cake

"One bite of this old-fashioned spice cake will bring back memories. Loaded with raisins and nuts, it tastes extra special...


Brownie Haunted House

"You don’t have to worry about getting this spooky showstopper to stand upright. These fudgy brownies are the perfect canvas...


Halloween Witch Cake

If you're looking for an extra-special dessert to serve for Halloween, this witch cake will delight all the ghouls and...


Halloween Pumpkin Bars

"My family loves the warm pumpkin fragrance that wafts through our kitchen on cool fall afternoons when I make these...


Candy Corn Cookies

Get a head start on these buttery cookies by shaping and chilling the homemade dough ahead of time. When you're...