Daily Unadventures in Cooking

A carrot cake cupcake recipe which is not only a delicious sweet treat, but with whole wheat flour and carrots it’s good for you too!

Rhubarb has such a nice tart flavour it is perfect to make this crisp not only more interesting in texture, but also in flavour.

These peanut butter and jam bars prove that everyone is truly a kid at heart. Soft, sweet and just a little gooey, they taste like the best peanut butter cookie you have ever had dipped in jelly.

A recipe for coconut pumpkin muffins with walnuts. Healthy but still light and fluffy.

I really love Cinnamon Roll Muffins, I have a serious weakness for them. But the real ones involve a yeast dough, and basically a cinnamon bun recipe.    This version is a hybrid, more muffin then cinnamon bun but still spicy and delicious.   Plus, oh so pretty.

Who doesn’t love the seasonal pumpkin flavour that appears in the Fall?  Pumpkin flavour is generally associated with Pumpkin Pie Spice, a mixture of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves.  The pumpkin itself complements those spices but has quite a mild flavour.  These flavours are the basis for the pumpkin cupcake recipe which I found on [...]

I know real buttercream involves eggs and a double boiler, but this is an easy way to make a cheater buttercream icing or frosting that is a fun topping for pumpkin cake or cupcakes.  If you have pumpkin pie spice you can substitute for the cloves, ginger, nutmeg, and cinnamon as that is what the [...]

These oatmeal peanut butter cookies are so good, you don’t have to tell anyone the recipe is healthy, they will never know.

Using bananas in baking is great because not only does it use up your blackened bananas but it makes your muffins and other baked goods naturally sweeter. The riper the banana the sweeter the fruit and the resulting muffin. If you are lacking in blackened bananas try ripening them on your counter at room temperature, [...]

A crisp or crumble is always a good dessert to make if you have too much fruit around, but it is also a favorite of mine because it so rustic and comforting. This crisp uses pears, cranberries and apples to take advantage of what is currently in season. The tartness of the cranberries are [...]

Because I have just discovered that I like pears, I have never done any baking with them at all. When we saw these beautiful ones at the market for 50 cents each, I brought home a bunch, then realized I would need to bake something. Excellent.

Is a cupcake a cupcake without icing? Personally I think that a cake or a cupcake, is still a cake even if it isn’t frosted. Unfortunately my friends do not, so these have currently been dubbed “muffcakes” until I make them again and frost them.

Simple and quick, this blueberry bran muffin recipe is light and full of sweet and juicy berries. Perfect for breakfast or a light snack.

Delicious cherry and cardamom muffin recipe with the butter reduced and substituted with chia seed gel.

This 100% Whole Wheat Bagel recipe produces soft and delicious bagels.

Farmers markets are a great test to my self control, a test which I generally fail. Two weeks ago I hit up the Kitsilano Farmers Market and came out with peas, kale, 2lbs of cherries, zucchini, strawberries, raspberries, garlic scapes and one lone bay plant. Realizing how much fruit I had I was [...]

I have had nothing but success with flatbreads on the grill. It always seems like a dodgy expedition to put a raw, dangly, piece of dough on a barbecue. (Will it fall through the grate? Will it stick?) But every time I have tried it, I have been so pleased with the flavour of [...]

On Saturday, when I saw a local farm stand selling both rhubarb and strawberries, I offered J a deal. Basically, I would make him, his all time favorite treat, Strawberry Rhubarb Pie – if he did all the dishes. It may have been the quickest exchange of chores in our whole relationship. I have never [...]

Walnut and Sage Focaccia, a quick and easy way to use up a surplus of sage.

A few weeks ago I really wanted to make these cookies everyone in the blog world was talking about – Dreena Burton’s Super Charge Me Cookies. Despite 30 minutes worth of googling I couldn’t find the recipe anywhere on the web and instead put a request in for the book at the library. Last week [...]