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A tale of two cupcakes

I’ve always been a fan of cupcakes.  Cute, single serving treats of delicious cake and icing, what’s not to love?  I’ve never really understood why some don’t like them.  I understand not liking cake at all, or preferring cake to cupcakes.  I also understand being sick of the cupcake trend, with bakeries popping up all […]

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Sugar High Friday: Delicious Berries

This month’s Sugar High Friday event is hosted by Susan at Food Blogga.  Given it is the height of summer here in the northern hemisphere, it seems only right that the theme this month is berries. I’ve been craving Strawberry Shortcake for months now.  It was a summer favourite in my family while I was […]

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My Canadiana: The Sweet Version

As mentioned in yesterday’s post, this month’s Sugar High Friday has a theme of ‘Mmm…Canada!’ and has two editions: sweet and savory.  Yesterday I posted about a Maritime fast food treat, garlic fingers.  Today I’m posting about a Maritime traditional sweet treat – Blueberry Grunt. Blueberry Grunt is a somewhat unusual dessert.  A wild blueberry […]

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My Canadiana: The Savory Version

Last month I participated in Sugar High Friday, the monthly blogger event where people from around the globe post up some sugary treat or another, based on a theme.  This month’s theme?  Mmm… Canada!  And to make things even more fun, they added a savory edition this month, hosted by Jasmine at Confessions of a […]

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Orange Date Walnut Buns

Remember back in October when I made cinnamon buns in less than an hour? Well, I decided to change them up this weekend and do something different. Now, I love cinnamon as much as anyone. However, I find it to be a very fall/winter sort of flavour. For the first long weekend of the summer […]

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