Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake

Every year for my husband’s birthday I have cooked him a special birthday dinner that always includes chocolate birthday cake. When we started dating eleven years ago (wow that makes me feel old!), his cake came from a Duncan Hines box and looked like a 

The Great Canadian Butter Tart

The Great Canadian Butter Tart

There are fewer things more truly Canadian than a butter tart. For those of you who have not ventured to the ‘great white north’ and have not experienced the greatness that is a butter tart, they are sweet, gooey and delicious! They most closely resemble 

In Search of a Flaky Crust (aka The Secrets to Successful Pie Dough)

In Search of a Flaky Crust (aka The Secrets to Successful Pie Dough)

Have you ever felt that you had an Achilles heel in the kitchen? I consider myself an adept home cook, and yet for years I was woefully inadequate in a basic culinary skill: pie crust. It eluded me, it frustrated me, it caused me no