The kind of cake you don’t feel bad about eating for breakfast.
Category: Baked Goods
Cranberry Corn Cakes
After several months of silence during which I was solicited by our family garden in maintenance and transformation, it’s time to begin anew. New look, new recipes, and forthcoming in the weeks ahead, a new domain name and some new categories to make searching the blog a bit easier. Since there’s no better way to…
Peanut Butter Almond Cookies
If you’ve been following the recipes here for a while, then you know that I’m eternally looking for new ways to use the dregs of making my own almond milk. I use the pulpy meal in veggie-pâté, in macaroons, in veggie-burger, in bread and all manner of baked goods. This is yet another one of…
Maple Tea Cake
catherine yronwode is a woman I admire for her encyclopaedic knowledge, her business acumen, her magical skill and her absolutely fabulous honey cake. It’s rich, moist, filled with spices and sweetness and if you want the recipe it can be found in the Hoodoo Food cookbook. Now given I can never leave well enough alone,…
Oatmeal Date Cookies (Vegan)
This is basically the recipe for oatmeal and raisin cookies without the raisins and with the cinnamon scaled back a notch. And then enter lots of dates and coconut because that’s what was staring me in the face when I opened the pantry. Besides: is there anything better than cookies and herbal tea for breakfast…
Squash-Carob-Spice Cake
Not being able to decide between Jae Steele’s carob spice cake or zucchini chocolate cake, I took it upon myself to make both simultaneously. There was a fair amount of creative license in the process since when possible, I prefer sourdough cakes in order to make the nutrients from the grains more bio-available (and because…
Cherry Chocolate Macaroons
I’m always looking for new ways to use the strained dregs of my home-made almond milk. This was a really successful kitchen experiment, particularly if you like a chewy macaroon without too much sweetness. The subtle flavour of the almond and coconut really shine while the chocolate and dried cherries add an irresistible decadence. They’re…
Crunchy Cooking 