Cakes, Pies, and Tarts

Strawberry Chocolate Truffle Tart. An easy to make but elegant classic chocolate tart with a chocolate pastry crust and topped with fresh strawberries.

Five Spice Nectarine Plum Pan Dowdy. The five spice mix adds a wonderfully fragrant, exotic flavour to enhance the fruit but if you prefer, cinnamon alone also works very well.

Raspberry Vanilla Cream Cheese Cupcakes. Moist, tender vanilla cupcakes filled with raspberry compote and topped with rich, luscious cream cheese frosting.

Strawberry Custard Angel Food Shortcake. A light summer shortcake dessert with a creamy indulgent vanilla custard to give it just a little added decadence. My daughter just finished junior high and partly because our kids have done all their schooling in French since kindergarten, she is off to Quebec for an educational and cultural exchange …

Billot Log Cake is inspired by the famous Vachon snack cake & is perfect for Canada Day. It’s a sponge cake roll with buttercream raspberries & coconut.

A real old fashioned version of a Vanilla Custard Pie just like Grandma used to make. Top with fresh raspberries or any fresh berries or fruit of your choice.

Chocolate Angel Food Cake with Nutella Ganache Sauce. A light as air chocolate angel food cake with a warm, ultimately indulgent Nutella ganache sauce.

Coconut Cream Cheesecake. The ultimate indulgence for coconut lovers with toasted coconut in the crust & in the cheesecake batter for full coconut flavour! I’d planned to develop a recipe for Coconut Cream Cheesecake for a quite a while now but never got around to it until this week. The inspiration, or maybe just the …

Banana Orange Cardamom Crinkle Cakes. Incredibly flavourful little cakes with fragrant citrus and spice. Great for lunchboxes and coffee breaks.

Jamaican Rum Cake. The best recipe I’ve tried! A dense yet moist cake infused with a rum & butter syrup that just takes the deliciousness to a whole other level. Utterly irresistible!!