Christmas Recipes

Loaded Butter Tarts. Traditional, easy-to-make butter tarts with the addition of toasted pecans, chocolate chips, raisins and dried coconut; ultimately decadent.

Chocolate Orange Date Crumbles. A reinvented version of a popular old fashioned favourite cookie bar, date crumbles or matrimonial squares. 

Strawberry Lamingtons, a.k.a. Strawberry Coconut Cake Squares, moist cubes of homemade vanilla cake get soaked in a combination of strawberry jello and jam and then rolled in coconut. An easy, pretty and very tasty treat that kids will love.

Orange Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies. For dark chocolate lovers, this classic flavour combination is baked to perfection in these crispy, chewy, perfect cookies.

Fudge Sandwich Cookies – a.k.a. Homemade Fudgee-O Cookies. A delicious copycat version of my favourite chocolate fudge sandwich cookies;  just made for dunking in a cold glass of milk.

Peanut Butter Rocky Road Bars. A quick & easy, no bake, old fashioned favourite with marshmallows suspended in a luscious combination of peanut butter and chocolate; with the crunch of roasted peanuts too, if you like.

Blueberry duff. A steamed pudding here in Newfoundland, sometimes served with dinner, sometimes as a dessert with blueberry or rum sauce.

Rum Truffle Cheesecake. A creamy vanilla cheesecake on a chocolate cookie crumb crust, topped with rum ganache and hand rolled rum truffles. It’s one amazing celebration cheesecake.

Roast Leg of Lamb with Mint Gremolata. A fantastically delicious and easy way to enjoy roast lamb with mint sauce. For special occasions like Easter, or for an amazing Sunday roast dinner any time of year.

Hot Cross Buns. Not just for Easter Sunday, these delicious, fragrant, yeast raised sweet rolls have become a brunch staple year round at our house.