Newfoundland Recipes

Coconut Orange Tea Buns with Honey Butter. A delicious combination of two favourite tea bun recipes that my mother always made in her Newfoundland kitchen.

Best Easter Recipes. Celebrate with these springtime recipes, from traditional favourites to baked ham dinners and luscious lemon desserts. 

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

Coconut Tea Buns. A Newfoundland favourite tea time snack for decades. This is how we’ve made them for many years in our family. Number one son has been asking me to make these coconut tea buns for a couple of weeks now. He loves anything coconut. He thinks I should try this recipe with raspberries …

Jam tarts. A real local Newfoundland favourite, especially using local berry jams. You can use any jam you like in these gorgeous little mini tarts.

Ragged Rock Rum Truffle Cake. A light sponge cake soaked in rum and then frosted with a an easy rum truffle frosting.

Cod Puttanesca. Pan fried pieces of cod get served on a bed of fettuccine with a quick cooked garlic and tomato sauce. A delicious weekday meal in about 30 minutes.

Newfoundland Molasses Raisin Bread. A classic Newfoundland recipe that everyone’s Mom or Nan made back in the day. It’s often enjoyed at the Holidays and is a favourite for morning toast with gobs of melting butter.

Custard Tea Buns. This twist on a Newfoundland favourite is made even richer tasting with the addition of custard powder and undiluted evaporated milk to the dough. A perfect teatime treat!

Hot Cross Molasses Raisin Tea Buns. A quicker alternative to hot cross buns, especially if you love the flavour of molasses.