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Wholewheat Apple Caramel Hand Pies

christinajbartlett — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 22:34:07 +0000

Happy 2015! We are only a couple of weeks in and already 2015 is shaping up to be a good one. The last few months has definitely seen a hiatus on the baking front. No specific reason why; perhaps as I focus more on consuming fruits and vegetables I bake less, spending more time reading […]

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caramel hazelnut chocolate bars

christinajbartlett — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 03:15:32 +0000

New Zealand does the cafe thing very well. Excellent coffee with highly trained baristas and healthy, hearty and varied cabinet food. Calgary has the coffee thing spot on – great baristas (ahem, many of which are kiwis) and excellent locally roasted beans. On the odd occasion we have even been able to order Flat Whites. […]

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chocolate caramel bacon cake

christinajbartlett — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 00:23:40 +0000

With all this Paleo talk going on, I’ve been thinking about bacon. And reading about bacon (scroll down towards the end of the article for the more interesting part on saturated fat and cholesterol). Still not sure if it should appear in my diet much more than it does (rarely, in tiny portions tossed through […]

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chocolate caramel brownie cups

christinajbartlett — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 23:29:22 +0000

Of all the food bogs I have pored over during the last 3 years, there is one in particular that I have remained loyal to, checking every week or so for the latest read and food gawk. For years, Guilty Kitchen was my quick-pick when I wanted a recipe of real indulgence – buttercream, pancakes, […]

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aurora borealis & banoffee pie

christinajbartlett — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 02:58:01 +0000

I was informed late yesterday that it was Pi day, 3.14, being the 14th of March. So we made pie, with a twist. No butter, no pastry, no chocolate and no wheat flour (boring huh!). Just the raw flavours of banoffee, banana and toffee, made from hearty, whole ingredients. Jesse created a variation on caramel […]

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little banana & caramel cakes

christinajbartlett — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:04:50 +0000

Despite living in Canada, and arriving here with little more than a suitcase of clothes, our bookcase seems to carry a rather large number of kiwi cookbooks. Some are old favourites of ours, pulled from storage and sent over by Mum because we just couldn’t find a bread book that matches Alison Holsts. Or recipes […]

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apple mosaic salted caramel tart

christinajbartlett — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:09:19 +0000

Sounds finicky, but really it’s awfully simple. Pastry, apples and caramel sauce. Made extra simple if you happen to have puff pastry in the freezer already. Pastry that, say, you bought from the overpriced and (often) understocked Northern Mart in your tiny community, then took it home only to find it was EIGHTEEN months expired!* […]

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mini banoffee pies

christinajbartlett — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:05:27 +0000

There are three components that make for the perfect dessert combination: banana, toffee and chocolate. Although I have never had a real, full size banoffee pie before, I have made mini ones many, many times. They are always popular. Google taught me something new today. Banoffee is a portmanteau. Although I really like working with […]

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chocolate peanut butter cupcakes with salted butterscotch peanuts

christinajbartlett — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:56:07 +0000

Sometimes the most delicious things, are not the most beautiful. But who says no to a moist bittersweet chocolate cupcake, loaded with peanut butter and cream cheese icing, a glaze of oozing salted butterscotch caramel, and a sprinkling of toasted peanuts. These beauties were enjoyed in the wake of a beautiful evening, spent with friends […]

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salted spiced caramel slice

christinajbartlett — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:06:17 +0000

I may have been a little too ambitious in my attempt to bake last week. I desperately wanted to try something from the must-try list, despite not having baked for a couple of weeks, and still having one arm in a sling. It was this Salted Spiced Caramel Slice. I’m not normally much of a […]

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