Lemon Meringue Pie

This is the perfect lemon meringue pie! With a delicious homemade pie crust, tart and smooth lemon filling, and a fluffy toasted meringue topping, it’s impossible to resist. If using your own pie dough, make...

Strawberry Panna Cotta

Panna Cotta is an Italian-style dessert, much like pudding, made with gelatin and thick cream. In fact, the exact translation for Panna Cotta is "cooked cream". A great summer treat, but brings back...

Matt’s Birthday Carrot Cake

You've got enough frosting to fill the layers and cover the sides and top of the cake, but you can also cover each layer so generously that when the next layer goes on the frosting...

Canadian Butter Tarts

These famous Canadian butter tarts consist of a flaky pastry shell filled with a rich buttery caramel center. A new experience for our non-Canadian friends. WHAT IS A BUTTER TART? A butter tart is a small pastry...

Banana Bread

WHAT IS THE BEST BANANA BREAD RECIPE? To make the very best banana bread that comes out super moist, it is important to start out with those ugly, overripe bananas!  In the picture below you can...

Mom’s Apple Crisp

This is one of the first recipes I learned from my mom and has been my "go-to" dessert for years. It is the only dessert that I make. We have it for special occasions as...