These pumpkin cheesecake brownies make the perfect fall treat! Chewy, fudgy brownies with creamy pumpkin cheesecake swirled into them - they disappeared fast here! So the kids and I loved these fall flavoured, cream cheese brownies! Chewy chocolaty brownies with pumpkin spice cheesecake swirled into them? What's not to love? The four of us demolished them quite quickly. Also, I made 3 batches before I was satisfied, and since no one needs that many cheesecake brownies, ... read more
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Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Muffins
These chocolate chip pumpkin muffins mix up quickly for the perfect fall breakfast or snack! The whole family will love them! We love pumpkin things around here. Well, the kids and I do. My husband....not so much. He'll occasionally eat the pumpkin muffins I make, but besides that he's not really down with pumpkin spice everything. He has been known to say that pumpkin spice lattes taste like a candle. I'm not sure why he's eating candles and knows this, but he's wrong. Pumpkin ... read more
Homemade Pumpkin Pie Spice
Homemade pumpkin pie spice takes just minutes to mix up, and you probably have all the ingredients you need already. Five ingredients and five minutes is all you need! Isn't it annoying when you're halfway through a recipe and you realize you're missing a key ingredient? Or am I the only one that happens to? Do most people actually check these things before they start baking? Probably. That would be the logical thing to do. But, well, I often just start making my chocolate chip ... read more
Pumpkin Peanut Butter Cookies
These pumpkin peanut butter cookies are soft and chewy with lots of cinnamon flavour. They make the perfect treat for enjoying pumpkin flavour in the fall! I will start this by saying that these pumpkin peanut butter cookies are not for everyone. It's just a fact. My husband, for one, does not like them at all. He was wildly disappointed when he saw peanut butter cookies sitting on the counter cooling, and then was told they had pumpkin in them. Sorry. I'm one of those people ... read more
Pumpkin Spice Muffins with Crumb Topping
These bakery style pumpkin spice muffins are delicious on their own - but add that crumb topping and drizzle them with a maple glaze and they're amazing! These apple muffins with a crumb topping are one of the most popular recipes on my website. They're also one of our favourites. When I want a sweet, bakery style muffin, those muffins are often the ones I make! So clearly I needed a pumpkin spice version. Pumpkin spice muffins are one of my favourites in the fall. Adding a tasty ... read more
Cranberry, Pumpkin Seed and Salted Caramel Bark
This cranberry, pumpkin seed and salted caramel bark is a super quick and easy homemade treat to make - and everyone will love it! Isn't this cranberry, pumpkin seed and salted caramel bark so pretty? I love how colourful it is with the red cranberries, green pumpkin seeds and orange (brown?) caramel all over a dark chocolate background. It's food art. My kind of art - there's chocolate involved. This bark is seriously so simple to make. All you have to do is melt some dark ... read more
Pumpkin Spice Granola
This homemade pumpkin spice granola is so easy to make - pair it with some yogurt for the perfect healthy breakfast or snack! Homemade granola is a favourite snack at my house. I love it, my kids love it … and my husband will occasionally eat it. It's all right that he isn’t a huge fan of granola though, because the rest of us make up for it. When I make granola my kids are always suddenly starving as soon as they discover it. It can be minutes after a meal, but if they realize there’s ... read more
Whole Wheat Pumpkin Dinner Rolls
These whole wheat pumpkin dinner rolls are soft and fluffy and so easy to make. Plus they are amazing piled with turkey or ham for lunch! Do you like making homemade bread and dinner rolls? I really do, but I'll admit that I definitely go through phases where I make all of our bread, and then other times where I won't make it at all. My kids actually get all complain-y when that happens. Questions of "when are you going to make bread again, mom?" start to be heard every time I pick ... read more
Pumpkin Snack Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
This pumpkin snack cake with cream cheese frosting is the perfect easy dessert or afternoon snack - an easy to make, sweet treat for the fall! I don't actually make a lot of cake around here. Birthdays, of course, but that's really about it. I'm not sure why, because we do enjoy our dessert, but I guess I lean towards brownies or cookies when I decide we need a sweet treat for after dinner or for a mid-afternoon pick me up! But....just because I'm not a huge cake or cupcake fan, ... read more
Apple Pumpkin Bread
The best pumpkin bread I've ever made, this apple pumpkin bread is super soft on the inside, has a crunchy cinnamon topping, and is full of pumpkin flavour. I've made a lot of pumpkin bread. As one of my favorite treats I make at least two or three new recipes every year. I love to try different variations of it, and literally always have a loaf of it in my freezer throughout the fall months. So it's saying something when I tell you that this is the best pumpkin bread ever. Don't take ... read more
Pumpkin Pie
This pumpkin pie is my Grandma's recipe - it's so much better then the store-bought pumpkin pie. If you've never made homemade pumpkin pie, try it today! I know there's a million recipes out there (especially this time of year!) for pumpkin pie. But I'm going to add mine to the list. Because it's the best. And yes, I may be a bit biased here. But this is my Grandma's recipe, and I think we can all agree that grandmas always make the best pie. Mine ... read more
Pumpkin Scones
Light and fluffy pumpkin scones topped with a sweet maple glaze. These scones are the perfect breakfast treat to enjoy with your morning coffee! I love all the pumpkin things this time of year. I know I'm not alone on that, judging by the barrage of pumpkin stuff that hits us for a couple months every fall! But even with the 8 million recipes out there involving pumpkin, plain old pumpkin scones are still my favourite. I make these pumpkin scones drizzled ... read more
Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread
Easy, moist, delicious, and healthy, this chocolate chip pumpkin bread is perfect for a snack, or even for breakfast! Low fat, low sugar, and whole grain. Well. This is not what I was making for you. It was supposed to be cheesecake pumpkin muffins, a variation of these carrot ones in fact. And they were good, very good. We ate them all with no problem whatsoever. The problem was the cheesecake. It kind of looked like cheesecake icing on top of the muffins - just a thin layer of ... read more
Baked Pumpkin Spice Doughnuts
Quick and easy baked pumpkin spice doughnuts coated with either a sweet maple glaze or cinnamon sugar. Either way - they're absolutely amazing! I have not made doughnuts for entirely too long. I bought a doughnut pan eons ago (or about a year) and have only used it once. To make these wonderful banana bread doughnuts that we really, really loved. And then I forgot all about the doughnut pan as it sat in the cupboard and never got used. It's sad really. Because we've been missing ... read more
Slow Cooker Thai Pumpkin Soup
This easy to make, slow cooker Thai pumpkin soup is a bit spicy, a bit creamy, and absolutely amazing. The perfect meal for a cold fall day! Watch how easy this Slow Cooker Thai Pumpkin Soup is to make here: Now I'll just start by saying that I know next to nothing about Thai food. So don't tell me this soup is inauthentic - I know that. Or maybe it is authentic. I have no idea. What I do know is that this Thai pumpkin soup is fantastic. After ... read more
Pumpkin Pie Dip
A quick and easy pumpkin pie dip that tastes just like pumpkin pie, but in dip form! The perfect light dessert! Watch how easy this Pumpkin Pie Dip is to make here: I finally have something for you involving pumpkin! I'm so excited for my first pumpkin filled recipe. I love, love, love pumpkin and bake with it all year long - it's definitely not just a fall thing in my house. Pumpkin, pumpkin spice, all the pumpkin things are amazing as far as I'm concerned. My ... read more
Whole Wheat Pumpkin Bread with a Maple Pecan Glaze
It's fall!! I love fall, especially all the pumpkin things. And the changing leaves. And the cooler days. But mostly, all the pumpkin things. I'm still waiting for my first Starbucks pumpkin spice latte though. I've tried to get one and they were all out. I really don't think they should let that be a possibility when they make us wait all year for them, do you?! I guess I'll just have to learn how to make them at home, it would actually probably be better anyways! But for now, it's ... read more
Orange Cranberry Bread
This orange cranberry bread is the perfect combination of tart and sweet. Tart cranberries in an orange flavoured sweet bread with a sweet orange glaze on top! I never used to really like fresh cranberries. They just weren't sweet enough for me I guess, but I would never pick cranberry bread when given any other option. That has definitely changed as I've gotten older. Now I think the combination of tart cranberries with a sweet bread is absolutely fantastic. This soft and ... read more
Microwave Peanut Brittle
This microwave peanut brittle takes just six ingredients and ten minutes to make. No thermometers, no difficulty, and the result is perfect peanut brittle! I have always really enjoyed treats like peanut brittle over the holidays. It's just one of those things that is perfect for adding to that cookie tray at Christmas time. But I had never made it before. I will admit, I get slightly intimidated by candy making. There's the whole candy thermometer, and melted sugar sticking to ... read more
Cranberry Orange Scones
These cranberry orange scones are filled with fresh cranberries and topped with a sweet orange glaze. They're the perfect sweet treat with your morning coffee! Scones might just be my favourite treat of all time. Sweet, flaky, pastries that taste like dessert but are acceptable for breakfast. It really doesn't get much better in my book. I actually have to stop myself from making some version of these scones on a weekly basis. It's just not the healthiest of breakfast ... read more
Glazed Chocolate Orange Muffins
These glazed chocolate orange muffins are super easy to make, and make the perfect after school snack for the kids! Perfect for the holidays! Chocolate and orange is one of the best flavour combinations ever. I know that when I'm looking at one of those little maps in a box of chocolates, chocolate orange is always the type I'm hoping for. Mint chocolate is a close second, but I think I would go for chocolate orange most of the time if given the choice. These chocolate orange ... read more
Easy Cranberry Sauce
This easy cranberry sauce takes just ten minutes and three ingredients to make. Homemade is always better - and this recipe is almost as easy as too! Do you like homemade cranberry sauce, or the kind in a can for your big turkey dinner? I'll be honest, I've always just bought a can and called it a day. Which is a little weird for me when I'm always going on and on about homemade being better. But I don't personally like cranberry sauce with my turkey so I haven't bothered with ... read more
Slow Cooker Butternut Squash Soup
This easy slow cooker butternut squash soup is so thick and creamy and full of flavour. It's easy to make, freezes well, and the leftovers make the perfect lunch! If you are looking for a super easy, dump and go, butternut squash soup recipe with a ton of flavour, this is the soup for you! I loved this slow cooker butternut squash soup. It had so much flavour, and the only thing that made it take any time at all to make was peeling the butternut squash. And really, that's not very ... read more
Instant Pot Butternut Squash Soup
This easy Instant Pot butternut squash soup is so thick and creamy and full of flavour. It's easy to make, freezes well, and the leftovers make the perfect lunch! If you are looking for a super easy, dump and go, butternut squash soup recipe with a ton of flavour, this is the soup for you! I loved this Instant Pot butternut squash soup. It had so much flavour, and the only thing that made it take any time at all to make was peeling the butternut squash. And really, that's not very ... read more
Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies
These chewy, chocolate chip oatmeal peanut butter cookies are quick and easy to make, and disappear almost as quickly! Two favourite cookies rolled into one! I think peanut butter cookies are one of the best cookies ever invented. Besides regular old chocolate chip cookies of course. Can't really beat those. Or chocolate chip oatmeal cookies.....maybe I just like cookies? I'll admit to that. I think most people can agree that peanut butter cookies and chocolate chip ... read more
Two Bite Brownies
These two bite brownies are soft and chewy and so easy to make. They are the perfect snack to have in the freezer for tossing in the kids lunch boxes! I think that two bite brownies make the perfect snack. They're the perfect size to get that chocolate fix, but are still nice and small. Just two bites. Of course, that only applies if you're one of those people that is capable of eating just one two bite brownie, even when you have an entire batch of them staring at ... read more
Peach Muffins with Crumb Topping
These peach muffins with crumb topping are a great way to enjoy those summer peaches - perfect for a sweet treat with your morning coffee or tea! Muffins that involve a crumb topping and sweet vanilla glaze might just be one of the best ways to start the day. With some coffee of course. If they're filled with fresh, sweet peaches, they're even better. I made these peach muffins with a crumb topping without really planning on it at all. This wasn't in the plans this summer as far as ... read more
Peach Scones
These peach scones, filled with fresh peaches and topped with vanilla glaze, are tender and flaky and make the perfect sweet treat with your morning coffee! Mmmm, scones. One of my all-time favourite treats to enjoy with my morning cup of coffee. And yes - I do enjoy having dessert for breakfast. Any time pastry can be eaten for dessert, I am a-ok with it. These peach scones are perfect for summer. Filled with fresh, sweet peaches, and topped with a sweet vanilla glaze, these ... read more
Vanilla Scones
These easy to make vanilla scones are tender, buttery, and filled with vanilla flavour. The perfect treat to have with your morning coffee or tea! I think scones are my favourite kind of breakfast. Although really, how did scones ever become a normal thing to eat for breakfast? Let's start our day with a buttery pastry covered in a sugary glaze. That's super healthy. But you know what? I'm kind of on board with it. Have some yogurt or a hard boiled egg with your vanilla scone. It's ... read more
21 Christmas Treats That Aren’t Cookies
Christmas cookies are amazing during the holidays, but some of our favourites aren't even cookies. Here's the best 21 Christmas treats that aren't cookies! I have nothing against Christmas cookies. Clearly. There are more than enough Christmas cookies on this site. Not that that will stop me from sharing even more cookie recipes this year. I try new Christmas cookie recipes every year, because, well, I like Christmas baking. The one time of year I can bake all the things, and it's ... read more
Instant Pot Chicken Chili
This Instant Pot chicken chili is one of the easiest meals to make and is the perfect warming meal for a cold night.You can also make it in the slow cooker! I have made this Instant Pot chicken chili so many times over the last 3 or 4 months. So many times. It's so tasty. And so easy. And it freezes well if you need a meal to bring to someone. Or if you just like having meals in the freezer for later. Or if the enormous batch that easily feeds six people is too large for your ... read more
Caramel Apple Blondies
These caramel apple blondies are soft and chewy and filled with apples, cinnamon and salted caramel sauce. They mix up quickly and disappear just as fast! Fall just screams for caramel apple treats, doesn't it? Or maybe it does at my house because I always buy giant boxes of apples in the fall because they’re so good. I then have more apples than I know what to do with. So of course I bake with them. When I'm not eating them that is, and maybe dipping them in some homemade salted ... read more
Carrot Soup
This carrot soup with dill is quick and easy to make, can be served hot or cold, and can be made in the slow cooker, Instant Pot, or on the stove! Anyone looking for a super quick and easy meal? Because that's what this carrot soup is. So fast, so easy, and there are several options for cooking it - which always makes me happy. I like having options. If you need to get the soup going in the morning and have it ready when you get home, you can use the slow cooker. If you want to eat ... read more
Easy Apple Pie
This easy apple pie is a classic dessert that is so much better when it's homemade! Easy, tasty, and filled with cinnamon apples - it's always a favourite! Homemade apple pie might be one of my favourite desserts. Flaky, buttery pastry wrapped around cinnamon, sugar, and apples and topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream - that's dessert heaven. We've all had those slices of apple pie that just aren't worth the calories though. You know the ones I mean. The pastry is kind of like ... read more
Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread
This chocolate chip zucchini bread is moist and flavourful, and filled with chocolate chips. Easy to make, it mixes up in minutes and everyone will love it! I used up that last of the zucchini sitting on my counter with several loaves of this tasty chocolate chip zucchini bread. I was really tempted to just make batch after batch of these chocolate zucchini muffins that I shared last week, just so I could have a little stockpile of them in my freezer. They were just so ... read more
Drop Biscuits
These drop biscuits are buttery and flaky without any effort at all - mix everything together, drop the dough on a cookie sheet and bake. So easy! We love biscuits. Clearly. This is the third recipe I've posted for regular old biscuits - not even cheese biscuits or something to change things up - just biscuits. It's necessary to have this many recipes for biscuits. Really. They're all a bit different, I promise - and having options just makes it easier to always be able to make ... read more
Instant Pot Chicken Taco Soup
This Instant Pot chicken taco soup is so fast and easy to make and everyone loves it! It's one of our favourite meals - just throw everything in the Instant Pot, hit start, and dinner is ready in half an hour! I've been making this chicken taco soup for years now, but in the past it's always been slow cooker chicken taco soup. And while we love that version, after getting an Instant Pot, I clearly needed to adapt the recipe for the pressure cooker as well. It's our absolute favourite ... read more
Cherry Pop Tarts
These cherry pop tarts are easy to make, and make the best dessert or snack. Flaky homemade pastry wrapped around a sweet cherry filling - so good! So these cherry pop tarts might just be one of the best things to come out of my kitchen in a while. But then, it's flaky pastry wrapped around a sweet cherry pie filling and topped with vanilla icing. Obviously they were good. I didn't even really need to tell you that, I'm sure. Anything in pie form is always gonna be good. I think ... read more
Double Chocolate Scones
These double chocolate scones are easy to make and are decadent enough to be dessert, but since they're scones you can probably justify having them for breakfast! Buttery and flaky chocolate scones, filled with chocolate chips, and topped with a chocolate glaze - in short, they're amazing. Anyone else like having chocolate for breakfast? I have to admit that I justify that decision whenever possible. Chocolate in my muffins, my banana bread, my pancakes, wherever I can add some ... read more
Coconut Granola
This homemade coconut granola is so fast and easy to make and is easily customizable. Healthy and delicious, it's the perfect breakfast or snack! Homemade granola - it is definitely one of our favourite things. The store bought kind just doesn't compare. Homemade granola is just so quick and easy to make, it almost seems silly to buy it. Not that that stops me from buying it occasionally - when I get lazy and see it and think, yeah, that'll be just as good, and way faster then homemade. ... read more
Caramel Apple Crisp Pie
This caramel apple crisp pie is the perfect dessert when you can't decide between apple pie and apple crisp - just make both! Do you ever have a problem deciding which dessert to make? I definitely do. There are far too many delicious dessert recipes out there waiting to be made so sometimes it's hard to choose. We should probably just start having dessert every night of the week so I can try all those recipes calling my name! Or....maybe not. That could be a bad plan. I ... read more
Apple Cinnamon Scones
These fluffy apple cinnamon scones, filled with diced apple and mini cinnamon chips, are the perfect sweet treat for breakfast or a snack! I debate every fall between apples and pumpkin. Which fall flavour do I love more? I really don't think I can choose though. They're both amazing and I really just want to make (and eat) all of the apple and pumpkin things every single year. I'll be honest though, I make apple and pumpkin things all year long. I see no reason to relegate them ... read more
Creamy Ham and Corn Chowder
This creamy ham and corn chowder is quick and easy to make, and is a great way to use up leftover ham. Make it either in the slow cooker or on the stove! This creamy slow cooker ham and corn chowder is one of the best soups to come out of my kitchen. Ever. I have been making it for about 4 years now and I'm not sick of it yet. Either is the rest of the family, which I suppose is also important! Whenever we have leftover ham sitting in the fridge, this is the soup that starts calling ... read more
Slow Cooker Teriyaki Chicken
This slow cooker teriyaki chicken is a quick and easy meal that takes just minutes to get into the slow cooker. Perfect meal for those busy weeknights! This slow cooker teriyaki chicken has made an appearance at our dinner table at least 3 times in the last month - and we're not sick of it yet. I think that's a pretty good indicator of how tasty this teriyaki chicken is! Also - it's a super easy meal. One of those dump and go slow cooker meals that take absolutely no ... read more
Apple Pie Bars
These easy to make apple pie bars have a shortbread crust, a cinnamon crumb topping and an amazing apple pie filling - the perfect fall dessert! It's fall - the best time of the year for baking! Ok, that's not really true. Mostly because I love to bake any time of the year. But also because Christmas is definitely the best time for baking. I do really love baking all the apple and pumpkin things in the fall though. My family probably gets quite tired of all the apple and pumpkin ... read more
Peanut Chicken Stir Fry
A quick and easy weeknight meal, this peanut chicken stir fry is filled with veggies and an amazing homemade peanut sauce - plus it's ready in 30 minutes! I have tried many, many different recipes for peanut sauce over the last few years. I knew it could be good, amazing even, but for some reason couldn't find that perfect recipe. They were always too sweet, too thick, too peanut buttery - too something. But this recipe may finally be it. Perfectly peanut buttery, not too sweet ... read more
Shrimp Quesadillas with Avocado Cream
Shrimp quesadillas filled with corn, black beans and cheese, and an avocado cilantro lime cream dipping sauce. Quick and easy and everyone loves them! These shrimp quesadillas with corn, black beans, cheese and an avocado cilantro lime cream sauce for dipping are amazing. In fact, one child here was heard to say that they were fancy. I'm not totally sure that that's true, but hey, I'll take it. Evidently I'm running a fancy restaurant. He's probably going to be so disappointed the ... read more
Slow Cooker Butter Chicken
Homemade butter chicken cooked in the slow cooker with an easy to make sauce. It's the perfect weeknight meal with very little hands on cooking time! Have you ever made butter chicken at home? I actually hadn't even eaten butter chicken until probably about 5 years ago. Clearly I was not a very adventurous eater up until getting married. I didn't try Pad Thai until my husband informed me I needed to, and it was the same with butter chicken. He couldn't believe it when he found ... read more
Blackened Fish Taco Bowls with Corn Salsa
These blackened fish taco bowls with corn salsa are quickly becoming a family favourite! Spicy fish, fresh avocado, and corn salsa served on hot rice. So good! Blackened fish might be my favourite meal of all time. Actually blackened anything - spicy food is good. But blackened fish is really the best. Add it to a taco bowl and cover it in corn salsa, fresh avocado, and avocado cream and I'm in my happy place. If you enjoy fish and Mexican food, I can pretty much guarantee ... read more
21 Shredded Chicken Recipes
21 shredded chicken recipes to use up leftover cooked, shredded chicken, or store-bought rotisserie chicken. Making dinner time a little bit easier! So after sharing my absolute favourite way to cook chicken for easy as can be slow cooker shredded chicken earlier this week, clearly I needed to give you a bunch of ways to use all that cooked, shredded chicken you now have in your freezer. I love to cook up a bunch of chicken (double or triple this recipe), shred it, and portion it out ... read more