Thermomix DIY Cookie Bundle: Pay 35 more for these items ThermomixDIY Cookie Bundle can be purchased here, now, or ask me about how to get FREE shipping and a Host gift. Thermomix DIY Cookie Bundle: Is it a good deal? The baking mat is one of our most highly coveted accessories once you own a Thermomix and it sells for 35 dollars plus shipping plus tax. With this bundle, you get the backing mat and FREE shipping with the cookie stamps and the Made in Thermomix gift bags. You may not want the second part of the bundle, but if you bake, you will want the baking mat, and you cannot buy it at our ..read more

Gooey Hot Chocolate Cookies: Consultant Cookidoo® Cookie Exchange Collection 2020 Gooey Hot Chocolate Cookies or Ooey Gooey Hot Chocolate Cookies? Either way, you are in for a decadent treat! This cookie, when served to a friend or family member, very simply and very deliciously, spells L-O-V-E. Just look at that ooey-gooey wonder, above! If that image does not motivate you to add its Cookidoo® recipe to your weekly planner or your collection in your Cookidoo® account, you are a tough cookie to crumble! Haha! My daughter, Ragan, created this cookie recipe when I was in the US last fall with ..read more

Polenta Madeleines: A Delicious Autumn (Thanksgiving) Side or Appetizer Polenta Madeleines! Who’d have thought? Wish it was an ACF original idea, but it’s not. I found the recipe on our Thermomix® Cookidoo® Recipe platform here. I love polenta. I love sage. I am passionate about cute little ditties that are tasty and easy to make and unexpected or unusual! I think these are perfect for any fall Sunday Dinner or as a Thanksgiving side dish. YUM! Also, delicious hot out of the oven with melted butter and honey. Oh my. Or, just the butter. But, the honey? Yes, please. Could not resist trying ..read more

ACF Certified Promise: The Best Homemade Caramel Popcorn Recipe on The Planet My grandma Maude would have been 110 this past October. She lived to be 93. Gone 17 years and I miss her every day. She taught me so much more than how to make caramel popcorn and there is nothing like a Grandmother’s love, is there? Up to Edmonton on the bus she would come, year after year, for the Christmas holidays, a huge box of popcorn cakes in tow. Oh, my! Lauren makes them and gifts them to her friends every year, as I have for years, as well, though I certainly do not make as much of anything as I used to ..read more

Tickled Pink to make Baby Girl Shower Onesie Butter Cookies! Simple. Pink. Sparkly. Love how the Baby Girl Onsie Butter Cookies turned out. So “Amy-esque”: feminine with a bit of bling. Yet, it wasn’t as simple as it looks, or as it should have been! I had to re-make my babyface cookies, recall? Well, if you read the post, you would know I made them twice due to using the wrong pen, by accident. That took a bit of wound licking. Well, am I getting old, or what? (Yes, I know. I am getting old!) Wait ’til you hear this story! (Likely only that exciting for me, but – play along?) The baby girl ..read more

Lessons from my daughter and Strawberry Shortcake for Mother’s Day I had the good fortune to meet, visit and interview Elizabeth Baird, famed Canadian food educator, advocate and icon, one year at Christmas in November. Why did we talk about Strawberry Shortcake? I cannot recall, but I do recall asking her, “Would you say Strawberry Shortcake is a traditional Canadian food?” Her response? “Made with a biscuit?” I nodded. “Absolutely! The Strawberry Shortcake on a baking powder biscuit is most assuredly Canadian.” It made such sense to me. I have adored biscuits since grade 7 Home Economics cl ..read more

Butter If you know a cup of butter weighs 8 ounces, you could do the math yourself: 1 ounce = 28.34 grams, so one cup of butter weighs 227 grams. 1/4 cup of butter = 57 g 1/3 cup of butter = 76 g 1/2 cup of butter = 113 g Dry Goods All-Purpose Flour and Confectioners’ Sugar Cups  Grams  Ounces  1/8 cup (2 Tablespoons)  16 g  .563 oz  1/4 cup  32 g  1.13 oz  1/3 cup  43 g  1.5 oz  1/2 cup  64 g  2.25 oz  2/3 cup  85 g  3 oz  3/4 cup  96 g  3.38 oz   ..read more

A Taste Tripping Class taught be moi! As this was bread making 101, my main goal was to teach the gals how to work the dough and gain confidence in their ability to make their own homemade bread. We used the same recipe over and over to make different breads and then made an olive oil bread, too. My basic bread recipe is always the same. It is a wet dough that is from Richard Bertinet’s class that I took in Bath, and from his book Dough. Once all ingredients are mixed together, it is placed on the counter and worked in a very specific manner, using a small hand spatula, until the dough is as ..read more

LeQuan, with her mom, Chan, for a day of bread baking fun! However, I will confess, the timing was not good. I had them on one Sunday and the following Saturday was teaching my Taste Tripping Bread Making 101 Class. So, I am a little overwhelmed with bread making at the moment, and though I have made several loaves since, have no desire to spend another day deep in the yeasty pillows of dough until, oh, next winter! All that considered, both days were wildly gratifying for completely different reasons. With Chan and LeQuan the day started with a dignified cup of tea. Look at that pre-bread ma ..read more

Baking with a Friend ** Remember to join %%http://www.ziplist.com/mylist%% to create your own online recipe box and then click SAVE on my recipe below to add it! I use my online recipe box ALL the time ..read more