Baker – Aly Writes

Bumbleberry Buckle

This recipe will have you feeling like summer and ready for strawberry season, which is fast approaching.

Looking For a Home For One-Dozen Egg Yolks

I use my fingers, letting the white slip down into the bowl, leaving the glistening golden globes one at a time cradled in my hand. So easily done—what once was whole has now been twain.

Newfoundland Molasses “Lassy” Buns

These spiced raisin buns, traditional in Newfoundland, are a cross between a soft cookie and a biscuit.

Morning Glory (Math for Breakfast) Muffins

Filled with fruit and veggies, and customizable with any combination of nutty/fruity add-ins that your heart desires, this is the breakfast champion of all muffins.

All-Fruit Mincemeat

This recipe for homemade all-fruit mincemeat filling will make your kitchen smell absolutely sublime.

A Rise and A Fall

Three minutes can be an eternity. Forty-five breaths. One hundred and eighty seconds. Two hundred and ten heartbeats.

Baking Snobbery and Banana Oatmeal Muffins

So measure in cups, grams, or ounces, whatever you are comfortable with, and don’t let anyone’s snobbery stop you from baking your heart happy.

In Which Cake Becomes a Metaphor

A cake where the beauty is in the cake itself, exposed and unabashed, adorned by only the most carefully chosen elements that add to, rather than superseding, its flavour and appeal.

Perfect Buttery Shortbread

You enjoy your shortbread any way you like, ’cause life’s too short to make rules about cookies.

Millicent’s Lebkuchen

Perhaps knowing that someone you love has made them makes a cookie taste better than one you made yourself.