Jam cookies are made with a simple sugar cookie dough and filled with your favorite jam. Soft and chewy, they make a delightful addition to any cookie tray any time of the year. Cookies with a dollop of your favorite jam, minimal ingredients and pantry staples make an irresistible treat to share with family and friends. Use whatever jam you have in your fridge to make these delicious sweet treats.

The cookie dough comes together quickly and is firm to roll into balls. No chilling is required. Roll the balls with your hands until they are smooth to ensure that…

Ciambelle al Vino are wine cookies in Italian. Aromatic, crunchy, ring-shaped biscuits prepared with basic staples flour, wine, sugar and olive oil. Traditionally found in the poorest households, a delightful dessert that is served after a meal and dipped in wine. Fragrant with anise seeds, delicately rolled in sugar, these cookies can be served as a dessert and accompanied with a glass of wine or a coffee. …

Dutch Baby Pancakes are also known as German pancakes, light and fluffy pastry puff baked in a cast-iron skillet. This delicious breakfast is easy to prepare and requires minimal ingredients: eggs, milk, flour, sugar, vanilla and butter. Sift the flour in this recipe for added lightness and fluffiness in the pastry. The pancake puffs up while it bakes in the oven with a custardy base and crisp edges. Top with fresh berries, whipped cream, and dust with confectioner’s sugar; for added sweetness, you can drizzle maple syrup. Although the Dutch Baby Pancake is typically served for breakfast, it makes a…

The simplicity of this Avocado Toast recipe not only makes it easy to prepare, but the results are also amazingly delicious! Mashed avocado and a home-baked Sunflower Seed bread, drizzled with high-quality olive oil, a squeeze of lemon, freshly ground black pepper and sea salt garnished with red pepper flakes and finely chopped parsley. A beautifully creamy Avocado toast to enjoy for either breakfast, lunch or snack.

The Sunflower Seed Bread is a perfect pairing to the avocado toast. Made with a blend of all-purpose and whole wheat flour, sunflower seeds, old-fashioned rolled oats, flaxseed meal and lightly sweetened with…

This delicious Sunflower Seed Bread is made with a blend of all-purpose and whole wheat flour, sunflower seeds, old-fashioned rolled oats, flaxseed meal and lightly sweetened with honey. The old-fashioned rolled oats give the bread a hearty texture, the flaxseed meal provides fibre and the sunflower seeds give the bread added toasted crunch.

This recipe is both simple in preparation and ingredients. Most of the time needed in this bread recipe is the dough’s rising time; all you have to do is combine the ingredients, mix and knead with a stand mixer, and let the dough rise and bake. Brushing…

Bursting with fresh, plump blueberries and fragrant lemon zest, these Blueberry Lemon Muffins are made with simple, fresh ingredients and require minimal preparation time. Lemon zest is the lemon skin’s outer yellow part, which gives these muffins a bright, fresh flavor. The olive oil and sour cream give these muffins a soft and airy crumb. Fresh blueberries are preferred, but you can make this recipe year-round with frozen blueberries, and there is no need to thaw them first; simply fold them into the batter.

This easy recipe comes together in minutes, with basic pantry staples, and all the ingredients are…

Strawberry Walnut Bread is a perfect summer dessert, especially with fresh from the garden strawberries. With the strawberry season fast approaching, there is no better way to enjoy fresh strawberries than in a delicious dessert. This recipe is simple to make, requires pantry staples and can either be prepared with a stand mixer or hand by simply combining the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and folding the chopped walnuts and fresh strawberries. Transfer the batter to a loaf pan, and all the magic happens while it bakes in the oven! This buttery-vanilla batter is the base of the sweet…

These Chocolate Chip Muffins are soft, fluffy and studded with chocolate chips! What a perfect way to start your morning! This thick muffin batter is mixed by hand and will hold the chocolate chips, so they do not sink to the bottom. The butter, eggs, milk and sour cream give these muffins a rich flavor. When mixing the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients, make sure you combine and not over mix. Baking at an initial high temperature will cause the batter to expand, giving these muffins a high top and a puffy dome, just like bakery-style muffins. To store…