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Healthier Butter Tarts

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Healthier Butter Tarts

I know, I know, you don’t believe me that there is such thing as HEALTHIER Butter Tarts, but please do know that I have found the solution! And the best part is that it combines my Grandmother’s Traditional Butter Tart Recipe and makes it slightly healthier. Now, I want you to understand that I am not magical, these are definitely not HEALTHY Butter Tarts, but they can be considered a HEALTHIER Butter Tart, so read on to find out how I discovered this. The goodness of a Butter Tart is all in the FILLING, would you not agree? That is … Continue reading →

Grandma’s Butter Tarts {RECIPE}

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Grandmas Butter Tarts

Butter Tarts are definitely one of my weaknesses! I absolutely love how they melt in your mouth. My favourite kind are with just a few raisins. This recipe is from my Grandmother. When I was in University, my parents left me alone for the entire summer as they went up to the cottage. I was so excited to have the house to myself, but specifically, I was excited to bake in the kitchen. My Mom didn’t love it when I asked to bake in her kitchen (I think it was because of the mess that I often created as I … Continue reading →

Tip: When Baking with Peanut Butter…. {recipes}

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Baking with Peanut Butter

We are HUGE fans of peanut butter in our house, so you can only guess that we do A LOT of baking with peanut butter! In fact, our favourite brand of Peanut Butter can only be purchased in the US so this past summer, hubby and I stocked up for the year! Can you guess how many large jars of peanut butter we bought? Need a recipe to try out that uses Peanut Butter to put this tip to the test? For those of you who enjoy baking with peanut butter as much as I do, here are some of … Continue reading →

Chocolate Chip Zucchini Banana Bread

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Chocolate Zucchini Banana Bread

When I was younger, my Mom used to call Zucchini bread, “Christmas Bread”. Somehow, giving it a fun name made my sister and I much more willing to give the bread a try AND we loved it! With my children, I really wanted them to learn from a very young age that zucchini was a delicious vegetable option and while we don’t eat it plain as a vegetable, I do add it to baking all of the time. So, I was up front with them when I served them zucchini muffins or Chocolate Chip Zucchini Banana Bread and told them … Continue reading →