Baking & Desserts p1 - Canadian Living

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Choose from 25 loving cookie recipes, plus our expert tips on how to make beautiful cutout cookies.

Everyone loves muffins! Bake your best batch every time with these tips from the Test Kitchen.

Find decadent chocolate recipes for real chocoholics: chocolate cookies, brownies, cakes and desserts, all Tested...

Find great tips for baking a cake with our Test Kitchen experts.

Find fun cupcake decorating ideas and spring into celebration mode with these party-perfect treats.

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Learn how to make this delicious Mocha Mousse Cake from start to finish.

Kids always know what they want for their birthday - especially when it comes to their cake. Browse these inspired...

Creative birthday cake ideas to give your special day extra fun flair, submitted by our readers in The Canadian...

Check out these amazing hockey cakes that readers submitted as a part of The Canadian Living Crazy Cakes 2011...

This fancy cookie makes a beautiful (and tasty) holiday centrepiece.

Photo gallery: Gingerbread Lighthouse project

A creative take on the classic gingerbread house, kids young and old will love creating this colourful Gingerbread Lighthouse.
Family craft: Gingerbread ornaments

Personalize your tree with homemade decorations you can make with the kids.
Christmas cookies our grandmothers made

An homage to Christmas baking from our grandmothers' era: hermits, brown sugar cookies, and mocha crinkles.
Cookies for Santa

Give Santa a little variety this year with these easy recipes for Christmas cookies, simple enough for the kids to help bake: butter cookies, spirals, gingerbreads, macaroons, rice pops and more.
5 cookie recipes to freeze and bake later

These make-ahead, freeze-ahead cookie recipes can be made around your hectic schedule.
Have a gingerbread house party!

Back by popular demand, this is the original gingerbread house party from our December 1990 issue. Enjoy!
7 homemade treats to wrap

These holiday baking recipes are always a much appreciated gift!
Gingerbread project: Vintage Gingerbread Truck and Trees

Get the family together to make this vintage truck at the Christmas tree lot - a fun and whimsical gingerbread project that will appeal to both young and old, plus it's easy for little hands to decorate.