Three forms of maple add just the right amount of sweetness to these simple cookies. Maple sugar is available in the baking aisles of large grocery stores or in gourmet food shops. Use leftover maple sugar to flavour coffee and oatmeal or in place of white sugar in selected dessert recipes.
The amount of sugar you like depends on the sourness of the plums. Taste and add more sugar if you wish. Serve with yogurt cheese, ice cream or sweetened mascarpone cheese.
Fresh mint and peas are signals that spring is on its way. Steam these while the lamb is standing before carving.
A simple icing trick turns these sugar cookies into glittery works of art. Make sure you gently tap off as much excess decorating sugar as possible for the most polished end-result. You can also use a toothpick to scrape off any loose sugar after the cookies are dry.
Sugar-coated and pretty, these cookies melt in your mouth.
Vanilla bean and fragrant lemon zest give this buttery shortbread an incredible aroma. Once you've used the seeds, add the vanilla pod to a jar of granulated sugar to make gourmet vanilla sugar.
Using granulated instead of brown sugar creates an interesting crunchy topping.
This classic pie uses sugar, or pie, pumpkins, which are abundant in the fall. They are much smaller than jack-o'-lantern pumpkins; one average-size sugar pumpkin will yield enough purée for just a single pie.
Summer is not summer without corn on or off the cob. Here's a new way to enjoy it – in a salad with a hint-of-heat jalapeño dressing and some crispy glazed salmon.
