Ripe plums will give this cake the best flavour, but you also want to ensure that they're still firm enough to hold their shape during cooking. When selecting fruit at the market, look for deep, even colour and flesh that yields slightly to palm pressure.
Our step-by-step instructions from the January 1990 Cooking Lesson were developed by The Canadian Living Test Kitchen to make perogies perfectly simple — even for beginners.
These muffins are big on flavour and sure to entice even those who have no trouble with gluten. Play around with the fruit: Try dried blueberries, strawberries, raspberries or chopped apricots. People with gluten sensitivity or celiac disease should not buy dried fruit or nuts from bulk bins, since the products may be cross-contaminated with gluten-containing ingredients from another bin. (People often use the same scoop in different bins.) It is best to buy sealed containers.
Kind of like a puffy giant Yorkshire pudding, the Dutch Baby Pancake can be eaten on its own or filled with both sweet and savoury concoctions. We’ve topped ours with a classic fall favourite— caramelized apples. Enjoy!
A tender, cheese-flavoured topping gives plain old chili a lift. Though it's a bit of work, the effort will be well appreciated.
Instead of an icing, these pumpkin pie-spiced muffins are dressed up with a complementary maple spread. In a hurry? Omit spread and serve as is or with butter.