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Speculaas Squares

December 14, 2016 by Anna 10 Comments

Speculaas Squares

How many people have speculaas in their background, one of those cozy growing-up flavours your parents introduced you to? More savoury and spicy than sweet, speculaas flavour is really similar to chai flavour, the only real difference being the cardamom in chai. I’ve always loved chai tea and never really put two and two together […]

Filed Under: Cookies & Bars Tagged With: baking, chewy speculaas, recipe, speculaas squares, speculoos squares

Peanut Butter & Jam Oat Breakfast Bars

January 7, 2015 by Anna 19 Comments

Peanut Butter & Jam Oat Breakfast Bars

It is truly astounding how much I hate babysitting. I love my own children with an intense, unending, smothering love and literally never get tired of the blessing of getting to stay home with them. But, schedule me to be in a room with 10+ children, such as in our church nursery, and I literally […]

Filed Under: Baking, Cookies & Bars Tagged With: healthy breakfast bars, homemade breakfast bars, homemade granola bars, nutella oat bars, oat bars, peanut butter and jelly bars, squares

Marshmallow Chocolate Chip Squares

April 28, 2014 by Anna 79 Comments

Marshmallow Chocolate Chip Squares

I’m so happy to be back online with you all, and I hope you all like the new look as much as I do – we were going for fresh, bright, clean, and easy-to-use, and I’d love to hear your thoughts on whether we achieved that! Naturally, I decided the blog should go down right […]

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Saturday Sweets: Sugar Cookie Bars

January 25, 2014 by Anna 18 Comments

Saturday Sweets: Sugar Cookie Bars

I love sugar cookies intensely.  Sadly, I feel almost as intensely about my dislike of rolling out dough and cutting shapes and decorating individual cookies.  I have three littles, so they’re either helping (or hindering) me, or I’m trying to get something done by myself as quickly as possible.  Also, they have a thing for sprinkles […]

Filed Under: Cookies & Bars, Popular, Reader Favourites Tagged With: baking, easy bar recipes, perfect sugar cookie bars, quick sugar cookies, sugar cookie bars

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