Recipes: Chocolate Diablo Cookies

Um, yum. These are so much more interesting and flavorful than your regular chocolate cookies. These combine chocolatey, spicy, sweet and salty flavours. They’re not for everyone, but if you are intrigued by the sound of cayenne, ginger and sea salt served up with a fudgey chocolate treat, these may be up your alley. We like them in our household as a special treat from time to time. They’re inspired by the ones served at Tacofino, a great local place famous for their Baja-style tacos. Check out the recipe below!

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Recipes: Chocolate Rosemary Sea Salt Cookies

I love sweet and salty treats and these cookies are good. I was inspired to test them out after recently trying one at Beaucoup Bakery, one of my favorite local bakeries. It turns out it’s not that hard to make them at home.  Try them out and see for yourself (or, if you’re not in the mood to bake your own, now you know where you can buy them)!

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Recipes: Christmas Cookies

A few days ago, it looked like a Christmas Cookie explosion in my house. I made shortbread, ginger molasses, and sugar cookies, and then put them in seasonal tins to give away.  Each of these three kinds of cookies is easy to make and hard to screw up.  Perfect, right? The shortbread is the most labour-intensive because there is some rolling and cutting involved, but it’s not too difficult.  The hardest part is not eating too many on your own (danger)! Here are my recipes below:

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