Relish Recipes — Desserts

Canada Day Lemonade & Ice Box Cookies

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Canada Day Lemonade & Ice Box Cookies
It's cottage time here in Ontario and we've got two recipes to share this weekend. Ice box cookies are a favourite standby in the summertime. Store this slice-and-bake roll of cookie dough in your fridge or freezer - to make freshly baked cookies that are ready in 10 minutes. And keeping a jar of this lemon syrup in the fridge makes it easy to stir up a glassful or pitcher of fresh lemonade for company!

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Rhubarb-Oatmeal Streusel Muffins

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Rhubarb-Oatmeal Streusel Muffins
These muffins have been a "Donna-Marie favourite" for years. The original recipe hails from the Canadian Living Country Cooking cookbook from 1991. No matter in what form this tasty quick bread is baked, it's the highlight of any breakfast or coffee break and best served warm.

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The Versatile Crêpe with Two Fillings

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The Versatile Crêpe with Two Fillings

Thin French pancakes, the well-known crêpes can be filled with either sweet or savoury fillings. You can make them ahead, keep a batch in the fridge or freeze. Even just a slather of jam, a scoop of vanilla ice cream and a drizzle of chocolate sauce makes a super easy dessert!

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Anna Olson's Chewy Chocolate Brownie Cookie

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Anna Olson's Chewy Chocolate Brownie Cookie

These more-ish cookies have a lovely crackled satin surface that looks just like a well-made pan of chocolate brownies and they have a chocolate flavour that’s just as intense due to the proportionately large quantity of chocolate in the recipe. Get that glass of cold milk ready! We may just have a plate of these on March 25, 2023, when Anna comes to Relish to launch her new cookbook - Baking Wisdom.

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Elsie’s Lemon Meringue Pie

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Elsie’s Lemon Meringue Pie
Donna-Marie's grandmother, Elsie Roy made the best Lemon Meringue Pie - always from scratch and never with a recipe. She remembers her saying "the pastry wasn't flaky enough or the filling didn't set quite right or the meringue has beads" but to her, it was always perfect. 

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