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Surprise Spring Cookies and Cream Cake

This beautiful Cookies and Cream Cake has a secret spring surprise inside! Made with rich chocolate cake and vanilla buttercream, crushed Oreos add the beautiful effect to this spring speckled egg cake.
This beautiful Cookies and Cream Cake has a secret spring surprise inside! Made with rich chocolate cake and vanilla buttercream, crushed Oreos add the beautiful effect to this spring speckled egg cake.  Spring is here at last! And what better way to celebrate than with a cake? A surprise cake! You heard me. Inside this… Read More

Sugar Cookie Citrus Tarts

Sugar Cookie Citrus Tarts - I Say Nomato
These Sugar Cookie Citrus Tarts will melt in your mouth. They're so light and delicious - bet you can't have just one!  This recipe was a result of desperation. No, I'm not talking about my citrus cravings, (though those are persistent and many!) I'm talking about my egg yolk problem. In that I have too… Read More

“Hamburger” Macarons

"Hamburger" Macarons - I Say Nomato
I have a deep and abiding love for food that looks like other food. I'm talking cakes made of meatloaf and mashed potatoes, cupcakes that look like spaghetti and meatballs, devilled egg cake balls... you get the idea. So when I first started making macarons, you can bet the ol' noodle started cooking. I mean, what… Read More

Apple Blossom Sugar Cookies

Apple Blossom Sugar Cookies are the most delicious way to celebrate spring!
Welcome to Week #3 of my Nova Scotia local food series! What better way to celebrate a local festival than with its namesake in COOKIES? These Apple Blossom Sugar Cookies are so easy to make. They're smooth, buttery, and not too sweet! I live in the little corner of Nova Scotia called the Annapolis Valley, which… Read More

Double Chocolate Chip Cookies

Decadent, rich Double Chocolate Chip Cookies. The stuff dreams are made of!
If you make any food at all in your house, you know that there comes a time in every relationship when you must attempt the impossible: Make your partner's favourite recipe from when they were a kid. Ah yes, that macaroni casserole laced with summer picnic nostalgia, that pie whose smell wafts through the halls… Read More

Mint Chocolate Macarons

These Mint Chocolate Macarons are simply heaven in one bite. Chewy, delicate heaven.
Well my friends, it seems I have met my match at last. Really, I should have known these wouldn’t be that easy. From the verb “avoir” to the Eiffel Tower, the French never make anything easy. I was lured into a false sense of security by those deceivingly light-hearted and encouraging tutorial videos and blog… Read More

Soft and Chewy Molasses Cookies

Soft and Chewy Molasses Cookies - I Say Nomato Nightshade Free Food Blog
Surprise Wednesday Night Post! Woohoo! This year I participated in the 5th year of the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap! The FBCS is a really fun (and delicious!) event for food bloggers that helps to raise money for a different charity every year. This year, proceeds are going to Cookies for Kid's Cancer, a non-profit that helps fund new… Read More

White Chocolate Meringue Cookies

White Chocolate Meringue Cookies - I Say Nomato Nightshade Free Food Blog
My family has very strange rules about things sometimes. I think every family does. Things that you don’t realize are actually strange rules until someone who’s not one of the family points them out. Obviously they start for one logical reason or another, but then as a kid you just kind of accept that that’s just… Read More