Marie Cookpad

  It had to be done. Tis the season and all that. The season for delicious rhubarb and strawberry desserts.  Desserts such as Strawberry & Rhubarb Crisp.  A family tradition going back bazillions of years!   Strawberry & Rhubarb Crisp is an old family favourite. It is something my mother made and her mother before her. It is a delicious dessert that I made for my own family when they were growing up and it is a dessert I still make at least once a year for my husband.   Even though it is not something I can still enjoy myself, it is something I can make for him and that he can enjoy to his heart's content.  I have cut my original recipe in half to make only four servings because we are only two and he can only eat so much.   So if you are a larger family, or if you just plain want more of it, feel free to double up all of the ingredients and pop it into a 9 inch square baking dish. It will require the same amount of time to cook, or possibly a ...

  I was gifted with a quantity of rhubarb the other day and since I usually bake my honey something to enjoy at the weekend I decided to bake him a rhubarb cake.  He does love a piece of cake with his hot drinks.  I don't blame him.  Hot drinks and cakes go together like peas and carrots!   This is one of my favourite Rhubarb Cakes. Quick & Easy Rhubarb Cake is extremely easy to make and oh so delicious! I never get tired of it. Never.   Everything for the cake gets beaten together in one bowl.  There no need for multiple bowls like there is with some cakes.   You beat together the cake ingredients, easy peasy, beginning with the eggs and sugar.  I like to beat them until they are really light in colour.  The volume will also increase somewhat and it will become thick.   I use Vanilla Paste for this because I love the depth of vanilla flavour it gives to bakes, plus the little flecks of vanilla seeds throughout the batter are al...