Category: Sweets
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Homemade Fruit Cocktail Recipe Without Sugar
Fruit cocktail is a delicious cold treat and easy to carry around in lunches, for toddlers, or to store away for later. It is made using different kinds of fruit mixed together and is healthy. Well normally it’s healthy but the store bought ones are filled with corn syrup, maltodextrin, a lot of sugar, and…
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All Natural Mint and Calamondin Jello Recipe
We love making things out of the edible plants we grow in our garden and sometimes that brings about new flavor combinations. Like when our apple mint plant and calamondin tree were ready to harvest at the same time. We had a lot of mint and calamondin oranges in the summer season and one of…
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Sparkling Blueberry Lemonade Recipe
When making this recipes please note that you should add sugar to taste some people think it taste better with less sugar about ¾ cups while other people (especially children) think it taste better with 1 cup of sugar. Ingredients1 ½ Cups Blueberry Lemonade1 Cup Fresh Squeeze Lemon Juice4 Cups Sparkling Water Chilled1 Cup Sugar…
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Gingerbread House Recipe
We love making our own gingerbread dough for houses. This year we also made a gingerbread boat and it came out really good. This recipe can make about four or five houses depending on the size of houses you are making. We also use the scraps to make tiny houses to hang on cups and…
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Strawberry Trifle Recipe
We are making the most of all of our fresh strawberries today by making strawberry trifle. Strawberry trifle takes the best of some classic desserts and mixes them together into something truly delicious. It has custard, a Swiss roll, whipped cream, and strawberries. Ingredients 1 Strawberry Swiss Roll Cake2 Cups Fresh Strawberries¼ Cup Strawberry Syrup2…
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Lemon Meringue Pie Recipe
Lemon meringue pie has been a family favourite here at our little chateau for generations. This smooth sweet and a savoury pie is prefect for anyone who doesn’t like things that are sweet like candies, sweets, and cakes. It is not an easy cake to make but you can save yourself some time and effort…
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Mango Braid Pastry Recipe
Here is another French Pastry we really love to eat durning the summer. This pastry is very easy and fun to make. It doesn’t use any sugar as the mangos are ready sweet and get sweeter when bakes. This braided pastry as quickly become a family favorite and for good reason, it is light delicious.…
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Easy Eton Mess Recipe
It just wouldn’t be summer without a sweet and smooth strawberry treat. Today we were looking for something light and cool after a long day of gardening and playing outside. As pointed out it doesn’t get much lighter than Eton Mess. This cool and creamy dessert melts in you mouth including the crunchy meringue on…
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Easy Redcurrant Muffin Recipe
While I was pregnant with my youngest child I really liked sour fruits. During red current season I whipped together more than a batch or two for redcurrant muffins. Our other two children also liked the sweet and sour elements of the muffins and even took some to school to share. This photo is of…
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Fluffy Strawberry Yogurt Scones Recipe
This is another Sunday brunch favorite at Our Little Chateau. These scone are easy to cut into fun shapes and have a light vanilla and strawberry flavor that isn’t to over powering. They are wonderful to eat on their own or with jam. Ingredients 3 1/2 Cups All-Purpose Flour 1 Teaspoon Baking Powder ¼ Teaspoon…
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