Gold Winner Layers Cakes Silver Winner Scanway Bakery + Cafe Bronze Winner Susie’s Shortbreads, downtown The small storefront on lower Barrington Street beckons, its soft colouring evocative of all the mellow buttercream goodness awaiting inside. Shelves on the walls are loaded with impressive, architectural wedding cakes, but everyone knows it’s the bite-sized pleasures that really […]
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Best Desserts
Gold Winner The Middle Spoon, Halifax Silver Winner Sweet Hereafter Cheesecakery Bronze Winner Layers Cakes “Twenty sixteen was probably our best year yet,” says The Middle Spoon’s Lacey Doherty of the restaurant’s second straight sweet win. She credits word of mouth for keeping the girls nights, date nights and treat seekers coming in for her […]
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Salted Caramel Sauce
Ingredients 1,560 g sugar 4 tbsp water 3 cups salted butter 4 tsp pure vanilla extract 2 cups heavy cream 2 tsp sea salt Method Cook sugar and water in large, deep saucepan on medium-high. Using a wooden spoon, stir constantly until sugar reaches 200 degrees on a candy thermometer. Watch carefully as sugar can […]
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Best Cookie / Cupcake / Doughnut
Gold Winner Layers Cakes Silver Winner Scanway Bakery + Cafe Bronze Winner Susie’s Shortbreads, Halifax Cupcakes and wedding cakes are the name of the game at Barrington Street’s dessert boutique, Layers. The challenge? Most of the time these sweets are almost too pretty to sink your teeth into. But only almost. Whether you’re ordering a […]
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Best Cookie / Cupcake / Doughnut
Gold Winner Susie’s Shortbreads, downtown Silver Winner Layers Cakes Bronze Winner Little Red Kitsch’n, Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market Coconut, sprinkles, sparkles, icing and gumdrops equal a cupcake overload. Locally owned Susie’s Shortbreads is a vision of everything a sweet shop should be, from the striped pink awning to its checkerboard floor. Your sweet tooth will […]
