Gold Winner The Old Apothecary Silver Winner Julien’s Patisserie, Bakery & Cafe Bronze Winner Scanway Bakery + Café The Old Apothecary is a dream for anyone with a sweet tooth and/or a love of homemade bread. Owner Laura MacLeod says the reaction to this year’s win “was a mixture of excitement and relief,” especially given […]
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Sweet unions: four ice cream sandwiches to make at home
Grandma’s House Dee Dee’s Ice Cream’s vanilla ice cream, Helen B’s Preserves’ strawberry rhubarb jam and Smith’s Bakery ginger cookies Cocoa-loco Humani-T Cafe’s dark chocolate gelato, 24 Carrots Bakery’s chocolate-dipped shortbread and coconut flakes Sweet Enough Common Confections’ salted caramel dairy-free frozen dessert, LF Bakery’s milk bun and toasted sesame seeds Pool Party Scanway Catering […]
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Cream of the crop
Roll on Two A hollow pastry is basically wasted if it’s not filled with ice cream. When Andrei and Orit Paunescu opened their little Hungarian chimney cake bakery in the early spring, they had a soft serve machine on their shopping list—and lucky for us it happened in time for summer. The puffy, perfectly golden […]
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Best Cookie / Cupcake / Doughnut
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 Scanway Bakery + Cafe Middle Spoon co-owner Lacey Doherty was the kind of kid who spent every penny of her allowance at the candy store. Her sweet tooth’s been put to good use at her Barrington Street source of killer cocktails and […]
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Best Bakery
Gold Winner Julien’s Patisserie, Bakery & Cafe, Hydrostone Silver Winner The Old Apothecary Bronze Winner Scanway Bakery + Cafe Husband and wife team, Lana and Mike Ansari own Julien’s, and running the cafe/bakery sounds like a lot of work. But a lot of fun. “Everybody likes bread,” Lana says, especially the delicious loaves and pastries […]
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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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Gingerbread Doughnuts with Egg Nog Glaze
Ingredients 10 cups all-purpose flour 2 cups white sugar 4 tbsp ground cinnamon 2 tbsp ground nutmeg 4 tbsp ground ginger 1 tsp ground cloves 4 tbsp baking powder 4 eggs 4 cups whole milk 1 tbsp vanilla vegetable oil (or your choice) to fill deep-fryer 1 lb doughnut fondant (can be purchased from specialty […]
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Unni Simensen
Founder and former chef, Scanway Catering It was back in 1980 when Unni Simensen opened Scanway Catering. “Everybody called me Mr. Simensen,” she says, laughing. “There weren’t too many women.” Simensen has always been a perfectionist, even when it made things difficult. “I had to get a few things sent from the market in Boston […]
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How to bribe Santa with cookies
Now that it’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year, shifty-eyed tots around the world are breaking into a nervous sweat whenever the words “naughty or nice” come up. But before they take that long Christmas Eve walk down the red and green mile to their rooms, think about giving the naughtier children in your […]