Cinnamon Streusel Muffins

Bakery-style Cinnamon Streusel Muffins for a sweet breakfast!

Sunday was our 1 year anniversary of being engaged! The countdown to the wedding begins! We love to celebrate the little things around here - it’s always a good excuse to open up a nice bottle of wine! 😉

To celebrate, we went for a walk on the beach where J proposed, and then came home and made a delicious dinner together - cooking in the kitchen with him is one of our favourite things to do together. We made beef tenderloin (!), garlic mashed potatoes, and roasted brussels sprouts. For dessert I whipped up one of my famous apple crisps using the recipe that’s been passed down through my family.

As I was sprinkling the crumble topping on top of the sliced apples I wondered if I could turn it into a muffin topping. Streusel-topped muffins? Yes please!

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Simple Homemade Granola Bars

These homemade granola bars are SO SIMPLE! One bowl, 6 ingredients and 20 minutes from start to finish!

I have a little notebook where I jot down recipes that are given to me by friends on scraps of paper, or from colleagues on post-it notes. Cooking is a favourite conversation subject of mine, so inevitably someone is always giving me a recipe to try. 😉

These Simple Homemade Granola Bars are a recipe given to me by a friend, during the time after university when I was single and learning how to cook for myself. (It was also during the time where me and said friend would get together for ‘Sex and the City’ parties, where we drank Cosmopolitans and watched through the six seasons together.)

So these granola bars really deserve to be called Laurel’s Granola Bars.

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Cinnamon Raisin French Toast Bites

French Toast Bites are sprinkled with chewy raisins and drizzled with a sweet and crunchy brown sugar cinnamon topping.

Soft, cinnamony, French Toast in the cutest bite-size form are sprinkled with chewy raisins and drizzled with a sweet and crunchy brown sugar cinnamon topping: it’s Cinnamon Raisin French Toast Bites! It’s French Toast To-Go!

…Is there nothing better than taking French Toast to-go? I think not. (And for real, I did take two of these Cinnamon Raisin French Toast Bites to work and ate them from tupperware at my desk yesterday. Not fancy, but so fun and portable!)

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Homemade Raspberry Pop Tarts

If you love pop tarts, then you will love these Homemade Raspberry Pop Tarts! All the flavor without the fake ingredients! | breakfast for dinner

Okay, I have to be honest with you and tell you that I was never allowed to eat Pop Tarts as a kid. “Too much sugar!” my mom would say, shaking her head. I also wasn’t allowed sugary cereals for breakfast - if sugar was the first ingredient in the ingredients list, it was banned from my childhood breakfast table. (Way to go, mom! My adult self thanks you!)

Now that I’m an adult (how did that happen?!) I shop for my own groceries and can buy breakfast pastries galore - but considering that Pop Tarts have 456,264,196 unpronounceable ingredients in them, I’d rather make my own!

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Fluffy Scrambled Eggs

These scrambled eggs are a GAME CHANGER.

They are FLUFFY and CREAMY and SIMPLE and everything you could ever want in a scrambled egg!

My whole life I have been over-thinking scrambled eggs! How do you scramble your eggs? Before I was shown the light, I used to whisk my eggs in a bowl with milk and then pour them into a greased pan, let them sit a bit, then break them up, turn them over, cook until set, and then eat.

There’s no pre-whisking these eggs. There’s no milk. The only ingredients in these new life-changing fluffy scrambled eggs are 1) eggs and 2) butter.

The other secret? The constant STIR.

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