STICKY BUNS.
SO YUMMY IN MY TUMMY.
I normally make regular ol’ Cinnamon Rolls, but this time I decided to put a Valentine’s Day spin on my go-to recipe and use strawberry jam as the filling - because all things pink and red are Valentine’s Day festive, right?!
These Strawberry Sticky Buns are like soft fluffy pillows rolled together with gooey strawberry jam, and then drizzled with a tangy lemon glaze.
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!
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!)
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!
Okay. Confession time. I hardly ever make pancakes for breakfast. Whenever I’m craving a sweet breakfast, we always make our family-favourite Fluffiest Waffles. Because they’re just so darn fluffy and delicious!
But, sometimes you gotta break out of your box. And pancakes deserve some love too! Especially because pancakes are so easily stuffed with deliciousness like shaved almonds and sweet tart cranberries, which really ups the yum factor.
Eggnog waffles!
Raise your hand if you love eggnog.
Raise your hand if you love waffles.
We love both in this house - and as if we need an excuse to drink more eggnog - I swapped out the milk for eggnog in my go-to fluffy waffle recipe that we adore.