Incredibly Chewy Maple French Toast Cookies

 

Allow me to introduce Attempt #2 in my quest for a copycat of Bloom Cookie Co.'s maple french toast cookie. Damn you, Bloom, for making your cookies so unattainably delicious! (But please don't stop whatever you're doing. It's amazing).

I decided to try my hand at these again (attempt #1 can be found here) because I bought a package of maple french toast Blooms at Remedy on Friday, and I remembered how crazy good they are. Plus it's March, which means it's sugaring off season down east, which means MAPLE TIME. AKA, the most wonderful time of the year.

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Soft Maple Cinnamon Cookies

There are few things that smell better on a dreary October day than something cinnamony baking in the oven. Add maple to the mix and you'll have the most comforting aroma that ever wafted through a kitchen.

I have been trying to recreate a cookie that I bought from Bloom this summer - a soft, maple french toast flavoured treat. [Note: if you haven't had Bloom cookies yet, keep your eye out for them. They can be found at the City Market downtown and at all three Remedy locations. Their cookies are always soft, chewy, and totally addictive. If you can find the London Fog cookies, buy them and eat them before someone else does!]


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Brown Butter Financiers with Maple Cream

Springtime in Edmonton, with its 5-foot snow banks, brown slush and icy winds, makes me a little wistful for the springs I've had in other places. In England, March through June is a storybook season: a little gloomy at first, then optimistically budding, then verdant, blossoming, and lush. You kind of feel like having a picnic at all times. March in Montreal is icy and cold, sure, but it's also "sugaring off" season - or as I like to call it, MAPLE TIME - when dozens of little shacks set up all over the city, offering every kind of maple confection. The smell of warm maple syrup is in the air, and it's effing magical. 

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Apple & Olive Oil Cake with Maple Frosting

This started out as another tribute to London - it's a Yotam Ottolenghi recipe - and yet, there's something very Canadian about it (it's totally the apple/maple combo). And it feels very appropriate for Fall; "Mmmmm... appropriaaaaaate" is what I said to myself while stuffing my face with cake.


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Tarte au Sirop d'Érable (Maple Syrup Pie)

Having an end-of-November birthday is kind of depressing when you’re a university student – everyone is too busy with final projects and papers to spare a couple hours to celebrate with you. Or they’re watching the Grey Cup.

Anyway, in 2009 I was going to school in Montreal, and when my birthday rolled around I decided to book a hotel, get on a train, and have a holiday in Quebec City by myself.


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