Easy Honey Cake

Chinook just made a fantastic and easy Honey Cake adapted from this recipe at epicurious.  It's great because the mixing is easy (no butter) and it keeps well for a couple of days so it's great for bake sales and pot-lucks. Chinook's cake was for a potluck picnic and the pan was empty before going home. It will serve about 20-24 people

This is a super-flexible recipe and quite forgiving: great for new and experimenting bakers. See what you can find in your cupboard and make your own version.

It was successfully tested by one of our favourite 6-year-olds, with help from a grown up to put the pan in the oven: 

Her version is Lemon Ginger Honey Cake:

· replaced 1 cup honey with 1/2 cup lemon infused honey + 1/4 cup plain honey + 1/4 cup ginger simple syrup (these are things she had in the cupboard).

· replaced orange juice with lemonade

· replaced whiskey with ginger beer (a strong ginger soda pop popular in the UK and Jamaica, it's available in most grocer's) or ginger tea would also be great. 

· replaced coffee with chai (she used rooibos chai to make it caffeine-free)

· reduced the white sugar by half a cup

#ChinookCooks

Happy Easter!

We made these little bunnies with a simple origami pattern that you can try, too.

Happy Easter,

Robin & Judith 

Scribble Cookies

Over here at Windy & friends, we are getting ready for a new story in our series of Appisodes: Windy's Valentine Delight is coming out this week! More news soon, but in the meantime, here is a little Valentine's project we did! Really, you could do this anytime of the year. 

We made our scribble cookies with Henry, who was 4 when we made these. To make your own you will need some edible color markers like these ones from Wilton. Edible color markers are basically felt pens with food colouring for ink found in some specialty bake shops — we bought ours online. We found out about them from our friend Lyndsay over at Cococake Land.

We've had ours for a year now and they still work. They have less sugar than icing (in fact they have no sugar), and they don't make a mess. It makes for a really relaxed hands-free session of kid cookie-making with little clean-up time.

Instructions:

1. Make or buy a batch of light-coloured cookies. We made Cinnamon Shortbread adapted from the Gingerbread Shorties at Remedial Eating. The adaptation was: we added more cinnamon ^_^

2. Once they are cool, break out your edible color pens.

That's it! Have a good time in the kitchen.

A giveaway!

We're giving away two copies of our new app, Snowy & Chinook's Birthday Invite — enter here or at our facebook page! 

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What is the perfect gift for a buffalo?

In our book, "Snowy & Chinook," we told the story of two sisters searching for a birthday gift for their friend, Tulip, who is a buffalo. The gift they find in the book is different than the one they find in the app...it's a flower that they find growing in the snow. In our new appisode, "Snowy & Chinook's Birthday Invite," they come up with something different ....

Our book comes with a CD of music, including this beautiful song by our sound designer Brady Cranfield and Nick Krgovich and his incredible voice . Every time I hear this song, I can't believe how good it is. It makes me want to dance and and also, honestly a little bit teary. Such talented gentlemen.

We're on sale this week!

Our new appisode all about birthdays is on sale! 99¢ on the App store (US dollars), so there's never been a better time to try us out!