Baking

Love oatmeal cookies? Try adding oatmeal to your shortbread.

I love a good crumb bar, and this recipe is the breakfast equivalent. These bars feel decadent, but you can tell from the mostly wholesome ingredients list that they are anything but. I like to serve them to the kids with a smoothie when I’m in a hurry, or on their own as something to take on the go. While I use jam in this recipe, sliced or fresh berries scattered over the bottom layer of the bar will work as well. They are easiest to cut once chilled and store exceptionally well in the refrigerator and freezer.

This crisp features a streusel topping made of oats, flour, butter and sugar. The oats, which crisp up into crunchy morsels in the oven, give it its name.

These muffins are a fall favourite, but if you want to make them year-round (they’re that good), and can’t get your hands on pumpkin ale, cream ale—or apple juice!—works just as well.

These rustic chocolate chip oatmeal cookies pack easily and only take 25 minutes to make! The brown sugar lends them serious depth of flavour.