Meet the Winning Bakers of Ontario’s Best Butter Tart Festival

The annual one-day festival saw more than 60,000 people descend on the town of Midland, eager to satisfy their sweet tooths.

10 Butter Tart Spots to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth

If you’re on a quest for butter tart bliss, here are 10 of Ontario’s top spots to indulge in this tasty national treat.

Why You Should Use Grapes Instead of Maple Syrup

Inspired by the sweet red grapes in her fridge, this blogger created a pancake topping to rival the sweetest of syrups.

Peanut Butter-Banana Smoothie Sweetened with Dates

Inspired by the banana milkshakes her grandma used to make, this Ontario blogger recreated the flavours into a healthy breakfast smoothie.

Sophisticated Cabbage From a Country Kitchen

Warm Mennonite hospitality is at the core of every dish this Ontario wife and mother serves to hungry crowds at her dinner table, who always take heaping seconds of her Company Cabbage casserole.

Mac and Cheese: A Canadian Twist on the Classic

Trained in the Swiss Alps, this award-winning Ontario cheese maker learned to make the richest, gooiest mountain-style macaroni and cheese.

How Cream Cheese Transformed This Banana Cake

By Audrey Vrooman, as told to Alex Mlynek Former bank executive Audrey Vrooman’s post-retirement passions—cake decorating and quilting—led her to this moist and flavourful banana cake.

How to Make Creamy Pennsylvania Dutch Mennonite-Potatoes

A favourite dish from his boyhood, cream potatoes takes this great-grandfather back to his Mennonite roots in Wallenstein, Ont.

Waterloo County’s Most-Coveted Butter Tarts

Never mind land and riches, Peggy Nagle married into a far better dynasty: butter tarts. Lynn Crawford scored the winning recipe at her local quilting bee.

How to Make the Perfect Pork Schnitzel

Hot demand for pork schnitzel in Waterloo, Ont., turned Teresa Huegle’s family diner into a schnitzel haven for breakfast, lunch and dinner.