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ABOUT GRANNY LYN

Granny Lyn starting baking when she was very young, first helping her Mom in the kitchen by learning how to make awesome shortbreads that her Mom made only made at Christmas. Her baking experience expanded during her teenage years to making cakes, squares, cookies and sweets for her family.

Next she started making over 20 different types of Christmas cookies for family gatherings. Always trying new types of cookies and re-inventing recipes, it was with great anticipation that the family would wait to see the festive and decorated dessert platters arrive at the Christmas Gift Exchange.

Granny Lyn never went to culinary school, or studied to be a pastry chef. Instead she pursued a career in pharmaceuticals by studying chemistry and microbiology, and worked with several big name pharmaceutical companies in Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs. She started her own consulting company in 2003, and for several years she would bake to unwind from the challenges of assisting her Clients and managing a successful company. Often sharing the baked creations with several friends, neighbours and her Clients, she would hear them say “you should open a bakery”.

Granny Lyn’s Kitchen came to be one summer night at the cottage when her step-son and family were visiting. What started out as a joke by calling her Granny Lyn soon became her moniker and the bakery’s name was created.

After leaving the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) in 2015, she headed north to Huntsville with her husband and two fox red Labrador Retrievers, and decided to go for her dream of opening a bakery and sharing her cookie and cake creations.

BROWNIES AND SQUARES

RUM BROWNIES
Granny Lyn recommends that you should not eat one of her Rum Brownies and get in a car and drive. Semisweet chocolate and dark Jamaican rum make these brownies very decadent. Granny Lyn has been told these are the best brownies that her Customers have ever eaten, try one and let her know.

CAPPUCCINO BROWNIES
Decadent chocolate and espresso brownie layer covered with Cinnamon cream cheese frosting, topped off with a Bittersweet chocolate glaze and White chocolate cinnamon drizzle. Can be stored in the refrigerator for up to six weeks or frozen.

BOURBON BROWNIES
For a southern inspired brownie, try the combination of dark chocolate, cocoa, and Bulleit Bourbon Whiskey, then topped off with a shiny bourbon glaze. The brownie is so fudgy and decadent, and even better warmed and served with vanilla ice cream. It takes the brownie sundae to another level.

BROWNED BUTTER AND PUMPKIN SQUARES
Canadian sourced 100% pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie filling which has added ingredients and sweeteners) is combined with pecans to create moist and spicy squares, and then iced with a browned butter icing. These squares can be enjoyed anytime of the year, not just for Thanksgiving.

CHARDONNAY AND CASHEW BLONDIE
These classic blondies are both buttery and nutty. Chardonnay that has been aged in oak barrels is combined with cashews & butterscotch morsels and baked to perfection, with a golden shiny finish.

RUM AND RAISIN BLONDIE
Another spirited blondie, this time with plump juicy raisins that have been soaked in rum over a couple of days. There is something very magical the combination of rum and butterscotch.

LEMON SQUARES
These lemon bars have a sweet buttery crust topped with a tart and creamy lemon curd that makes you pucker up. A light dusting of icing sugar finishes these amazing squares, perfect with that afternoon cup of tea.

CELEBRATION CAKES

Our cakes are available as a single, double or triple layer cakes, and as a slab, 2 tiers, 3 tiers and 4 tiers.
Birthday and Smash cakes
Anniversary
Gender Reveal
Baptism
Baby showers
Bridal Showers
Groom’s Cakes
Wedding Cakes
Mother’s Day
Father’s Day

COMPANY’S COMING
Having a dinner party or the In-laws are coming over and you need/want a dessert to impress them?
Let us help if you don’t have enough time to make to bake. We can take the worry off your plate and put it on ours!

BREAD PUDDING

This bourbon infused bread pudding is like no other bread pudding you have tried before. The raisins are soaked for days in bourbon before they are mixed together with brioche bread chunks and custard. After the pudding has baked to a golden brown crust, a bourbon glaze is poured over top. This is as southern style comfort food as you can get while still in Muskoka.

POUND CAKES. FLAVOURS TO SUIT EVERY CRAVING

Classic – with maraschino cherries
Sunny lemon, glazed with citrus syrup
Island Rum Runner, glazed with dark rum syrup
White chocolate, orange and cranberry – very festive for Christmas, drizzled with white chocolate and topped off with orange zest.
Bourbon, glazed with bourbon syrup
Chocolate, drizzled with ganache and topped off with chocolate curls

COCONUT CAKE

Triple layer Coconut cake with a coconut creamy filling and butter cream icing, covered with shredded coconut. One of Granny Lyn’s favourite desserts to share with friends and family.

RED VELVET

Traditionally prepared, this triple layer cake has the distinctive red chocolate colour from buttermilk and coco powder. These ingredients give the cake a subtle, yet distinctive and delicious flavor that is not quite chocolate and not quite plain vanilla. The cake is topped off with a generous amount of cream cheese icing, which adds even more flavour to the cake and gives it a high contrast red and white finish.

The exact origins of this cake are unknown, but there are plenty of theories out there that try to explain how the cake got to be red. The original red velvet cake is said to have had a reddish hue that was caused by the reaction between natural cocoa powder and an acidic ingredient, like buttermilk.

BOSTON CREAM PIE

Classic sponge cake with a rich vanilla pastry cream filling then topped with a smooth chocolate ganache. Note: Ever wonder why this dessert is called a pie and not a cake? Cooks in New England and Pennsylvania Dutch regions were known for their cakes and pies and the dividing line between them was very thin. This cake was probably called a pie because in the mid-nineteenth century, pie tins were more common than cake pans. The first versions might have been baked in pie tins.

CUSTOM CAKE ORDERS

Cupcake Cakes
Serving a crowd? Cupcake cakes can be extremely user friendly and made as large as you want. They are very easy to serve, just pull a cupcake away from the main cake – no cutting is required!
3 Dimensional
Amazing 3-D and sculpted cakes are available. These cakes are quoted individually, as we strive to create the exact cake you want.
Cupcakes – Minimum order a dozen
Beer Run
Chocolate stout cake with Sawdust City Brewery beer butter cream, topped off with chocolate covered pretzels; Granny Lyn’s Kitchen specialty!
Salted Caramel
Chocolate cake with salted caramel butter cream drizzled with a thick and creamy caramel sauce.
Maple Praline and Cream
Homemade pralines top this cupcake made from maple cake and praline & cream icing.
Pina Colada
Pineapple cake with dark Jamaican rum butter cream and sprinkled with toasted coconut chips, with a cherry on top – just like the drink.
Strawberry Shortcakes
Strawberry cake with rich vanilla bean butter cream, finished with fresh strawberry dipped in white chocolate
Very Vanilla Bean
Vanilla cake speckled with vanilla beans, swirled with vanilla butter cream and your choice of coloured sprinkles
Orange Creamsicle
Orange cake and vanilla bean butter cream, with an orange pearl on top.

SPIRITED JAMS & JELLIES

You will find delicious Jams & Jellies …. all containing liqueurs. The superior quality and flavour of homemade jam outshine a store-bought one every time.

JAMS, Available in 250 mL and 500 mL jars

Flavours to choose from

Strawberry Long Island Iced Tea – Granny Lyn’s own recipe! It took a lot of tweeking, and some serious taste testing, but we believe we have the best tasting strawberry jam for breakfast or spooned over vanilla ice cream. Strawberries combined with McGuinness’s Long Island Ice Tea, Triple Sec and dark rum make this jam a must have in your pantry.

Strawberry Daiquiri – Granny Lyn’s own recipe! Strawberries, lime juice, and dark rum combined to make the jam version of the famous drink.

Strawberry-Port with Vanilla – This jam is a wonderful choice for those watching their sugar intake, as half of the sugar is replaced with Organic Blue Agave Syrup. We use Sandeman Ruby Port, which is a deep red-coloured sweet wine bursting with red fruit & berry flavours, combined with strawberries and a Vanilla Bean for hint of vanilla flavour.

Coconut Raspberry Rum – Granny Lyn’s own recipe! One day Granny Lyn was eating a wonderful coconut tart with raspberry jam on the bottom, and she thought the flavour combinations would make an excellent jam; crushed raspberries, sweetened coconut, and coconut rum.

White Chocolate Raspberry – Not your regular raspberry jam; raspberries and gourmet white chocolate chips topped off with Kahlua. Yummy!

Wild Blueberry with Blue Curacao – Granny Lyn’s own recipe! Ontario wild blueberries combined with a hint of orange flavour from the blue curacao make this soft spread a natural on pancakes and waffles.

JELLIES, Available in 250 mL jars

Pina Colada – Pineapple, coconut and pineapple rum mixed for a tropical treat. Excellent on toast, ice cream or used as a glaze on ham.

Margarita – This jelly is amazing served with crackers and softened cream cheese; Lime juice, tequila, and Triple Sec.

THE COOKIE JAR

DECORATED SUGAR COOKIES.
Any theme you can think of! A soft sugar cookie decorated with royal icing that comes in various sizes: 2” mini, 3“ medium, 4” large, and 5” and more Xtra large. Cost varies on the detail of the design. Corporate logos and images can be transferred onto sugar cookies. Minimum order one dozen.
PEANUT BUTTER
Peanut butter cookies are highly addictive; nutty, sweet and soft in the middle, finished with the iconic fork crisscross on top. Yummy.
CHOCOLATE CHIP
A serious chocolate chip cookie for the chocoholic in your life. This cookie has so much semi-sweet and bitter-sweet chocolate in every bite full, you won’t want to share them.
CRANBERRY WHITE CHOCOLATE
Chunks of white chocolate and sweetened cranberries in a butter cookie, very festive at Christmas.
MACADAMIA WHITE CHOCOLATE
Chunks of white chocolate and macadamia nuts in a butter cookie that melts in your mouth.
GINGER MOLASSES CRINKLES
This cookie has crispy edges with a soft gingerbread center made with Organic molasses, all topped with a crackly sugar crust. Amazing and one of the most popular cookies of the bakery.
CHOCOLATE GINGERBREAD
How do you make a gingerbread cookie even more scrumptious? You add coco powder and bitter-sweet chocolate morsels to the cookie.
COCOA NIB
Cocoa nibs are toasted cocoa beans that have been crushed into tiny irregular crunchy bits, perfect for cookies. Chocoholics rejoice, as these cookies have real bittersweet flavour, and the chocolate flavour is intensified by semisweet chocolate morsels.
LEMON SNOWFLAKES
These cookies are like a Madeleine, soft cake like texture, lemon flavour that is intense with a crackle finish and a dusting of powdered sugar.
MEXICAN HOT CHOCOLATE
What happens when you add just a pinch of cayenne pepper to a chocolate cookie, an amazing taste combination occurs. Try one and you won’t be disappointed.
OATMEAL
Made with a variety of different add ins, depending on Granny Lyn’s cravings that day such as Yellow raisins, Sweetened coconut, Semisweet chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, and her favourite cinnamon chips.
SHORTBREAD
French Blue Lavender –Lavender flowers speckled throughout flaky shortbread, and dusted with sugar. Once you try one you will not be disappointed.
Coconut – Fine macaron coconut mixed with buttery shortbread; Granny Lyn’s Kitchen specialty.
Ginger – Do you like Ginger? Do you really really like Ginger? Then these shortbreads are for you; fresh grated ginger, crystallized ginger bits and powder ginger for the Triple Crown of ginger cookies.
Maple – Made with Muskoka Maple Sugar and maple syrup.

About Us

CAPPUCCINO BROWNIES Decadent chocolate and espresso brownie layer covered with Cinnamon cream cheese frosting, topped off with a Bittersweet chocolate glaze and White chocolate cinnamon drizzle. Can be stored in the refrigerator for up to six weeks or frozen.

CHARDONNAY AND CASHEW BLONDIE These classic blondies are both buttery and nutty. Chardonnay that has been aged in oak barrels is combined with cashews & butterscotch morsels and baked to perfection, with a golden shiny finish.

LEMON SQUARES These lemon bars have a sweet buttery crust topped with a tart and creamy lemon curd that makes you pucker up. A light dusting of icing sugar finishes these amazing squares, perfect with that afternoon cup of tea.

BREAD PUDDING

CAPPUCCINO BROWNIES
Decadent chocolate and espresso brownie layer covered with Cinnamon cream cheese frosting, topped off with a Bittersweet chocolate glaze and White chocolate cinnamon drizzle. Can be stored in the refrigerator for up to six weeks or frozen.

CHARDONNAY AND CASHEW BLONDIE
These classic blondies are both buttery and nutty. Chardonnay that has been aged in oak barrels is combined with cashews & butterscotch morsels and baked to perfection, with a golden shiny finish.

LEMON SQUARES
These lemon bars have a sweet buttery crust topped with a tart and creamy lemon curd that makes you pucker up. A light dusting of icing sugar finishes these amazing squares, perfect with that afternoon cup of tea.