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Category Archives: Cookies (sweet)
Daring Bakers – Gingerbread house
On the last day of the year I bring you this month’s Daring Bakers challenge 🙂 A challenge much to my liking I must say: making of a gingerbread house. A tradition that is not Dutch (or Croatian) at all. … Continue reading
Daring Bakers – Lebkuchen macarons with dark chocolate ganache
Finally I made macarons 🙂 and all because they were last month’s Daring Bakers Challenge. Like the last few months I’m late in posting but this time I did actually finish the macarons on the 27th but still had to … Continue reading
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Tagged almonds, cookies, Daring Bakers, gluten-free, lactose-free
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Daring Bakers – Puff pastry
Another late Daring Baker challenge… This month’s challenge was to make puff pastry and make some vols au vent with it. Even though there’s no picture of the vol au vents I did make them but they didn’t rise very … Continue reading
Dark brown sugar meringues
Having a lot of egg whites left-over from my sirnica I made these delicious dark brown sugar meringues. I’ve made them before and I love the way the brown sugar is dissolved by heating the egg white with the sugar … Continue reading
Biscotti with pink & white anise seed sprinkles
Yesterday a new role was bestowed upon me…I am an aunt! My SIL gave birth to a beautiful little girl yesterday evening. I haven’t seen her yet but will be heading there in a few hours. Becoming a mom felt … Continue reading
Earl Grey cookies
I don’t think I mentioned we were going to Washington… well we did and came back a week ago 🙂 I wanted to post about it whilst there but somehow I couldn’t log on to my blog administration (and didn’t … Continue reading
Spice cookies
The good news is that I’m baking again! The ‘bad’ news is that it’s nothing fancy up till now 😉 Besides the spinach quiche I made Patricia’s sweetened condensed milk cake, Dutch boterkoek topped with a layer of marzipan and … Continue reading
Mustacudos de muez – Walnut cookies flavoured with cinnamon and orange
(in case you’re wondering half way reading this if I realize that my post is called Mustacudos de muez – Walnut cookies flavoured with cinnamon and orange….I do 😉 I rediscovered some cookbooks that have been on my bookshelves for … Continue reading
Underwater cookies
We’re home for a week and a half but unfortunately I still have no inspiration for baking 😦 Lucky me (and you) that I still have a few recipes in the archives that I can post about. I’m starting today … Continue reading
Tehina shortbread rounds
I mentioned that I made tehina shortbread rounds in my last post. Making tehina shortbread has been on my to-do list for a long time now but I never really got round doing it. And I didn’t want to make … Continue reading
Psychedelic pinwheel cookies
These cookies are from Gerhard Jenne’s Wacky Cakes & Kooky Cookies and have been on my to-do list for forever. Gerhard calls them Bridget Riley cookies but I’ve looked at her work and I don’t think mine look like that … Continue reading
Euro/dollar/pound cinnamon chocolate cookies
This is one of the other goodies I made for the fundraiser that one of my readers organized for the Dutch branch of the Make A Wish Foundation (Doe Een Wens Stichting). The organizer works for a major bank so … Continue reading
Khatai cookies (Afghan cookies with cardamom and pistachio)
I made vegan cookies and I wasn’t even planning to make vegan cookies. I was browsing the internet for a Afghan cookie recipe to make for a friend of A’s who will be working in Afghanistan for 6 months. So … Continue reading
Cookies with pink and white anise seed sprinkles
In the Netherlands we have a tradition to serve something called ‘beschuit met muisjes‘ when a child is born. ‘Beschuit‘ is similar to rusks and ‘muisjes‘ are sugar coated anise seed sprinkles. The sprinkles are called ‘muisjes’ (little mice), the … Continue reading
Hazelnut cookies sandwiched with dulce de leche
Susan of Food Blogga is organizing a food blogging event to raise awareness for osteoporis, a disease in which bones become fragile and more likely to break. Eating food that contains enough calcium (and vitamine D), and doing regular exercise … Continue reading
Cantucci revisited
We survived our little vacation to Denmark 😉 but not without fevers and toothaches though. But despite that we had a wonderful time. We pretty much stayed within a circle of 25 km from our rented holiday house. I visited … Continue reading
One Perfect Ingredient – Hazelnut cookies
Maninas of Maninas: Food Matters is organising a competition that is focussed on our favourite ingredients. And 5 lucky winners can win a cookbook called One Perfect Ingredient by Marcus Wareing. And who doesn’t want to win a cookbook that … Continue reading
Octopus cookies
Here is my own entry to Go Ahead Honey, It’s Gluten Free! You still have one week to enter with your gluten free birthday treat for kids. So be creative and step out of your comfort zone and bake something … Continue reading
Goat butter boterkoek
If you know a little bit about Dutch cookies you should be familiar with boterkoek. Boterkoek a type of cookie that is baked in a pan and cut into wedges after baking. In that it’s similar to shortbread. The big … Continue reading
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