COOKIES
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Coffee Macarons & Pumpkin Pie Spice too – I’d FALL for these anyday!
It's MacTweets Attack Season 13...lucky for some, unlucky for none we hope! It's to do with fall. This is the time of the year in the Northern Hemisphere where the leaves turn red, gold, auburn ... where the days grow dark and cold. What does Fall mean to you? My fall macarons are coffee for the warmth of the season, and pumpkin pie spice for all things nice! I found feet twice, and 'fell' for both!!
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Baking | PINKARONS – MACARONS FOR PINKTOBER
“We’ll drink a drink a drink To Lily the pink the pink the pink The savior of the human race. She invented medicinal compound. Most efficacious in every case.” Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales The MacTweets time again, and this time we’ve gone PINK in support of Breast Cancer Awareness for Pinktober. Through the month of October, I tend to think a lot of PINK. Often, the first song that comes to my mind is this funny pub song. Have you heard it before? I’m not sure if we were taught it in school {a pub song seems somewhat inappropriate to be taught in school}, but I can sing it out loud,…
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{Daring Bakers} Decorated Sugar Cookies … these ones are for Rosie!
“Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness, and at the end of the day you don’t look at it and wish you had painted something different.” Author Unknown In Mandy’s words … “For you, it may be back to school; the start of Spring or Autumn/Fall depending where you are in the world; September could also be someone special’s birthday or even the beginning of your favourite sporting season. Whatever happens in your life in September, that’s what I’d like your cookies to be about.” The September 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Mandy of “What…
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{Baking} CHOCOLATE ALMOND BISCOTTI … the fuss about Valrhona
“There’s nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with CHOCOLATE!” Linda Grayson, “The Pickwick Papers” Sometimes life springs wonderful surprises, and I sit back reminiscing about how far I’ve come in the past couple of years, and more often than never, the connections boil down to twitter. I have met so many great folk here, all like minded, food at the centre of our universe, and vibes that make everyday HAPPY! Amazing!! One such tweep is the fun and very talented girl Shayma who blogs at The Spice Spoon. Have you met her? She writes evocatively, a food blog with plenty of connect, inspired by her heritage.…
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Baking| COFFEE CHOCOLATE-CHIP COOKIES… and a winner for the ice-cream maker giveaway!
“Baking chocolate-chip cookies – an act that makes all seem right with the world….” Dorie Greenspan on twitter Don’t you just love that line? I chanced upon the tweet from Dorie Greenspan a few days ago and the words stuck to my mind. Strangely enough I had a batch of chocolate chip cookies in the oven at the time. Sounded so true and all seemed good with the world. Come to think of it, cookie baking time is always therapeutic, chocolate chip cookies more so. The dough gets together without a fuss, doesn’t need special attention, and the cookies are ready in next to no time! The hub was leaving…
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MACARONS with Matcha Macaron Buttercream Filling for Earth Day … Mac Attack #6
A gush of bird-song, a patter of dew, A cloud, and a rainbow’s warning, Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue An April day in the morning. Harriet Prescott Spofford It’s the time of the month where the mac passionate folk amongst us strut our stuff… that is FEET! We host the monthly event at Mactweets, the brainchild of Jamie and me, where a bunch of us get together and bake macarons to a theme. The theme for April was ‘What’s Your Holiday?’, and it was an all encompassing one. Whatever your celebration was, be it Easter, a birthday, Passover, April Fool’s Day (Poisson d’Avril for you Francophiles), World Health Day or…
