COOKIES
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Chocolate chip, Cranberry & Walnut Sconies (Scones+Cookies=Sconies) … we l♥v them!
“Sometimes me think what is love, and then me think love is what last cookie is for. Me give up the last cookie for you.” Cookie Monster I love making cookies, and I love making scones. This time I decided to combine my love forthe two, using a recipe I turn to often. It’s one I use from Romney Steels cookbook My Nepenthe that was reviewed on Heidi’s beautiful blog 101 Cookbooks. These are the best I’ve ever made, and oh-so-accomodative. What I like about them is the ease with which the recipe embraces different ingredients. Had posted the scones over Christmas ‘Orange & Oat Scones‘. My nephew who was…
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COMING HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS:GINGERBREAD HOUSE WITH DARING BAKERS
“And I had but one penny in the world. Thou should’st have it to buy gingerbread.“ William Shakespeare, Love’s Labours Lost HO HO HO… Come home to the Daring Bakers, to a wonderful, fragrant, sweet smelling holiday home. This month we open the doors and hearts of our beautiful gingerbread homes to you. The December 2009 Daring Bakers’ challenge was brought to you by Anna of Very Small Anna and Y of Lemonpi. They chose to challenge Daring Bakers’ everywhere to bake and assemble a gingerbread house from scratch. They chose recipes from Good Housekeeping and from The Great Scandinavian Baking Book as the challenge recipes. Making the gingerbread house…
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Fresh Ginger Cake and Fresh Ginger Chocolate Chip Cookies
“Nose, nose, jolly red nose, Who gave thee this jolly red nose?† Nutmegs and ginger, cinnamon and cloves, And they gave me this jolly red nose” Anonymous I’m on a GINGER high, or call it a roll, but my days are full of ginger. It’s a flavour, with sharpness, that I’ve come to love, and am surprised that the kids have taken to it so willingly too. Fresh ginger is far more pronounced in its gingery taste, and since it’s the season for fresh, wonderful young ginger root here, I’m taking full advantage of it! Ginger has proven medicinal value, and I have been using it as a base for…
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Pink Peppercorn & Chocolate Chip Shortbread … Off to the FBC with the kick of peppah!
“The more you have to do, the less time there’s to get it done in” Aparna’s Law Barely a few hours to leave for the Food Bloggers Connect in London and I am still hopelessly distracted. So much to do, so little time. And then the hair brained idea to use pink pepper in cookies. It keeps taking over my insane imagination, even though I knew I had so much more to do. Loose ends to tie, brownies to bake for the kids snack box, a pound cake to make for them too, apples that are lying on the kitchen counter crying themselves hoarse to be baked into dessert. I…
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DARING BAKERS MAKE FRENCH MACARONS…YES, TIME FOR FEET AGAIN!
“Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential.” Winston Churchill It’s the 27th again, time to post the Daring Bakers challenge, a wonderful & fun group brought together by Lisa of La Mia Cucina and Ivonne of Cream Puffs in Venice. This month we were led into a merry dance; the challenge was to find ‘FEET’. Hail the great French macaron/macaroon, an elegant French cookie that I find entirely temperamental and fiddly. One that has reduced me to tears in the past, brought me to my knees in the quest for ‘feet’…yet one that gave me untold joy when I finally found them. The 2009 October Daring…
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COOKIES FOR A FRIEND…Neiman Marcus Chocolate Chip Cookies
“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”Elisabeth Foley I saw these cookies at Brown Eyed Baker a few days ago, & my first thought was how lovely and comforting they looked. Said to be the famed Neiman Marcus cookies, off a recipe that has been making the rounds via e-mail for ages, they have rave reviews. The difference in these cookies is the way the oats are added. They are ground into an oat flour and give the cookie a lovely texture, more wholesome than the plain flour chocolate chips cookies, yet lighter than regular oat cookies. I think these cookies…
