Having recently bought a vacuum sealing machine so that I can use it to store food for longer and more efficiently I wanted to make some biscuits/cookies and then use the machine to pack some and see how long they will store. So for that I decided to make Pepparkakor, Swedish Ginger Snaps. In Sweden […]
Pryaniki are a lovely spiced honey cookie from Russia. Most often eaten, I believe, around Christmas time. The name comes from Pyrani, which is Russian for spicy. They comes in different guises, as some are filled with a jelly/jam mixture and others, such as the ones I am making are simply domed and covered with […]
Having made my speculaas last week I was so enamoured of the flavour of the spices that I wanted to make something else with them too. I decided to make some cupcakes and was all set to go when I discovered a recipe on Bakingmad for ginger and cinnamon cupcakes. Although I wanted to use the […]
Getting ready for Christmas and the holiday season I thought I would try out another cookie, from the low countries, Belgium and The Netherlands(and elsewhere too I suspect). Speculaas are a crunchy cookie that are usually made with the dough being pressed into moulds to create a shape. They are eaten on St Nicholas Eve […]
My sister in Canada mentioned that she had bought some Pfeffernüsse, which are a German cookie that is iced(some recipes just roll the cookies in icing sugar). They are also very popular, with different names in Denmark and The Netherlands. I thought they looked very good and with all the spices they are quite unlike […]
I came across a bun that I had never heard of, from Scandinavia, St. Lucia Buns, or Lussekatter. Usually eaten on 13th December each year, in honour of St Lucia they have saffron in them and sometimes cardamom as well. Most recipes had a reversed ‘s’ shaped bun, though some had a normal ‘s’ shape. […]
I found a delicious sounding recipe on The English Kitchen for Blueberry Oatmeal Cookie Pie. I had intended to make some Blueberry Oatmeal Cookies, but when I saw this recipe, and the photos that accompanied it, I just had to try it out. Now there are lots of ingredients in this one, but luckily I […]
I found an interesting recipe for these Cardamom and Lemon biscuits(cookies) on the BBC Food site. It is a recipe from The Hairy Bikers. Since I had some cardamom that I had ground myself a few weeks ago, and a lemon that was sitting looking sorry for itself, I thought I would give them a […]
Christmas is over and I am back to trying to find some nice items to bake. I decided on oat cakes. Now they are usually a biscuit(UK biscuit not US biscuit), and quite plain. But I stumbled across a recipe for a chocolate version, which is more of a small cake than a traditional biscuit. […]
There is nothing quite like the smell of cinnamon as it is being baked. The aroma really whets the appetite. So I hunted around for some nice bunsrecipes and found one for a Scandinavian type bun in The Guardian . The article actually goes into detail about several different recipes they tried, and then provides, what […]