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 […]
A while back I made a particular favourite of mine, Fig Rolls, also known as Fig Newtons. Today I decided to make an apple version of those cookies. The important thing in this particular recipe was to ensure that the apples didn’t release too much juice into the cookie dough during baking. So I stewed […]
With a surplus of bananas I decided to make some banana bread, using a slight variant on a recipe I saw in the Guardian some years ago. For mine I am adding a little ground cinnamon as that is a flavour that I really like and it goes well in this type of loaf cake. […]
Christmas is over but the time is still right for a lovely spicy cake. Ginger cake, in the form of a loaf cake, rich and moist is ideal for this time of year. For mine I based it on a recipe from Delia Smith, but I have seen basically the same recipe elsewhere too. The […]
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 […]
This is a first for me, baking cookies/biscuits without wheat flour. But I must say the results are very rewarding. This is a very simple cookie, or biscuit, where some of the oats are ground with the almonds to make a sort of flour and then mixed with the other ingredients and more oats before […]
I was looking around for an alternative to mince pies for Christmas. I love mince pies but I know that not everybody enjoys them. In my searches I came across a recipe on Better Homes and Gardens for what they call Italian Fig Bundles. They looked wonderful in the photograph and the recipe read quite well. […]
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 […]
It was suggested to me that I might like to try to make Amish Friendship Bread. I hadn’t heard of it so I did a little reading. It seems that the particular recipe, or variations of it, are not really what Amish people really eat. Rather, it is the process of making a starter dough […]