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 […]
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 […]
One of my sisters sent me a link on Pinterest to some very nice looking cookies, which were ginger dipped in white chocolate and decorated with holly and berries. I thought I would give them a try, though not at all confident about holly and berries. That called for Candy Melts and piping. I was […]
I found a lovely recipe for Sour Cream and Cranberry Muffins on Midwest Living. Reading it just made me want to make them immediately. I had to wait though, until I could buy some more cranberries. So today I set about making them. Sour Cream & Cranberry Muffins The recipe calls for pumpkin pie spice […]
Another lovely recipe, Pumpkin and Cream Cheese Muffins, courtesy of Joy Of Baking. I had to search to find some pumpkin puree, but found it in Waitrose, so I was all set to go. The muffins are flavoured with the pumpkin and some spices and then a nice cream cheese mixture is spooned into a […]
I love ginger, in almost any form and the thought of some gingerbread fairly sets me salivating. So I decided upon Gingerbread Cake with a Creamy Lemon Frosting. The first thing to do, of course, is to make the gingerbread cake and allow it to cool completely. Then a nice frosting, with cream cheese, lemon, […]
I remember from years back a nice biscuit(cookie) which we called Fig Rolls. It seems that they are now known as Fig Newtons. I have found a number of recipes for these, all of them different in some ways. Some are very basic, just with figs and sugar in the pastry, where others are more […]