This comes straight from my workbook at George Brown - slightly adapted of course. I want to tell you, we took a lot of baked goods home from these classes. I would come home every evening with boxes of breads, cookies, cakes - if we baked it, we took it home. Then some went to [...]
This recipe came to me via a good friend (and accomplished baker herself) in Minneapolis. It's an award winning recipe from a contest run through their local newspaper. It's Italian Almond Cookies. Plenty of variations out there, but again, I only send you the ones I try and that my taste testers like. They (my [...]
Okay I must admit, the snow yesterday did bring back memories of Christmas 2013. But, perhaps we've been spoiled by never having severe storms that we have become a bit leery of the weather. However, things are back to normal, the sun is out and it is a glorious Canadian winter day - but only [...]
This is an old one from my 1997 Gourmet Magazine, Christmas Cookie Edition. It is a delight. Unlike other cookies which you can just pull together and cut from a refrigerated log, or roll and cut out, you need some patience to make these as the pretzel shape is a bit of a challenge (well [...]
I love the taste of lemon, actually it's citrus I love. Any type of citrus - oranges, limes, grapefruit, kumquats, pomelos etc. The flavors bring out warmth and on these cold(er/ish) days, we all need some warmth. So when looking for cookies to make for this series, I came across this one and thought it [...]
Now we're rolling. This is a great biscotti recipe. As always, I try lots, but only post the ones that work best for me on my site. I made these small - a Christmas cookie thing. Rather than forming one log in the dimensions stated in the original recipe, I made 3 logs about 12" x 3" [...]
I call them "jam filled" rather than raspberry filled sugar cookies as the recipe suggests. I have all kinds of jam in my house. Whenever my kids travel and they find an unusual flavor of jam - or anything that remotely implies "chili" flavor - yes they know their dad, they will bring back a [...]
Okay, it's official, December is here! It's the Christmas season! Here's the first of 12 cookies as promised. Last year I got to 10, then we had a bit of a power failure - 2 1/2 days (seemed like forever, boy are we spoiled - and very lucky, to be living in this city!) - [...]
SIDEBAR: Oh my goodness, it's less than 2 months to Christmas - I better get ready for the 12 Cookies of Christmas!! But for now, look outside and there are pumpkins everywhere. That means fall is definitely here and so is Halloween. They come in all shapes and sizes, even white pumpkins. I had some leftover [...]
What's your favourite texture of cookie? Mine is chewy! But I made these cookies, lets just call them Chocolate Lovers Delight. Chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate. Part of the reason there is so much chocolate (really, you need a reason for chocolate!) is because I was sure I had Skor bits (which the recipe called for) [...]
