I wanted to make a batch of peanut butter biscuits for some time and I think they look really festive. As I also got the Christmas cookie cutters from Ikea and I wanted to try them. Animal-shapped biscuits, especially the moose and the baby bear, are so appropriate for Christmas. I loved the flavour and
For St. Nicholas Day I prepared two Dutch desserts, these Pepernoot and Krestkrans. Pepernoot are spiced biscuits and their name comes from, as you can imagine, pepper-nuts. I liked them a lot, although they might be a little hard. It’s the first time I use black pepper in a dessert and I loved it so
I wanted to name the post gingerbread biscuits because this is what I made. Then I saw how they looked in pictures; I thought The Gingerbreads is so much more appropriate. Bigger pictures with them are at the end of the post, make sure you meet them. Last year I’ve made Snowflake cookies with cinnamon
At GBBO is Biscuit week. The signature challenge is to make 24 identical decorated biscuits, the technical is Viennese whirls. The showstopper was a biscuit structure. Choosing Viennese Whirls wasn’t hard. My pipping skills aren’t great and I don’t have enough experience with biscuits to make a structure. This is my second bake. The first
My husband surprised me when he told me he bought matcha tea for me. He knew I wanted to try it as I’ve read so much about its health benefits. So when I received the tea, the first thing I wanted to do was to bake something. I tried a small batch of biscuits to
Hubby got a huge snowflake cookie cutter for Saint Nicholas Day. It was a fun gift, but I had to bake some cookies with cinnamon for him. I wasn’t sure how I would use this cutter, as I thought the cookies might break due to their size. It was incredible easy to cut them and
For the next #GBBO bake along challenge I’ve baked biscotti. It was the first time I’ve baked them and double-bake sounds scary when in fact is quite simple. It takes time, but the biscotti worth the extra work, they are delicious. The history of biscotti started in the 13th century and it had to do
