You know when you have a craving and you can’t stop thinking about it? Well that was me a few days before I left for March Break in France. I couldn’t stop thinking about “Barquette” cookies. Maybe you know the ones? I LOVE these cookies (they come with jammy centres as well) and will always … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies is Leckerli. Lecker-what? I hear you ask! Dorie says it’s a kind of spice cookie, in the gingerbread and pain d’épices (French spice cake) family, but with deep roots in Switzerland. In fact, even in the Alsatian region of France, where leckerli is a tradition, it’s … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies is Cocoa Cayenne Cookies. Cocoa and CAYENNE – I hear you asking? Yep, hear Dorie out… At heart, this is a quintessential chocolate shortbread cookie: buttery, flaky and not too sweet… But the cookie’s true nature is salt-and-pepper savory. There’s cayenne pepper in the mix, but … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies is an interesting combination of flavours – port wine and figs with toasted walnuts in a flaky buttery chocolate cookies. Dorie tells us that Portofignos were created by Maureen Dudgeon for the Fonseca Bin 27 Cookie Rumble Contest where the idea was to create cookies using … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking with Dorie and was one I hadn’t planned on making post-holiday baking extravaganza (see the first recipe we made this month from Baking with Dorie which would have been much more reasonable to be eating the weekend of Christmas! Dorie says: These are the … Read more
Welcome to Day 10 of The Twelve Days of Holiday Treats! Once again, this year, from December 1st-12th I’ll post a new holiday treat recipe every day – inspiration for your holiday entertaining! The recipes I’m sharing are small-er batch (perfect for this year when many of us will still be attending/ hosting smaller gatherings) … Read more