I don’t know how I’m supposed to finish decorating MORE cookies. It’s 1.16 AM. Good night! A photo posted by Cynthia (Chiew) Priest (@cynderbug) on Dec 19, 2014 at 12:20am PST Last November, I had the privilege to learn from Oma on how to make her mother’s traditional Pfefferkuchen (another word for Lebkuchen) — it …
Lebkuchen (pronounced leb-ku-hen in German) is a kind of spiced gingerbread, but not all lebkuchen recipes contain the same spices. This traditional lebkuchen recipe has been passed down from generation to generation in my husband’s family; I had the honour of learning it from my Oma-in-law in November 2014. This year, I did the entire …
Sometimes, the happiest kitchen experiments come from accidents. The sticky, messy kinds. With Christmas coming upon us, if you need to bake exactly a dozen cookies, this easy drop Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe will be sure to come to your rescue! All you need is to get your egg and butter to room …
There is nothing shameful about cheat-baking, especially when you’ve got unexpected guests AND you’ve got less than an hour to whip something up. Plus, it was buy one get one free cake mix at Safeway. Sometimes, cake mixes are great when I want to focus more on improving my buttercream piping skills on cakes — …
Wait, isn’t Red Velvet so 2011? Maybe, but red is the timeless colour for fiery passion. It is perfect for a) Canada Day and more relevantly, b) Valentine’s Day. I would want to include Lunar New Year as well since red is an auspicious colour, but that’s probably stretching it! 🙂 Easy? Check. Unlike sugar …
Respect the ‘mo! I can’t grow one, but I can bake some moustache cookies. Support the movement to fund men’s health programs. Donate on Movember’s website. My cookie cutters came from J-Wilton.com; it’s an Edmonton-based Wilton distributor/wholesaler. I have been furiously baking cookies in the past few weeks; if you’re following me on Twitter, you’d probably …
About a month ago, I had troubles sleeping. Can you turn cake into cookies? There must be a way. I adapted this recipe from HowSweetEats.com ! I made a double batch and ended up with more cookies since I made the test batch cookies smaller. (Smaller cookies cook relatively fast at 7 minutes) I’ve made …
It is my birthday today; I can’t think of any better ways to celebrate other than baking at home and play house with the new oven. I have very ripe bananas begging to be used. So, I looked up Big Oven (an iPhone app) since I was curious about banana cookies! Recipe: Chocolate Chip Banana …
What a great cookie to have with a glass of milk before bed-time…. Having never baked ANY gingersnap cookies, this recipe was a “snap”-ping success! 21 days left to Christmas; the countdown is daunting, I know. I have never made a Christmas turkey dinner nor even attempt to a cooking marathon that would run for …
