Make these cookies if you only have 10 minutes to come up with something to bring over to friends for this holiday. I seriously doubt that anyone who would not be addicted to these. Traditionally this is one of the Christmas cookies, but it’s become my all-time favorite. By the way, the 10 minutes are [...]
Category Archives: Cookie/Biscuit/Bar
25-Dec-11
To Ethan (Wild Animal House)
Dear Ethan, The other day when we were decorating the gingerbread house together, you insisted it was not you who gobbled all the candies, but the gorilla and wild boar who have been residing in your room eating nothing but AIR. To punish them, you made them stand there for three days only inhaling the [...]
07-Dec-11
Cocoa Hazelnut Shortbread with Nutella
I’m a sucker for anything hazelnut-y. Meaning I might not be very crazy about hazelnut as nut, but I always have a hard time resisting a bar of hazelnut chocolate, a cup of hazelnut latte, a slice of hazelnut cake…… These cookies are good as they are. With Nutella sandwiched in-between, I wasn’t able to [...]
I hate my refrigerator. It came along when we moved into this house a year ago. This is a 2-door refrigerator with a vertical partition in the middle separating the freezer from the refrigerator. And it makes both of the spaces extremely narrow and NOT PRACTICAL. Every time I come back from the grocery store with [...]
22-Mar-11
Chocolate Nutella Thumbprint Cookie
This was a fun picture to take. The other day I had a pile of old magazines that needed to be thrown away before I reviewed them all. I were eating these cookie, and I simply put one of the cookies on that specific page in a magazine. Ingredients (about 15 cookies): 1 cup all [...]
06-Mar-11
Seven Layers Cookie Bar
The reason I love this recipe is the versatility and simplicity. You could easily convert this recipe into a total different one without compromising the tastiness. And no joking, when it says “layer”, it simply is “layering’. Ingredients (about 16 squares): 1/3 cup unsalted butter, melted 1 cup gingersnap cookie, crushed 1 cup semisweet chocolate [...]
02-Mar-11
Triple Chocolate Cakey Cookie
Not sure if I did something wrong. These cookies turned out to be NOT the way I wanted. The interesting texture of crunchy outside but cake-like inside really surprised me……in a good way. Ingredients (about 24 cookies): 2 cups all purpose flour 1/4 cup cocoa powder 1/2 teaspoons baking soda 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 stick [...]
16-Jan-11
Dark Chocolate Toffee with Walnut
I wanted to make these back in a more logical time, Christmas. I didn’t because I was intimated by the fact that every toffee recipe out there calls for a candy thermometer which I don’t have. I was threatened to make these with one or DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT. Reason behind is you want to [...]
I always pick dried cranberry over raisin. Because I love the unique tanginess. Therefore I make everything with cranberries. Like these cakes, these cookies, and even in savory dish. Ingredients (around 30 cookies): 1 1/4 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1 egg, room temperature 1 teaspoon vanilla [...]
27-Dec-10
Cream Cheese Almond Cookie
Cream cheese is not only for making cakes. I’ve learnt to use it for cookies. Besides the crumbly and sandy texture, the special tangy and nutty flavor also revers my world over that they were all gone before Christmas. Ingredients (about 20 cookies): 2 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoons salt 2 sticks unsalted butter, soften [...]
