Cookies & Cakes
So, this is my first time entering a foodie event (not including Festa Al Fresco, which was run by the lovely Lis and Ivonne so there was no question of not participating!). In between working and studying and trying to have some semblance of a social life, it leaves very little time for cooking things [...]
Unbaked, the cookie looks harmless - it is only once they emerge from the oven that their true ugliness is revealed!
I know what you’re thinking. “Ugly? It doesn’t really look ugly…” and you’re right. The cookie dough looks harmless, like any other regular cookie dough, and if anything it looks like it has more personality [...]
France has many petit-fours, cookies and cakes which originate from the region as well as surrounding provinces, and the palets bretons is one of these. Hailing from Brittany (a province to the NW of France, and which gives the cookie the ‘breton’ part of it’s name), it is a delicate butter cookie which seems barely [...]
I’ve never actually seen, or even tasted a macaroon, but after reading post after post about these beautiful delicacies by many food bloggers I held them in the highest regard as one of the most delightful yet difficult petit fours in the dessert world. Because of the the difficulty rating that everyone seemed to give [...]
After reading Jen’s post about making chocolate-filled sable biscuits, I decided to give them a try myself as I’m also quite a fan of Shannon Bennett’s book “My Vue”. Similar to a shortbread biscuit, these sable biscuits have an almost ’sandy’ texture upon the first bite, but very quickly dissolve into nothing but a sweet [...]
