Cookies & Slices

I am a ridiculously obsessed Monty Python fan, as are most of the lasses in my closest group of friends. In fact, we are so obsessed that for a few years there, we would have conversations which consisted of nothing but Monty Python quotes, such as “Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt [...]

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Is this the ugliest cookie ever?

September 18, 2006 | 174 views

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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 [...]

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With love from Brittany

August 21, 2006 | 595 views

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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 [...]

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Am I macaron mad?

August 13, 2006 | 1,818 views

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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