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Hazelnut Cookies

I love them – the big ones as well as the small ones. Though if I’m honest I prefer baking the small cookies. It’s much easier to store and to eat them because they disappear in your mouth with one or two bites and their chocolate doesn’t stick on your fingers. I found the following […]

Party-Rolls

The Holiday season’s just finished but new invitations for New Year receptions, birhtdays or other events are coming in. Among our friends we don’t make gifts any more but everyone brings some food for the party. That relieves the hosts and always creates rich buffets for everybody. My today’s recipe is very easy and quickly […]

Lime Cheese Cake

The first recipe out of that little booklet sent for Christmas from our friends in France. Thanks to the pink colored ladyfingers this wonderful cheese cake looks a bit fancy. The reciprocity of sponge with desiccated coconut and cream cheese with lime was a very refreshing flavor beside all the sweet Christmas cookies. Those who […]

Braided Star

Honestly I couldn’t resist when I read the instructions for this wonderful yeast dough. I checked my supplies and was wondering whether my star would really look like the one shown at handimania.com. It did indeed and it will become my favourite Holiday cake this year. I couldn’t have given you the instructions better than […]

Little assistants

A picture of my Santa Claus cookies gallery shows the plastic bars at work. They help to roll out pastry evenly. My set contains three thicknesses, 0.098/0.138/0.177 inches. Since the start of baking holiday cookies I’m a convinced follower of these bars. All cookies are of the same thickness and they all need the same […]