So many recipes for Gingerbread Men! This one worked very well, giving them a lovely soft crumbly texture and a slightly cracked surface.
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Cookie bakers have all the fun
Baking is fun, but cookie baking rules. Pie baking too. Humble pie, mud pie. Here’s what I recently made.
Christmas Crack
Seasonal sweet and salty toffee cracker cookie made with plain saltine crackers, but uncommonly addictive.
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Baked Alaska, or: the bakers Devil’s Thumb
A chervil and gooseberry ice cream on a brown butter pound cake, covered in merengue. But I’m a baker, not a freezer. Strong opinions follow.
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Beef & Fruit Börek, take 2
In this one, a different flour gives a completely different look and feel, but I like the taste of it just as much.
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Beef & Blackberry Börek
Comfort food for any time of the day, this börek is filled with stewed meat and freshly picked, tangy-sweet blackberries.
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Plain poppyseed biscuits with white chocolate
Plain cookies are awesome. These are simple biscuits with poppyseeds to give them a nice speckled look, and a white chocolate covering for super-awesomeness.
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Redcurrant rolls
A super easy fruity variant on the Swedish coffee rolls that my mother used to make.
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Real Sinterklaas Spice Nuts
Bake your own Sinterklaas Spice Nuts! They’re so much better than the bland stuff that supermarkets sell in bulk.
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