Archive for November, 2009

A few days ago, I made penuche bar cookies. They were very simple to make and have no fat other than the nuts although they taste very rich- the ingredients are eggs, brown sugar, pecans or walnuts, flour, and baking powder. In The Christmas Cookie Book, Pasley says that the cookies should not be judged by...
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So I haven’t really had a lot of time to post about the cookies I’ve been making lately, but after the Lebkuchen I made some cookies called Springerle, then Penuche Bars, and then Chocolate Pinwheels, which are in the refrigerator now chilling. The Springerle cookies were quite a disaster at first, because I didn’t...
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This weekend, my friends and I had a fondue party. It was tons of fun and I would definitely recommend making fondue with kids- they will have a great time dipping all sorts of different foods into the fondue pot We made 2 cheese fondue recipes and 1 chocolate recipe. The chocolate one didn’t...
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Last night, my friends and I decided to make some cookies. We wanted to bake more lebkuchen, but we didn’t have enough honey. So we looked for recipes from The Christmas Cookie Book that we could make with the ingredients we did have, and decided to use a recipe for Chocolate Drop Cookies from the last...
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The second kind of Lebkuchen that I made are called Mabel’s Lebkuchen Rounds- richer and less traditional than Mrs. Schmidt’s. They are made in circles and taste a lot like gingerbread, and the tops can be decorated with almonds and citron or angelica in the shape of a flower. Bring 1 cup of honey to a boil,...
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This is the first of hopefully many more posts about Christmas Cookies. About a month or two ago, I got a book called The Christmas Cookie Book by Virginia Pasley. I noticed it because it looked really old and I love to cook from old cookbooks. The book was printed in 1949 and most of...
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I hope everyone had a great Halloween and is looking forward to a great Thanksgiving!! For most kids, Thanksgiving break starts in just a few weeks. I think that it’s best to start planning Thanksgiving dinner now in order to avoid the stress of Thanksgiving Day. Some people even make a kind of timeline...
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