Linzer Cookies
They are  two almond  cookies sandwiched  together with a layer of strawberry  jam.  

 

Linzer cookies

After the bake

Complete with dusting of icing sugar

Cookies Cookies Cookies

French Earl Grey Tea cookies

Everyone in my family loves French Earl Grey Tea so I decided to bake cookies using our favourite tea.
This recipe is adapted from Martha Stewart's Earl grey tea cookies.
The cookies tasted delicious and so I started making variations from this basic recipe.
Using this recipe, I have also made Chai cookies and strawberry cookies.
I used freeze dried strawberries in my strawberry cookies.

French Earl Grey Tea cookies

Chai cookies

Strawberry Cookies

Macarons
Macarons with chocolate ganache filling

                                            

                                                 

Happy Easter

Greetings from Mr and Mrs Bunny Cookies

 French Earl Grey Tea cookies

I love all types of tea...and recently my two favourite ones are French Earl Grey and Chai
from http://www.artoftea.com.au/  
I decided to make some cookies using the French Earl Grey tea; rose, sunflowers & hibiscus with the bergamot flavoured black tea makes this a heaven sent brew. 

Heaven-sent Brew

 Using the recipe from Martha Stewart , I made these icebox cookies for Easter.
 Simple method of just mixing all the ingredients with the mixer.

With the addition of the French Earl Grey tea, the cookies turned out to be 
sweet and buttery and fragrant. Lovely.

Happy Easter

Count down to Christmas.....with a list of things to bake...


Gingerbread man

Using the same gingerbread dough from the gingerbread house, I made some gingerbread cookies.

My daughter loves decorating them.

Mr Gingerbread man and his house :)

 

Count down to Christmas.....with a list of things to bake...


Gingerbread house

Gingerbread Houses- One of my favourite things for Christmas. The smell of gingerbread is wonderful; the smell of ground ginger and strong cinnamon.
Recipe was taken from Martha Stewart and is a Swedish gingerbread house.


Building the house:
1.Cut and bake dough-
   Cut out the components of the house according to the templates.
   There are 2 side walls, 2 roof tops, 1 front wall with door, 1 back wall and 
   cutouts for the chimney too.
   Bake the dough and leave them to cool completely.

2 side walls

Front with door and back walls

2 pieces of roofs

 2.Assembly-
    Before assembly, outline and decorate the edges of the windows 
    and doors with icing.
    My daughter did all the piping decorations to the house.
    She added dots in addition to the lines.

To assemble, first, apply royal icing to each adjoining side of the walls to be held together and hold together for a few seconds. The icing will harden holding the pieces together.
Assemble the 2 side walls with the back and front walls.
Once all 4 walls are held together, attach the roof by applying some icing on the V-shape and attach the roof pieces.

After assembly, the house is left to dry overnight.

Adding the Finishing Touches.....

Chocolate pretzels were first glued on both roofs and decorated with icing.
Colourful candies lined the edge of the roof.

Assemble the chimney together and attach to the front  roof of the house.

Side walls of house decorated with more coloured candies.

Front walls decked with colourful lights of jelly beans.
                      

                          
Candy canes for front gate post and icing as snow.

Candy canes also formed fence around house.

Decorated front door and chocolate waffle mat.
Icicles formed on edge of roof.
                      


Completed Gingerbread house....

And not forgetting the figurines........
Snowman is placed at the front porch.

Santa is climbing down the chimney while his reindeer with sleigh is waiting on the roof top.

 

Nicely embellished and ready for Christmas. Merry Christmas.