I tried to make a birthday puzzle cookie for a friend. Also added a dozen of small heart shaped cookies for fun and for munching.
That is my first attempt do to a puzzle cookie, which is not easy because the dough I was using spread a little. Not much but enough that the edges wont fit. So I had to cut them straight.
Since them I found a great recipe on LilaLoa blog that just great for this this kind of cookies, because the cookie does not increase at all.
But there is still some snow outside. 🙁
These were created for donation for a local Hungarian party. We still have snow outside, but I just felt the urge to work with some bright colors, and I hope the winners of this plate will also appreciate it.
Black and white Valentine’s Day cookies!
I love Christmas baking! This is how my cookie decorating started originally.
I used to invite my friends to bake and decorate gingerbread cookies before Christmas. We gossiped, baked, eat, made the icing, and decorated the cookies for our family. It is a Hungarian tradition to decorate the Christmas tree with edible ornaments, and mostly were gingerbread. Hungarians have a special recipe for this type of gingerbread Christmas ornaments. The secret is that after baking the ornament is very hard, and with a thread we could hang it up to the tree and won’t fall off for a week. After a week it got softer and we could eat them off the tree. 🙂
We never used colored icing but white only. So I try to keep to stick to that, when I decorate gingerbread Christmas ornament.
My recipe is a mix of the Hungarian Honey Cake and the traditional gingerbread.
I used different sugar cookie recipes for a long time, so I started searching for some new, dark chocolate cookie recipe. Not really because I like chocolate that much, but light colored icing looks so great on dark dough.
I know it is not the best purpose, but I am more a visual person than an cookie eater 🙂
This is a traditional wedding favor based on pink and white design. Simple and delicious made with sugar cookie dough and royal icing. I just love royal icing, ( you can find my recipe here ) is is so versatile based on the consistency of the icing.
(more…)
Great birthday party favors for little boys and girls.
