Good enough to bake all year round, add a little of almond extract for a special holiday taste. These are good ones to have around because they are super quick and easy to make!
Category Archives: In the kitchen
Pepparkakor
Don’t let this plain-looking, unassuming cookie fool you. As any Scandinavian will tell you, its flavor carries quite a punch. You might think the combination of pepper and cardamon is kind of odd, but believe me it works!
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Santa’s Whiskers
You may or may not have heard of this cookie. When I started making it over 30 years ago I had never heard of it, but I have now seen several recipes on the Web. This is one for cherry lovers!
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Banana Cookies and Flour Sacks
A wonderful thing happens when I start my Christmas baking: as soon as the smell of cookies begins to invade the house, the number of visitors to my kitchen begins to grow. The only problem with this is that the freshly baked cookies quickly begin to dwindle, and more often than not I find myself […]
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Christmas baking: Spritz
I had never heard of Spritz cookies until I married into a Swedish family, way over 30 years ago. My mother-in-law – a phenomenal cook and baker – introduced me to these cookies and handed down her recipe.
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Christmas baking: Lebkuchen
Admittedly, I’m not fond of cooking. Which is probably why my kids are so good at it: they had to learn to survive. However, come around Christmas it is here where you will most often find me. At least here, I am the queen of cookies.
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I am a self-learner. I taught myself to sew and to quilt. And I taught myself how to draw. I am learning how to dye my own fabrics and am dabbling with mixed media. I am a quilt designer and teacher, and design and publish my own line of quilt patterns. With this blog I would like to share the bits and pieces of my life.