Tag: cookies
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Classic Swedish Ginger Thins Recipe for Christmas
I have a love hate relationship with Christmas in Australia. Pros are that it’s summer and we can go to the beach, eat mangoes and cherrries and have water fights in the back yard after Christmas lunch. Cons are that it’s summer, its humid and hot and we spend far too much time making and…
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Irresistible – Salted Sesame Chocolate Cookies Recipe with Tahini and Dark Chocolate
I’ve got quite a few chocolate chip cookie recipes on this website, and each one of those recipes in some way aspires to greatness so I’m a bit reluctant to add yet another chocolate chip cookie into the canons of cookie greatness … but these cookies!!! I recently made a double batch of these to…
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Best brown butter chocolate toffee cookies recipe
] I first read about these cookies about eighteen months ago, via Twitter. The claim was these were the best chocolate chip cookies ever. Something which, given how obsessed the internet is with chocolate chip cookies, seemed like a pretty big claim to make. Unfortunately, the recipe required a chocolate toffee bar such as Daim,…
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Margaret Fulton’s Peanut Butter Cookies: A Classic Recipe
Peanuts and peanut butter seem to be having a renaissance. When I go down to Melbourne ,which is the centre of hipster food in Australia, peanuts seem to have squeezed their way back onto menu of all the best cafes. I even saw peanut and jelly pancakes on the breakfast menu at Lolo & Wren…
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Homemade White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookie Dough Recipe
Yesterday, we got a new fridge. Yay! There’s nothing like a brand spanking new refrigerator to lift your mood. Our old fridge was over 16 years old and was mouldy and skanky beyond belief. In my forced fridge clean out, I came across a bag of white chocolate pastels that had been languishing in the…
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Laura Bush’s Texas Cowboy Cookies Recipe | Homemade American Dessert
Last week, one of my favorite people, a childhood family friend and adopted Aunty, died. My Aunty was old, frail, ready to go and join her husband in the great beyond but it was an occasion filled with the sadness of a passing of an era, the knowledge that you will never see or hear…
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Spelt flour, toasted coconut and sesame cookies
Last weekend, I helped my sister pack up her home of almost fifteen years. This wasn’t quite as bad as I expected: my sister’s house is due to be demolished in a couple of weeks and a new house built on the site, so everything left behind will just get bulldozed. There is something liberating…
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Paschalina koulourakia: Greek Easter biscuits
Easter is my favourite festival of the year. With our history as a British colonial outpost, Australians have long suffered through Christmas, maintaining northern hemisphere food traditions in the boiling heat of summer. The translation of a northern springtime Easter to a southern hemisphere autumn makes much more sense though. Eating loads of chocolate in…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 