March 2012 update We won a bronze medal at the Marmalade Awards. Very pleased with this result! [Read More...]
Sweet baking
Simply The Best Oatmeal Cookies!
This is a our own version of a recipe Ed’s grandmother got when she got her first gas oven in the 1950’s. The recipe was published in a booklet from the gas company. The cookies are very crisp with an intense buttery caramel taste. Perfect as a little treat with a cup of hot cocoa or earl grey tea.
You can conjure up all kinds of variations with this basic recipe… [Read More...]
Apple Pie a la Normande
With this recipe combines the best of two worlds: The buttery, sandy dough of the Dutch ‘appeltaart’ with the filling of a pie from Normandy. So, no cinnamon this time, but you do get the long lingering scent and taste of Calvados… [Read More...]
Arnhemse Meisjes: My Favourite Dutch Cookies
‘Arnhemse Meisjes’ (Girls from the city of Arnhem) are my absolute favorite traditional Dutch cookies in the world. They are flaky, caramel crispy light with a sweet crunch.. These cookies look like they are made from some kind of puff pastry but that’s not the case. Some people make them with ready made puff pastry, but believe me… [Read More...]
‘Beet’ these Vanilla Muffins
Today I made delicious vanilla muffins. Thinking of red velvet cake, I added color by using beetroot puree. The paints of nature can be more intense than any artificial coloring! [Read More...]
More Dutch Originals: Hernhutter Cookies
On an early spring break in the province of Zeeland I came across a mold for making ‘Hernhutterjes’. These are a type of old Dutch cookies, or so we believe in Holland. You can see the shape in the picture. But I do not know why they have this shape or why they are named […] [Read More...]
Goudse Moppen: More Original Cookies from Holland
Are you serious? You’d rather watch reality TV shows than bake your own cookies? Now what is wrong with you? Watching reality TV will make you fat, lazy and depressed! Baking cookies will make you radiantly happy and svelte and loved by your friends! So, what are you waiting for? [Read More...]
Almond Jam Cookies
These are delicate little nibbles. More befitting the word biscuit than cookie. I think it has to do with the ground almonds, they immediately give these cookies more… [Read More...]
How to make your own Almond Paste
Almond paste, used in Holland in Christmas stollen and speculaas, is deliciously easy to prepare and can be made well in advance because it keeps for a long time in the fridge or even longer in the freezer. Also very good when spread on the base of an apple pie. [Read More...]
Christmas Scones
Don’t forget to be generous with cream and jam!…And don’t forget to feed the birds (not with scones)! It’s 5 days until Christmas and the world around me is white. It’s just a little veneer of white, but it looks beautiful all the same. It has been freezing these last days and together with the […] [Read More...]
