I’m back!! I have had a break from proper blogging for a while, whilst i actually try and sort out my life and my multiple jobs and things what I should be doing yeah…? Post-uni life is hard and there are many rejections. Also, I smashed a jar of cumin at work today, and as I work as a cleaner in the mornings, there was both the gorgeous smoky scent and the billions of powders to contend with. How about a baking blog entry that stops moaning and puts the fun back into my life. Let’s do it.
So…biscuits! Biscuits have a lot in common with post-uni life….they’re tricky, fun, full of failure and sweet successes and they are totally doable if you’re brave enough!
I made two kinds this week, my own ‘kitchen sink’ cookies, and almond sugar cookies.
Kitchen Sink Cookies
These are inspired in part by Cake Boss and Green and Black. Cake Boss is my new programme, the gap between my jobs allows for a couple of episodes each time. It’s wonderful and you should go to TLC right now and check it out…..The Kitchen Sink cookie was a term I heard during one episode….a cookie with everything but the kitchen sink! I started with a wonderful recipe by Green and Blacks, which is an oatmeal cookie with huge chocolate chunks- however, my kitchen sink idea involved 2 huge tablespoons of peanut butter. The oats! The chocolate! The peanuts! oh baby.
Almond Sugar Cookies
These are altered from the Humming Bird book- 2 tsp of Almond Extract gives the biscuits a lovely marzipan flavour. The key with biscuits like this is to leave the dough alone! The more you manipulate it, the chewier it becomes. Gorgeous recipe though. Recipe here ❤ I iced them with royal icing.
http://www.ireland-guide.com/article/sugar-cookies.8169.html?
Enough of the stress yeah! On top of my biscuit adventures, I also got to ice a cake with my favourites! Nice job right?
I’m back!! I have had a break from proper blogging for a while, whilst i actually try and sort out my life and my multiple jobs and things what I should be doing yeah…? Post-uni life is hard and there are many rejections. Also, I smashed a jar of cumin at work today, and as I work as a cleaner in the mornings, there was both the gorgeous smoky scent and the billions of powders to contend with. How about a baking blog entry that stops moaning and puts the fun back into my life. Let’s do it.
So…biscuits! Biscuits have a lot in common with post-uni life….they’re tricky, fun, full of failure and sweet successes and they are totally doable if you’re brave enough!
I made two kinds this week, my own ‘kitchen sink’ cookies, and almond sugar cookies.
Kitchen Sink Cookies
These are inspired in part by Cake Boss and Green and Black. Cake Boss is my new programme, the gap between my jobs allows for a couple of episodes each time. It’s wonderful and you should go to TLC right now and check it out…..The Kitchen Sink cookie was a term I heard during one episode….a cookie with everything but the kitchen sink! I started with a wonderful recipe by Green and Blacks, which is an oatmeal cookie with huge chocolate chunks- however, my kitchen sink idea involved 2 huge tablespoons of peanut butter. The oats! The chocolate! The peanuts! oh baby.
Almond Sugar Cookies
These are altered from the Humming Bird book- 2 tsp of Almond Extract gives the biscuits a lovely marzipan flavour. The key with biscuits like this is to leave the dough alone! The more you manipulate it, the chewier it becomes. Gorgeous recipe though. Recipe here ❤ I iced them with royal icing.
http://www.ireland-guide.com/article/sugar-cookies.8169.html?
Enough of the stress yeah! On top of my biscuit adventures, I also got to ice a cake with my favourites! Nice job right?
Unchained Baking 