Monthly Archives: December 2013
White chocolate and orange cookies
Are you celebrating New Year’s Eve with the children, desperately trying to keep awake over yet another board or computer game? With a big party and lots of friends? Or maybe with your lover on a soft rug in …
Basler brunsli from Switzerland
I will spend this Christmas in Switzerland and am already looking forward to all the Swiss Christmas cakes, pastries, sweet breads and cookies in the Konditoreien. Basler brunsli are my favorite traditional Swiss Christmas cookies. They have been baked in …
Peppermint heart cookie from Norway
I was annoyed when I found several broken peppermint candy canes in the box that I had bought to decorate my tree. I was nibbling on a piece while trying to find a nice Christmassy variation for the traditional kringle …
Kringle cookie from Norway
I was envious when my Norwegian friend Gitta told me that her friends in Nordfjordeid start baking for Christmas in October! But then I realized that there is probably little else to do so far up north in these dark …