The baking of christmas cookies and biscuits in the Advent season is a tradition. So to say pre-christmas attunement, with christmas carols in the background mixed with the scent of typical christmas spices. New is this Chocolate Kipferl.
Read moreI wanted to bake a walnut cake, before our tratitional chrismas cookie baking challange starts 🙂 .
I added apples to make it more moist and tasty.
Apfelschlangerl – typical Austrian again – just like the Apricot Dumplings and Buchteln.
Surprisingly this apple cake is not really known in Germany. In Bavaria they would call it apple strudel, but its not an apple strudel. The apple strudel is more a long drawn-out dough.
Read moreIt’s autumn, when you get up in the morning and it’s no more 22 degrees but 2. Brrrr…. Altho during the day the sun shines beautiful.
The local fruits: apples, pears, plums and nuts are ready for harvest.
So today we will do something with plums – a poppy seed plum strudel! Read more
Pluck some elderflowers.
I’ve made a elderflower syrup without using any kind of citrus fruit acid for maximum taste. Read more
Wild strawberries – I love them!! Delicious!! Read more
This is a fruity, spicy, slightly hot speciality from Mauritius. Delicious!
Mmmhhh!! Just thinking about it, brings water in the mouth. Read more
OUR GINGERBREAD HOUSE
Maggi & Family
3 days left! What’s behind door Number 21? Read more
4 days left!!! Door Number 20!!
Now that we had so much “sweets”… It’s now time for something “salty”…
These biscuits go with wine and beer or just for nibbling. 🙂 My sis’s and bro’s would say “ti gajak”… 🙂
Our children love them too. Also good for “in between”, picnics or snack for school.
Chop olives and tomatoes. Grate cheese.
Whisk softened butter.
Beat 2 eggs, remove 3 tablespoon and put aside (to brush). Mix rest of beaten egg to butter.
Mix olives, tomatoes, cheese, salt, pepper and milk to egg-butter mixture, add flour and knead with hands to a dough.
Place in fridge for 1 hour.
Roll out on a floured surface and cut out shapes you fancy. Put on baking tray with baking paper and brush with remaining egg.
Bake in preheated oven at 210° C for about 12 minutes.
Enjoy baking!
Maggi & Family
What’s behind door number 18. Read more
Today is the 3rd Advent. In a weeks time its Christmas! The children are of course very excited.
What’s behind door number 17?
Because I love poppy seeds so much, I adapted these Poppy Seed Biscuits from the large Poppy Seed Pastry (rolls) and made them into Christmas biscuits.
Read moreAre you curious to know what’s behind door number 14? Rüdiger? 🙂
No big ado, quick and easy… lots of anise. This Anise Treats are the favorite of my father!
Read moreThis is the best Gingerbread ever!!
For us it is a must to bake these gingerbread for christmas.
Often it is the problem, that the gingerbread get hard. But not with this one. The dough has to be prepared and stored for two weeks before baking.
You can also build a gingerbread house!
More Christmas Cookie recipes:
Vanilla Crescent Cookies
Coconut Sticks
Linz “Eye“ Cookies
Schneekrapferl EN
Mix flour (both), sugar, bicarbonate of soda and gingerbread spice. Make a little hole in the middle, add in eggs and honey and knead.
Place dough in a “hermetically” sealed tupperware and store cool for 14 days. (Gingerbread will stay soft)
Roll out in 5 mm thick (on floured surface) and cut out in different shapes.
Put on a baking tray (with baking paper), brush with whisked egg and place halved almond on it.
Bake in preheated oven at 220° C for 6 – 7 minutes.
Roll out this gingerbread dough not too thinly and bake hot and briefly.
This gingerbread does not become hard!
Peel the almonds: Boil the almonds briefly in water. Quench and then they can be peeled very easily.
Winterly greetings
Maggi & Family
Please do not hesitate to share your ideas with me!
Suggestions and critics are welcome.
Instagram: use #sweetandspicyde or @sweetandspicy.de, so I can see your creations.
We have this Cat Tongue Biscuits since years for Christmas time. Delicious and easy to make.
Some more biscuits:
Christmas Beetles
Lemon Crescent Cookies
Poppy Seed Biscuits
Linz “Eye“ Cookies
Whisk butter, icing sugar and vanilla.
Mix in egg and egg yolk one by one.
Sieve flour and starch in and mix.
Put dough in pipping bag with a small smooth nozzle. Pipe on a baking tray. (with baking paper)
Bake in preheated oven at 180° C for 9 minutes.
When the biscuits have cooled down, melt chocolate and coconut oil (bain marie), dip both ends of biscuits in chocolate.
Enjoy baking!
Maggi & Family
Please do not hesitate to share your ideas with me!
Suggestions and critics are welcome.
Instagram: use #sweetandspicyde or @sweetandspicy.de, so I can see your creations.
Thank you!
These cookies melt on the tongue. A mix of chocolate and hazelnuts. Simply irresistible!
Read moreI call it Christmas Beetles, because for me they look like this.
They stay soft because of the marzipan (almond paste). Delicious!
Crispy biscuits with coconut and chocolate! These have been on our biscuit plate for a few years now! Our children also like to bake these coconut chocolate biscuits.
Read moreI also loved these Almond Treats as a child. We used to get a big tin full of biscuits from my aunt every year. And these were my favourite!
Read moreThese Coconut Sticks are one of our favorite cookies. My aunt has baked them every year since I was a child.
Read moreThese cookies are ideal to use a ripe banana. They taste really delicious, also for children.
Not only at Christmas time.
Soon it will be that time again!!! Christmas is just around the corner. And to sweeten the Advent season, we usually have lots of biscuits. Now it’s the turn of the Florentine Peanut Biscuits!
Read moreI always make this tomato ketchup in summer, when tomatoes are of abundance – from our garden or from the shop.
Tomato ketchup tastes very good with grilled chicken or turkey. If the weather is bad, we would roast the chicken in the oven and tomato ketchup shouldn’t be missing.
As bring along to BBQ parties.
It is very fruity, slightly sour and sweet in taste. Can not be compared with the normal ketchup in the supermarket. Our children are crazy about it.
I use very ripe tomatoes, gelling agent 3:1, for example…
Like jam, homemade ketchup should be stored in a cool, dark room or cellar. Used jars should be kept in the refrigerator.
Cut the tomatoes into quarters and the apples into eight. Put to simmer for about 20 min.
Strain.
Dice the onions and add to the tomato puree.
Add 200g sugar, salt, red pepper powder, pepper, cinnamon, and vinegar.
Put the crushed coriander seeds and the bay leaves into a tea bag and put in the pot.
Let simmer for 15 min stirring occasionally.
Mix sugar and gelling agent 3:1 together and mix well into the ketchup.
Simmer further 3 minutes.
Remove the spice bag.
Rinse the jars with boiling water and pour in the hot tomato ketchup.
Closing the jars immediately tight = vacuum.
Strainers I use:
Best regards
Maggi & Family
Merken
