I have always loved toffee...a client of mine would send me toffee from Engstrom's Almond Toffee years and years ago, oh I was in love. For years I would send this as our gift to others. I loved it...well it is rather expensive. But, well worth it I will add. I love a buttery light crispy crunchy … [Read more...]
Cheese Straws
Cheese Straws are great thing to have around during the holidays in case some one stops by so you have something to offer with a glass of wine. Cheese straws are a very southern thing. I have about 100 different recipes, all the same and then all different in one way or another. These are light … [Read more...]
Sand Tart Cookies
Sand Tarts I am not sure just why they are called Sand Tarts?? My Granny made these little cookies and this is her recipe. Many cultures have something similar to these cookies. Kinda like a wedding cookie. They are great, why ~ easy, they last, everyone likes them. 1 cup butter 1/4 cup … [Read more...]
Tiny Gingerbread Houses
This came out so cute...These are kinda like the one I put in the bake shop large house, I posted yesterday but these do not have as much detail. I took the same pattern I used on the large house and reduced it some where around 75-78%. I made one for each place setting. Cute...Cute!! It takes a … [Read more...]
Gingerbread Houses
I can remember as a child my grandmother making gingerbread houses. I was just amazed by them each year. Not only did they look beautiful but they had the smell of Christmas, sweet and spicy. After Christmas she would let us eat them. Yuk! Is what I think now but oh my when I was a kid that was … [Read more...]
Gingerbread Men Recipe
I have had fun with these...I have a huge gingerbread man cutter...but the darn thing is too large for my commercial oven. Saw it on food network years ago ordered the large and the SMALL one. Oh my goodness the small takes a whole sheet pan to bake. It is huge ~ the large is the size of a small … [Read more...]
Chocolate Chewies Cookies
Don't these cookies look amazing well they are.....and they have No FLour ~ No Fat ! They do have nuts but, no added fat to the recipe. We all love these cookies. There was a bakery in the little town I grew up in Mississippi called M & M Bakery. They had a cookie just like these. Oh, how I … [Read more...]
Homemade Marshmallows
Step # 14 packages of unflavored gelation ~ Knox 3/4 cup water In a standing mixer pour 3/4 cup water and sprinkle gelation over water and let stand for 5 minutes while doing next steps. Have your whisk attachment on your mixer. Prepare a 13 x 9 baking pan with cover. Butter well and then put a … [Read more...]
Kourabiedes
Kourabiedes 1 pound butter 1 1/2 cups of powdered sugar 2 eggs yolks 2 teaspoon vanilla 5 to 5 1/2 cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 cup almonds 1 box powder sugar to coat cookies Pre-heat oven to 350 Line baking sheet with parchment paper. Beat butter at medium speed. Add … [Read more...]
Baklava
Baklava 3 cups chopped nuts ~ pecans, we do live in Georgia 1/4 cup of sugar 1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 3/4 teaspoon nutmeg 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 3/4 teaspoon ground all ~ spice 1 package phyllo dough 2 sticks unsalted butter … [Read more...]