Category Archives: Biscuits & Cookies
Love You, Love Your Heart, Healthy Valentine’s Cookies
With Valentine’s day coming soon, I thought it would be great to find recipes that care about your heart as well as your tastebuds. I found the recipe for these cookies made with wholewheat flour and coconut at the blog … Continue reading
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The Cookiepedia
Mmmm brownies. George and I made some this week for our friends. We have a fantastic new book called The Cookiepedia by Stacey Adimando filled full of yummy cookies and biscuits. I love how this recipe book has set itself … Continue reading
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Cookie Decorating
I had my first try at decorating cookies/biscuits with royal icing. I made these duck biscuits just before Easter and my son loved them. For days afterwards he kept coming into the kitchen saying “Any more duck biscuits?” For some … Continue reading
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Valentine’s Day Shortbread Cookies
Next Monday it will be Valentine’s day and now I’m a food blogger I thought I better treat my husband to something homemade and something sweet. I wanted to use a recipe I blogged about for my sister-in-law’s baby shower, … Continue reading
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Field Guide to Cookies by Anita Chu
A big thank you to Quirk Books for sending me The Field Guide to Cookies by Anita Chu. This cute pocket sized book follows the design of a field guide not only in size but style too. This is not … Continue reading
Christmas Biscuits
This year, saving on the pennies, I made gifts for my husband’s work colleagues. After seeing some Christmas Star Biscuits for sale as a gift in a posh delicatessant I decided to make my own Spiced Christmas Biscuits. I wrapped … Continue reading
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Baby Shower Shortbread
Last weekend for my sister-in-law’s baby shower I baked shorbread. A couple of months before I found some baby themed cookie cutters just by chance in a discount shop, perfect for the baby shower! I used Fiona Cairn’s shortbread recipe … Continue reading
I’m Victoria and this is my food blog. I’ve started saving time and money by organising my cooking with weekly meal plans. Here I share my meal plans and blog about everything food related.