Egg Yolk Paint
This has become my top cookie decoration technique, it’s fun, the results are beautiful, it doesn’t add sugar to the cookies, the cookies stay crispy, and it’s done once the cookies are out of the oven.
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Sweets and Treats
Sweets and Treats
Rose Water Glaze
Another variation on America’s Test Kitchen’s all purpose glaze, I like their use of cream cheese, it helps mellow the sugar. This variation is just right to go on a flavoured cookie without overpowering it. If the cookie is more of a neutral flavour, there’s room to intensify the glaze with more rosewater.
Chocolate Chia Pudding
Chia seeds are a great shortcut to pudding deserts, yogurt of any type with live cultures gives you a bonus point for health factor, but in the end, this is just tasty.
Peeps!
Peeps! To make this a more accessible activity for a 3 year old – I found this cookie cutter method for making peeps. I prepare the sheets of marshmallow the night before and she and I cut out shapes in the morning.
Banana Trail Mix Muffins
This is basically the America’s Test Kitchen recipe for banana bread muffiins with no added sugar, I added chocolate drizzle on top cos Mary Berry broke me for Banana bread without chocolate and it didn’t seem right to put a crunchy sugar topping on muffins that have no added sugar. I also split up the work over two cooking sessions.
Bunten Stuten (Raisin Bread)
A family recipe – Bunten Stuten appears to mean Colourful (sweet) Bread, similar recipes in English are called Fruit Bread. I don’t know how true this is to Bunten Stuten in Germany, instead of yeast, baking soda is used to leaven. This was a Christmas breakfast tradition growing up in our house. As I’m not a fan of raisins, I’ve swapped them for glace cherries and candied ginger.
Rich Rolled Cardamom Cookies
The classic Joy of Cooking rich rolled sugar cookies – they’re tender, not crisp. I wanted to make something a little different from the standard sugar cookie. Enter ground cardamom.
Cookie Decorating Glaze
This is America’s Test Kitchen’s “Easy All Purpose Glaze” just slightly different way of making it lemon flavoured – going for “subtle” to not over power the cardamom cookies. Variations here too!
Burns Night Banana Bread
A crunchy topped banana bread with chocolate and whisky added for good measure.
Rote Grütze (Summer Fruit pudding)
Traditional German berry pudding, a great summer dessert that can easily be spiced up for winter too.