Posts Tagged ‘cookies’

The Great Cookie Caper! – Part II

Christmas Cookies

Whew! Did you take a deep breath? Are you ready to move on??  In case you missed it, and I don’t know how you could have, here is a refresher of where we’ve been - The Great Cookie Caper! – Part I! In Part I we we discussed and went over the finer points of Krumkake, Spritz, Ethel’s Sugar Cookies and Snickerdoodles. It’s time now to delve into the final four: 5)    Kringla – Another traditional Norwegian cookie that found The UnKitchen Diva reliving her play dough rolling days… 6)    Berlinerkranzer – Why stick to one Norwegian and play dough rolling type of cookie when you can have two?!? This is also when The UnKitchen Diva realized that most of the traditional cookies are colorless and the tray of cookies may be a little less than festive looking…. 7)    Lemon Whippersnaps – A favorite,

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The Great Cookie Caper! – Part I

Christmas Cookies-1a

Where to start? Where to start? Do we begin with the fact that it’s a Norwegian holiday tradition to serve 7 different types of cookies?  Why 7? No one seems to be able to recall. Or do we go down the road of how The UnKitchen Diva has some how started a new tradition of baking cookies for her friend Mary’s Dad? What started as a joke has now turned into a ‘thing’.  A ‘thing’ of such epic proportions that the man is now receiving his own humongous tray of 8 (an extra type thrown in for the heck of it) types of cookies for Christmas. (No need to worry that The UnKitchen Diva has let the cat out of the bag – he believes that the internet is the death of all society and won’t be reading this at

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The UnKitchen Diva meets the Tsp Spices Ladies

Tsp Spices

It was back in January, the UnKitchen Diva was having coffee (hot chocolate in her case) and discussing the finer points of Twitter with a friend, when she first heard about Tsp Spices.  She was explaining the cooking project/challenge she had set for herself and the upcoming year when her friend almost literally jumped out of her seat and said “I have the perfect company for you!” Tsp Spices is a company that was created by two girlfriends, who lamented the fact that no matter how much they loved to cook, their spices would turn before they could use a whole jar.  Their amazingly brilliant and simple solution – package spices by the tsp.  You love it already right?!? Back to the coffee shop –  she was telling her friend how fantastic their idea was and couldn’t believe she hadn’t

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My Favorite Quick & Easy Cookie Recipe – Lemon Whippersnaps

lemoncookie

I love the flavor of lemon! My birthday cake when I was a kid was a yellow cake with lemon curd filling, white icing and coconut – ohh the sweetness!! (If anybody can find me that cake now – I’ll be your new BFF!!)  As I got older my cake became a lemon meringue pie – oh the love! These cookies offer the same lemony delight I got from the cake and pie and have become a favorite cookie of mine to give away at Christmas. 1 egg 1 package lemon cake mix 4 oz Cool Whip (1/2 of a regular container), thawed 1/2 cup powdered sugar 1) Mix cake mix, Cool Whip and egg until well blended. This makes a really really sticky biscuit like batter. I alway use a wooden spoon to mix it all together – no

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