Salted Caramel Salada Crackers

  Broken up Salted Caramel Salada Crackers in squares and triangles.   Cross-section of the crackers – the caramel melts between the perforations and holes of the Salada cracker during cooking, and caramelizes on the base.     Salada crackers are ideal for this recipe as they are plain, large, pre-salted crackers that have indentations […]

Ginger, Coconut, and Lemon Biscuits

    This recipe is one my Grandma used, and it started out as a peanut biscuit recipe. It is a really good basic biscuit recipe, so it gets adapted regularly with different ingredients and flavour combinations, and the following recipe combines complimentary flavours of ginger, coconut, and lemon. A friend who tried these biscuits, […]

Melting Moments with Passionfruit Icing

      Melting Moments are lovely old-fashioned biscuits, but to add an extra frisson, these ones have a subtle passionfruit flavoured filling – (which really means these biscuits can be called ‘Passionate Moments’!) The recipe for the biscuits given below is my Grandma’s recipe, just as she used to make them, but you can […]

Pepparkakor (Gingerbread Biscuits) Decorated with Royal Icing

    Pepparkakor is a traditional Swedish recipe. These Scandinavian spicy biscuits are traditionally served on St Lucia Day, which is a celebration of light on the longest night of the year. St Lucia Day is one of the biggest Christmas-time celebrations in Sweden and is held on the 13th December. This date was unknown […]

Gluten-Free Shortbread Christmas Stars

    This recipe uses only four ingredients and makes a very light shortbread that melts-in-the-mouth. The mixture has a beautiful soft and fluffy texture, and as I was hand-mixing the flours, I imagined this is what mixing white, soft, fluffy, clouds would be like! These biscuits make great Christmas gifts for those who are […]