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 […]

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 […]

5-Pointed Origami Star Gift-Tags or Decorations with Christmas Washi Tape

    I love working with washi tape and found a great use for my Christmas-themed tapes by adding them to plain white paper origami stars. I decorated the stars with a variety of bold patterns and in a colour theme of red, green, and white. I played around with this idea for washi tape […]

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 […]

Christmas-Themed 5-Pointed Origami Stars

    I really love the look of the 5-pointed origami star and I have made these so many times I can make these with no instructions at all.  The base shape to start with is a pentagon, which is folded and unfolded many times to create the final star – follow the links for […]