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 […]

Posted by Admin on December 21st, 2014 | No Comments Posted in Biscuits, Christmas, Festive and Celebrations, Icings and Fillings

Vanilla Easter Biscuits with Royal Icing

    The eggs only. They look eggs-tra specially eggs-cellent.   We didn’t put all our eggs in one basket: we added a chicken and bunnies as well. A pretty blue bowl of pretty biscuits :   “Time consuming but absorbing, and fun to make” – this how Mum described the making, baking, and icing […]

Posted by Admin on May 3rd, 2014 | No Comments Posted in Biscuits, Easter, Festive and Celebrations, Icings and Fillings

Easter Holidays

  A selection of eggs and chocolate for an egg-scellent ‘healthy’ Easter feast : Creme Egg, Green Eggs (feijoas), and Candy Covered Chocolate Eggs. (We did actually have a boiled egg for Easter Breakfast followed by the traditional Creme Egg, egg-cetera, egg-cetera). Mum had just read an article and commented on how eating dark chocolate […]

Posted by Admin on May 2nd, 2014 | No Comments Posted in Easter, Pot Luck (miscellaneous)

Christmas Cake Icing, Almond Paste Recipe, and Finished “Christmas Candle Cakes”

Finished “Christmas Candle Cakes”   This is a companion piece to the blog I posted in December called “Mum’s Christmas Cake Recipe”, and is also linked to the blogs “Christmas Cake Recipe (CT’s)”, and “Christmas Cake Recipe (Uncle Charlie’s)”. Here I am describing how to make the Almond Paste (marzipan) and apply the royal icing, […]

Posted by Admin on January 4th, 2014 | No Comments Posted in Christmas, Confectionery, Desserts and Puddings, Festive and Celebrations, Icings and Fillings