I made vegan cookies and I wasn't even planning to make vegan cookies. I was browsing the internet for a Afghan cookie recipe to make for a friend of A's who will be working in Afghanistan for 6 months. So Afghan cookies seemed a nice gift to take to her farewell party. Turned out that pretty much the only cookie recipe you can find on the internet is a vegan one. And as my regular readers should h...

I've been wanting to post this entry for nearly one and a half weeks but as happens all the time life happened ;) I had most of the post ready for about a week now but was very busy doing other stuff. And then came this month Daring Bakers challenge which had priority of course. So finally today I'm posting about my eldest son's 3rd birthday party that we celebrated the 22nd. We started the party i...

Even though I started making the dough for the Danish braid on Friday, I ony had time to actually shape and bake the braid today. Time flies when you have two pre-schoolers ;) I liked the prospect of making laminated dough a lot. It's something I've never done and also something that is way down at the bottom of my to do list. But since Kelly of Sass & Veracity, and Ben of What's Cookin'? choos...

My parents were visiting yesterday morning, usually I make something a little more elaborate than muffins but we had a busy weekend so I had to make something quick. Nectarine muffins seemed like the perfect thing to make, there were a few very ripe nectarines sitting in the fruit bowl begging to be used. Didn't really have time to make streusel so I just sprinkled them with storebought hazelnut cr...

I made this cake for friends of ours who just had a baby son. Instead of using 'blauw met witte muisjes' (blue and white anise seed sprinkles) I wanted to make something with a pea in the pod theme even though this was not a baby shower cake. I mean, a pod filled with peas is like a family, right? Seemed like a fun enough idea. The original idea was to just make a marzipan pod with four white choco...