Chunky, moist, sweet and spicy, these ginger bars are awesome accompanied with a warm cup of tea for a winner of a cozy combination ☕️ 🍪. These delicious spicy ginger bars have golden raisins, candied ginger, molasses, warming spices, and dark rum – doesn’t all this make your mouth water 😋? Spicy Ginger Bars from my favorite celebrity chef Ina Garten came to mind this week as its been cold and rainy and there is something about cold wintery days that makes me crave warming spices like nutmeg, ginger and cinnamon. This is an awesome sweet treat to make when the weather gets cold and all you want is something sweet with a warm cup of tea. The best part is these bars are easy to make and taste great! Continue reading Spicy Ginger Hermit Bars
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Raisin Nut Cardamom Superseed Truffles
Looking to make some homemade energy bites that taste positively yummy with loads of all-natural ingredients such as nuts and superseeds – give these cardamom, raisin and nut superseed truffles a try. Packed with a variety of nuts, lots of superseeds such as chia seeds and flax meal, and lightly sweetened from honey and raisins, these are really really delicious energy bites and make for the perfect snack time treat. Continue reading Raisin Nut Cardamom Superseed Truffles
Pistachio Cardamom Cookies
Pistachio Cardamom Cookies! Need I say more? Wholesome pistachios and sweet cardamom in a shortbread cookie – positively delicious. I asked my daughter Sri to make these pistachio cookies for the holidays from a cookie book called Indulgence Cookies by Christabel Martin. This is a cute little cookbook with all the right type of cookie recipes – meaning each recipe is made with good wholesome ingredients and nothing complicated. With simple easy to follow instructions, lovely aroma of cardamom, crunch of pistachios, and a little edge from the lemon zest, all this makes a grown up not-too-sweet cookie, perfect to have with a warm cup of tea. Continue reading Pistachio Cardamom Cookies
Indulgence Cookies. A Fine Selection of Sweet Treats by Christabel Martin
Indulgence Cookies. A Fine Selection of Sweet Treats by Christabel Martin is a darling little cookbook with a delectable selection of cookie recipes. Not too overwhelming, with just the right amount of cookie, bars and biscuit recipes, this cookbook makes a perfect little present for yourself or for anyone who loves to bake with wholesome ingredients. Continue reading Indulgence Cookies. A Fine Selection of Sweet Treats by Christabel Martin
Scandinavian Christmas by Trine Hahnemann
Scandinavian Christmas by Trine Hahnemann is an outstanding cookbook that I love to peruse through over the holidays and over the winter months. I love all the spectacular photography of a warm winter kitchen spilling over with baked goods, candles, and arts and crafts that are not cloyingly over-the top – but rather tastefully understated, yet warm and inviting at the same time. Continue reading Scandinavian Christmas by Trine Hahnemann
Molasses Crinkle Cookies
Looking for a no-egg cookie recipe with the heavenly aroma of ginger and spices? These fragrant and wonderfully spiced molasses crinkle cookies made with dark molasses and ginger are the ones to try. The only modification I made to this easy recipe from Molasses Crinkle Cookies by Jennifer Causey on Cooking Light Magazine. is adding 1/4 cup of chopped crystalized ginger in the dough and as garnish on the cookie. For an easy cookie recipe that tastes outstanding, give these a try! Continue reading Molasses Crinkle Cookies
Holiday Baking
Invited to a few holiday gatherings? Looking for easy sweet recipes to share with family and friends? Give these recipes all made with wholesome ingredients a look over. Most of these recipes are easy, turn out beautiful and delectable – perfect sweets to make over the holidays. Continue reading Holiday Baking
Pastini Di Mandorla. Maltese Almond Cookies
Pastini Di Mandorla are popular almond cookies that are a specialty of Malta. These almond cookies were introduced to me by my friend Georgina who is from Malta. Georgina has been dropping off her almond cookies for over a decade, every time my Dad visits us here in California. Once Georgina figured out how much I too loved her almond cookies, she started gifting them for my birthday as well. Honestly, I never bothered to ask her how to make these cookies since I was getting my supply about twice a year. Continue reading Pastini Di Mandorla. Maltese Almond Cookies
Frosted Ginger Cookies
These frosted ginger cookies from myrecipes.com got unanimous 5-stars from everyone who made them! Pretty amazing! Given how much I love, love, love ginger in sweets I decided to give another ginger cookie recipe a try – this one Frosted Ginger Cookies on myrecipes.com. Continue reading Frosted Ginger Cookies
Christmas Sugar Cookies
Oh my gosh, what is it about Christmas sugar cookies that makes them a must have over the holidays? Maybe it’s the vibrancy of the beautifully decorated cookies or maybe it’s all that sweetness in each and every piece. Strangely, I haven’t been a fan of sugar cookies, I’ve always found them too sweet, but the temptation of these gorgeous cookies always gets the better of me. Continue reading Christmas Sugar Cookies
