Icebox Cookies

Here are two kinds of icebox cookies that I baked a little while ago.

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baker of a lonely heart

Gingerbread Cake House

I decided to make something fun for the nabe party hosted by my friends Mr. & Mrs. T... and here it is! My version of Gingerbread Cake House from Martha Stewart Holiday Sweets 100.

Since I don't have two 9-inch square cake pans, I used two 9-inch round pans instead and cut round cakes into squares... so the final product was much smaller than the original one in the magazine.

5 gingerbread kids represent my friends' kids - S-kun & K-kun of the T family, T-kun, L-kun & L-chan of the A family. It was so rewarding to see them excited to find their own gingies!

L-chan is in charge of decorating their Christmas tree ;)

Wishing you all and your loved ones a happy, safe holiday season from my teeny tiny kitchen!!

The Chewy

I felt a sudden urge to bake chocolate chip cookies... The recipe is from Good Eats with Alton Brown whom I loooove *blush*

A meal-sized, big cookie because of the #14 disher that I used (bigger than #20 that's specified on the recipe).

I was looking for a good recipe for soft and moist cookies like Fujiya's Country Ma'am, and I think I found the winner :)

A Happy New Year

Same cookie dough as the ones from the other day.

Orange Spice Cookies

Used a small packet of spice blend for cookies that came with a cookie cutter. Didn't use the cookie cutter this time, though.

à la Linzer Cookies with orange marmalade instead of traditional black currant preserve...

Cinnamon Sugar Cookies

= Regular Sugar Cookies + Cinnamon

Stars and "Cinnamon Buns"

Scrap (leftover) dough & new 'cinnamon-free' dough, rolled together to make the mini cinnamon bun cookies.

Meet Cinnamon Sugar Cookie People.

Shortbread "Fingers"

I was making typical shortbread fingers (something like these) but we got the special orders for Halloween...

They were bony and wrinkly before being baked but now they have kinda healthy, smooth, younger-looking (green) skin.

Yuanyang Cookies

Yuanyang or "Yin Yong" is a mixture of coffee and Hong Kong style milk tea. Should've finely chopped tea leaves.