Many are the changes that this virus has brought into our lives, and recently I was reminded of how we seem to have lost the luxury of spontaneity. We are required to plan for everything. A trip to the grocery store takes much longer and some local stores are now only open on weekdays, or…
Tag: cookies
Gluten-free Oatmeal raisin cookies: the comfort of a cinnamon scented home
After posting recipes for chocolate chip cookies and brownies, I thought of adding another classic to the repertoire. In my bakery, oatmeal raisin cookies were as popular as their chocolate chip counter part. The smell of cinnamon, butter, brown sugar, and oats would fill the kitchen every time we baked them, and anyone who happened to…
Gluten-free Pecan Sandwich Cookies
In the last month we said goodbye to 2015 and welcomed a new year. My family’s holidays were low key, and that usually means that I baked quite a lot. While shopping with a friend, a few weeks before, I was in a local store and I saw Tish Boyle‘s new book: Flavorful. As I said…
Comfort food: Gluten-free Chocolate Chip Cookies
Today feels like winter is finally here. After a very mild December, the day started with strong cold winds and crisp air. So, this afternoon I wanted to give my kids a cup of hot cocoa, and some chocolate chip cookies. Growing up, sometimes I had to spend the night at my nonna‘s home. There…
The Samoa cookies I refused to buy…
A couple of weeks ago I was in our local supermarket with one of my children. He brought me in front of the cookie shelves and showed me a package of the “cookies I ate at Bubbe’s house!” In front of me there were the Samoa cookies I had never heard of – or, as…
Because I love to bake…gluten-free sugar cookie sandwiches
Gluten-free Sugar Cookie Sandwiches – These jam-filled delights boast buttery and friable homemade sugar cookies.