As I’ve mentioned before, baking has a therapeutic effect on me; it calms me down and destresses me. When I need that kind of baking therapy I usually go for a muffin recipe, and that is what happened last week. I don’t know what it is about muffins, but I find them very calming. That […]
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I thought it was high time to give my Cookie Rookie project another go, so today I put together a recipe for a new cookie! After having had a tiny bit too much sangria last night, I wanted something easy, delicious and very unhealthy — so, chocolate seemed like the perfect idea! I named these […]
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I love lemon. I’m pretty sure it’s my favourite flavour for just about anything: sweets, ice cream, tea… It’s also a great flavour to add to things like salmon or chicken. And then, of course, you’ve got the baked goods. If you go back through the recipes I’ve posted on here you’ll notice I add […]
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About a week ago I felt the familiar itch to bake something. After all, it had been over a week! Seriously, before I started this blog I didn’t even bake once a month (I think) and now I can’t go without baking something for a week. How quickly things can change… I wanted to bake […]
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I thought apple turnovers were a Dutch delicacy, until I Googled them this morning. Turns out, they’re quite international! I didn’t do any extensive research on them or anything, but Wikipedia didn’t mention any specific origin, and Google gave lots of non-Dutch recipes, so that made things kinda clear. The reason I thought they were […]
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Last Friday a friend of mine hosted a party: The Grand Dessert Happening (literal translation of the Dutch “Het Grote Toetjesgebeuren”). It’s basically a party to which everyone has to bring some sort of dessert or baked good. The first edition was in June, and it was so much fun! One table was completely packed […]
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Remember the little project I started a few weeks ago, called Cookie Rookie? Well, since those raisin and hazelnut cookies turned out really good, I decided to try a new recipe this weekend! I had a real craving for chocolate, so it didn’t take me very long to decide what kind of cookies I would […]
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On the fifth of December the Dutch people celebrate their own gift giving holiday called Sinterklaas-avond (Saint Nicholas’ Eve). It’s quite similar to American Christmas: it involves a man with a beard and red clothes who gives gifts. In fact, the American Santa Claus is based on the Dutch Sinterklaas. Sinterklaas lives in Spain and arrives in […]
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This weekend I decided I wanted to make some cookies. However, it wasn’t until I was already busy making them that I realised I’m a bit of a cookie rookie. I love to bake and am getting quite good at it (if I do say so myself) but for some reason I don’t tend to […]
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This weekend I had a friend coming over for lunch, so I wanted to bake something nice, but I didn’t feel like going all out with ingredients. In fact, I didn’t want to leave my warm and cosy home to go to the supermarket, so it had to be done with stuff I already had […]
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Books Baking and Blogging 