cooking up a storm at the edge of the world
No Christmas cookie decorating skills? No worries! The uglier, the better with these ugly Christmas sweater gingerbread cookies! Prep Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 15 minutes Difficulty: Easy Ugly Christmas sweaters – do you love them or hate them? I’m not going to lie; my cookie-decorating skills are not the best, especially when it comes …
The crunchy peanut butter and dark chocolate chunks in this super easy peanut butter & chocolate chip cookies recipe will make it a new family favourite. The recipe comes from the children’s cookery book Lunch at 10 Pomegranate Street by Felicita Sala. Pull up a chair and grab a plate! My youngest has all the …
My grandmother’s easy peanut butter cookie recipe is super quick to make, and they’re great for refuelling on our family microadventures! They’re a classic family favourite. Prep Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 20 minutes Difficulty: Easy Grandmother’s recipe notebooks Shortly after Christmas (2014) I received a heavy parcel in the post all the way from …
This Shetland Croft-style gingerbread house is made using a (slightly adapted) Norwegian pepperkakehus recipe. It’s a delicious, sturdy, easy-to-work-with gingerbread recipe and includes the printable template. This recipe was featured on BBC Radio Shetland’s Shetland Larder and in issue #190 of the i’i Shetland magazine. A Shetland gingerbread crofthouse – the inspiration This is, officially, the …
These crispy on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside oatmeal raisin cookies are reminiscent of childhood. Delicately spiced with cinnamon, they get even better the next day. These cookies are one of my absolute favourite cookie recipes. The recipe is slightly adapted (and UK-ified) from one that I used to make in my …
Crunchy on the outside and soft and chewy on the inside with a delicious hazelnut chocolate filling – these chocolate chip cookies are super easy to make and will be sure to impress children and adults alike! This recipe was inspired by the remains of a jar of chocolate hazelnut spread lurking in the back …
Medovníky are deliciously spiced, decorated gingerbread-style cookies flavoured with honey, cinnamon and cloves. These festive cookies are often served at Christmastime in Slovakia decorated with white icing swirls. Prep Time: 1.5 hours Cooking Time: 12 minutes Difficulty: Easy Christmas baking – something new I love experimenting with new recipes, and recently, I had a notion …
A Christmas classic, these traditional all-butter Scottish shortbread cookies are simple to make and taste delicious with a hot chocolate or a warming dram of whisky! In collaboration with Titan Travel’s 12 Days of Blogmas Campaign. Scottish shortbread has to be, in my humble opinion, one of the best foodie things about Christmas in Scotland. …
A recipe & review in collaboration with Nuts Pick. There’s something very therapeutic about baking cookies. They’re so easy to make and one can contentedly potter about the kitchen while each batch bakes, filling the house with the delicious aroma of freshly baked cookies. We’ve got our regular family favourites: oatmeal raisin, chocolate chip and my …
Post sponsored by Volkswagen. I have fallen in love with the art of decorating sugar cookies! It is remarkably easy to mix ready made Royal icing powder with water and a little bit of food colouring to decorate the tops of your favourite sugar cookie recipe, and, I have learned recently, the sky is the limit …
Ready in under 20 minutes this chocolate chip skillet cookie recipe hits the spot when you get that craving for warm, homemade chocolate chip cookies, but you don’t want a whole batch. This is my contribution to the online recipe bank for Valentine’s Day this year. A chocolate chip skillet cookie recipe, ready in under …
Post sponsored by Volkswagen. I am an adventurer at heart, I truly am. As a child I could always be found in the forests of the Canadian wilderness, exploring every tree nook and cranny, always wondering what was on the other side of the next hill. That childhood curiosity hasn’t left me and now I enjoy …
This is the easiest, soft-baked M&M cookie recipe with a soft and chewy centre, made according to my grandmother’s traditional recipe. Prep Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 12 minutes Difficulty: Easy A brief history of the M&M M&M’s were inspired by the sugar-coated chocolate treats given to British soldiers during the Spanish Civil War. Forrest …
These melt-in-your-mouth beremeal shortbread biscuits combine stone ground beremeal with a sprinkling of Scottish seaweed. Beremeal is a low-gluten, heritage six-row barley grain brought to our remote islands by the Vikings in the 8th century. Prep Time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 15 minutes Difficulty: Easy There’s a bakery in our neighbouring island, Orkney, that makes …
My Norwegian mother-in-law’s go-to cookie recipe! I have a confession to make. I haven’t cooked a single thing except for porridge for the kids’ breakfast for nearly three weeks! My mother-in-law had been visiting from Norway for a fortnight, and I’d taken on some extra shifts at work for holiday cover, which meant, to my …
Because sometimes chocolate chunk cookies are required. I’ve made cookies! Regular readers will be aware that it’s been ages since I’ve posted anything even remotely sweet and indulgent like a cookie or cake recipe. That’s because I’ve not been making such treats, or anything even hinting at calorific as I attempt to lose the extra …
A gorgeous marriage of chunky peanut butter and chocolate chunks – in a cookie! Salty peanut butter… Sweet, sweet chocolate…. Together in a can’t-eat-enough-of-them cookie! These delectable morsels were my fourteen year old son’s creation. He fancied making peanut butter chocolate chunk cookies and, searching through our recipe books and using the ingredients we had …
I have no idea who Jane is but she makes mighty good cookies.
The sun came out in Shetland the other day. This means one thing: screens get switched off, the housework gets abandoned and we head outdoors for some proper exploring adventures. After all, it could be weeks before we see the sun again!
When school started up again last year after the October holidays I finally gave in to the children’s requests to have packed lunches instead of school dinners. School dinners are expensive, working out to be approximately £100 per child per term. We have three children, so with all three having packed lunches that’s a whopping …
