12.30.2010
12.24.2010
on my christmas table.
Frosted Lime Sugar Cookies
you will need:
for cookies:
250 g flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
113 g butter
200 g granulated sugar
1 large egg
2 tablespoons lime juice
for frosting:
460 g confectioners’ sugar
2 egg whites (***note pregnant women or very young children should avoid raw egg whites. Meringue powder can be substituted here.)
water
cookies:
Preheat oven to 165 degrees (or 325 degrees for my Canadian and American friends) and prepare baking pan.
In a large bowl, sift together flour, salt, and baking powder.
In a separate bowl with an electric mixer, cream together sugar and butter until fluffy. Beat in egg. Add flour mixture to bowl and stir on low speed until combined. Cover dough and chill for 30 minutes.
On a floured surface, roll out dough to and cut into desired shapes. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until edges just begin to brown. Cool on a wire rack and prepare frosting.
frosting:
Sift confectioners’ sugar into a large bowl and add egg whites. With an electric mixer, combine ingredients. Slowly add water, a little bit at a time, until desired consistency is reached.
*makes about one dozen cookies
*Tip:
Let shapes dry overnight so that icing sets completely before packaging.
Food and Styling: Tara Ballantyne
Photography: Trine Thorsen
12.16.2010
sweets anyone?
12.12.2010
12.06.2010
for your december hot chocolate.
Chocolate Dusted Meringues.
You will need:
2 large organic egg whites
3 ml (1/2 tsp.) white vinegar
3 ml (1/2 tsp.) water
3 ml (1/2 tsp.) best quality vanilla
1 g (1/4 tsp.) baking powder
pinch of finely ground sea salt
150 g granulated sugar
cocoa powder for dusting
Method:
With an electric mixer, beat together egg whites, vinegar, vanilla, water, baking powder and salt. Beat until mixture is stiff and forms peaks, but is not dry. Add sugar 50 g at a time, beating constantly.
Grease a cookie sheet. Place mixture into piping bag and squeeze out meringue into circles the size of 25 cents.
Bake in 120 degree oven until firm, approximately 15 minutes.
Dust with cocoa powder before serving.
Makes: 3-4 dozen small-medium sized meringues
*tip: serve with coffee or hot chocolate, and float in mug instead of sugar!
Food and Styling: Tara Ballantyne
Photography: Birgit Fauske
12.05.2010
hand made.
12.02.2010
currently loving.
11.30.2010
pretty paper.
11.29.2010
cirque vintage.
11.24.2010
christmas cakes.
11.19.2010
the sweetest gift.
11.14.2010
i'm dreaming of a white christmas...
11.12.2010
julemarked.
11.10.2010
11.07.2010
november recipe.
Chocolate, Orange and Almond Biscotti.
Note: Biscotti can be stored in the freezer in an airtight container for up to one month and enjoyed as soon as defrosted. The biscotti will be hard and crispy even after being frozen - and is perfect dunked in coffee!
You will need:
250 g flour
100 g ground oatmeal
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon finely ground sea salt
6 tablespoons butter, softened
100 g granulated sugar
75 g brown sugar
2 large organic eggs
zest of one large orange
75 g almonds – roughly chopped
150 g milk chocolate bar – cut into chunks
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Mix together flour, baking powder, salt in a bowl and set aside.
In another bowl with an electric mixer cream together both sugars until fluffy.
Add eggs, butter and orange zest.
Stir dry ingredients into wet ingredients and mix until just combined.
Add chocolate chunks and almonds to dough and mix well.
Flour hands and a work surface, and shape dough into a loaf (about 10 cm wide and 25-30 cm long).
Place dough on a cookie sheet.
Bake in 165 degree oven for 20 minutes.
Remove loaf from pan and reduce oven temperature to 150 degrees.
Cool loaf for 15 minutes.
Cut loaf on the diagonal into slices. This is a rustic biscotti so be sure to cut slices thick to avoid slices from crumbling.
Return biscotti pieces cut side down onto cookie sheet.
Bake slices at 150 degrees for approximately 30 minutes or until dry and firm.
Biscotti will harden and become crispy as they cool.
Makes 1 dozen biscotti.
Food and styling: Tara Ballantyne
Photography: Birgit Fauske
11.06.2010
a black and white garden.
11.03.2010
new neckline.
10.31.2010
10.27.2010
the city I once lived in...
