Indian summer

How crazy is that! While New Jersey is having the first snow storm of the season, we are having better weather than we had all summer!!! While writing this, the little man is playing outside, walking around with his bare feet, in the back yard.

The munchkin is not having so much fun. She is sleeping, trying to adjust to daylight saving time, sleeping off her no-travel jet-lag And trying to recover from an eye infection. Poor thing!

Mjammie, koekjes in Flow magazine!!!

While at the supermarket, I spotted the new issue of Flow magazine. You know, the one they wanted the pictures of my cookies for. So I opened it, and to my great, great joy...



Oh yes! How cool is that! I know it's really, really small, so just in case you missed it, which I can completely understand, I will show it a little larger.



I am soooooo proud! Now let's see how many orders it will bring...

Indulgence...

in·dul·gence  (n-dljns)

1. a. The act or an instance of indulging; gratification: indulgence of every whim.
b. The state of being indulgent.

2. a. The act of indulging in something: indulgence in irresponsible behavior.
b. Something indulged in: Sports cars are an expensive indulgence.

3. Liberal or lenient treatment; tolerance: treated their grandchildren with fond indulgence.

4. Self-indulgence: a life of wealth and indulgence.
a. Something granted as a favor or privilege.
b. Permission to extend the time of payment or performance.
c. Patient attention: I beg your indulgence for just a few moments

(http://www.thefreedictionary.com/indulgence)

Today we are visiting my friend Cindy, so our kids can play together and we can catch up. That calls for cake.





I made this cake just because I felt like having cake. Sometimes you have to indulge, especially on days that the sun doesn't seem to exist. Like today. And yesterday. And probably tomorrow, too.

While making this cake I got a really yummy idea....

Cinnamon crunchies tutorial (or recipe?)

Do you want to make these yummy, crunchy cinnamon cookies? They are soooo good, and easy to make!



Cinnamon crunchies

1 egg
200 grams white caster sugar + 2 tablespoons for the topping
200 grams butter or margarine
400 grams flour
1 packet baking powder (16 grams, supermarket)
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Pinch of salt

Mix the egg, the butter and the sugar in a bowl until it looks nice and creamy. Mix the flour and the baking powder. Stir the mixture in with the butter-mix and knead until it looks like a nice dough. Roll out between two sheets of parchment paper until it is about 0.5 cm thick. Leave to rest in the fridge for at least an hour.
Mix the tablespoons of sugar with the cinnamon. Use a brush to brush some water on top of the dough and spread out the cinnamon and sugar mixture on top. Cut small strips (about 2 cm by 8 cm) and lay them on a baking tray. Bake the cookies for about 14 minutes on 180 degrees until nice and brownish.

These light, crispy cookies are especially good with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!

What do 220 cupcakes look like?

What do 220 cupcakes look like? Well, boxed up with 16 per box, it looks something like this...





It's hard to see how tall this stack is. So for the purpose of a reference, I am calling in my trusty assistant.



Of course her little brother had to join in the fun, posing like a pro.



Do you see where this is going? Disaster?!?



Thank god these boxes are empty! The cupcakes left this morning, in neat boxes, and these are just the ones that I used for storing them!!! How much fun can you have with empty boxes?





It lasted well into naptime!!! They had a blast!!!

Just a couple of cupcakes

Last week an order for 220 cupcakes came in. So today I baked 240 cupcakes (some to spare, you never know what will happen, so it's always good to have some extras). It looked like a real bakery!!!

Little golden bird

These will go into the shop tonight. Cookies inspired by the work of Pip studio!