Ik had ze al enkele jaren niet meer gemaakt, deze hazelnootkoekjes. Terwijl het toch wel één van mijn lievelingskoekjes is. Dus ik vond het weer eens tijd om ze voor deze kerst wel te gaan maken. Kon ik ook gelijk het recept uitwerken en met jullie delen. Deze koekjes zijn trouwens niet alleen met kerst lekker, maar het hele jaar rond.

Geïnspireerd

Deze koekjes zijn geïnspireerd door mijn vanillekoekjes (wat eigenlijk Vanillekipferl zijn, maar ik neem de moeite niet meer om er halve maantjes van te vormen). Ik bedacht namelijk dat als je een koekje met gemalen amandelen kan maken, je dat vast ook met gemalen hazelnoten kan doen. read more

We make these cookie butter cookies often to add to our Christmas cookie platter. But honestly, these cookies are good all year round. They are so delicious. They have a chewy bite and a lovely cookie butter flavour, not overpowering at all.

What is this?

Whoever tries this cookies for the first time, is wondering what it is they are tasting. There’s something very familiar about it. ‘That does taste familiar, but what is it?’ Once you tell them that there’s cookie butter in there, most react like: ‘oh, of course, that’s what I’m tasting. read more

There are so many delicious Christmas cookies and every year, we try a few new ones. Or we adapt old recipes and give them a new twist. But there are 5 Christmas cookies, that we make (almost) every year. These are the ones, that I had as a child, when my grandma would bake all Christmas cookies. And making them now brings back so many loving memories. There is no Christmas without at least a few of these cookies. read more

Yes, I know what you’re thinking… ‘please, not another Christmas cookie recipe’. You can’t open any of the social media without being slammed with recipes for Christmas cookies. Or posts and ads for crash diets to get you in shape, just in time for Christmas. Never knew you needed to be ‘in shape’ for Christmas. No thank you, I’ll prefer all those Christmas cookie recipes. read more

This recipe is actually based on the famous ‘Vanillekipfel’, crescent shaped vanilla cookies. Tasty and oh so pretty. At least, they can be pretty. I used to shape them into crescents, and most of them were… pretty. Didn’t always succeed though. They were never uniform. Too big, too small, too thick, too thin. And as they are very delicate when they come right out of the oven, many broke in half when I tried to sugar coat them (which has to be done straight from the oven). read more

It’s half December, which means… COOKIE TIME. And not just any cookies. But Christmas cookies with a long family tradition. I remember my grandmother baking loads and loads of cookies. Especially German ‘Butterplätzchen’. I would always hang around the kitchen when she was baking. I loved the smell of freshly baked cookies. The smell meant that it was almost Christmas. And of course I always tried to get my finger into that bowl of cookie dough whenever my grandmother wasn’t looking. read more