Rugelach is a Jewish pastry made with all sorts of wonderfully buttery things and filled with a whole range of deliciousness. There’s cream cheese, sour cream, butter in the dough. And in this version, candied peel, cherries, cranberries and raisins in the filling. And brown sugar and spices. The best kind of Christmas party!
Spiced Hazelnut Baklava (Eggless)
It took me a while to warm up to the idea of baklava, simply because the idea of eating something that is predominantly nuts, took a while to catch up with my brain. Lately, if you disguise the nuts with enough fun stuff, I’ll eat them pretty much without batting an eyelid. In this case,…
Hazelnut Snowball Cookies (Eggless)
Ironically for someone who has a blog primarily about desserts, I avoid excessively sugary frostings, cloyingly sweet cookies, anything doused in a ton of powdered sugar. Apparently as the new year approaches, all of that goes out the window because ohmygodthesecookiesarefabulous. I mean, toasted hazelnuts mixed into a buttery cookie dough that is then rolled into…
Vegetarian Chili and Cornbread (Eggless)
I think I probably first heard of chili while watching The Parent Trap. And at that time, I had no idea what it was except it sounded spicy. Alarm bells. Then a few years later I found out it’s a meaty, one-dish meal. Primarily made of a mixture of beans including kidney beans. More alarm…
Crunchy Ginger Biscuits (Eggless)
I’ve loved ginger biscuits since I was a kid. There’s something about the crunchy, gingery, buttery, spicy-but-sweet combination that I just can’t resist. A big stack of said biscuits and I would be inseparable. They make great gifts, if you’re feeling generous, and are so ridiculously easy to make, I hardly think they should be…