A few months back our little family visited a café and I bought a few cookies for dessert, just because they were on display rights by the cash register. I’m an easy target that way. Anyway, they were so good that I wanted to recreate them. I love a nice and chewy cookie, so I decided to go with an oatmeal cookie. I’m pretty happy with the result and will definitely bake them again soon for the holiday. And then I’ll add more of all the spices so they will be packed with holiday flavor. This batch makes about 30 small cookies.

I baked these cookies to give away as hostess gifts, thank-you-for-the-ride gift and a small belated birthday gift. We went to the Christening of one of my good friends daughter on Sunday. It was a really lovely day. A day with lots of talk and laughter with good friends, a little baby and many many yummy cakes. These cookies don’t take very long to make. If you have all the ingredients at home, then you could have freshly baked cookies within half an hour. Not bad at all. The cookies should be a bit chewy in the middle, so don’t worry if they are a bit soft when you take them out of the oven. This batch made about 32...

This weekend was full of fun birthday celebrations. First a great and really fun 30th birthday party on Saturday and then a sweet and cozy 5th birthday party on Sunday. So a wonderful and eventful weekend with great great company. Instead of bringing flowers as a hostess gift I decided to bring a batch of homemade cookies on Sunday. The recipe is from my new cookbook ‘happiness is chocolate’ – a Danish chocolate cookbook by two food – or should I say, chocolate bloggers.  I have followed their blogs for a couple of years and absolutely love their new joint cookbook. I added a bit of vanilla to the recipe because you can almost never go wrong with a bit of...

You have to have a bunch of cookies ready in December for whenever you have guests over. At least I think so.  My mom used to make three different cookies each Christmas, usually vanilla cookies with chocolate, hazelnuts and a swirly cookie of vanilla and cocao. This year I have only baked two kinds of cookies; the Danish gingerbred cookies Brunkager and these orange/marzipan cookies with almond chunks. I love when a recipe only calls for one bowl and you just stir everything in there. And this is one of those recipes. Grated, chop, stir, done! And the result is really yummy too. Again I used one of Odense Marcipan’s flavored marzipans, but you could use regular marzipan and add...

I am really getting into the Christmas spirit here on Frederiksberg. I spent most of the afternoon in the kitchen baking and making holiday candy, with my iPod blasting Christmas music, everything from Mariah Carey to Ray Charles – Love it!  The holidays are always busy and full of wonderful events, but I love having a day off, where I can just be me in the kitchen doing what I love. Today I baked a batch of the traditional Danish Christmas cookies, Brunkager. They are a variation of gingerbread cookies, full of different spices such as ginger, cloves and allspice and candied oranges. The name, directly translated is not great – brown cakes. I don’t know why anyone has chosen...

I recently bought an amazing cookbook called American Pie. Its really great because it has all sorts of recipes for American baking goods, but with the metric system measurements – something that can be a little difficult to find when looking for real authentic American recipes. The book is written by two American ladies who live here in Denmark, which is perfect, because they know exactly where to buy the best ingredients and also have tips for great alternative ingredients. The first recipe I have tried from the cook is for chocolate chip cookies. And they turned out great. I am sitting with a plate of them next to me as we ….well write…and I’m pretty sure, they will be...

My parents were having friends over for a late lunch last Saturday and asked if I wanted to join, which I of course did. Instead of bringing flowers, I decided to bake cookies. I chose a recipe from my second Hummingbird Bakery cookbook, that I bought a few weeks back. I just love those cookbooks; all the recipes look so delicious. These cookies are so yummy, they are sweet and a little chewy, and the cranberries add a little sour to the chocolates sweet. My parents and their friends really liked the cookies and my mum was still talking about them when she phoned me a few hours ago. The ingredients;