Christmas Cookies

I was so sad when it was so close to christmas and I still hadn't found the time to do some baking or crafting. Work was so exhausting this year, I started to work a second job on the weekends, there were final exams and to top it off we moved into a new apartment. Phew~

But two days before christmas I finally found time to make some cookies!

First I made some Nutella Cookies based on this super easy recipe I found here. It's simply 225 gr Nutella, 120 gr flour and one egg mixed together and then baked for about 7 minutes at 175 °C.
I just used a cheap, no-name version of Nutella which made it taste even better, because it wasn't as sweet as the original.

Ready to be baked!

After cooling off, I finished them with white chocolate coating.

Not so nice to look at...

...but very yummy!

I made a second set of cookies based on stuff I had at home. Mainly cereals, butter, sugar, flour....The first batch didn't turn out right, but the second ones were perfect!

Sadly we couldn't get to eat much of them, because we gave most of them away as little presents (forgot to make photos...)

My first try at a rainbow cake

Well...look at my first try at making a rainbowcake. It's decorated with simple sugar icing and some Haribos :)

I made normal dough and  seperated it in different bowls to mix the colors with food coloring. Then I started putting the dough in the spring form, always a few spoonfulls into middle.

That's how it looks. I made the mistake of always adding only two teaspoons...so the lines got very small and after baking looked very faint because they blended together.

 Well, I learned from my mistake and I hope next time the cake will turn out better .

Bread

Why always cakes and muffins and cookies when you can have wonderfull bread? Somehow I never dared to make some bread, but it's really not hard at all.

Last month, the first bread I we tried was with bacon (of course), onions and cheese.

It was delicious... so for hour next try two weeks later we got more adventurious and made three differnt breads. Another one with bacon and onion, one sweeter bread with honey and dried figs and one with different kind of nuts.

 Here my personal favourite with dried figs.

Can't wait to make new ones. They are so delicious =)

Pumpkin soup

One of the best things of fall are delicious pumpkins. I love them. So of course time for yummy pumpkin soup. I made it in october and we had some fun painting with balsamico vinegear ;)

Yummy!

Muffins with bacon and onions

I love muffins since there is no end to their variety and they are so easy to make. I encourage everyone who says he can't bake to try them at least once. If I can make them everyone can ;)

Great for something to eat at work are these muffins with bacon and onions. You can't always have sweet.

Here are ones I made in September. This was my first try.
Ready for the oven!

 And done!

I made them again a month later, in october, to try out a new muffin mold in the shape of a flower.

Hmmmm....bacon =D

Shortbread

It's been ages since my last post. I'm barely online anymore and have even less time for crafting. Especially the later makes me sad sometimes, because I really feel that I need some place for crafting and creativity in my life.
My job isn't the worst in the world (by far) but it is so unfullfilling and leaves me often in a sour mood which is quite exhausting.

Anyways! Time for something more fun!

I may have next to no time for crafting, but I wasn't that lazy and ventured into the world of baking and cooking and other housewifey things. Better late than never, right ;)

First I want to present you something very British to enjoy when it's tea time: Short bread.
The recipee is very simple: 125 gr soft butter, 40 gr sugar, 25 gr powdered sugar, 225 gr flour and a hint of salt.There are other variants though.
Short bread is very dry and simply tastes of butter and flour but it tastes great with some tea. This one I made in August and it didn't last a day ;)

Have a great tea time =D

Muffins with love topping =D

And more Muffins because they are so easy to make. This time with pink love <3

They were delecious~

My first rainbow muffins

Upon special request.... ;)

Christmas Cookies

I already made them like two weeks ago, but forgot to share them :D
We actually made even more, but I didn't take pictures of everything since I gave most of them away the next day.

Nearly all of them are already gone. ;)

cake-cookies??

One week without a post? Bad me~ I'm just horribly unmotivated at the moment.
But I finally managed two finish two ATCs...now it's Inchies again :D

Last week I made some cookies that turned out tasking rather like cake, but I actually prefer them not being so dry. They are not that beautiful, but it was my first try.




Well...maybe I manage to be a bit more creative this week.

melon-pan

First time I tried something more complicated.







Yummy!

Matcha-Cookies

Mal ganz was anderes. Ich hab mich endlich mal in häuslichen Tätigkeiten gewagt. Das Rezept ist so einfach, dass wirklich jeder Depp es hinbekommen müsste. Das Rezept ist von www.nekobento.com und es sind wirklich stinknormale Kekse, nur das eben Matcha-Pulver (sehr feines Pulver von grünem Tee) mitverarbeitet wird. Daher auch die grüne Farbe.



Alle mit LIEBE geformt!



...et voilà!





Ich bin so stolz auf mich. Jetzt fehlt mir nur noch eine rosa Schürze.