May your New Year be bright. We hope that you spent your Holidays surrounded by family and friends. This season, we found that little hands are perfect for sculpting marzipan snowmen. We spent a morning with our friend Chelsea. She learned very quickly how to turn pieces of marzipan into round balls for our snowmen. [...]
Holiday and New Year Wishes
December 29th, 2012 · No Comments · Home Baking Makes Memories
Pistachio Ideas for Your Cookie Exchange
December 12th, 2012 · No Comments · Recipes
Pistachio Harlequin Cookies are a sweet and elegant treat to add to a holiday cookie tray. We’ve used this versatile dough to make Pistachio Schoolboy Cookies as well as these piped cookies. You can read a step-by-step of how to make them here. Or proceed directly to the recipe. At this time of the year, [...]
Tags:Cookie Recipe·Holidays·Pistachio Paste·planning holiday baking
Jam-Filled Almond Clour Cookies
December 4th, 2012 · No Comments · Recipes
“Chewy-crisp and intensely almond-y”, that’s what the folks at King Arthur Flour say about their Bakery’s best-selling cookie. And one we think you may want to add to your holiday cookie tray. First, you beat our almond paste with the sugar. This helps break up the almond paste into a uniform mixture. You want [...]
Tags:Almond Paste·Cookie Recipe·Gluten Free Recipe·Holidays
Double Almond Thumbprint Cookies
November 30th, 2012 · No Comments · Recipes
Crunchy almonds and a generous helping of our Almond Paste give these thumbprint cookies added texture and flavor. First we made a buttery dough with almond paste and a hint of cherry from the kirsch flavoring. Then we rolled the dough in coarsely ground almonds, which adds a savory toasty note to the cookie. We [...]