Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

This year Wei decided to personalise her christmas gifts. Dug out a recipe for pepparkakor biscuits that she "koped" from IKEA last year and made her friends some colourful rice-sprinkled spiced biscuits. Created a mix of other flavours by adding some candy cane mint and chocolate chip too.

See recipe after the break.

Note from Wei: Frankly I found the spices too strong so it was good to mix it up with some chocolate. Or cut the spice, up to you!

Gingerbread men

Who doesn't love Christmas?

Sel's ex-classmate from secondary school (and as a side-note, aren't your old friends sometimes the best? They're seen you at your best, and worst! Ah, those angst-filled teenage years...) asked if we could make 20 gingerbread men for her colleagues, since she wanted to give them away as Christmas presents. It was such a lovely idea that we were eager to help!

This was the first time we made them, but we think they turned out ok! And the recipients were happy with their presents. We liked the contrast of the spicier ginger taste with the sugary icing, and of course the cheerful cookies looked so happy.. well, until we started munching on them, of course ;)

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So which one's your favourite? :)


What we made:

• Gingerbread men & women 
• Decorated with royal icing and silver balls