3rd anual cookie cook off

So today was our 3rd Anual cookie cook off. This year we did 6 different kind of cookies, all made from scatch. So from 11am to 5pm there was non stop baking. All in all cookie day was a success.

What makes the cookies


Magic in a bottle, real Italian Anise

All of our cookies

A platter of cookies

Sugar Cookie

Gingerbread Cookie

Snowball Melt Away Cookie

Anisette Cookie

Kolache Cookie

Chcolate Chip Cookie

Homemade nougat anyone?

So I've moved again, I'm in Delray Beach now. To break in the house I decided to make some homemade nougat. I had never made it before and I think it came out pretty awesome, it's like marshmallow, but doesn't have that gross marshmallow taste and there is no gelatin in it yay. So the process was a bit of a pain, because it's not baking, it's cooking candy, which means you have to cook it just right, with different stages, ex: hard ball stage, soft ball stage.. tempatures. Then you have to whip egg whites to a certain texture, then cool for about an hour and then finally are allow to cover the nougat in chocolate. I would do them differently next time, not whats in them, but the way i coated them in chocolate, but they taste amazing.