This recipe is based on the New York Times Cooking Recipe Bȗche de Noël (as illustrated on YouTube) using products from Raphio Chocolate in Fresno, California. It has a Mexican Chocolate flair.
Note: I realized that I have been inconsistent in my tagging. All Hobbit/Lord of the Rings recipes are now tagged “Lord of the Rings.”
Raphio Farwalker’s Entish Beech Treats
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More variations on the classics!
This year’s edition is also gluten, soy, egg, and dairy free thanks to a key substitution in the cookie base.
The three variations we’ll do today are:
Max Miller recently did a podcast on Anzac Biscuits—Americans would call these “cookies.” We have not had a decent Anzac Biscuit since we visited New Zealand twenty years ago. Wife Jan decided that she really wanted some. Max always strives to use the original ingredients and methods in his show. I have no such constraints, as I always try to make any recipe my own. One problem—with any cookie actually—is that these tasty treats are not exactly diabetic friendly. While I started with Miller’s authentic 1926 Recipe for Anzac Biscuits as a basis, I substituted many of the ingredients to make them healthier for me to eat.
Karl’s Anzac Biscuits for Diabetics
Filed under Desserts & Treats, Vegetarian
Adapted from a Travel Gourmand recipe
Tuile—French for a curved roof tile and pronounced tweel—is a thin, crisp, and curved cookie, frequently used to garnish desserts. Wife Jan is making chocolate mousse for my birthday and asked me to make some tuile to add to the dish. Although, I have watched them being made—we hosted a French family and the father made some while they were here—I have never tried my hand at them.
Karl’s Tuile
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Adapted from an Epicurious recipe
Like a lot of house bound people wife Jan is starting to bake. Cookies make her happy. So she decided to bake some.
Chai with Jan’s Cardamom Triple Ginger Cookies
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Adapted from a Bon Appetit recipe
My daughter Eilene loves hamantaschen. She has been asking for weeks for these Jewish festive treats served for Purim. These triangular cookies are filled with a variety of sweet fillings—wife Jan and Eilene’s favorite is the traditional poppy seed.
Karl’s Hamantaschen
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Adapted from Quaker Oats Famous Oatmeal Cookies
Father’s day is here and wife Jan decided to make me cookies. While she wanted to make healthy oatmeal raisin cookies, I usually prefer chocolate chip. We compromised.
Jan’s Father’s Day Orange Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Cookies
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Jan asked me to make some cookies for a bake sale at the university. Before I left home for the first time, I sat down with my mother’s recipe box and wrote down my favorite dishes. Her chocolate chip cookies was one of my favorites, growing up.
Claudia’s Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Adapted from Joy of Cooking
Every year we make several Christmas give-aways—food treats to bring joy to our friends. It really started to get serious about 15 years ago when we moved a house with orange, lemon and grapefruit trees. I could not stand that the trees produced far more fruit than we could deal with, so I started making marmalade in bulk and giving it away at Christmas.
Karl’s Almond Biscotti
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Adapted from Joy of Cooking
Every Christmas Jan, Myr and Eilene make Rum Balls as give-aways to our friends. Originally they followed the recipe in Joy of Cooking, but a few years ago they started to make changes (adding a little instant coffee, rolling them in cocoa powder rather than sugar, using other liquors rather than rum).
Jan’s Christmas Rum Balls
Chai Rum Balls
Chocolate Chip Grand Marnier Balls
Coffee Rum Balls
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Jabberwocky Stew 