12 Days of Baking: Day Five

  

My mom gave me the idea for these cookies as she was browsing through pinterest one day. She's super obsessed with it (and has finally stopped calling it "Pinecrest"), but often forgets to actually pin the things she wants to keep! So after a quick and easy reindeer cookie search we found them once again.

Instead of the recipe on the site we found, I used a recipe from the good ol' Joy of Cooking cookbook, which we thought was the gingerbread recipe we always use, but for some reason these turned out nothing like the gingerbread I usually make. My parents took our ancient copy of Joy of Cooking to the cabin and this was a newer edition, so I'm wondering if the recipe had changed or something?

They still look super cute, and while they don't taste like the classic gingerbread men I'm used to devouring I really wouldn't turn my nose up at them. 

Those tiny little m&m noses! The wee antlers! Once again I'm fawning over cute cookies. I must go and find myself a life.

12 Days of Baking: Day One

Guys, it's DECEMBER.

Instead of waffling on about where did this year go (seriously though.. where did it go?? Didn't I just move to England or something..) I'm just going to start sharing the cookies I baked today! I figured since I do an embarrassingly excessive amount of Christmas baking, I'd post it all on the blog this year. Also maybe it will get my butt in gear to get back to blogging, I've been pretty slack lately, haven't I?

Today I baked these little hedgehog guys. The recipe is from Bake at 350 because for some strange reason the recipe I've been using since I was little for cookie cut outs failed yesterday. Three batches. But we won't talk about those.

Instead can we just focus on how cute these tiny hedgehogs are? I saw on this instagram a little while ago and decided I HAD to make them as soon as I could. So simple and so cuuuuute. Look at them. I just want to eat them up ;) 

Owl Cookies

After seeing cookies like these at the market last weekend, I decided to give them a go myself! I just used a basic shortbread recipe (this one, if you're wondering!), added chocolate chips for eyes, almonds for beaks and forkprints for feathers! Easy peasy. And jeez, they're cute aren't they?

From My Phone

I always find pictures I forgot I took when scrolling through my phone photo album. So I thought I'd share a few!

  

Gorgeous blooms in Greenwich one sunny afternoon



Fang and Rabbit and the World



I think these were called Traveler's cookies? Or perhaps they were called Crack Cookies. Because I had one and I want more. (At Greenwich Market)



Do not miss that snow, do miss that little face. (A picture my mom sent me!)



A Chelfie* I took at Hackney City Farms



Brunch with Anna at the Book Club



Houses in puddles



Peanut butter cookies my mom baked (Hands up if you think Joc should start a bakery!)



McGonagall?



Dum Dum Donuts

Happy Weekend everyone!

*Chicken Selfie

Christmastime

A pretty, cold winter sky



All I could think about this Christmas was making gingerbread men, so make gingerbread men I did!



Getting together with friends at Christmas is probably the best part

Actually, seeing Hey Rosetta (My favorite band!) at their Christmas concert might have been the best part. There were mummers and it snowed and every song was amazing, as usual. You should give them a listen if you haven't before!

Oh, and there's me holding onto a few of the men I made.

This is where my pup can usually be found, napping in her cupboard in the kitchen. My parents are redoing the kitchen this winter and I'm not sure what she's going to think of it when she doesn't have a little corner with a blanket to nap in.

I ordered these silly sweaters for my brother, sister and I to wear Christmastime. It ended up being quite an ordeal getting us all in the same room to wear them, but they're so ridiculous that I'm glad we did.

Another one of my favorite things about Christmas - cracking nuts! (Is that weird?)



When we went visiting my Nan and Pop on Christmas eve, they had out a bunch of old photos. I fell in love with this one of the two of them in front of their Christmas tree when they were so young - isn't it dreamy?



My friend Heather made us all the cutest cards this year, look at those little buttons!



It has been unusually cold for December here in central Newfoundland this month, which I am one hundred percent not a fan of. However, when I went out to my car and saw this frost constellation on the windshield, I couldn't help but think it was pretty.



One of my nans gave me instax film for Christmas, so now I'm all stocked up to snap pictures of my adventures in England!

My cousin Robyn and I at the little outdoor Christmas Market my town had this year. It was bitter cold out so I warmed up with a latte, and naturally when my ten year old cousin decided she wanted a chocolate marshmallow I had to have one too. What? It was delicious.

How were your Christmasses? I hope everyone had a lovely time with family and friends and lots of holiday cheer. It was so nice spending loads of time with everyone in my hometown before I move. Everyone was all in one place which is a rare occasion.

Next up: The New Year and my move to the UK. I couldn't be more excited for both.

Happy New Year, dolls! See you in 2014.

saturday night

i haven't said much here lately at all, but there hasn't been a whole lot happening in my life. i go to work and i go home and i countdown the days until i move across the ocean.
anyway, a little snippet of tonight. it's chilly out (the snow we had all melted but the weather hasn't warmed at all), so a cup of tea and a good movie seemed perfectly in order. so i put the kettle on, but it didn't seem right to have tea on a saturday night without a treat to go with it. and so i quickly whipped up a batch of little shortbread critters (i really do mean whipped up - they took about 15 minutes to make as i've been making them since i was five years old). i popped on you've got mail - one of my all time favorites - wrapped myself in a duvet and snuggled into bed with my tea hot in my hands.
hope you're having a lovely weekeend!

shortbread baking

friday night i decided to bake shortbread (naturally.. this is what everyone does on a friday night, yes?) despite my kitchen being completely under renovations. anyone who knows me would not be surprised. when i want to bake, i want to bake.

so i used the recipe i've been using since i was four. yes, my mom let me bake shortbread when i was four years old. flour on the ceiling was not an uncommon occurance in my house. i used some tiny cookie cutters i bought recently, and i loooove them! look how cute that little bunny is.

so now i have one million teeny animals.

anyone want to come over for milk and cookies?

xx