Looking for something nutty and light to nibble on? Of course – biscotti, the famous twice-baked Italian cookies. This version combines toasted hazelnuts and ground coffee for a wonderfully autumnal treat that’s delicious and quick to make.
On 8 March, we celebrate International Women’s Day. To mark the occasion, I baked these beautiful butter rose cookies using my favourite shortcrust cookie dough. The dough is wonderful to work with. The key to success lies in understanding your oven: if it’s not hot
Festive little bites inspired by traditional German stollen, so popular during the Christmas season. This simplified version uses baking powder and bicarbonate of soda instead of yeast, making the cookies quick and easy to prepare. Delicious hardly begins
Red Velvet Whoopie Pies are soft, melt-in-your-mouth sandwich cookies that taste like little pieces of cake. Moist, lightly cocoa-flavoured and beautifully deep red in colour, they are filled with a creamy Philadelphia-style cream cheese frosting
Festive American-style cookies based on my favourite chocolate chip cookie recipe, enriched with walnuts and dried cranberries. Crisp around the edges and soft in the centre, they’re easy to make and require only basic pantry
These Valentine’s shortbread cookies are wonderfully traditional in flavour – crisp, buttery, delicious and irresistibly cute. To make them, you’ll need cookie stamps and cookie cutters in your favourite shapes. Happy Valentine’s Day!
These almond cookies taste just like almond croissants in cookie form. They’re intensely buttery and almondy, with crisp edges and a soft, chewy centre. The recipe is inspired by frangipane – the rich almond cream traditionally used to fill almond
Today is definitely not the day to count calories ;). These brownie sandwich cookies with peanut butter cream can brighten even the gloomiest autumn day. Chocolate and peanut butter are one of my ultimate guilty pleasures. Soft, intensely chocolatey brownie
Delicious, soft chocolate cookies filled with Nutella… Sometimes you don’t need much to know, even before baking, that a recipe is going to be a winner. That was certainly the case here. Quick and easy to make, yet the result completely won us over. Absolutely
These Swedish crispy oat cookies are incredibly easy to make and contain very little flour – they’re made almost entirely from oats. Once baked, they develop their characteristic lace-like texture. After cooling, they can be coated on one side with chocolate
These French-style rhubarb pastries are quick, easy and absolutely delicious. Better still, if you already have a sheet of frozen puff pastry or Danish pastry in the freezer, they can be prepared in no time at all :).
These lemon polenta and cranberry cookies are absolutely delicious – crisp, buttery and wonderfully refreshing with their bright lemon flavour. And despite the cranberries, they feel delightfully spring-like!
Italian cornmeal cookies are wonderfully delicious and butter cookies that everyone will love :). They have a distinctive texture thanks to the addition of cornmeal. Highly recommended!
Red Velvet macarons were inspired by the famous American Red Velvet Cake. Of course, they must be a deep red colour and filled with a lightly salted Philadelphia cream cheese frosting. Delicious!
Rye shortbread cookies are my children’s favourite cookies; they disappear so quickly. I appreciate them for how easy and quick they are to make, as well as for the addition of rye flour. The girls fill them themselves with their favourite jam, and because rye flour
Madeleines are charming and delicate French little cakes. I hope you know and love them as much as I do :). Baked in their distinctive shell-shaped or mini shell-shaped moulds, they are simple, elegant and surprisingly quick to make. I can’t wait to try them
Autumn hazelnut chocolate chip cookies filled with crunchy hazelnuts and milk chocolate. Wonderfully crisp both on the outside and inside, with an irresistibly moreish flavour. Simple to prepare and made without eggs. Perfect for enjoying alongside a cosy autumn
Rudolph vanilla shortbread cookies are delicate, buttery vanilla biscuits decorated with red chocolate sweets and chocolate details. The dough is wonderfully easy to work with, making the cookie-cutting process a real pleasure, especially for children. Highly