Exam on saturday. Cue freakout! But in the meantime we’ve been making cookies. Ok, so maybe its a little bit therapeutic. Yesterday we made piped sables, biscotti and macarons. Learning to make macarons was interesting, not in the least because they seem to be uber trendy of late. Biscotti was something that had always been on my ‘To Do’ list, mainly because it seemed fairly straightforward and easy for something that people shell out way too much money for. Anyway, I guess I finally got around to it. Piped sables were straightforward too, we’d covered them in basic so it was a no-brainer. My piping seems to have improved markedly from when we covered cookies in basic though. yay!
Today we made Jam cookies, Vanilla horns and Mailanderli. All allegedly traditional swiss christmas cookies. Despite an initial minor snafu involving burnt jam cookies, I managed to work quickly and make a second batch that turned out beautifully. The other two cookies turned out well too. I really liked the vanilla horns, basically a sweet short biscuit dredged in vanilla icing sugar. The mailanderli was fairly tasty too, just a simple crisp biscuit flavoured with lemon zest.

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