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hese awesome cookies are a must at Christmas time, but I’m sure that Santa wouldn’t mind having them every other day! So, why wait for Christmas – let’s have some right away!
How to Make Butter Cake
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ere is the riddle: It weighs at least four pounds and you can make it look like anything you want – even a British pound! Your heart will be pounding when you stand on your bathroom scale because you will gain a pound by eating it and – yes – it is also unbelievably easy to make. What is it? It’s -a butter cake!
Stamp Cookies
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ave you always wanted to be a Postmaster General? Or to give a stamp of approval? Or just to send a (not so) subtle message to your significant other? Well, stamp away!
Baguette à la Napoléon
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here is an interesting story about the origin of the baguette’s shape. The legend has it that Napoleon Bonaparte himself requested his army boulangers to create a thin, elongated loaf, so his soldiers could carry the bread effortlessly – in their trousers!
Bavarian Cream – a Bimmer Among Creams
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ou can’t afford a BMW luxury sedan? No problem! There is another gem from Bavaria, almost equally good – the Bavarian cream! And this one you can make yourself!
Cream Cheese and Sour Cherry Strudel
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runus cerasus, AKA sour cherry is thought to have originated as a natural hybrid between sweet cherry and dwarf cherry in the Persian Plateau or Eastern Europe, where the two species come into contact.
Raspberry and Poppy Seed Tart
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oppy seeds are dried, kidney-shaped seeds of the annual plant Papaver somniferum (En. sleep-bringing poppy). The plant is used in production of opium, and just in case you ask yourselves – yes, you can fail a drug test after eating poppy seeds, for real!
Rolled Fondant – an Edible Play Dough
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id you like playing with modeling clay when you were a kid? Well, playing with rolled fondant will be even better because you can eat your creations! And how fantastic is that?
Viennois Cookies
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ho doesn’t like to curl in front of TV, tucked in a blanket on a cold winter night, holding a cup of hot tea in one hand, and tin full of cookies in another? The only problem is that no tin is big enough… you know what I mean?
Kaiser Rolls
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aiser rolls, also called Vienna rolls or hard rolls, are crusty, round yeast raised rolls that originated in Austria. The word ‘kaiser’ means emperor in German, and there is a belief that they got the name after Emperor (Kaiser) Franz Joseph I of Austria who lived at the turn of 19th and 20th century.
