Cookies n biccies!

Backlogged: some o' the cookies I've made over the last year...

CHOC ORANGE GINGER SPARKLIES

Made as a thank you present for a friend (and her family) who hosted me and put up with my weird diet for a week (believe me, that's no mean feat...)


Basic choccy biccy recipe with ground ginger + orange extract. I coloured the sugar with (non-beetle-derived) pink food dye.

BLUEBERRY LEMON BISCOTTI

These were a total piece of piss to make. Originally a cranberry biscotti recipe, but i love the fact that the bloobreez made them go a really unappetizing shade of grey. Sick-lookin' food is totally the best.

GINGER APPLESAUCE COOKIES WITH GUMMI BEARS

I found organic vegan gummi bears in my local health food shop. Too brilliant for words.


Also I'm aware that these aren't strictly 'cookies', since they're pretty lumpy and therefore more like rock cakes, but..... ah, feck it. They tasted good and look funny, so ner.

MAYA GOLD COOKIES

Basic chocolate cookie recipe, except I used Green & Black's Maya Gold Drinking Chocolate powder in place of half of the cocoa, and also added in some orange extract and spices (the same as those listed in the ingredients of the drinking choc!)

APPLE SHAMROCK COOKIES, YA WEE FECKER!

I am insanely proud of my Irish roots (I have both Northern + Southern relatives) and St. Patrick's Day always brings out the shameless patriot in me. I made these by cutting out three mini hearts for each cookie, sticking 'em together and then using a roll of spare dough for the stalk. Oh yeah, and they're green for authenticity, loike.

Pre-bake:

Done!

And that's yer lot. Cookie monster have rest now.

Hearts, hearts and more hearts - pass me a sick bucket

DISCLAIMER: These pics are backlogged. I did NOT make all this food at once, in some kind of disgusting fit of sentimentality. Nor am I proud of its "cuteness" factor. I am not a hearts and flowers person, and god knows how I ended up making all this crap. Nevertheless, I thought it best to get all the vom-inducingly adorable food out of the way in one post, and then spend the next few months attempting to repair the damage to my menacing image.

So, on to the nauseatingly nice nosh...

CUTESY WOOTSY AUBERGINE PASTA

I tried - and failed - to make ravioli with aubergine + mushroom filling. After a frustrating few hours (!) of attempting, it all fell apart, so I combined the filling with harissa, tomato juice and mint and cut the pasta into hearts (again, fuck knows why...) to make this nauseatingly cute dish.

ORANGE ALMOND PANCAKES

Complete with pink food colouring + 'decorative' (read: pretentious) blood orange slices.

CHAI LATTE CUPCAKE

My best friend's birthday present. So it was totally ok to use a heart.


I promise there will be nothing cute or fuzzywuzzy in this blog for a looooong time.