Friday, December 18, 2009

SNOWFLAKE COOKIES - CHRISTMAS COOKIES 2009 -

INGREDIENTS:
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened,
1/2 cup sugar,
3 oz. cream cheese,
1/4 cup light corn syrup, (or honey),
1 egg,
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract,
2-1/2 cups flour,
1 teaspoon baking powder,
1/4 teaspoon salt,

ICING :
For 1 cup powder sugar add 2 tablespoons water or milk.







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"TWO LITTLE STARS" - CHRISTMAS COOKIES 2009 -

INGREDIENTS:
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened,
1/2 cup sugar,
3 oz. cream cheese,
1/4 cup light corn syrup, (or honey),
1 egg,
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract,
2-1/2 cups flour,
1 teaspoon baking powder,
1/4 teaspoon salt,
1/4 cup powder sugar,
1/3 cup your favorite jam,
1 spoon butter softened;
DIRECTIONS:
Beat butter, sugar, cream cheese, corn syrup (honey), egg and vanilla in a large bowl with electric mixer until creamy. Stir in flour,baking powder and salt until well blended. Form dough into ball; wrap in plastic wrap and flatten. Refrigerate about 2 hours or until firm.
Preheat oven to 350 F. Lightly grease cookie sheets. Roll out dough, working with one small portion at a time, to 1/4 in. thickness on floured surface with lightly floured rolling pin. Keep remaining dough wrapped in refrigerator. Cu dough with 2-1/2 star cookie cutter. Place 2 inches apart on prepared cookie sheets.
Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until edges are lightly browned. Let cookies stand on cookie sheets 1 to 2 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely.
Pair stars with a mixture of 1/3 cup jam and 1 spoon butter. Dust with powder sugar.
Enjoy!


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MINT CHOCOLATE VANILLA CAKE WITH CHOCOLATE BUTTER CREAM



Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Monday, December 14, 2009

Sunday, December 13, 2009

TRIP TO SAN FRANCISCO


Good morning sun shine!
After a short morning shower here comes the rainbow. Too beautiful to stay home, so we just left town for the day to San Francisco. Here we stopped at AMPM to fuel up.
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GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE

PACIFIC SUNSET




MY FEET ON WET SAND...

... AND THIS IS ME, FREEZING MY... FEET OFF... !

This is a little RUSSIAN market where we always buy delicious goodies imported from Europa
(Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary....)



RUSSIAN CAKES...YUMMMY YUMMMY!!!

CANDIES, COOKIES...ETC;

CHOCOLATE...CHOCOLATE...CHOCOLATE


The smell of smoked sausages wafting in the air, plus the red caviar, goat feta cheese, freshly baked bread, just to name a few of our favorite delicacies, were our snacks in the car on the way back home.
Ps. For more pictures on this SAN FRANCISCO TRIP click on Nina's Nature! Enjoy!