If you live in a city that goes by the name Mile High city ( Denver for you English speaking people), you know that baking at high altitude comes with a lot of challenges. And for someone like me, who had not baked before I landed in the US, it just meant that for quite a while I did not even know what on earth was going wrong with my cookies. Like any enthusiastic novice baker, I would bake batches of cakes and cupcakes and muffins and brownies and cookies. While my cakes got better and better – so …
Lemon Bars
It was one of those cold winter evenings, when you are casually strolling in a cute little town that has deliciously inviting cafes lined up and you can’t help but end up in one of them and ask for a Latte. And suddenly, your eyes wander to the cleverly placed confections and cakes and other goodies and you think, why not! You ask the better half if he would be willing to share a bite of the goodies with you and you go ahead and order it with the Latte. You dig into the lemony, sugary goodness and despite your …
Russian Tea Cookies – Mrs Fields Way!
It took me a few years to warm up to the idea of baking cookies. It’s not that I don’t like to bake cookies. I do, but I bake the usual suspects – oatmeal raisin, chocolate chip, shortbread, …. and that’s it. That my friends was the scope of my cookie baking. I would admire the beautifully decorated holiday cookies, the ginger bread house that my daughter made with her girl scout troop, and the cookies my neighbors sent in during Holidays. But I would still stick to my list of three tried and tested cookies and bake …