My mum has an expression for using random ingredients and/or leftover food for a meal which roughly translates to “sideways through the refrigerator”. Sometimes it feel like that when I throw random things together in my drop cookies. This time: dried cranberries, white chocolate mini-chips, pine nuts, oatmeal, and a healthy dose of cardamom. Delicious combination, even if it is a bit unorthodox!
So sometimes it is the simple things. These cookies, for example. They don’t look like much, do they? But they are seriously some of the best cookies that I have ever baked, though they are a bit on the sweet side. Caramel Chips and Toffee Bits … glued together with brown sugar and butter. Simply delightful. The only thing that I think will make they even better would be to add macadamia nuts, so I will have to try that next time. They take yummy to a whole new level!
It’s the middle of September now and that means that it’s beginning to feel a little more autumn-like here in New England. Soon the leaves will start and foliage season will be here! Autumn always gets me thinking about cinnamon, nuts, apples and even maple (although in theory, that should be a spring flavor) so this week, I decided to make some cookies that encompass those. Thus, these Maple Pecan Cinnamon Chip Cookies. Warm spices, hearty pecans. Very yummy.
I was going to call these cookies “Whatever I happen to have in the Pantry” cookies, because I had intended to bake this morning, but then promptly forgot to buy ingredients for something more enticing then these guys. But turns out, they are actually quite yummy. I had some sea salt caramel chips, loads of coconut, and instead of sprinkling with sea salt like the recipe says, I had some sea salt caramel sanding sugar (that’s a mouthful). Lovely with this fresh cup of coffee on a Sunday morning.
You can watch the march of time in the summer through what berries are ripe. June is strawberries, followed by raspberries, blueberries and finally, as it starts to turn to autumn, then it’s blackberries. I guess you could say that it is blackberry season now, so enter stage right my crumble bars, this time with blackberry jam. Always yummy and so easy to make!