I thought I’d make a couple of things for St. Patrick’s Day. And sort of like most holidays, I am just making these because it’s a sweet treat and I felt like it, not because they are particularly Irish or Irish-American for that matter. These “Irish Cream “Faux-reos” Sandwich Cookies are Oreo-style Chocolate Sandwich Cookies with Bailey’s Filling, and how can you really go wrong with that.
As every year, here is the Valentine’s Day Cookie Collection. I might have gone a little overboard this year, with 5 varieties, but I had the time and energy for once so here we go. Happy Valentine’s Day!
The varieties are:
Oreo-style Sandwich Cookies
Raspberry Almond Linzer Cookies
Red Velvet Non-Pareil Cookies
Espresso Chocolate M&M Cookies and
Lemon-Hibiscus Swirl Cookies
One more year! Today is the 12th birthday (I have a Tween!) of the Cup of Sugar :: Pinch of Salt website. No, not my (the human) birthday but the anniversary of when I started the virtual recipe collection (the website). It was a cold day in January 2011 that someone suggested that I start putting all my recipe ideas and pictures in one place and a few weeks later, the site was born. Twelve years and 2680 recipes, I am still at it. I didn’t think that was possible, or even likely but here we are. What’s to come, I don’t know, but you know where to find me — in my kitchen!
It’s been one of those weeks (and one of those months! I hate January!) that chocolate wasn’t an option this weekend, and the best option was for these Salted Caramel Pretzel Pecan Brownie Bites. They are cute, delicious and definitely filled the chocolate “void’ for the weekend. I make my brownies from scratch (not out of the box), but in a pinch, you could also do this recipe with a box mix. A very straight forward and simple recipe.
So this is Zebra Cake (Zebrakuchen). I know that you can barely see the zebra stripes in the marbling, but if you look on the bottom piece on the right, you can see the stripes.
Zebrakuchen is definitely one of those “things of my childhood” – I think every kid in Germany since the late 1960s on has had Zebrakuchen — for birthday parties, the ubiquitous cake that people brought “for the kids” to family gatherings and Sunday afternoon cake and coffee. It’s fun and happy and …. and well sometimes it doesn’t really look like zebra stripes and them you can just call in Marble Cake and the funny thing is that you won’t actually know if the stripes are there until you cut into it, so sometimes you have to change you tune halfway through. “I meant to make it a Marble Cake!” The last one that I made was really stripey, this one not so much. It’s an easy cake in that you can make it in a cake pan or a loaf pan, it can be frosted or left plan. I doubled up on the espresso powder in the chocolate batter and it made it ultra-rich. Perfect for a snowy Friday afternoon.