I haven’t made Linzer Cookies for a while and these happen to fit in with the “Color Game” that I have going on. Refreshing, sweet and tart and really quite a lovely combination, I give you these awesome Lemon Linzers with Passion Fruit Curd. Passion Fruit is definitely a food of the foodie gods. So delicious!
My “biggie” cookies seem to be popular. You know the type: bakery-style BIG cookies that you buy individually and may not be able to eat in one sitting. Or maybe you can. I’m not judging. This time, I decided to go with a new type with coconut in and on the cookies, as well as coconut white chocolate wafers in addition to the dark chocolate wafers. They are big. They are delicious. They are worth the effort to make. nom nom!
Me, and Crumble Bars, eh? Yep. thought I would make some more – these are Yuzu Lemon Shortbread Crumble Bars – and even though they aren’t exactly Easter-y, they are bright and tart and delicious. Never heard of Yuzu? Well, nor I had I until I tried some juice while at an Asian restaurant a while back. Yuzu is sometimes called a Japanese Lemon. Sometimes called a Korean Tangerine and has roughly been described to me as a mashup between a lemon, grapefruit and a mandarin, round, but lemon yellow. I’ve never had a fresh one, but the jam, extract and syrups are amazing.These crumble bars would be a great addition to an Easter dessert spread.
Switching gears…. Easter is really early this year. Or at least it feels earlier than normal. I don’t recall it usually being this close to St. Patrick’s Day. At any rate, as with so many holidays, I feel the need to make something. As if I ever need an excuse, right? So this year’s Easter season is starting off with these Cardamom Carrot Cake Oatmeal Nut Cookies. They might be healthy, if it weren’t for the 3 sticks of butter and the almond candies. They are delicious and the nests actually turned out quite cute.
