Lemon Poppyseed Madness!

Sticky fingers. Just finished with the glaze this morning. I used a lemon glaze, a sugar glaze, and left some plain. A nice mix. How can people be so picky about lemon? It's such a nice zing to your mornings. Zap!

Blueberry Scones

Made these little things while babysitting my 7 week old niece. Running around in between napping sessions. I added a heck of a lot of blueberries because I'm a bit nutso for them myself but next time I suppose I should add less. (Boo) I meant to add a streusel topping, but completely forgot while running around with the baby.

Ying Yang Cookies

These suckers were tricky, really have to mold them individually to get them right. Definitely a learning process. I think next time I'll add dark and white chocolate chips for a true ying yang experience. Yes. Recipe is:



Vanilla Chocolate Wafers (from the Martha Stewart website)
2 cups flour
1/4 tsp salt
14 tbsp butta
1 cup conf. sugah
1 egg yolk
1/4 tsp vanilla
2 tbsp dutch process cocoa powder

First, combine flour and salt in one bowl. Then combine salt, softened butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla and whip up all nice and fluffy for about 3 minutes. Separate the dough in half and add the cocoa powder to one. Refrigerate in plastic wrap or parchment paper in a long round roll for about 10 minutes. Use a round wooden spoon to mold in dips for the ying yang shape and combine chocolate and vanilla dough together. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. Set oven to 350 degrees and bake for 10-12 minutes. Et voila, gorgeous little ying yangs. Simple and tasty. Oh heck yes, I'm excited for these. Success, I'd say!

Alo world!

My name is Rebecca, I love to bake (from scratch!) and want to learn to cook. I have a couple of Martha Stewart's cook books to help me chug along the way.





And so my journey begins! :D