HeritageCookies

I don't want you to think I've fallen down on the job in my cookie research on this trip. This is today's find - Norwegian molded cookies, these were originally made in the 1950s. They're a crispy sugar cookie with just a little bit of coconut. My taste tester and I couldn't eat just one. 🙂

Just so you all know I'm working hard testing Scandinavian flavors, we picked these up today. Citrus and cardamom cookies. Yum. 🙂

Time to do more research for the bakery! We'll be checking out the flavors of Scandinavia and I'll be forced to taste test ridiculous amounts of cookies and pastries. So for the next little while instead of my baking you'll see what I'm trying out - all in the quest to make our Heritage baking even better. :) In the meantime, these are cardamom and cinnamon buns I baked up recently to prepare for the trip. I plan to try lots and lots of these soon!

Iced Gingerbread, right before the icing. This mold is an antique butter mold with a great Pennsylvania Dutch design.

I wanted you to see these Glazed Lemon Shortbread before they were baked so you could see all of the little, tiny vanilla seeds. I made these with my own Vanilla Sugar, which I make while decanting batches of my hand-crafted vanilla. And of course I used this mold from the early 1800s. :)

Orange Cream Springerle! Creamsicle in a cookie. :)

Today I baked up these Orange Speculaas Cats. Crispy, crunchy kitties. I use an authentic recipe from a bakery in Bruges, Belgium and the orange zest gives them a flavor that's out of this world. :)

Teeny tiny Lemon Springerle out of the Heritage Ovens today. Here they are before and after they bake. They rise so much in the oven I just stand and watch - I can't help myself!

This is in celebration of National Honey Bee day in the US and to thank the bees for making all of our delicious honey and honey for our cookies. This is one of my queen bees, surrounded by her colony. These girls never cease to amaze me. 🐝🐝🐝

Lemon Springerle made with this beautiful mold hand-carved by a master carver in Hungary. It's such a lovely, traditional pattern with the pomegranates.