Living the Life

I haven't been blogging for a while, but I'm back! I've baked a lot of American recipes in the last year and a half and started to miss our own local baked goods. For christmas I received a book called Koekje, which translates to English as Cookie. It contains 100 Dutch cookie recipes, 50 are classics and 50 are more contemperary. One of the recipes I made from this book is Nougatientjes or Amsterdamse Koggetjes. I have always known them as nougatientjes. The recipe dates from 1935 when the Dutch Pastry Bakers Association held a contest to come up with a new cookie, it was probably mister Dorssen who won with the Amsterdamse Koggetjes. The catholic and christian bakers were members of different associations and couldn't use the name Amsterdamse Koggetjes, so they baked them as Nougatientjes. Both names are still in use. Ingredients: For the Nougat: 75 grams caster sugar 25 grams water For the Dough: 160 grams white soft sugar 200 grams soft unsalted butter 2 tablespoons...

I've decided to quit Tuesdays with Dorie . There are a lot of other things that I want to bake and it is starting to feel like a chore instead of fun. Another reason is that I (we) are dissapointed with a lot of the recipes. Must be our European tastebuds. I will keep track of my favorite blogs to see what they make every week and if I see something coming up that sounds fabulous I will bake that too. Thank you all for the weekly visits, you will find other baking and cooking recipes here from now on, so drop by every once in a while!