Sweet Treats

Sweet treats for everyone!!

Ok maybe not everyone... just for my colleagues at work.

This is a post that should have been written AGES ago but as usual I never got around to it.

Ever since I’ve started baking, I love an excuse to dress up food. Why would anyone pick an ordinary cookie over one that has a bow around it? Everything looks better with a bow around it !

So for the last two Eids I wanted bake goodies and put them into cute little individual boxes. For the first Eid, I probably went a little overboard and decided to make 6 sweets in a little box. I probably pushed it a bit with the 6 sweets in 2 days because on the day of Eid I was still at the supermarket buying eggs and running around town trying to find peppermint extract.

 

 Fortunately except for a few mishaps it all came together and I was able to come up with something I was very happy with!

 

The boxes had

·         A chewy chocolate chip meringue

·         A rainbow whoopee pie

·         A piece of carrot cake

·         2 pieces of Mint and chocolate fudge

·         A piece of chocolate cake

·         Dates (that should have been Turkish delight L )

The chewy chocolate meringue (from bakerella) was my favourite treat from the box. They really were chewy like a good cookie with the surprise of mini chocolate chips inside. Couldn’t help eating a whole bunch of them as they came out of the oven :D

 

For some reason the Turkish delight didn’t quite turn out right and had to be chucked last minute L After all that stirring, I was quite disappointed. 

 

Aaaaand for the second Eid, I decided that I probably should try to do something a little bit simpler; COOKIES. Now every time I make a cookie I ask myself why on earth we buy cookies from the store, when it is so simple to make them at home. Laziness I suppose. Something I’m experiencing right now on this very slow rainy Saturday evening. I want a raisin cookie but I’m too lazy to walk to my kitchen and make it. The bed shall be my home today :D

The initial plan was to make five kinds of cookies and put them into transparent cookie bags, tied with polka dotted ribbons. However on the way to the bookshop to buy wrappers, I came across these absolutely ADORABLE gift boxes that made life so much easier. How cute are they??

 All lined up waiting to be eaten :D

The cookie boxes had;

·         Every cookie box HAS to have a chocolate chip cookie
·         A peanut butter cookie
·         An orange glazed cookie
·         A filled raisin cookie
·         Carrot and ginger spiced cookie

Now as much as I love a good chocolate chip cookie I was very surprised with how amazing two of the cookies on the list turned out.

While I was making the orange glazed cookie, I misunderstood the recipe and made the glaze really runny. I poured it over a batch of cookies turned the other direction for a minute and the next, the glaze was dripping all over my kitchen. So I made the glaze again! Finally using some common sense I added more icing sugar and the glaze sat beautifully on the cookie. Thing is once I was done cleaning I didn’t feel like trying even one of the orange cookies because everything I touched smelt like orange and I was feeling a bit sick. Fortunately at work the next day my stomach was growling (as it always does because  I cant seem to ever make time for breakfast) and I ate one of these guys and I was pretty blown away! Definitely making that one again. Super impressed with how well it kept as well. 

The next one I loved was the raisin filled cookie. Generally I don’t like raisins in anything other than cookies. I was originally planning on making oatmeal raisin cookies but decided on these at the end. I’m glad because not only where a delight to eat but now I know how to make a stuffed cookie! Sure it takes slightly longer to make than other usual scoop batter and bake cookies but it is worth it.

So I’m going to give you both recipes so you can go make it and tell me what you think!

Orange glazed cookies
Filled raisin cookies