Egyptian Petit Four by Marian: Happy Coptic Christmas

Food Blogger Marian Guirguis @marianjoyfulkitchen is sharing at Chez Nermine her recipe of Festive Traditional Egyptian cookies known as Petit Four. Not to confuse them with French Petit Four, these melt-in-your-mouth cookies are close to Western butter cookies.

Read More

Peanut Butter-Chocolate Cookies: Giving Ourselves Grace

Peanut Butter-Chocolate Cookies is a recipe adapted from the French book: Le Grand Livre Marabout de La Patisserie Facile. It is a rich buttery cookie that comes plain in the original French recipe. My take on these was to half-dip them or drizzle with bitter dark chocolate to cut through the buttery, rich texture. For some crunch, the cookies are sprinkled with some salted peanuts that stud the warm chocolate before it sets! You bite into those cookies and they just burst and then melt in your mouth in a blink of an eye. 

Read More

Brownie-cookie Hybrid Hearts : Love Your Self

In case you have some leftover of crystallized ginger from Christmas time, and you are growing weary what to do with them, I get you covered. These gingery hybrid of brownie and cookies are a perfect fit for Valentines’.  Simply put, they are hardcore aphrodisiac delicacies. The bottomless depth of dark chocolate and the tantalizing […]

Read More