Tangy and Sweet!

Today, I added a new cookie to my arsenal, Chocolate-dipped lemon cookies. This recipe came from The Washington Post and I have been saving it for the right time to bake. As always, I make my own personal tweak to the original recipe. A distinct lemon scent filled the kitchen as they came out of the oven! The combination of the lemon and chocolate is unexpected, but a perfect match up.

Strudel = Success!

Today I went to an old world recipe for inspiration. This is a sour cream dough, that bakes up fragile and flaky. It is filled two ways; apricot preserves and raspberry preserves. Both are filled with a mixture of Crasins and walnuts blended with cinnamon, then generously topped with cinnamon sugar. These are available to order by request (pick-up only as they are too fragile to ship).