As promised- Alfajores

So here's a picture of the real-pain-in-the-a&%*ss-cookies, which taste like a piece of heaven on earth (this picture is from the first batch I made last week, but let's face it- they all look the same!)

Yum!!!

Live report from my kitchen

This is a live report from my kitchen. I've been trying to make Alfajores cookies for the second time. The first time they turned out to be really good, and now I'm interested in making them again for the holidays at Rob's parents. The first time I made them I accidentally put a bit too much butter, but they still tasted really good. This time I wanted to put as much butter as the recipe says to put, and well... Big Fiasco. The dough was too dry and started breaking.

I got really upset because it's hard work to make these cookies, and it needs a lot of eggs, butter, flour and corn flour. Luckily I still have enough of everything to make another batch, but the disappointment of making it all over again after standing in the kitchen for an hour and using a lot of ingredients is really big. Throwing so much stuff to the garbage after working on it so hard is a bitch.

So this is a live report. I will send an update later how it all worked out (if it ever will, I still have lots of work to do....)

Peace out.

Dried fruit cupcakes

You'll need:

• 1.5 cups of dried fruit cut to small pieces (about 1 square cm). You can use dried figs, apricots, raisins, cranberries, dry chopped coconut etc.
  

• half a cup of chopped nuts (can be walnuts, pecans, and / or any nut you like)

• half a cup brown sugar

• 3 eggs

You'll have to work just a little bit:

• Whisk all three eggs with the brown sugar until you get a fluffy mixture.

• Add the dried fruit to the mixture, and stir.

• Add the nuts and stir.

• Set paper cupcake cups on a big oven tray. (this amount will make about 20 cupcakes)
  

• Pour about one table spoon of mixture into each cupcake cup.

• Bake in a preheated oven (180c, or less if using the fan) for about 20 minutes, or until cupcakes turn gold on top.
  

• Cool down completely!!! before eating.

They are perfect as a small filling snack!

Originally from this link:
http://www.matkonim.net/cookies/fruit.html

Guten Appetit!

Today is a busy day: went to school in the morning (after going to the doctor to get some medicine for the weekly illness) then went to buy things to make these cookies, then finished my x-mass cards, then made cookies, and now I'm on a break from packing my stuff (hate packing, somehow it doesn't get better every time). Tomorrow Rob's dad is picking us up from here to take us to their place for the holidays. Picking up did I say? He's driving all the way to here from their home (about 2.5-3 hours drive) and taking us there. Nice ha? He's already on vacation and wanted to do something. anyways. as you can see I made these cookies- the recipe I found in the book of x-mass cookies I got from Rob's mom for Nikolaus (on December 6th the kids get sweets and presents from Nikolaus, and so did I).
So, might write again before the holiday, if not- have a Frohe Weihnachten! or in English: Merry x-mass!!!