Piemontegirl Gingerbread Cookies

I love gingerbread cookies. And it always puts me in the holiday mood when making them. This year, for the first time, I decided to try and make the dough from scratch. Turns out it is quite easy!

Here’s what you need:

  • 300g butter
  • 2 dl syrup 
  • 4 dl sugar
  • 1 ts cloves
  • 2 dl cream
  • 1 ts ginger
  • 4 ts cinnamon
  • 2 ts baking soda
  • 900g flour

Follow these easy steps to make the dough:

  1. Mix butter, syrup, sugar and cream in a pot. Heat up until it is all mixed. Remove from heat.
  2. When the mixture has cooled down a little, sift the spices, baking soda and most of the flour into the mixture. 
  3. Continue to add flour until the dough has a good consistency
  4. Set in the fridge to cool for a couple of hours. Remember to take the dough out a little while before cutting the cookies

I’ve been making quite a few treats this holiday season. Check out my Panettone recipe here.

Recipe Baci di Dama

Baci di Dama Step 1

Ever wanted to find those cookies you find at the breakfast buffet when you are in Piemonte? Well, look no further! Here is the recipe, so you can make Baci di Dama at home. Perfect for #WorldDessertDay

You’ll need:

  • 100g Hazelnuts
  • 100g Sugar
  • 100g Butter
  • 100g Flour
  • 100g Dark Chocolate

Baci di Dama Step 2

Here is how you do it:

  1. Crush the hazeluts until it becomes fairly smooth, but be careful so it doesn’t get oily
  2. Add in butter and sugar, mix together.
  3. Add flour little by little, start mixing it together with your hands. Add flour until the dough becomes quite firm
  4. Set aside in the fridge for about 1 hour (or more if you’d like)
  5. After about 1 hour, take the dough out and start forming little balls. You can choose the size, but they should we quite small
  6. Place the balls on a baking sheet, and bake them in the oven at about 180 degrees celcius until golden brown. Take them out of the oven to cool
  7. Meanwhile, melt the chocolate.
  8. Once the balls are cool, add a little chocolate in between two of them, and set aside to cool.
  9. and voila! You have made delicious Baci di Dama!

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A Cascina Nuova Christmas

Cascina Nuova: A Corino Christmas Night

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I love Christmas, and as you can see Cascina Nuova is now all ready for Christmas. And how perfect is Giovanni Corino‘s wine for Christmas? The red label goes great with the Christmas colors!

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Early December we had a sort of Christmas Party with food and baking and wine. My danish friend made some delicious danish cookies for us, and a really nice danish christmas meal. I love having such an international friend group; you get introduced to so many different foods and traditions. In addition to my danish friend, there was my dear friend from Bangladesh, a good friend from Canada and a new friend from Russia! Talk about diverse group of girls!

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Check out my amazing baking skills! And my beautiful santa hat! See the glitter? This hat was bought at a mall in Pennsylvania when I was maybe 6 years old, and has been my favorite head wear ever since! Anyone have any Christmas traditions or favorite parts of the holidays?

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