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Cookiefest Day 14: Sesame Cookies and Juicy

Cookies don’t always have to be overly sweet. In fact, sometimes, a balance between sweet and savoury/salty is the best – it feels like you can eat more cookies that way! And maybe sneak some in as a snack, or with breakfast, or…yeah, you get the picture. These sesame cookies are an offbeat Italian tradition, […]

Cookiefest Day 13: Shortbread and Ultraviolet

It’s hard to pair up certain teas with foods, simply because their flavours are so delicate. You don’t want to overwhelm the brew, which is often more of an aroma than a flavour, per se – the bouquet or nose of the tea is 75% of the sipping experience, just like we all learned with […]

Cookiefest Day 12: Orange Cream Cookies with Rio Getaway

Normally, I’m all about making simple cookies – the faster I can churn ’em out, the better. None of this fancy rolling and cutting and shaping, oh no. But sometimes, you want something a little special, and these orange cream-filled sandwich cookies are just the thing when you’re looking for an impressive little morsel. They […]

Cookiefest Day 11: Nutella Banana Cookies and Let’s Split

Instead of leading off with the cookies this time, we’ve decided to take a tea and find the perfect baked good to pair with it. One of our weirder concoctions is, without a doubt, Let’s Split. I mean, yerba maté with banana? Wild! But it’s a really good match, honestly – yerba maté is earthy […]

Cookiefest Day 10: Malted Fudge Brownies and Mocha Maté

Everyone loves a good brownie. And there are a million variations on the classic – chewy versus , walnuts or no nuts, extra chocolate chips, peanut butter swirl, the works. I love the idea of this particular variation: crushed malted milk balls. I may have to get malted milk balls next Hallowe’en just for an […]

Cookiefest Day 9: Rosemary & Thyme Shortbread with Victoriana

People tend to overlook herbs for some reason. Yes, they’re used extensively in cooking, but rarely do herbal flavours make it away from savoury and into sweet – or into the cup, for that matter. We talk about herbal teas, but culinary herbs rarely factor into that, unless you’re making a medicinal drink. Where’s the […]

Cookiefest Day 8: Peanut Brittle and Lady in Red

All right, so it’s not really a cookie. But it’s easy, it’s sweet, and it makes a great gift! So cut me some slack, here, people. You know you’ll eat it anyway. Today’s pairing seems a little odd on the surface. I mean, what do you do with peanuts? It’s not a flavour you get much of […]

Cookiefest Day 7: Maple-Walnut Bars with Backwoods

You know, I don’t even have to explain this one. Maple-walnut bars with maple-walnut tea. Duh. Our work here is done. And deliciously maple-y. Maple-Walnut Bars from Real Simple Ingredients: For the crust 1/2 cup (1 stick) cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces, plus more for the baking pan 1 1/2 cups cups all-purpose flour, […]

Cookiefest Day 6: Swedish Coconut Cookies and Bangkok

Today, we’re going for an East-Meets-West fusion theme (Swedish and Thai!), brought together by a taste that people tend to either love or hate: coconut. Personally, I love it, and I think it works equally well in sweet and savoury contexts. I mean, c’mon, Thai coconut curry? Yum! Butter cookies, too, lend themselves wonderfully to […]

Cookiefest Day 5: Cashew Gingersnaps and Maltese Falcon

It’s ginger, baby! Warm, spicy, comforting, crazy ginger. It can be exotic – turning up in Thai or Indian food, or with gorgeous little golden crystallized nuggets in chocolates – or completely homey; I mean, who doesn’t have fond gingersnap memories from childhood? This twist on gingersnaps, studded with cashews, is a great way to […]