Baking for Spring

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 I felt like baking today…

 So late Saturday afternoon I made this list!

Lemon bars- because I had 10 lemons that needed to be used.  I squeezed them and froze all the juice yesterday.

Crispy ginger snaps- because I bought a bag on Thursday and we ate them ALL!

Oatmeal cookies- because I got this recipe from a friend and I wasn’t happy with them the first time I made them.

Chocolate chip cookies- because I found a recipe that declares these are better than Toll house so we shall see!

Black bottom cupcakes - because I need to bake something for a family with teenagers. 

Boterkoek- just because I have not made this for very long time, all the kids love it and I thought something with almond flavoring sounded good. I also need to use the almond paste in the fridge. These might become filled!

Banana bread- because I have frozen bananas in the freezer and walnuts …

Crispy sugar cookie- because I’m determined to conquer the really crispy cooks on my own.

It is now 5:30 and the lemon bars are almost ready to come out of the oven.

Step one- bake the crust!

Step 2- pour on the filling and bake.


Step 3- cool and enjoy!

The dough for the gingersnaps is cooling in the refrigerator and I plan to bake them tonight. They are bit more work than I anticipated. The fresh ginger needed to be grated ( I’ll see if I did it finely enough), the dough needs to cooled, and the cookies needed to be rolled in sugar and flattened.  Let’s hope they turn out to be the crispy delicacy that I was longing for.  

Roll in sugar and flatten!

Bake low and slow… crispy delight!

The hubby has declared them crispy but perhaps needing to be more gingery!

I am not taking that too seriously since he has eaten a lot of them.  I need to hide some for another day!

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