Tag: cookies

• Baking a White Christmas: Festive Cookie Ideas

  

  Dear readers, I do hope you all had a wonderful holiday season. I was taking a break from my posts to enjoy the season with my loved ones. I even manifested what I really wanted, which was a White Christmas! After 15 years here in NYC, it finally snowed just in time for Christmas. The…

  Nikki Mak

  January 11, 2025

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• Bulgarian Maslenki Cookies

  

  Now that’s it’s officially the holiday season, this year I wanted to spread the joy with baking homemade cookies. I started with this jam filled holiday cookie, Maslenki, which originates from Bulgaria. Traditionally made from lard, I substituted with butter. Also the cookie normally gets topped with dusted confectioner’s sugar however I opted out. To…

  Nikki Mak

  December 18, 2021

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