This is NOT Gingerbread! How to Make Latvian Pepper Cookies

This is NOT Gingerbread! How to Make Latvian Pepper Cookies

Pepper cookies are a Christmas staple in my home country. But they are equally popular in other Baltic states and Scandinavia. Even though they look like gingerbread cookies – they are not. There is no ginger in this recipe. As the name suggests they contain pepper....
How to Make Amazing Swedish Style Saffron Buns, Lussekatter

How to Make Amazing Swedish Style Saffron Buns, Lussekatter

Lussekatter are traditional Swedish Christmas buns usually made on 13th of December for St. Lucia day. Enriched with butter and sugar, and flavoured with saffron, they have a unique taste and extremely soft texture. Their shape is meant to resemble a cat’s tail or a...
The Ultimate Tear & Share Christmas Bread Recipe

The Ultimate Tear & Share Christmas Bread Recipe

It’s been a while since I made my sweet and savoury monkey bread videos. I thought that a brioche version would be perfect for Christmas, so here we go. Monkey bread is a loaf of bread made up of many little pieces. The dough is dipped in butter and assembled in a tin...
Cardamom Flavoured Brioche Christmas Buns

Cardamom Flavoured Brioche Christmas Buns

Christmas is all about delicious treats and one of the most delicious treats is brioche. It is the most versatile dough ever created and this is another great example of it. The inspiration for this recipe comes from Scandinavian cardamom buns. A very simple yet...
How to Make Perfectly Crisp and Delicious Matzah

How to Make Perfectly Crisp and Delicious Matzah

Matzah or matzo is an unleavened flatbread that is part of Jewish cuisine and an important element of Passover. Passover is still a while away, but I wanted to make this because someone suggested it to me recently. Now to make it kosher there are a few rules one of...