Christmas Time.

It’s the fourth Sunday of Advent. Christmas is coming! Christmas time means inviting friends over.

For wine and biscuits. (Deutsche Version.)

A whole lot of Christmas biscuits.

It was Biscuit Baking Day again. And we baked a lot of biscuits. A whole lot.

I have a lovely filled biscuit tin. Interested in our biscuit varieties? Be prepared for a whole lot of yummy biscuit photos. (Deutsche Version.)

Plain Vanilla.

You know I love Christmas time, right? I love it. It’s cosy. It’s comforting. It smells like Vanilla Crescents.

Vanilla crescents are simple. Plain vanilla biscuits. (Deutsche Version.)

Little Pretty Things.

Christmas is over. But what is left, are the things to enjoy. The Christmas tree is still here. Its great smell, too. A whole bunch of my Grandma’s biscuits has not been eaten yet. And I got little pretty things I love.

In London, I found a lot of them. I bought some to keep. And some of them, I got for Christmas. Others, I will give my friends for Christmas/New Year’s Eve.
Before going to London, I made a wish list. It said: “Biscuit Tin“. And I got a nice one.

It’s lovely. It’s from Marks & Spencer and filled with chocolate biscuits. They are yummy – Mum and I were allowed to taste them since we couldn’t decide for one of all the awesome biscuit tins. (In the end, we took two.) But I’m looking forward to opening it – after all the Christmas biscuits are gone -, sharing those biscuits and filling it with my own.

And I will bake my own biscuits with another wish on my list: Measuring cups.

I just couldn’t find the right ones in Vienna. So we decided to have a look at Selfridge’s. And there they were.

But what’s missing if you have measuring cups? Right: Measuring spoons. And those I found are pure awesomeness.

Merry Christmas to all of you.

My presents are wrapped. Bounty loves to help.

Gingerbread to hang on the tree was baked. And decorated with sugar glaze.

Biscuit Day.

This weekend, it was Biscuit Day again. Maybe you remember our last year’s Biscuit Baking Orgy. Of course, this year, we did the same. It’s going to be traditional.

Some biscuits we made were the same as last year’s biscuits. For example, our best ones: Cinnamon Stars.

By the way, if you’re done with always seeing photos of those awesome cinnamon stars (yes, they are awesome) and want to have some to eat for yourself, take a look at my recipe index. They’re in there!

But some were not the same as last year’s biscuits. Read on!

See you, Vienna.

Mum and I are leaving. Tomorrow. We are leaving behind the men in our family for a 4-day-trip to London. Yay!
But Mum made them something tasty before. While I was at university and writing a test, she made Linzer Augen (Linzer Eyes).

 

Vanilla White.

Vienna’s white. Still. It doesn’t stop being white. What’s also white? Vanilla crescents.

Vanilla crescrents are Mum’s and my traditional biscuits.

Snow on the First

Today I woke up and I realized that it was snowing. It’s still snowing in Vienna. A lot. There was snow on my window sill.

What’s lying there in the snow?

Snow. Candles. Biscuits.

It’s the first Sunday in Advent. It’s snowing in Vienna. It’s time for Christmas Biscuits.

So, Mum and I made some. Actually, a lot. Those are Chocolate Pudding Crescents. They are made with chocolate pudding powder. They’re tasty.