We here at ONK have been talking a lot about baking the last few days. We will continue making cookies until Yoda Santa comes down the chimney (Scientist overdoes the holiday prep, we know). But we also know sometimes you want to bake but you forgot to put your butter out or your cream cheese [more]

As the holidays approach while there are still a few hard cookies I’d like to make, sometimes it becomes necessary to make an easy batch because of all the other holiday events going on. Today is one of those days. I spent the day running around shopping for my family’s Velija supper (traditional Slovak [more]

The other day I had been looking through my pantry to see what more seasonal ingredients I had left. I had almond meal and raspberry jelly. Of course this means Linzer torte cookies. So I plan my dough, accounting for the use of almond meal as my family recipe uses hazelnut meal. I planned to let them [more]

A few days ago, I made delicious carrot cake cookies. They are tasty. And I want to ice them properly. Really the best option for carrot cake is cream cheese frosting. The sour tang of cream cheese compliments the slightly sweet spice of the carrot cake beautifully which is why they became a classic [more]

Being a Slovak, nut cookies at Christmas are ALWAYS walnut based. Now don’t get me wrong I enjoy walnuts… especially when paired with honey in nut roll… but I also like lots of other nuts. A lot of cookies contain nuts, but most of them have nuts as an accessory instead of the star of the show. [more]