I am by no means a candy-maker. I don’t have the patience for it. On the other hand, I love chocolate, and will dip pretty much anything in some good melted dark chocolate. As a baker, I’ve noticed, around Christmas especially, there are very few truly decadent chocolate cookies. My mom makes a mean [more]

Cardamom is one of my all-time favorite spices… I know, coming from someone who loves as many spices as I do, that doesn’t mean much. I want to sing it’s praises from the mountaintop. Sadly, because people do not understand it’s potency, it goes woefully underused. Cardamom is the third most [more]

For the most part we here at ONK shy away from peppermint. We both enjoy a good peppermint bark or candy cane, but every time I have tried to bake something with peppermint… it falls flat on it’s face. Either it’s too sweet, not sweet enough, the peppermint doesn’t mix well with the other flavors, [more]

Yesterday we broke out the cookie press. As fun as a cookie press is, there comes a limit to the number of Spritz cookies you will go through. Not all cookies can go into the cookie press. Sorry to burst your bubble, but your chocolate chip cookies will not come out of your cookie press. But there is at [more]

When I was a young kid one of my favorite days was the Saturday before Christmas because it was Spritz day. My mom and I would spend all day in the kitchen making cookies in fun shapes and watching Christmas movies. The best part about this day was I got to help. So there wasn’t [more]