Baking Madness II: The Day After

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Here, for your enjoyment, pictures and descriptions of our cookies.



1 – Ořechové hrudky: nut knolls; nuts, sugar, egg whites, chocolate.
2 – Kaštánky: chestnuts; a puff pastry dough with a filling of roasted oat flakes, nuts, sugar and rum
3 – Napolitany: Napoli cookies; cocoa-heavy cookies stuck together with red currant jam; look terrible, taste heavenly
4 – Vanilkové rohličky: Vanilla croissants with almonds; very traditional
5 – Věnečky: shortbread wreaths with egg icing
6 – Javapläztchen: Java coffee cookies with coconut and chocolate icing
7 – Kuličky: rum truffles in coconut
8 – Mandlové koláčky – almond cookies
9 – Košičky: pastry baskets with a filling of "leftovers"; crumbs, minced dried fruit, and the stuff that is left over from the other cookies, with lots of cocoa and splashes of Czech rum. Made last, gone first.
10 – Gewürzplätzchen: Spice cookies with cinnamon and cardamom
11 – Vínové cukrovy: Wine cookies. Puff pastry dough made with just a bit of white wine and then rolled in icing sugar. Very fizzy.
12 – Trubičky černé: black pipes; chocolate dough willed with chocolate butter cream
13 – Trubičky bílé: white pipes; puff pastry dough filled with a egg white and icing sugar filling
14 – Dortěnky: cakelets; nutty shortbread stuck together with butter cream topped with chocolate
15 – Slepované: "stuck-togethers"; shortbread cookies stuck together with red currant jam
16 – Medvědy tlapky: "bear paws"; nut and chocolate dough with cinnamon


There's an even bigger picture here.



Should you be in the vicinity, drop by and have a taste. :)

Oh, and mum's still in the kitchen, baking a poppyseed cake and an apple strudel. *shrugs*