Making Mini Macarons (A Gluten Free Dessert)
Xak makes the notoriously difficult French macarons for the dessert tier of our upcoming gluten free children’s tea party.
Follow Scones and Doughn’s Xak and Dani as they attempt to bake everything from croissants to cookies and of course, scones and doughnuts.
Xak makes the notoriously difficult French macarons for the dessert tier of our upcoming gluten free children’s tea party.
We celebrated the release of the new Hallmark Hannah Swensen movie, “One Bad Apple”, with an apple themed menu featuring turnovers, cider, and sandwiches.
After years of attempting to make macarons, Xak and I finally conquered the tricky French sandwich cookie… and fell in love along the way!
Ma and Pa experience their first afternoon tea under the tutelage of Xak and Dani
Xak’s Sabbatical Baking continues with Viennese Whirls: a buttery sandwich cookie featuring raspberry jam and vanilla buttercream.
We spent all of December baking delicious treats including gingerbread houses, pavlovas, biscotti, cracker candy, tiramisu, sugar cookies, and caramel candy.
We tried out a new gluten free meringue based recipe for one of our
Murder Mystery “Casual Tea” desserts: RecipeTin Eat’s Mini Pavlovas
We created a Thanksgiving feast featuring the Popeyes Cajun turkey, Texas Roadhouse Rolls, 4 appetizers, three types of potatoes, and our first time roasting a turkey!
We move onto making the desserts for our Murdery Mystery “Casual Tea” starting with a wonderful afternoon tea time treat: Ina Garten’s lemon bars.
We make classic cream scones from the Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea cookbook in preparation for our upcoming Murder Mystery “Casual Tea”