Mihaela Pesa Dascalu's Romanian Holiday Cookies are delicious, and will look beautiful on your cookie tray.
Cooking Channel is joining Food Network for our first annual cookie swap, 12 Days of Cookies. Each day, visit us here for a look at new holiday cookies, party-planning tips and top techniques for rolling, spooning, slicing, baking and decorating delicious sweet treats to give — or keep — from favorite chefs and Food People. Then visit FoodNetwork.com/12daysofcookies for great takes on holiday baking from Food Network chefs — cookies by the dozen to celebrate all season.
12 Days of Cookies has been a huge success, thanks in large part to the talented chefs who unveiled their top-tier holiday cookie recipes to us. But also because of you, the Food People, who continually share with us your amazing recipes and tips for delicious, home-cooked recipes.
Last month we put out the call for a *Bonus Fan Cookie*, and received numerous tasty entries. But our pick for chief cookie goes to food blogger Mihaela Pesa Dascalu, and her recipe for Romanian Holiday Cookies.
These are authentic Romanian treats. Very authentic. Mihaela grew up in Romania, and her family baked these cookies every December. The recipe, in fact, had to be translated from the original Romanian script the recipe card was written in. The secret to the incredible texture is—Shh!—cutting the flour with the original baker’s fat: lard. Don’t scoff before trying one of these cookies. Baking with lard produces an exceptionally tender crumb.
The batter is flavored with lemon zest and nutmeg, and piped into flower-shaped rosettes. Mihaela finishes the cookies off with a roasted walnut in the center, but she insists you can feel free to decorate them however you like.
Just remember to make a big batch—they taste even better the next day, so you’ll want to keep the cookie jar full.
12 Days of Cookies:
- Make Mihaela’s Romanian Holiday Cookies.
- See who’s joining in: Laura Calder, Nigella Lawson, Chuck Hughes and more.
- Food Network is swapping cookies, too.
- Share your Holiday cookie pix with us on Facebook.
How would you shape your holiday cookie?
Melanie Rehak, author of Eating for Beginners, has been baking cookies since she was old enough to climb onto the kitchen stool. She’s partial to Zimtsterne—cinnamon stars—for the holidays, but loves most cookies all year long.
You should check this out…
[...] Wonderful story, reckoned we could combine a few unrelated data, nevertheless really worth taking a look, whoa did one learn about Mid East has got more problerms as well [...]……
Blogs ou should be reading…
[...]Here is a Great Blog You Might Find Interesting that we Encourage You[...]……
cheap louis vuitton bags…
Bonus Cookie, and Winner of the Food Person Cookie Search | Devour The Blog: Cooking Channel’s Recipe and Food Blog…
pig…
Bonus Cookie, and Winner of the Food Person Cookie Search | Devour The Blog: Cooking Channel’s Recipe and Food Blog…
Wonderful Website site page…
Certain essentially choice info regarding that subject world-wide-web website, stored as a solution in order to publication grades….
Cool sites…
[...]we came across a nice site that you might be interested in. Check it out[...]……
chaussures christian louboutin…
Bonus Cookie, and Winner of the Food Person Cookie Search | Devour The Blog: Cooking Channel’s Recipe and Food Blog…
Looking around…
While I was browsing yesterday I noticed a excellent article about…
Recommeneded websites…
[...]Here are some of the sites we recommend for our visitors[...]……
CHEAP JORDANS…
Bonus Cookie, and Winner of the Food Person Cookie Search | Devour The Blog: Cooking Channel’s Recipe and Food Blog…
Trackback…
Websites we think you should visit…
Websites you should visit…
[...]beneath you will see the link to few blogs that we think you could visit[...]……
christian louboutin outlet…
Bonus Cookie, and Winner of the Food Person Cookie Search | Devour The Blog: Cooking Channel’s Recipe and Food Blog…
Cool sites…
[...]we came across a cool site that you might enjoy. Take a look if you want[...]……
cheap oakley…
Bonus Cookie, and Winner of the Food Person Cookie Search | Devour The Blog: Cooking Channel’s Recipe and Food Blog…
Sites we Like……
[...] Every once in a while we choose blogs that we read. Listed below are the latest sites that we choose [...]……
MULBERRY OUTLET…
Bonus Cookie, and Winner of the Food Person Cookie Search | Devour The Blog: Cooking Channel’s Recipe and Food Blog…
Celine Outlet…
Bonus Cookie, and Winner of the Food Person Cookie Search | Devour The Blog: Cooking Channel’s Recipe and Food Blog…
nike free run…
Bonus Cookie, and Winner of the Food Person Cookie Search | Devour The Blog: Cooking Channel’s Recipe and Food Blog…
CHEAP LOUIS VUITTON HANDBAGS…
Bonus Cookie, and Winner of the Food Person Cookie Search | Devour The Blog: Cooking Channel’s Recipe and Food Blog…
Sites we Like……
[...] Every once in a while we choose blogs that we read. Listed below are the latest sites that we choose [...]……
Pas cher Louis Vuitton…
–…
Websites worth visiting…
[...]here are some links to sites that we link to because we think they are worth visiting[...]……
Blogs ou should be reading…
[...]Here is a Great Blog You Might Find Interesting that we Encourage You[...]……
coach bags…
Bonus Cookie, and Winner of the Food Person Cookie Search | Devour The Blog: Cooking Channel’s Recipe and Food Blog…
Superb website…
[...]always a fan of linking to quality articles that I love but don’t get a lot of link love from[...]……
Its hard to find good help…
I am forever saying that its hard to procure good help, but here is…
Tumblr article…
I saw a writer writing about this on Tumblr and it linked to…
Awesome website…
[...]the time to read or visit the content or sites we have linked to below the[...]……
OAKLEY SUNGLASSES SALE…
Bonus Cookie, and Winner of the Food Person Cookie Search | Devour The Blog: Cooking Channel’s Recipe and Food Blog…
Cheap Beats by Dre…
Bonus Cookie, and Winner of the Food Person Cookie Search | Devour The Blog: Cooking Channel’s Recipe and Food Blog…
jimmy choo outlet…
Bonus Cookie, and Winner of the Food Person Cookie Search | Devour The Blog: Cooking Channel’s Recipe and Food Blog…
prada bags…
Bonus Cookie, and Winner of the Food Person Cookie Search | Devour The Blog: Cooking Channel’s Recipe and Food Blog…
Cheap iphone 5…
Bonus Cookie, and Winner of the Food Person Cookie Search | Devour The Blog: Cooking Channel’s Recipe and Food Blog…