Category Archives: (Historical) Cooking Recipes

How To Make Candied Fruit Slices – 4 Recipes

4 recipes for homemade candied fruit slices: candied orange slices, candied kiwi slices, candied lemon slices & candied (Japanese) quince slices.

Candied Fruit Slices

Candied fruit slices are easy to make at home. They are so delicious you can simply snack on them. But candied fruit slices look also impressive as cake decoration. Learn how to make 4 different candied fruit slices at home. Continue reading How To Make Candied Fruit Slices – 4 Recipes

4 Ways To Make Sugar Christmas Ornaments – Edible Christmas Tree Decorations

Make edible Christmas ornaments this year! These 4 homemade sugar Christmas ornaments are so pretty and incredibly easy to make! DIY candy Christmas decorations are easy last-minute Christmas DIY crafts for kids.

4 Ways To Make Sugar Christmas Ornaments - Edible Christmas Tree Decorations

Sugar ornaments are traditional Christmas tree ornaments. One of the following sugar ornament recipes was even published 280 years ago in 1741!

These edible Christmas tree decorations glitter like ice and snow. But these sparkling candy Christmas ornaments aren’t just pretty: When Christmas is over, you can eat the sugar ornaments (or use them for cakes and cookies in place of regular sugar)! Continue reading 4 Ways To Make Sugar Christmas Ornaments – Edible Christmas Tree Decorations

4 Ways To Make DIY Cookie Cutters: Tin Can, Cardboard & Wood

Did you know that you can make you own cookie cutters at home for almost free? 4 ways how to make DIY cookie cutters from a tin can, cardboard, sheet metal or wood.

4 Ways To Make DIY Cookie Cutters - Tin Can, Sheet Metal, Cardboard & Wood

Maybe you need a special cookie cutter that you can’t buy. Or you just don’t want to spend money on something that you can make at home for almost free. So make your own DIY cookie cutters at home! Continue reading 4 Ways To Make DIY Cookie Cutters: Tin Can, Cardboard & Wood

Dried Orange Slices (Oven Or Dehydrator)

How to make dried orange slices in the oven or dehydrator as natural Christmas ornaments.

Dried Orange Slices

Oranges have a long tradition as Christmas tree ornaments. Since medieval times, oranges were used to decorate the Christmas tree. And in the Victorian era, oranges were still popular as Christmas tree decorations. Continue reading Dried Orange Slices (Oven Or Dehydrator)

4 All-Natural Green Christmas Cookies

Is there anything so Christmassy as green cookies? And what’s best, you can make all-natural green Christmas cookies – naturally dyed with vegetables or nuts!

4 All-Natural Green Christmas Cookies

Green is fairly easy to achieve with homemade natural food coloring. I’ve already made all-natural green Christmas cookies with pistachio nuts, matcha tea, curly kale and sunflower seeds. Yes, sunflower seeds can dye food green! 😀 Continue reading 4 All-Natural Green Christmas Cookies

Candied Kiwi Slices

Candied kiwi slices are an unusual treat and so delicious. Homemade candied kiwi slices are just as easy to make as candied orange slices!

DIY Homemade Candied Kiwi Slices

Inspired by my DIY candied orange slices, I tried to make candied kiwi slices and they turned out delicious. Yay! Candied kiwi slices are an unusual treat. You can simply snack on them – have I mentioned that they’re delicious?! 😉 – or use them to garnish cakes and cupcakes. Continue reading Candied Kiwi Slices

24 DIY Christmas Ornaments & Treats – Craft-Along Advent Calendar 2020

Bake and craft along with me to count down the days until Christmas! Visit my interactive Christmas countdown calendar every day in December to open a door and find a DIY Christmas ornament tutorial or Christmas recipe behind it!

24 DIY Christmas Ornaments & Treats - Craft-Along Advent Calendar 2020

Merry Christmas and welcome to my Advent calendar 2020! ? This year is the fourth year that I’m hosting an interactive craft-along Advent calendar on my blog. Continue reading 24 DIY Christmas Ornaments & Treats – Craft-Along Advent Calendar 2020