Lemon Cream Cookies

Here’s another set of super bright and festive cookies for the holidays! These cookies are gorgeously marbled sugar cookies filled with lemon cream buttercream. The secret to this lemon cream is using clear vanilla extract! Clear vanilla extract tastes like birthday cake (it’s a tip I picked up from Chistina Tosi while I was on […]

Praline Pecan Pie

Praline Pecan Pie | Milk and Cardamom

My husband is from Alabama and when his parents get a chance to visit the southern part of the state they always bring me back some goodies from Priester’s Pecans. I usually have to hide them from my husband otherwise he’ll eat them all and I’d never get a chance to bake with them. He is […]

Chocolate Espresso Shortbread Bars

Chocolate Espresso Shortbread Bars

Butter cookies are my weakness. I think it’s because they remind me of my childhood. My mom, like many other Asian moms, used to buy Danish butter cookie tins to store sewing equipment. But before the tin could be recycled, the cookies had to be eaten – and that was my specialty. I could polish […]

Pecan Turtle Thumbprint Cookies

Pecan Turtle Thumbprint Cookies

  It’s the holiday season which means tons of cookies and a time for giving. Last year I participated in the The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap and I loved it, so I decided to join in again this year. Receiving a surprise package of cookies in the mail just makes any crappy day MUCH better. Plus, it’s for […]

Meringues

Meringues - Pretty Polymath

  Happy 4th of July! This month the Leftover’s Club members decided to swap 4th of July themed treats! If you’re a food blogger and don’t know what it is check out my first Leftovers club post which explain what it is and how you can join! This month I’m swapping with Faye from Live.Bake.Love . […]

Vanilla Cardamom Shortbread Cookies

Vanilla Cardamom Shortbread Cookies

  This year I decided to partake in The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap! In order to participate you just have to donate $4 to Cookies for Kid’s Cancer and you’ll be paired up with 3 other food bloggers. You send each blogger a dozen homemade cookies and you receive a dozen homemade cookies from 3 […]