So many things have been cooked and baked for the last 2 months, but not many deserved to be blogged about, these cookies though have to be here, the smell in the kitchen is intoxicating!

I’ve been looking for a recipe for maple cookies that would at least resemble those that Florek brought from Canada a couple of times.  Last week I pulled some recipe from the web and made half a portion, they were mediocre and turned hard within a few hours, most ended up in the bin. So I thought I’d try my regular shortbread recipe, add a splash of maple syrup and a handful of nuts and see what happens.  For about 25 small round cookies I used 110 g of plain flour, 90 g of soft butter, 40 g of sugar- less than normally, as maple syrup followed, 50 ml of it, as well as 50 g of chopped hazelnuts. Rolled into a handsome sausage with cling film and chilled for over an hour and then sliced and baked in 180 degrees for about 13 minutes.

These hardened as well as the other ones last week, but they taste of roasted nuts, butter and maple syrup. Good, but the recipe hunt  for awesome maple cookies is not over.