Food Photo of the Day ~ Lemon Shortbread with Vanilla Sugar and Hibiscus Flowers

These lemon shortbread are divine. Gilded with vanilla sugar and dried hibiscus flowers on top these biscuits are bursting with lemon flavour. 

Make whatever shortbread recipe you like except add lemon extract to the butter and add the grated rind of 1 lemon to the dry ingredients. Add the butter to the dry ingredients. When dough has been shaped and flatten; sprinkle with vanilla sugar then the dried hibiscus flowers before baking. Enjoy because these will disappear fast!

I have made my infamous chocolate and chili shortbread which disappears fast too!  

Almost one week before Christmas so we are trying to accomplish many things. Baking and preparing are the priority. Which leads me to this quote... 

The colder temperatures are hanging on. Stay warm and have a great weekend everyone!  - JD 

Food Photo of the Day ~ Cranberry Shortbread Biscuits

It has been one of those weeks so far where nothing else will do but to hit the kitchen and  get started on the Christmas baking! This year, I start with shortbread biscuits. It is my tradition to always bake a few batches... or many batches. These shortbread have chopped dried cranberries and a sprinkle of golden vanilla cane sugar on top. It is organic and has 100% ground vanilla beans. As they baked the aroma emitting from the oven smelt of cherry vanilla.  

Hope everyone had a great weekend and that your week has been a good one, so far.
- JD