Penny enjoys peeking through the fence.
Thank you to Ailsa from Where’s My Backpack? for this week’s travel theme!
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Travel Theme: Hidden
Thank you to Ailsa from Where’s My Backpack? for this week’s Travel Theme!
Travel Theme: Wild
Wild is this week’s Travel Theme from Where’s My Backpack.
The photo below is of Rudbeckia Triloba (Brown-Eyed Susans) which I planted years ago and have allowed to naturalize in the easement out by the street in front of the Bed & Breakfast. I like just a touch of wildness in that garden. (I thought that the little ant crawling up one of the flowers added a nice touch for the wild theme.) This is such a sunny and cheerful flower, and it will keep blooming into early autumn.
Travel Theme: Sweet
Thank you to Where’s My Backpack for this week’s Sweet challenge!. This challenge is just to my taste. Enjoy!
Fiesta Cookies*
Makes about 36 medium size cookies.
Soft, piped cookies lightly flavored with chocolate and spices, decorated with icing and nonpareils.
1 1/4 c. all-purpose flour
1/2 t. ground cinnamon
1/4 t. ground nutmeg
1/8 t. salt
1/2 c. unsalted butter
3/4 c. + 2 T. confectioner’s sugar
1 lg. egg
1 t. almond or vanilla extract
1 1/2 oz. unsweetened chocolate, melted
Icing of your choice
Nonpareils
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Whisk together flour, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, beat together butter and confectioner’s sugar until fluffy. Beat in egg and extract. On lowest mixer speed, beat in dry ingredients and then chocolate.
- Using a heavy duty pastry bag fitted with a star tip, pipe cookie dough onto baking sheets, spacing cookies 1 1/2” apart. Cookies will not rise, spread or change shape while they bake.
- Bake for about 5 to 7 minutes or until set. Place baking sheets on wire racks and allow cookies to cool before decorating.
- Once cookies have cooled, decorate with icing and nonpareils.
Suggested shapes for piping: thick bars, stars, hearts, and wreaths.
* Recipe from my cookbook, Confectionately Yours: A Collection of Cookies, Candies & Yummy Confections.
Travel Theme: Beaches
Where’s My Backpack‘s travel theme for this week is beaches.
It was difficult to decide which image I wanted to share, but decided upon one of my favorite photos from Ohope Beach, New Zealand. Its atmospheric quality seemed to fit my mood this morning. I hope that you enjoy the photo.
Weekly Travel Theme: Roads
The topic for this week’s weekly travel theme by Where’s My Backpack is “Roads”. These photos are from the road along Prospect Mountain in Lake George, New York.
Travel Theme: Bridges
Running a bed and breakfast, I don’t have much opportunity to travel. However, I do get out of town once in a while. When I saw that “Bridges” is the theme for Aisla’s travel challenge this week, I decided to share a photo that I took in Florida while visiting my mother a few years ago.
A Taste of Morning 