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Dear hubby celebrates a pre christmas party with his colleagues, I am at home and waiting for the big snow storm to come. Kids are in bed - perfect night to spend with making cookies.
Never tried these with a coconut meringue topping - think I will dip them into chocolate, because I like the combination of coconut and chocolate...

I adore the combination of cinnamon, hazelnuts, almonds, sugar and crunchy meringue topping. Those are my favorite favorite christmas cookies.

Vanillekipferl are one of my favorite, very traditional German christmas cookies. Yumyum.

I started baking christmas cookies today and made a batch of chocolate cookies. My little daughter helped me, we had a lot of fun.

I used a simple recipe for double choc cookies, filled them with a decent amount of hazelnut spread and decorated them with milk chocolate coating.
Yum.

... and daikon and red pepper salad.

I marinated the shredded daikon, sliced onion, and roughly cut peppers in a dressing of lingonberry vinegar, safflower oil, tarragon mustard, s&p, chopped parsley, and honey. Then I fried some quartered mushrooms in a few drops of oil, softened some diced onions, and seasoned with s&p and thyme. In another pan I roasted sliced bread dumplings from both sides, added the mushrooms, and topped this with shaved parmesan.

Tonite´s quick und yummy dinner using weekend´s leftovers.