So I set myself the challenge to try all recipes in a dutch cookbook for cakes, pies and pastries called the bakbijbel (baking bible). I made a scrambled list of all recipes and the rules are simple: make them in order whenever I feel like baking, and make everything as it says in the book. These were my first two recipes from a while back, italian cantuccini on the right and "arnhem girls" (a regional cookie consisting of puff pastry rolled in sugar) on the left.
I love this specific cookbook because it gives all the recipes for base ingredients, so you make your own puff pastry, bakers cream, jam and even vanila extract.
