Fifi Leigh
- Dark Chocolate Covered Peppermint Joe-Joe’s consists of two chocolate peppermint wafer cookies and creamy peppermint filling with some candy cane piece to form a sweet sandwich. Then, this sweet sandwich is dipped into rich and dark chocolate, before sprinkling some candy cane pieces over the dark chocolate.
- Italian Butter Cookies & a Few Meringues are from northern part of Italy. The cookies include baci di Dama hazelnut sandwich cookies with dark chocolate filling, chocolate Torcetti—has a horseshoe shape and dipped in dark chocolate, Toc ad Mais—narrow shape and it has apricot filling, Paste di Meliga—has a rich butter flavor, and Krumiri al Cioccolato—has the shape of rainbow and cocoa powder infusion. The cinnamon meringues are light, crisp, and airy.
- Danish butter cookies tin is from Denmark. The Danes call these cookies—Smakager. They come in various shapes, and they are very sweet, crunchy, and buttery, with a hint of vanilla. It is a great goodbye gift, as the Danes say, “Hej Hej.”
- Lebkuchen Gesundheit are made in Nuremberg, Germany. The soft gingerbread biscuits are made from hazelnuts, almonds, walnuts, candied orange peel, and spices—aniseed, ginger, coriander, cloves, pimento, mace, cardamom, and cinnamon. After baking these biscuits on a very thin wafer cookie, they are coated with either chocolate or sugar glaze. They must have at least 12.5% nuts. These cookies are said to be the Oblaten of Lebkuchen.
- Walkers pure butter shortbread cookies, made by the Walker family since 1898. (Wow, these are old cookies, and I am shocked to see that they still exist. I used to eat them when I was a kid, living in WV. I remember the ones I ate came inside a tin can with a plaid design).
- Stroopwafel Dutch Cookies involves placing a Stroopwafel cookie over a mug of hot drink, whether coffee, tea, cocoa, or cacao. The steam of the hot drink will melt the caramel in the wafer cookie to make the cookie soft and warm. (This Dutch method is similar to dipping Oreo cookies or chocolate chip cookies in milk or tea. When I was a kid, I used to dip cookies in hot tea in a similar fashion). Anyway, the Stroopwafel Dutch Cookies are from Gouda, Netherlands, and the word “Stroopwafel” means syrup waffles. A very thick dough consistency is placed in a waffle iron, and then cut in half while hot. Caramel is placed on top of the pressed waffle, and another pressed waffle is placed on top of the caramel layer. It is a popular treat in Amsterdam, Holland.
- Raspberry Stars are made from sugar cookie dough, and it is made in Linz, Austria. It is modeled after the Linzertorte. The dough is rolled and made into star shapes. Two pieces of star cookies sandwich some Meeker raspberry jam, and then sprinkling coarse sugar over this sweet sandwich.
- Have your own tea party with 6 tea flavors: Raspberry Black Tea, Bergamot Black Tea, Rooibos & Vanilla Red Tea, Lemongrass Rosehip Herbal Tea Infusion, Calming Herbal Tea Infusion, and Moringa Matcha Tea. These teas come from Sri Lanka, Japan, Europe, and South Africa.
- Winter Wassail is fruit juice combination of black currant, apple, and lemon juices, as well as spices, such as cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, cardamom, ginger, and orange peel.
- Salty Honey Toffee Milk Chocolate covered Crackers
