COVID-19 is forcing us to stay home: I’m trying to brighten up your time in isolation with this recipe for lemon cookies.

I’m back from my summer break, and the first recipe I’d like to share with you is for oatmeal and raisin cookies! I chose this recipe because when you’ve just gotten back from vacation, you don’t really feel like cooking, but if it’s easy to prepare, cooks quickly, doesn’t require too many ingredients, and the result is guaranteed, why not? So I’d say let’s get back on track, slowly but surely, and get back into our routine… keeping in mind that Christmas will be here before we know it! :D

This week I was really torn about which recipe to share, but given the drop in temperatures, I decided on soft chocolate chip cookies. I know, “ARE YOU CRAZY? Turning on the oven in the summer?” you might say! But if you think about it: we make them in the evening, turn on the oven for just under 30 minutes, then hop into a lovely, refreshing shower—what’s the harm? Isn’t it more satisfying to step out of the shower feeling so refreshed…? :D

Thank goodness there are Cookies for dunking! Breakfast is pretty much my favorite time of day—if only I could have my tea all ready to go and eat breakfast while still in bed… They soak it up like nobody’s business—not even Banderas’s people! Without further ado, here are the

These** vegan oatmeal-chocolate cookies**, continuing with the vegan theme, are a reimagining of the** oatmeal-chocolate cookies (LINK).** Just like with the non-vegan recipe, I recommend using Quaker oats! This time, we’re using dark chocolate, which should be chopped into pieces that aren’t too small. Let’s get started!

Today we’re making** quinoa and orange cookies**—let’s get a taste of vegan desserts. Personally, I’ve never had the pleasure of eating many of them, but I hear so much about them—why not give them a try? As they say: you have to try everything in life, especially my recipe for quinoa cookies! Quinoa, for those who don’t know, is gluten-free (but be careful—these cookies are not if you use 00 flour!) and has many health benefits; in fact, it’s very high in protein , carbohydrates, and dietary fiber. If you’d like to learn more, I recommend this link (LINK). The following ingredients are for about 20 cookies using my disc-shaped cookie cutter!

With these apple-heart cookies, we’ve reached the end of this first month of 2017—it flew by for me; how about you? Today is one of the “Three Days of the Blackbird,” so why not bake some cookies and stay nice and warm with the oven on at home? :D For those who don’t know, these are the coldest days of the year! Brrrr! Cuor di Mela cookies are very sweet shortbread cookies that are perfect for breakfast and snacks. They’re very famous because they’re sold by Mulino Bianco, but above all because they’re DELICIOUS! I’d like to share my recipe with you, in case you want to try making them at home and/or can’t find them at the supermarket. The ingredients are enough for about 40 cookies!

December is here! It’s time to start thinking about what desserts to make for our dear friends and family! For this loooong Sant’Ambreus weekend in Milan, I made gingerbread men!!! . Gingerbread men, made perhaps even more famous by the first Shrek movie in the scene where he’s tortured by being dunked in milk (I’ll leave the clip from YouTube at the end of this post—check it out, it’s hilarious!).

Hi, everyone!! Today I decided to make some toasted ciambelline because I had them with my afternoon tea this weekend, and it was love at first bite! And when I found out that the recipe is super simple and takes just 20 minutes total (if you work quickly and have a helper), I couldn’t resist! I just had to make them and share the results with you! As I was saying, they’re perfect with tea (though you do need some self-control… I’ll admit it), but they’re also great on their own, and—except for the oven—you can do EVERYTHING by hand! Plus, I gave it a name that I think is fantastic: I Ciambiscotti!

School has just started, and the moment all kids look forward to is recess—which is why a delicious and healthy snack like cookies filled with ricotta and chocolate chips is perfect to pack in the little ones’ backpacks…and in your work bag for a snack :) I really like them, and they’re very easy to make.