Spicy Oatmeal cookies with Raisins

When I first tried baking cookies, I used this recipe and I fell in love with it immediately. Even my whole family and those lucky friends who were treated to the delicious spicy crumbleness of these cookies, everyone loved them. It also might have been the recipe that triggered the spice-freak in me, because I just can't get enough of the cinnamon-nutmeg-clove combo and when I'm asked to bake something out of the blue, I usually go for this easy yet delicious mix to prepare something non-standard.

Rat Hot

I decided to write about a little, simple boardgame as my first boardgame post, leaving the more complex games for later. The game du jour is Rat Hot, published by Queen Games, is a game for two players who alternate in placing tiles with different kinds of spices while trying to gain points by putting the same spices next to each other.

Carrot Cake

It's very yellow.

Baking a carrot cake was one of my first ideas when I turned my attention from fancy cakes to a more sponge cake variations. I found a great recipe on the internet, tried it and it was good... Sure, but it could be better. I baked another soon enough and added more carrot to it, as I found the original cake lacking the taste of the carrot. The second take on the carrot cake was a success, the taste of the carrot was there and still it complemented the sweetness of the cake without tasting too alien.