Dutch Janhagel cookies for the Great Food Bloggers Cookie Swap | in my Red Kitchen #fbcookieswap #cookies #cookie #dutch #almondcookie

Dutch Janhagel cookies

Dutch Janhagel cookies for the Great Food Bloggers Cookie Swap | in my Red Kitchen #fbcookieswap #cookies #cookie #dutch #almondcookie

– Click here for this recipe in Dutch -> Janhagel koekjes

Last year I had a lot of fun participating in the annual The Great Food Blogger Cookie swap. Yes, that’s right. That’s a cookie exchange among food bloggers.

The rules are simple. You sign up. You will receive the addresses of three other food bloggers. You bake three dozen cookies. Cookies that you wrap up well and that you send by post to the other three food bloggers. In return, you get three boxes of 12 cookies sent home, by random food bloggers. So much fun, and also very delicious!

But the best part of this cookie swap?

Pumpkin spiced chocolate chip cookies, tis the season! | in my Red Kitchen #cookies #chocolate #pumpkin #cookie #holidays

Pumpkin spiced chocolate chip cookies

Pumpkin spiced chocolate chip cookies, tis the season! | in my Red Kitchen #cookies #chocolate #pumpkin #cookie #holidays

– Click here for this recipe in Dutch -> Speculaas chocolate chip koekjes

Not that long ago I received a message from a good friend who is a photographer and studio manager for a well-known brand. Did I want to bake cookies…

Bake cookies? Of course! She needed cookies for a photo shoot with a little girl. Of course she could go to the store to buy cookies but she thought I might like it to bake the cookies. Well, you bet I will! 

Bye bye 2013, hello 2014!

What an amazing year it has been! I’m actually taking a little break now but I couldn’t resist the urge to look back ánd forward with you.

For some days now I’ve been browsing through my photos because photos say it all. I capture my life through (iPhone) photos, so it was fun to look back and make a short video of it that I posted on Instagram.

2013

2013 was the year when P and I got married, packed up our stuff and moved to the US.