Minty Goodness

Peter’s sister, Marieke is turning 29 tomorrow. Our birthdays are only 2 days apart.. but I’m one whole year YOUNGER!

Something she really loves are After Eight chocolates.. I’m sure you know them.

Mmmmmm

So, today I put my baking “skills” to use and went to work at making After Eight cookies.  After some careful searching I found the recipe I’d been looking for here : Click here for recipe

Next was the ever so fun hunt for ingredients. If you live (and cook) in the Netherlands, I’m sure you’ve been faced with the same problem.

When I lived in Amsterdam it was no problem, because there are plenty of “expat stores”, where for an ever so good price you can find almost anything you’d need. Now living in a small town doesn’t afford me these luxuries, so I made due. I was able to find the baking soda at the pharmacy (drogist) under the name “zuiveringszout”.

I didn’t have such luck with the chocolate chips, so settled for a big slab of pure chocolate. Luckily the recipe called for the chocolate to be melted anyways.

Half of the cookies turned out, so tomorrow I will show up to Marieke’s house with 12 beautiful cookies to celebrate her being one year older than me

I’ll let you know how they went down!