Comments on: SnaG Trilogy Part Three: Briosca*

By: DaviMack

DaviMack — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:44:42 +0000

No, no - fondant goes on biscuits over here? Really? That’s … well, foreign.

And I think that the snakes which were driven out were actually druid priests or something, weren’t they? To make snakes … well, it’d be very new-age, I suppose.

By: t

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:15:16 +0000

Oh, this cracked me up. I had no idea Irish people actually would recognize the whole Lucky-Charms-and-Shamrocks shtick. How funny that St. Patrick’s Day is now acknowledged in Ireland!!!

Next year if you’re stumped, you can, of course, make…snakes. That’s what we always thought it was about — the guy that chased out the snakes. I don’t know why there were bits of clover to begin with…

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:35:57 +0000

You get the A For Effort reward. I would have just used the green sugar before baking and be done with it. I figure most of the cookie is going to end up on the floor anyway (this from the woman who made her son’s kindergarten class autumnal cookies that were leaves in three different shapes and colors, complete with “veins” piped on, which were returned to me intact because they forgot they were there, had too many cookies anyway, and then thought these were too pretty to waste on a bunch of kindergarteners.).

By: Averil

Averil — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:41:43 +0000

Yes they don´t go in for Icing in Spain much either, but marzipan, Wow that´s another story! They have entire isles in the supermarkets dedicated to it at Christmas time!

By: Lauréole

Lauréole — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:08:29 +0000

too bad my daughter and I are not sweets eaters because those little shamrock cookies are really cute. As far as icing is concerned in France, I don’t think we put much icing on our cakes/tarts/cookies…

By: jackie

jackie — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:28:46 +0000

very impressive shamrock cutter! ma ingalls has nothing on you! and they look great. hope everyone loves them.

By: Orghlaith

Orghlaith — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:02:37 +0000

Great idea to make your own shamrocks. And since St. Pat’s day as a celebration is originally American and then traveled to Ireland (hopefully without the green beer) then it is fitting that the shamrocks are iced with Betty Crocker icing. Thus making your cookies the perfect Irish biscuit. Love it!