LAVENDER VANILLA APRICOT BARS with A PECAN CRUMBLE @BAKED

 Its Fathers Day today and somebody asked me the question , what is the best thing ur Dad taught u , without battling an eyelid or thinking , i replied "" Love , to love . And he taught me that by loving me immensely , unconditionally , always .....till i was brimming ...and im till date..."".

Love sure makes the world go round and fills me with a positive energy like nothing else can , its lends a bounce to my step and makes me give my best ...always...

When i think of him today , my heart swells and my eyes fill ...i love when someone see's a lot of him in me .....

I havent seen him in a long time , a very v longgg time and it feels like a longer time.....but i have the hope of seeing him someday soon, in heaven, when we meet again.

I wonder how he would be today , i would have so loved to bake and cook and go for long drives with him today , with me behind the wheel...

Miss u dad, lods n love ya forever...with all my being...

Not jus today , but 365 days , coz dats the real meaning of love the thought behind these special days.

Moving on to these bars , these have nothing to do with dad , infact i never baked these for him , i dont know if u would have loved them ,for besides the fact that i baked them.

I wish i had .....

Never  miss to spread the love by wishing ur pals and family who are dads , a fantastic Fathers day * 365...

They are the most special people for the children for whom they make rocking dads!!

 I want to go thru building these bars step by step ,not to make it seem lengthy or difficult which they are surely not but coz each layer is pure joy to make as much as fast and easy to put together.

I used Lavender instead of Rosemary coz its not everyday that we find rosemary here and i LOVE lavender with VANILLA...
Add a little zest and u have all my fav flavours in one bar....

AN OREO COOKIE d BAKED WAY @ MANY WAYS ~BAKED SUNDAY MORNS

 If Oreo's are kind of cookie , these will be too.

They have that same ,almost same chocolaty flav ,and are filled with a filling close to the original.

For those in India , this one is a replica of the Pure magic cookie , which is also something i love.

 To begin with i have a filled Shamrock cookie, jus in time for St.Patricks aint it.
I didn sprinkle these with the salt but i think Vanilla Fleur de sal is so good.

 I know , my cookie cutter is like this and then i cut them out with mini hearts.

Baked sunday morns have thought me one thing for sure , that as fas as possible i shouldn miss out a recipe from Baked , coz they jus keep getting better + the fun of baking together is not to be missed.  


And then there are flowers, pretty flowers in time for Easter and Summer, jus round the corner.

What really made me joyful about these cookies , is the filling , always wanted to whisk a filling at home that resembled my fav packaged cookies , coz the way i eat them (read jus below) , i am always running out of cream.
+ i love packing tiffins so am always giving tiffins to family even when home and all those ''creamless'' cookies find their way to the tiffins , with complains galore later.
Infact now , nobody takes an oreo from me , coz its always without the filling.
this fillin recipe has solved this problem for life.

The filling is with more shortening and some butter with some light rum ( used butter extract instead of rum ) and vanilla extract.

Fantastic.

Now whether an Oreo or Pure Magic, there is a way i eat these , i join all the filled sides together to make a sandwhich of 3 layers with 3 layers of the cream , yeah the cream is never enough and the rest i store in my pink , heart painted tin , to dip into Nutella and leftover fillings ,so there are no complains around home that urs truly eats all the cream and leaves the biscuits for the rest of the gang:-)

MADAGASCAR VANILLA BEAN RED VELVET LINZER HEARTS WHOOPIE PIES @BAKED SUNDAY MORNINGS

The whole place ,and more so the open kitchen , smells like cake right now.....ok Chocolate cake ....doesnt that sound good?

Wait wait....Red Velvet Chocolate cake....ahh better???

I think i can call these a cookie cake , and this is the first time i am  ever enjoying one or eating one coz there are no whoopie pies that happen here.

Ok ok heart shaped linzer Red Velvet Whoppie pies,  with Marshmallow fluff filling......now now , that is what completes the pic!

This should be there at every wedding , maybe on a lolly stick , but they should be there for sure.

Coz they are like a wedding , when 2 become one , here 2 whoopie pie singles , come together to make one deliciously cute whoopie pie.

This is my first post for Baked Sunday Mornings , where we are baking our way thru the new BAked +no rules, always a +, its also the first time ever im biting into a whoopie pie , so honestly i have no nostalgic memories of this one , but have been looking forward to a whoopie pie , so its a post of all firsts happening here.

They were lovely , the chocolaty flavor so good, with Vanilla making it better , i thought espresso would bring it out more , but than that would not be a red velvet than no?

The reason i chose the Marshmallo fluff filling , from the whoopie pie pan box, is coz ,as far as i know, thats what goes into whoopie pies , and i so wanted that.

I love Linzer cookies ,and Faith , a sweet and dear friend has these linzer cupcake up , ever since ,everything i bake , i want to make them Linzer.
Oh yes , there will be cupcake too:-)
And Linzer = piping some more fluffy filling in the cut out , detailed pics below...

And these are the CupCake Red Velvet Whoopie Pies, oh yeah , hearts...and there are some more below..