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Garden Lanterns Votives

♥ Garden Lanterns and Votives can add a bit of charm to any garden or patio area and they are easy to make.

Table top or hanging, here are some creative ideas I found on several DIY Blogs.

Any of these can be created to enhance holiday decorating too or given as gifts.

Halloween Votives: DIY BLOG directions

Basic Garden Pots with candles: Image from Google images.

* Use transparent stickers and glitter glue to decorate a re-used food jar or mason jar.

Frosted glass on mason jars: Follow directions on how to create these by following this link: DIY Lanterns.

These lanterns look great during the day too:

Photo credit to : http://hearttheday.blogspot.com

Mason Jar Lantern Votive

…Baking Biscotti for the Holidays…

Anise and Eggs/ Biscotti

♥Biscotti cookies are also known as “twice baked cookies” or ‘Italian Fruit Cookies‘ in Italian cook books. This is the perfect not so sweet cookie to eat with coffee or tea. Each year I try new recipes by adding different nuts, dried fruits and flavoring to the batter. Printed below is a biscotti recipe I have used for years that I found in a 1972 Sunset Italian Cookbook purchased at a used bookstore. My favorite part about this specific recipe is that is contains the sweet and aromatic flavor of Anise. Anise, Pimpinella anisum from the Apiaceae family is a flowering annual herbaceous plant native to Eastern Mediterranean region with the flavor of liquorice or fennel.

Recipe: "Sunset Italian Cook Book 1972" Biscotti, Twice Baked, or Italian Fruit Cookies. Different names same cookie.

Biscotti Dough is thick and heavy which makes it easy to shape into logs for cooking.

Forming Biscotti into logs before baking

Remove Biscotti from oven after 30 minutes and cut diagonal slices about 1/2" thick. Re-Bake for 16-18 minutes.

Dip or spread melted chocolate on biscotti and allow to cool. Bag these up for a great holiday gift!

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