Homemade Berger Cookies

Homemade Berger cookies. Nothing further need be said.

Ingredients

For  Cookies

1/3 cup unsalted butter, softened

1/2 tsp. sea salt

1 tsp. baking powder

1/2 cup sugar

1 large egg

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1/3 cup milk

For Icing

2 cups semisweet chocolate morsels

1 1/2 tsp. light corn syrup

1 tsp. vanilla extract

3/4 cup heavy cream

1 2/3 cups confectioners sugar, sifted

1/8 tsp. sea salt

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

Lightly grease 2 baking sheets or line with parchment paper.

In large mixing bowl, beat together butter, salt, vanilla and baking powder.

Beat in sugar. Then beat in egg.

Add flour alternately with the milk.

Using a tablespoon cookie scoop or ice cream scoop, drop the dough onto the cookies sheets.

The flattened dough should be 1 1/2" in diameter. You can flatten the dough with the bottom of a greased drinking glass. Leave about 2" between each cookie.

Bake the cookies 10-11 minutes. Do not let the tops get brown. The cookies should have a cake-like consistency when baked.

Remove cookies from oven and cool right on the sheets.

To prepare the icing, place chocolate morsels, corn syrup, vanilla and heavy cream in a microwave-safe container or a saucepan.

Heat until very hot; the cream should begin to bubble.

Remove from heat and stir until smooth.

Beat in confectioners sugar and salt.

Let cool until room temperature.

When cooled, dip each cookie in the icing.

Set cookies back on cookie sheets.

Spread more icing evenly on top of the cookies.

Let set until firm.

Cookies can be stored in airtight containers or frozen for longer storage.

Makes 1 dozen cookies.

Flatten the dough with the greased bottom of a drinking glass

Ready to melt the chocolate morsel mixture for icing

Homemade Berger Cookies

Buttermilk Rose Calming Bath

I will be the first to admit that a couple of months of quarantine life has put my mermaid tail in a bunch. So, with the stay-at-home order about to come to an end here in Maryland, I decided to reward and pamper myself with a detox bath. 

This buttermilk rose bath is fin-tastic for detoxing and calming. Legend has it that Cleopatra regularly bathed in buttermilk to keep her skin silky smooth. And if it's good enough for the last pharaoh of Egypt, it's good enough for this mermaid.

Ingredients

2 cups buttermilk

1 cup epsom salt

A splash of bubble bath

4 drops of lavendar essential oil

4 drops of wild chamomile essential oil

Petals from 3-4 roses, pick your favorite colors

1 bottle of sparking rosé

Instructions

Run a hot bath and incorporate first five ingredients under running water.

When tub is filled, scatter the rose petals.

Hop in the tub and luxuriate while sipping your rosé!

Easy peasy!

Mermaid Love Potion

Welcome back to the Seamaiden Posh blog, merfriends! With the downtime quarantine life has afforded, I decided it was time to revive my little blog after several years of hiatus and start sharing recipes and other fun things to do.

First up, I created this charming little Mermaid Love Potion for date night in last Saturday. Here's what you need to serve this concoction to the salty pirate in your life.

Ingredients

For the Blackberry Syrup

1/3 cup blackberries plus 8 blackberries for garnish

1/3 cup water

1/3 cup sugar

For the Love Potion Cocktail

1 bottle of sparkling rosé

Instructions

In a small saucepan or shallow skillet, bring the 1/3 cup blackberries, water and sugar to a boil. Turn heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes. Strain the blackberries and let the syrup cool completely.

Add 2 tbsp. of syrup to the bottom of each glass. Pour sparkling rosé over the syrup and garnish each glass with 2 blackberries.

Makes 4 cocktails.

Boil and simmer blackberries, water and sugar

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1st Annual Mermaidfest at Pizzazz!

There's never been a better time to be a mermaid in Maryland, seamaidens! At long last, we can come out of our landlocked shells and flaunt our fins in Havre de Grace.

Swim on up the Chesapeake on August 1 and celebrate your inner siren with fin-tastic food, fun and giveaways at the 1ST ANNUAL MERMAIDFEST AT PIZZAZZ! EVERYONE WHO ARRIVES IN THEIR MERMAID FINEST WILL RECEIVE A SPECIAL TREASURE FROM THE ONE AND ONLY PINKY PIZZAZZ! Mermen, pirates, sailors and fishermen are welcome join the fun, too! We guarantee it will be one SHELL of a party!

Pizzazz! is located at 320 St. John Street in Havre de Grace, MD. The mer-mazing festivities begin at noon. For more information, follow Pizzazz! on Facebook. Click here!