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A tasty flavor cookies which could be prepared in advance and be given as a gift. Really with creamy taste for snacks and easy to make.

A new twist of making your white bread into more appealing and tasty. Apply your own ideas for making this one. Best for breakfast and snack.

For greater theatrical impact the effect can be beefed up by adding white, to shape more definite clouds, and darker blue for contrast. By adding touches of grey, mauve and orange it can be evolved into a more dramatic sunset sky. Or, with a darker spectrum of blues and tiny star stencils, you can use exactly the same technique to make a dark night sky. Stars can also be faked with fiber-optic lights embedded in the ceiling.

Tassies are little cakes and cookies that are baked in muffin tins. It's essential that you use mini muffin tins in this recipe; in regular tins, the mixture will not bake through. There are many new varieties of chocolate chips that appear (and unfortunately disappear) on the market. Current favorites include dark chocolate/white chocolate swirl as well as a caramel-filled milk chocolate chip. As long as the label says "100 percent real" you can substitute generic brands of chocolate chips for the name brands and save quite a bit of money. Yields 48 cookies.

A soft texture bread with creamy taste topped with melted butter, grated cheese and white refined sugar. You can create your own toppings of your choice.

Okay, coffee isn't what it used to be. Drinking coffee today is almost like sampling wine. Fine taste, smooth texture, good body... gourmet coffee has become the buzz word in coffee circles. For a confessed caffeine addict like myself, the change in the way I look at coffee these days has been amazing. I put it down to the many varieties of gourmet coffee now available. Just walk into your favorite coffee shop and what used to be a simple procedure of asking for a coffee, two sugars and cream is now a few minutes of deep deliberation as you scan up and down the price board to decide whether you want a flat white, latte, cappuccino... and the list goes on.

This check effect has a fresh, contemporary feel in bright, light colors - though it can change dramatically with a different palette. In traditional dark greens, blues and reds, it will produce a dramatic tartan effect, and in pale off-white tones, a neutral minimalist look. The obvious way to find inspiration is to pick three colors from the fabric used in the room and use the dominant color for the background glaze. You have to make the blue background echoes the bright blue stripe in the flowery chintz, and the stripes pick up accent colors in sharp green and yellow. Instead of conventional wooden moldings, you could use a fabric braid to edge the effect. Read more: http://computersight.com/computers/how-to-make-gingham-covered-walls-at-home/#ixzz1lidDPN00