The magic is gone. We’re back to drizzle, slush, treacherous black ice and pitiful corpses 😦
If you want to admire the above snowman when he was still a strapping young lad in his full frosty glory, click here.
To comfort ourselves over the sad demise of the sparkly wintery snowscape, my friend Peggy laid on a festive afternoon coffee:

Note the AMERICAN chocolate chip cookies on the right-hand side, which are a real challenge to re-create in Germany, so I was told. Delicious 🙂
The snow may be gone, but I caught a nice sunset on my evening walk today:
If you’ve missed the Bavarian Winterwonderland pictures, you can see them here and here.
Loved seeing you – I’ll share my chocolate chip cookies with you any time you’re back!
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If I had not just totally overdosed on my mum’s Krautwickerl, I’d dash over there right now 🙂
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ooohhh, I do like that lonely tree in the sunset. Fantastic!!
That poor snowman…. I don’t like Murricun cookies, they’re too soft and mushy for me. I grew up on biscuits and not the dry corn things they call biscuits here and eat for breakfast.
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Those cookies were quite substantial and on the crunchy side 🙂
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Frosty is losty 🙂
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He’s dropped all his toys 😦
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Poor Frosty!
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We got a bunch of snow Saturday, and it promptly melted overnight. Back to green /mud here too.
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Gorgeous sunset shot, lady. And I fancy a cookie, please.
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You’d love those 🙂
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Oh wow, the sunset through the trees is gorgeous! I hope you had a really wonderful New Year. We got a bit of snow, but it melted pretty much within an hour. I’m not complaining though – walking to work would not be so much fun!
And flour, sugar, baking powder, butter, eggs, chocolate 🙂
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There was some tricksy issue to do with baking powder…
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Baking powder can be hard to find. What did you use
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Only Peggy knows…!
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I am sure the biscuits went a long way to helping you get over the poor melted snowman.. 🙂
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You know me all too well…
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Oh dear 😦
But that’s quite a display – of food and sunset
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Last full day tomorrow 😦
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I’d trade winter wonderland for some cake any time. Unfortunately, I think I’ll just blame Linda, who apparently got so cold and all Eskimo in Berlin that she’d just willed all the snow due north and now I’m freezing and like literary knee deep in snow. Any one has a spare shovel so that I can dig out my car tomorrow? 😀
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I’m always in favour of blaming Linda. I suggest we beat her with the shovel, and then share our cake with her.
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and now I just have meself a shovel – first to shovel my car out of a snowbank, and then beat Linda with it 😉 And then I’d gladly have some (and in ‘some’ I mean lots of) cake 😀
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Linda won’t even feel it in her “Eskimo” outfit 😉
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Well that biscuit selection looks like good compensation for a melted snowman.
We only managed a few tiny snowballs but it was the first time Palermo had snow in about 20 years so nobody was complaining!
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Snow in Palermo! Who knew such a thing was even possible…!
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It’s only snowed here one other time in living memory. The real treat for me was seeing ageing Sicilians act like little kids – the lawyers were coming out of the Palace of Justice and having over-excited snowball fights!
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The sunset looks like layers of sorbet. That’s gorgeous, but your poor decapitated snowman looks so sad. 😦
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With his little bow tie… 😦
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I have to admit…I think I’d take the chocolate chip cookies over the snowman or the sunset! 🙂
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Yeah… the snowman looks kinda gritty…
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wow – in a matter of days things change much….
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It’s so unpredictable… last year, there wasn’t any snow at all!
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well I am sure that helps the appreciation for the snow then – 🙂
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well thinking of you all this week dear lady of the cakes – and I hope your new year is off to a good start – we are embarking for a chilly weekend (and maybe snow) this weekend – after having it reach almost 70 last weekend – so it is very unpredictable here too –
❄❄☀☀
Peace
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It’s a bit warmer here in Spain, but we are having a cold spell down here, too! Not too bad where I am, thank God. No messy snow 🙂
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🙂
👊
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And just when I’m swearing off sweets and joining a gym, you HAVE to tempt with chocolate chip cookies!! My mouth is watering in memory of ‘Presidents Choice’ chocolate chip cookies from Canada days… Arrghhhh!!
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Presidents Choice? I hope they are better than a brand called Maryland Cookies sold widely in the UK, which are goddamn awful.
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Oh they are scary addictive! As in you open a package and then suddenly wonder where they have all gone!!
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I know that kind only too well…!
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That sunset is beauuuutiful. Moscow skies are gorgeous right now too – as they usually are when it’s -22C out 🙂
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Ahrgh! -22!!!!
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Mmm those cookies warm my cold American heart. Can you get real chocolate chips in Germany or do you have to chop up a chocolate bar?
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I’ve not looked in the baking supplies section of a supermarket recently, but you should be able to get choice chips, it’s kind of an universal ingredient these days 🙂
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Impossible to get here in Russia and from what I understand a lot of other places. Really too bad as it’s SUCH a struggle to chop up chocolate by hand 😉
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I am enthusiastic on the subject of chocolate chip cookies. If you love the cookies, the dough is even better 🙂 I trust that all these goodies will soften the blow of Frosty’s demise…
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I love dough… cookies or cake, I don’t care 🙂
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Awww, poor snowman!
It’s gone cold again here over night – frost on the ground! Snow hasn’t returned though.
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That tree silhouette is spectacular! I’m full of Christmas cake right now so the cookies are not so appealing. Another day perhaps. When the cake runs out.
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The cake MUST NEVER run out. Full stop.
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Caught sight of myself in a full length mirror today in leggings. Somebody needs to hide the cake.
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We’ve not had our snow yet and it is very possible we might just do another winter without any at all – which would be a shame
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It usually comes in Jan or Feb… be patient 🙂
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Yeah I know – except it failed to last year!
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Here today, gone tomorrow, but I think a lovely sunset is a fair exchange 🙂
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Snow is so pretty the first few hours and then it turns into a nasty gray sludge before it disappears. They’re actually predicting snow for London on Wednesday. Won’t hold my breath. It was supposed to snow over the weekend, but it didn’t.
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They said it would snow here, but all we had so far was rain!
Better this way, I hate the sludge and the black ice 😦
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hahahaha that first line “The magic is gone. We’re back to drizzle, slush, treacherous black ice and pitiful corpses :(” with the photo cracked me up 😀 Thanks for the afternoon laugh — sorry that it was at the expense of your slushy snowman. Gorgeous sun set shot!! I got a nice sunset in Munich the other day too.
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I spoke to my mum yesterday, and she tells me the snow is back 🙂
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Beautiful sunset picture! I uttered something aloud when I saw it, and no one is even home to hear me. 🙂 Chocolate chip cookies – I make them often, and every German who has tasted them goes mad for them. I use Backpulver (baking powder) and regular flour, make sure to add crushed nuts OR extra flour because otherwise they will go flat and hard, BUT…..you cannot get “Nestle Semi-sweet Chocolate Morsels” in Germany unless you are willing to pay a truckload to order 12 overpriced packages through Amazon. Do not use German chocolate chips found in tiny packages in the baking section. They are too sweet, and they just don’t work. I haven’t yet tried crushing bars of halbbitter chocolate. Every time someone comes to visit and asks me what they can bring me, I say “Nestle _semi-sweet_ chocolate chips!” and I stock up every time I go back.
I agree about the dough – I eat that while I bake! 🙂
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Ah, now that is a useful tip for those who are baking-inclined 😉 I didn’t ask my friend about the chocolate issue, I just thought that Dr Oetker or someone made something suitable…
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I was about to ask you about the trouble with making CCCs and then I read the comment above from Ami. Too sad! ;(
I absolutely love your sunset picture, and I too uttered something audible while sitting here and home alone. Stunning!
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Aw, thanks Lynda 🙂
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Did you see these…?
https://ladyofthecakes.wordpress.com/2015/01/01/a-happy-new-year-from-narnia/
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Hi,
I came over from TBM’s blog.
Great pics, but as much as I love cookies, I think this time the tree wins. It’s simply too beautiful. I’ll be visiting again. 🙂
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Hi there! And thanks for your kind words 🙂 Cookies… now I want some…
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Ooooo! Chocolate chip cookies! Save me one! Or three.
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They are long, long gone… down the alimentary canal… never to return… wait, they are, in fact, still on my hips!!! 🙂
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Oh no! I could have helped to save you from that fate.
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Too late. I’m doomed. Jiggly muffin tops forever.
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I was going to just hit the ‘like’ button but that seemed kind of callous when you’re doomed.
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It’s OK. You have my blessing. Just save yourself!
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😉
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Cool snowman photo. 🙂
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