The market in Papeete
Today we are at sea on the way to Taha’a, which produces 80% of the vanilla grown in Tahiti. When we were here last year, before I started baking, I didn’t understand the importance of Tahitian vanilla beans. Now that I know, I’m going to stock up on {relatively} cheap vanilla.
Tahitian vanilla, YUM!
Heather of Randomosity and the Girl chose Buttery Jam Cookies for this week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe.
I loved this recipe. It came together easily and required no refrigeration prior to baking. I used apricot jam and added candied ginger.
I made this cookie Thanksgiving weekend, along with the Linzer Sables and Grandma’s All-Occasion Sugar Cookies, prior to our vacation. I brought in a plate with all three cookies to work.
Because of my vacation and the holidays, my co-workers won’t see me or my baking for three weeks. My hope was that this plate of cookies was a good send-off.
Pink Stripes 
Looks great! Have fun on your trips! Get some good vanilla! 🙂
Ciao ! I can smell your vanilla pods ! Next time i’ll add candied ginger too !
Oooh I love fresh vanilla!
Yummy looking cookies!
Lucky you to be on vacation –
I’ll bet the candied ginger made a huge difference to the flavor.
How lucky are you?
All your cookies look fantastic and I bet the candied ginger was awesome.
Great cookies…very lovely. Have a wonderful time on your jaunts!
lucky you visiting Tahiti!! I am pleased you enjoyed the cookies – they werent really my thing
On vacation and posting pictures of your TWD cookies. You are too awesome.
Great idea using candied ginger!
Your cookies look great.
Hope your having a great time! I’ll still bet your co-workers will be happy to have you back!
Candied ginger sounds soooo good. You are a cookie beast- three at once! Wow!
I hope your vacation is going well and that you are having a fabulous time. While I’m sure your co-workers miss you and your baking, I’ll bet they were appreciative of that plate of cookies before you left!
I bet your coworkers trampled each other to get to that plate of cookie goodness! I am so jealous of your vanilla buying opportunity!
I hope you’re enjoying your vacation! All your cookies look terrific.
I too loved the no-refrigeration! I usually miss that step and then get ready to start baking, only to realize I need to add on 2 hours!!
Glad you loved the cookies! Have a great time on you trip!
I am soooo jealous of your “BARGAIN” ah ha T vanilla beans. They are the Premium bean in my estimation. I have an amazing vanilla ice cream recipe out of a Maida Heatter book that uses 3 forms of vanilla. So decadent . One of them being Tahitian vanilla beans. Let me know if you want I can email it. Glad you had a wonderful vacation and read on girlie.
AmyRuth