So this year is the first cookie season in a long time without the black cat, Ivy of our Holly & Ivy duo. She had to be put down in February.
The black one is the one in front here
She was the smarter and more trouble-making one of the two, and she loved people food. She’d steal your egg off your plate if she got the chance, and was a skilled cookie pilferer. She could lift the lid off a loosely covered plastic container and fish cookies out, and she loved dried fruits, especially figs, that feature in many cookie kinds.
I’m so lax this year – the white one is so uninterested, I’m leaving stuff cooling all over the counters and not cat proofing at all.
I’m doing pretty good for ca. 12 days out – the jam cookies are in the freezer (and the banner of the blog <grin>) and I made the nukhorns (baby ruggelach) yesterday. I thought I was ending up with less ruggelach, after all the jam cookie count is low, but I had the standard amount: two 5 qt. ice cream buckets (the kind they don’t make anymore, now it’s a 4 qt. bucket for the same price) plus my biggest, baby bassinet size Tupperware. The Joy of Cooking lebkuchen, baby fruit cakes, chocolate topped fruit balls, Moravian ginger thins, and chocolate almond stars are all in the vestibule. The iced ginger creams are waiting for me to pack them up and add them to the shelves. The dough logs for the pistachio-cranberry cookies, crystallized ginger cookies, and world peace cookies, as well as a big bowl of dough for pfeffernusse, are all in the fridge waiting to be sliced or shaped and baked. And I’m going to do the spoon cookies tonight.
I took walk with Annie in the morning, and photographed some funny ice.
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Wednesday postscript – I finished the spoon cookies Monday night, and was so exhausted on Tuesday, only one cookie kind made, the pfeffrnüsse, and went to bed.
Wednesday it was chocolate & white spritz, and an extra – cheesecake brownies to add to a platter to take to my 5:30 class.
Pictures in the morning, promise. As promised!
Baby Ruggelach
Spoon cookies – about 175 this year – which meant I made 350 little spoon shaped cookies Monday night
Pfeffernusse – all I could manage Tuesday night
White spritz, baked Weds. before my 5:30 class
Chocolate spritz, also baked Weds. before my 5:30 class
Chocolate chip meringues, baked Wednesday after class – kind of a lagniappe – they’re not on my official list for the year, but kind of fun to make since they use up leftovers, like extra egg whites from cookies that just use yolks, e.g. Spritz, half a bag of mini chips that didn’t go into the World Peace (which should get made tonight!)
Tray that went to Scout, with aforementioned cheesecake brownies