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Monthly Archives: December 2010

Monday night, third to last night

Monday I had a meeting, so I didn’t start baking till close to 8 p.m. I made the Moravian Ginger Thins, but I don’t think they’re as thin as last years, which seems odd to me since last year I was rolling with broken thumb. I decided to make a double batch of the rainbow […]

Almost there

I made A LOT of cookies Sunday. And I started writing about them Monday, but somehow lost the post – oddly, since Word press usually is good about saving even when I don’t tell it to. Anyways, I made the dough for the nukhorns, 3X, 12 rounds of dough to be rolled out and filled […]

So seasonal

Not quite sure what happened yesterday – I had big cookie plans that I did not quite achieve. The night before I came home from a latke party, and made cocnut cookies, and world peace cookie dough. Saturday morning, we slept in a bit, because it was still snowing, then we shoveled out the driveway […]

Those spoon cookies …

… are a lot of work. But they’re so charming. My brother calls them the little hamburgers – he would; that’s what they look like to a vegetarian. The original plan for last night was to make the Sambuca crinkles, then bake the spoon cookies, then, while they were cooling, make the coconut cookies. Ha. […]

More productive

Last night I made the cranberry-pistachio slice & bakes, one of my major disappointment last year – I mixed the eggs that you are supposed to use for egg wash to stick sugar onto the outside of the logs into the dough, and ended up with a softer, blander cookie. This year’s still seemed a […]