An attempt at an annotated list of the cookie season –
Sunday night (12/4): Moravian ginger thins, slice & bake doughs
snowflake-shaped ginger thin
Monday morning (12/5): cornmeal anise biscotti
Cornmeal-almond-anise biscotti - new this year
Monday night (12/5): cranberry-pistachio slices, fruitcake fruit slices
Cranberry pistachio slices
Fruitcake fruit slices - WITH candied red cherries this year
Tuesday morning(12/6): almond hazelnut biscotti
Long skinny almond hazelnut biscotti
Tuesday night (12/6): almond cinnamon stars, windmill
Windmill cookies
Stars
Wednesday night (12/7): gember koekjes, orphan cranberry-pistachio slices, dough for hazelnut sables, dough for world peace
Gember Koekjes
Thursday night (12/8): chocolate toffee bars, linzer-nutella sandwiches, linzer thumbprints (bonus)
Chocolate toffee bars
Thumbprints
Friday night (12/9) : coconut cookies and world peace cookies
Coconut cookies - they look like a macaroon, but are actually a butter cookie with coconut
World peace cookies - from Dorie Greenspan - nice size this year
Saturday morning (12/10): nukhorns & Pfeffernuse
Nukhorns or rugelach
Pfeffernuse
Saturday night (12/10) – cranberry choc chippers for Savory Sunday
Also Saturday – gave away first cookie platters
Sunday (12/11) – first real disaster of cookie season, but then I baked ginger creams; frost Monday, Rose’s crescents, chocolate meringues, dough for Mark’s mom’s rolled ginger, Mexican wedding cookies, pecan bars – new recipe
Ginger creams
Rose's Crescents
Monday (12/12) – cut up the pecan bars and shipped the first cookie box – And had another disaster – stripey mint brownies. It was a lesson in why some recipes say, “do not use Dutch process cocoa”. I had bulk cocoa from the co-op and I assumed it wasn’t Dutch process, but it must’ve been – it reacted badly with the baking soda and brownies boiled while baking – all the pieces of mint, which are the charm of the brownie because they stay crunchy in the chewy brownie – and got too dark, tasted burned … I thought about keeping them – if I put them out someone would like them – but they just weren’t right, so I dumped them, and made a big batch of white chocolate peppermint bark. And dried fruit bark. Somewhere’s in there I made the chocolate spritz – I think it was Monday night. And I made the raspberry almond bars Wednesday morning.
Fucked up mint brownies
Peppermint bark
Dark chocolate dried fruit bark
Chocolate spritz
Raspberry almond bars
