The cookie fairy has been making her appointed rounds all week, taking cartons and platters of cookies to people who didn’t make the party, or who live too close by for it to be worth it to mail – tho, I have to admit, Sally’s house off Junction Rd, is really the outskirts of Madison […]
I guess, if last year was the cookie season with a broken thumb, this year was the cookie party of the blizzard. We had about 40 – 50 people, which is probably 1/3 to 1/2 the usual number. (100+ folks). I think I’ve been too buried under snow, or cookies, or both, to write. On […]
Wednesday was the last night of cookie baking, then I shifted over to apps. I made the hazelnut truffles, a recipe from the December 2001 Gourmet, that seems to be one of those issues with just a lot of good stuff – these truffles (hotly debated in the recipe forums – “Not really a truffle […]
Tuesday was ruggelach night. Well, I glazed the rainbow cookies with chocolate, and cut them up, and I made the windmill dough logs and chilled them to be sliced & baked, but mostly it was all ruggelach, all the time, 6:00 – 11:00. I got a new, giant Tupperware from the nearby hardware store that […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
… 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. […]
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 […]
I bagged baking early last night. I chocolate-glazed the Molly Wizenberg dried fruit balls, and I think they’re going to be really good this year; I used more prunes than figs, and Grand Marnier, and really good chocolate. I made the fruit cake gems, and I think I bought 1/4 inch larger bon bon cups, […]