I made all six kinds I thought I would on Sunday, more or less, but I’m not so happy at how everything turned out.
The chocolate spritz are fine – I had a little trouble with the cookie gun, getting the handle end unscrewed in order to refill it – but compared to the pistachio, these went like a dream.
chocolate spritz
chocolate spritz
chocolate spritz
I wimped out on making those individual peppermint chocolate cookies, and made these stripey mint brownies that I have made before – but one pan seemed overcooked and the other, under. I tried some of the edges, though and they’re pretty tasty. I thought it was meant to be, because the brownies used the same amount of butter I had already softened for the cookies. I guess I’ll just keep eying that recipe for another year. In all things peppermint, I made layered peppermint bark, that I’ve done other years, a big favorite of younger son Al, and it came out thick and kind of clunky – but again tastes good.
Stripey mint brownies
Layered peppermint bark
I made the almond raspberry bars – which came out great, nice and neat and not too sticky – and the chocolate toffee bars. A few too many of the chocolate toffee bars exhibited the dread de-lamination, where the chocolate comes off the cookie base, when I cut them on Sunday morning. Bu I guess I’ll just squeeze them together and put them a plate and people will eat them – at the party. It makes me think that maybe I should do a new style of shipping that I have been cogitating. Instead of sending folks hundreds of ziploc baggies filled with cookies, nested in bubble wrap and newsprint in their boxes, I will send containers with layers, also nested in bubble wrap and newsprint in their boxes. The de-laminated bars should hold up loads better that way. I think it means that people would get a few less cookies, but they might arrive in better shape.
raspberry almond bars
cutting raspberry almond bars
raspberry almond bars
chocolate toffee bars
chocolate toffee bars
I made the gluten free peanut butter chocolate sandwich cookies that were such a hit last year. I had a vision of them tiny, and they are smaller but not tiny. And, somehow, the smaller scoop made almost pointy little mounds so the cookies are going to be a little hard to get your mouth around. I am sure people will deal.
peanut butter chocolate sandwich cookies
peanut butter chocolate sandwich cookies
Not much to say about the coconut cookies, except the pic didn’t come out so great – and I’m glad I only made 3X the recipe instead of 4X – I bought enough coconut to make 4 batches of dough, but needed the extra for coating.
Coconut cookies
