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 & front walk. I made the dough for the Moravian ginger thins – they’re in the front, star shapes, in this shot from last year. Then I tried an experiment, mint chocolate chip cookies, from a recipe I found online, that I liked because it used up two things I had in the freezer – 2 bags each of mint chocolate chips, and King Arthur Flour Co. sugar cookie mix (that they sent me as freebie for spending beaucoup bucks with them). I decided to tint them green, per the recipe, to tip off any unsuspecting cookie eater who might think it was a non-mint chocolate chip cookie. I think they have potential – I might try them next year with a from-scratch drop sugar cookie dough, and the mint chips. They’ll probably be someone’s favorite cookie.
Then I went out for errands and presumably a swim – that I never got to. When I got home, I baked a bunch of the almond paste types: pine-nut macaroons, and another new one this year, an almond cookie with chocolate stars glued on top. All from the Odense marzipan site – I was tired of the Gourmet pignoli cookie recipe I’d been using; they’re too pale. These, from the presumable marzipan experts, are more what I like in a macroon – golden brown. And I think the chocolate star almond cookies are a keeper, too – even though I ran out of stars.
I finished the night by baking Dorie Greenspan’s world peace cookies, and making the dough for Mark’s rolled ginger – that I hope to bake today.
I guess I shouldn’t feel too bad about underachieving – besides shoveling, I did a load of laundry, folded all the clean stuff, and made a pan of mac & cheese for dinner. Oh yeah, and paid bills and answered a few student questions in my online course. Today, I gave the cats fresh newspaper under their litter, baked a coffee cake, and now I’m off I hope to that swim (or maybe a walk), followed by rolled ginger, ginger thins, a bunch of bar cookies, and spritz – I hope.
