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, […]
Yesterday morning, when I opened up the closed-off and & closed-heat-vent sun room, where I had left the naked ginger creams so that the cats wouldn’t try to steal them, the smell of gingerbread made all the late night baking worthwhile. mmm, like the ghosts of Christmas past. I made a lot of the ginger […]
So OK – it’s Saturday, and I’ve made 3 types of cookies so far: jam, Biberli (this shows last year’s “factory seconds”; this year’s are plumper & firmer), and lebkuchen; and even though all the fridges are stuffed with food, the turkey carcass has been dealt with. The bird was so big that I couldn’t […]
I’m feeling dumb for setting myself up with a 2-week cookie season again this year – but it’s still got to be better than last year, which was the year of nothing came out quite right; I blame Costco flour and broken thumb. And, happily, all the Thanskgiving stuff seems to be coming out well […]