{"id":6449,"date":"2012-12-04T23:55:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T04:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=6449"},"modified":"2016-03-29T20:17:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T01:17:31","slug":"cookie-catch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/cookie-catch-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Cookie catch up"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I have the ovens all full of meringues – Mark’s, too – since they’re the required gluten free cookie kind for my cookie demo<\/a> at the Monona Public Library, thus getting a little bit of time for some cookie catch up.<\/p>\n

I guess it was a productive weekend – but that didn’t stop me from waking at 5:30 on Monday morning fretting about how am I going to get everything baked.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Rach & I organized a going away brunch for DB & Chris. Since they are heading to Atlanta, the food was Southern-themed. The main dish was a sausage & egg strata<\/a>, that I made with good Willow Creek sausage and the surplus bread cubes that didn’t go into the Thanksgving stuffing. It’s kind of homage to DB’s mom’s breakfast casserole<\/a>, that uses wonder bread and Velveeta and Special K. There was ambrosia – I used fresh pineapple and oranges and sweetened coconut, and even though oranges were the 1st navals, and not as good as they should be later in the season, it was a dish that was greater than the sum of its parts. A big green salad, and I put out the roasted beet, blue cheese, and walnut salad that had been a Thanksgiving side dish (so more using up leftovers – since it was a non-paying crowd, I felt free to do so!) And pecan sticky buns and the fruit cake gems for dessert.<\/p>\n

Really nice, but an interruption in cookie season.<\/p>\n

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Cinnamon Stars (Zimtsterne<\/a>); Ginger creams; Moravian Ginger Thins & sugar-topped snaps made with the leftover UN-rollable dough<\/p><\/div>\n

I had to run a few errands after the brunch, so I didn’t get down to cookie baking until 4:00 or 5:00 in the afternoon. I made the above – the cinnamon stars, and a big batch of the ginger thins, because they are going to be the required vegan cookie for the demo at the library. I had a memory lapse, and started greasing the cookie sheets with butter, but fortunately remembered vegan requirement. I separated the baked on buttered sheets ones out, and baked the rest on sheets greased with vegan shortening. I frosted the ginger creams, and made all the ruggelach dough.<\/p>\n

Sunday was ruggelach day. I spent 3 hours rolling out mine<\/a>, and then about an hour and a half making the Lora Brody ones<\/a>. I took a break to watch the Boardwalk Empire season finale, and then made a bunch of the slice & bake doughs, the windmill cookies<\/a> and the pistachio cranberry slices<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I tried to do four kinds on Monday and just couldn’t so it. I made the cranberry-orange-chocolate chip cookies that I liked a lot last year, and I kept thinking as I scooped them out that the dough was different somehow. I finally realized that I had made them with dried cranberries last year. This year I used the fresh called for in the recipe – the moisture in the cranberries made them a much cakier cookie – almost like muffin tops, IMHO. They’re for the library cookies thing. Then I made the almond cookies with the chocolate stars glued on top – it was the dough that ate New York. I have almost 200 of them.The whole batch of dough wouldn’t fit in my mixer and I had to divide it and recombine – and I had a vague recollection that last year the same thing happened. I made a note on the recipe for future.<\/p>\n

And I made linzer thumbprints. Last year I made them as an extra. I made Nutella sandwich cookies with a Dorie Greenspan hazelnut sable dough, and with the dough that couldn’t t be rolled out anymore I made the thumbprints. I liked them better than the sandwiches, so i just made thumbprints this year, but I think that next year I will do my own linzer dough instead of Dorie’s. I’m also going to do a plain butter sable with the Nutella.<\/p>\n

Maybe if I had not had so many almond stars I could’ve gotten to four, but tonight I couldn’t do it either. I made the Hootie Swirls ( peanut-butter chocolate brownies) and the chocolate chip meringues for the library cookie event – (they’re the gluten free variety), and the pine nut macaroons. But I just couldn’t make it to four kinds in one day – at least starting after work – I think I can do four kinds easy on a Saturday. I counted and I have 18 kinds left to go, and six days, which means I only need to do three per day and make it. Whew.<\/p>\n

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rolling ruggelach<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ruggelach brown sugar topping<\/p><\/div>\n

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almond stars<\/p><\/div>\n

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Linzer thumbprints<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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