Arrrgh!!!

Cookie Day for 2006 has been officially canceled.

(sigh)

One of my nieces has been transfered this week, and has to work on Sunday, and another slipped and broke a toe. She can't stand through a day of cooking. Several other ladies have just too much to do to give up a day to bake.

So...I need to look over the list of cookies and plan a strategy for baking a few a day until we have enough to fill our gift boxes.

I have some old favorites, and a few new recipes to try. The favorites include:
Russian Tea Cakes (Mexican Wedding Cakes), Sugar Crisp, Turtle shortbread, Peanut Butter Blossoms, and Raspberry Ribbons.

Here are the new ones I'd like to try:
Choco-Coco Pecan Crisps
Fudge Tarts
Pastry Pillows
Frosted Sour Cream and Chocolate Drops
Apricot Nut Diamonds
Chocolate Mint Thumbprints
Old World Raspberry Bars and
Chocolate Mint Snow-Top Cookies

Since there's some duplication (but who can have too much chocolate?), I'll weed a couple out after I read the instructions again.

I also found an old recipe that my mother made when I was a child, for Kolache. She used to fill them with raspberry or apricot preserves, and sprinkle confectioner's sugar over them. hey were light, and sweet, and a favorite of the entire family.

I had to make a stop at Sur le Table to find the coarse sugar I needed for the Pastry Pillows. That doesn't seem to be a common ingredient in most grocery stores.

And, I may give in and do a recipe of Sugar Cookies that can be iced. We don't tend to do the traditional decorative cookies, so this might be a tip of the hat toward tradition.