Cookie Day for 2006 has been officially canceled.
\n(sigh)
\nOne 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.
\nSo…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.
\nI have some old favorites, and a few new recipes to try. The favorites include:
\nRussian Tea Cakes (Mexican Wedding Cakes), Sugar Crisp, Turtle shortbread, Peanut Butter Blossoms, and Raspberry Ribbons.
\nHere are the new ones I’d like to try:
\nChoco-Coco Pecan Crisps
\nFudge Tarts
\nPastry Pillows
\nFrosted Sour Cream and Chocolate Drops
\nApricot Nut Diamonds
\nChocolate Mint Thumbprints
\nOld World Raspberry Bars and
\nChocolate Mint Snow-Top Cookies
\nSince there’s some duplication (but who can have too much chocolate?), I’ll weed a couple out after I read the instructions again.
\nI 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.
\nI 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.
\nAnd, 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Continue reading