Saturday was Cookie Day! It’s just one of the reasons my blog has been blank for a bit.
\nWe’ve been in this house 16 years, and shortly after we moved in, I invited my sisters and their grown daughters to come for a day to bake cookies for Christmas. We’ve held a Cookie Day every year for the past 15 years. With organization, we might be able to have six women making cookies. This year there were just three of us, my oldest sister, my brother’s daughter and me.<\/p>\n
\nI made refrigerated cookie dough on Friday night, and rose early Saturday to bake sugar crisp. I wanted to get those cookies out of the way before the ladies came to bake, because the cookies can be very temperamental, and they are messy to make. By 8:30 I had four dozen cookies done.
\nEldest sis arrived and carried in half of her house. She had a couple of new cookies to try and at least one old favorite: Spritz. We were both baking, waiting for my niece to arrive. She called to say that she was stuck in a standstill on the tollway. It was an hour before she arrived. It should have been about a 15 minute drive.
\nWe each chose what we wanted to bake, and then we shared the results so that we all had about a dozen or so kinds of cookies. Coconut Thumbprints, sugar cookies that had edges garnished with red or green sugar, Spritz, rum flavored Christmas loaves, Haystacks, Sugar Crisp, Iced Pumpkin cookies, Raspberry\/Almond turnovers, Junior Mint brownies and Shortbread with caramel, pecans and chocolate were a part of what we cooked.
\nA few of these cookies will find their way into gift boxes. A platter of cookies will go to my step-daughter’s house, and I’ll keep a similar platter here.
\nElegante Mother makes cookies for the ladies at the salon each year. We have five boxes to fill for them, so we’ll make just a few more cookies this week to round out what we baked on Saturday. I think we’ll do Russian Teacakes, Fanciful Raspberry Ribbons, Spicy Nut Slices, and EM’s famous brownies.
\nThere’s one more cookie I really want to try. You buy ready-made peanut butter cookie dough, and cut it into chunks. Each chunk goes into a miniature muffin pan, and is baked. Two minutes before the dough is finished baking you press an indentation into it. When the cookie dough is cool, you fill the indentation with a chocolate fudge frosting. It might be a wee bit messy to pack into a gift box, but I bet it’s a wonderful cookie!
\nWe’re not quite ready, but making cookies is getting me into the holiday spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Saturday was Cookie Day! It’s just one of the reasons my blog has been blank for a bit. We’ve been in this house 16 years, and shortly after we moved in, I invited my sisters and their grown daughters to … Continue reading