COOKIE TIME! This isn't really a pickle, I'm just curious as to what kinds of cookies the 52ers out there are baking up? I made up several batches of dough this weekend and I am in the zone: peanut butter, triple choc, pecan sandies and molasses cockaigne. Need to get started on rolled gingerbread and sugar cookies, and probably some jelly thumbprints? Please share what you're baking, especially if the recipe is here on food52, thanks!
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http://www.food52.com/recipes/7097_rocky_road
ruguh-love: fun and easy take version of the classic. Its awesome!http://www.marthastewart.com:80/recipe/ruguh-love
spritz cookies: classic, chocolate and lemon http://www.wilton.com/recipe/Lemon-Spritz-Cookies
Merrill's crispy oatmeal chocolate chip cookies http://www.food52.com/recipes/5804_crispy_oatmeal_chocolate_chip_cookies
AntoniaJames' st clements orange and lemon cookies! http://www.food52.com/recipes/2251_st_clements_orange_and_lemon_cookies
These ssecret cookies for Santa http://www.food52.com/recipes/165_secret_cookies
Hope everyone is having fun!
http://www.food52.com/recipes/7382_chocolate_pizzelles
http://www.food52.com/recipes/7597_biscotti_holiday_spiced
http://www.food52.com/recipes/8379_krispy_kringles
So far I've done crispy chocolate chip cookies, pecan balls, Irish lace cookies, decorated sugar cookies, and mint chocolate cookies (my hands-down favorite).
Here's the recipe for the mint chocolate cookie, and picture below. Bake them for 9 minutes though, if making 48 cookies, for a chewy cookie. http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Mint-Chocolate-Cookies-104519 I have a friend who makes these big (24) and she bakes them for the full time. They are fantastic!
I wanted to do Italian Sprinkle Cookies, and also try this recipe for Sarah Bernhardt's (my all-time-favorite cookie to buy at the bakery) http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/SARAH-BERNHARDT-COOKIES-1276153 but I'm quickly losing steam!
Almond Florentines (from David Lebovitz)
Mini Black Bottom Cupcakes - family recipe
Almond Snow Balls - family recipe
Sandbakkels - family recipe
Krumkaka - family recipe
Cookie Monster's Famous Sugar Cookie cutouts -daughter says it's tradition!
And...if it will ever stop raining before Christmas here in the SF bay-area:
Fudge - Chocolate, Maple, Brown Sugar and vanilla cherry
Peanut Brittle -
Toffee Bark - the one with the saltines in the base
http://www.food52.com/recipes/2251_st_clements_orange_and_lemon_cookies
Lebkuchen (my own recipe, with finely chopped crystallized ginger and orange peel), with the same lemon and orange icing I use for the St Clements cookies.
Nut Crescents -- the old favorite, but I toast the pecan pieces before chopping and putting them into the dough. It utterly transforms the cookie.
Truffles -- dark chocolate and mint rolled in sweet ground chocolate, and dark chocolate and almond flavored rolled in toasted chopped almond slivers
Bourbon Balls -- a new recipe, but I won't use it again, as on the second day, they are much too moist.
Lots and lots of candied orange peel (Russ Parson's method, modified due to interruptions / time delays caused by client demands, etc., but they turned out really well!!)
Plus, I made Kentucky Whiskey cakes.
And I'll make a baked figgy pudding (my own recipe, which I'll post after Christmas, if time permits).
Very interested in what the rest of you all are doing. Great question!!! ;o)
These are so good that I am baking a second batch this week. :)