Yep, I'm back at school, back to tennis coaching, and am "sleep-training" Joey so I'm lacking sleep, but I still have managed to make a batch of cookies. Though in hindsight, I shouldn't have tried.
#110 Citrus Cookies
This is another short-cut creation cookie - very cute - the cookies look like orange and lemon slices. I meant to get a picture, but the kids at Joey's daycare ate these cookies up before I could. Just a refrigerated tube of dough, orange peel, orange extract, topped with frosting (and lemon peel and extract for the lemon cookies).
These cookies may have came out better but I used an air bake cookie sheet. I'm not sure what the "technology" in it is to make it different from regular cookie sheets, but I'm not sure I like it. The cookies come out super soft and don't remove very well.
#111 Dipped Sandwich Cookie
So on the Friday of labor day weekend, I had to wait for my husband to get home from work before we went to the cabin. I felt that I could use the day to get a lot done - like grocery shopping, library, babies r us and Once Upon a Child. Prepare for leaving the cabin. I felt I could get some cardio exercise in and toning done. I also felt I could mass prepare baby food for Joey and make a batch of cookies, all while taking care of Joey as well. I don't know why I thought I could accomplish all that, and I don't know why I even tried. I was doing just fine until Joey decided to wake up after napping for only an hour and was only happy if I held him (and even then, only sort of happy). When Joey woke up, I was in the middle of preparing spaghetti squash and sweet potatoes for him and had started the batch of cookies. So despite what my daycare person said about spaghetti squash being the easiest thing - I found it time consuming. Apparently it's a lot easier with a food processer rather than just a tiny magic bullet.
So the cookie that needed to be rationed at the cabin - a dipped sandwich cookie. A cookie with a lemon filling that is then dipped in melted chocolate. You wouldn't think lemon would go with chocolate, but it works. It had to be rationed because though the recipe said it would make 2 dozen, it only made 16 cookies (we had 17 people at the cabin), people had to just sample.
So at the end of this project, we plan to do a final four like tournament with all the favorites. We now have another project to do at the end, enter these cookies in the MN state fair and let the judges decide.
