All right, its 2018, another January and another chance to refresh. I'm sitting here in the middle of the day (as the girls take their naps and I let my boy play ipad); thinking about how I really am going to slow down this year. I'm really going to take time for me and not fill all of my time with to do lists. It's really easy to think like that as I have an extra week off from work (we don't go back to school until the 8th) and I have all my current to do lists done. I'm not all that optimistic about being able to actually slow down - as my house is still under construction - but one can hope.
I did slow down the cookie baking this holiday season. I only made seven batches this season rather than my normal 9-12 batches.
#318 Chocolate Mint Creams
I was super excited about this (obviously) chocolatey minty cookie. But the cookie was more like a chocolate wafer and the cream (mint frosting) just didn't seem to be the right texture to go with the thin wafer. Still, not bad. We had an early Christmas party and as I realized (too late); most of my cookies that I picked for this year, don't freeze well. So I made this batch and only frosted half of them and froze the other half (and frosted later).
Does anyone know, can you freeze cookies with frosting? Most of the frostings that are used in this book have some dairy in it, and I've heard that you shouldn't freeze dairy.
#319 Cinnamon-Sugar Crackle Cookies
Basically a snicker-doodle and this years big hit. I found out my husband just kept snacking on these - barely had enough to share by Christmas.
#320 Candied Orange Date Bars
Whoops - Christmas Pageant and then the potluck. I forgot to include that when I planned out which cookies I was making this season. So this one got thrown in. I was more than happy to give these away. Nobody in this household is a big date fan. Essentially a date bar - with an interesting twist with orange candy slices.
#321 Brown Sugar Cutouts
I feel like it's a rule, every Christmas I have to make a cookie cutter cookie. I don't like making cookie cutter cookies; it's labor intensive. But I think I have to. Plus, now my 4 year old feels like these are the cookies that we have to give to Santa. This book has plenty of cookie cutter recipes so I have to anyway and I guess it's nice to get it off the list. But why do all Christmas cookies seem to be so much more complicated than regular cookies. I'm all ready making more cookies than I usually do during the holiday season; why do they need to be harder.
#322 Raspberry Ribbons
These must be okay - Mike gave them a 2 - but he hates raspberry. Most raspberry cookies he gives a 1. These are fancy cookies, but delicate. They kept breaking in half.
#323 Star Sandwich Cookies
These were really yummy ones too but also a cutout cookie. They were also a sandwich cookie, so you go through all the effort of a cutout cookie just to wind up with half the number of cookies, because it takes two cookies to make one (two cookies with frosting in between). Very pretty with red frosting and red sprinkles.
#324 Caramel Tassies
I was really hoping these wouldn't be good cookies, because they were ridicuolously difficult - I ended up throwing a little less than half the batter away because I didn't want to make anymore (or maybe they only seemed so difficult because I ended up coming down with the stomach flu that day). This batch says it makes 4 dozen - but I used over half the batter and I only made about 12. You have to take the batter, roll it into balls and then try to push it into mini muffin pans. Then of course you make a caramel filling, fill the cookie. On top of that, need to make a frosting and pipe that on top of the filling.
Unfortunately, these are delicious. I'm going to go eat the last one that's left in the fridge right now.
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