coming soon to a cookie tray near you
okay, it's official: holiday baking season is upon us. i know this because my copy of fine cooking's special issue has arrived in the mail, just bursting with recipes.
last year i baked, i think, nine different kinds of cookies. this year i'm shooting for a dozen. i need to get organized, so here's a first stab.
holdovers from last year:
- citrus slices
- linzer cookies
- cranberry pecan tassies
- spritz cookies
recipes i am gleefully stealing from others:
- mom's stripey mint ones (i may interpolate a chocolate stripe instead of just a plain vanilla one)
- mom's fruitcakey tollhousey ones
recipes i'm trying with terry:
- maple cookies
- the revered cuccidati
other possibilities:
- brown sugar and oatmeal shortbread cookies
- some kind of chocolate-based cookie, maybe with candied orange peel (based on last year's not-entirely-successful chocolate cherry toffee cookies — the batter was excellent, but the add-ins were only okay)
- maybe a lemon-poppyseed something
- maybe a peanut butter something
- cinnamon cinnamon cinnamon something...but what?
Comments
don't make the malgieri sinnamon diamonds. they're not great. I have a nice lemon/poppy drop, if you want it.
Posted by: terry | October 20, 2003 02:12 PM
cinnamon, with a c. you knew what I meant.
Posted by: terry | October 20, 2003 02:12 PM
This'll be the second year in a row with no cookies.
I can't stop from eating them myself.
It makes me very sad.
Posted by: Lisa | October 20, 2003 03:20 PM
There must be somethuing in the air -- I made 3 dozen chocolate-chip-with-pecan cookies Sunday afternoon...even before I sat down to watch America's Test Kitchen! Alas, I am now eating them all.
Posted by: Cori | October 20, 2003 03:27 PM
I made a ginger-almond biscotti dipped in dark chocolate a month or so ago - they were sliced thinly, made with candied ginger, and were amazing, if I do say so myself.
And yep, there's something in the air. I made a big pan of chocolate chip cookie bars with half peanut butter chips as a special surprise snack for Alex's soccer team. Alas, the surprise was on me - two of the kids are allergic to peanuts, and one family refuses to have peanut-anything around their child (I didn't know this ahead of time, ugh). So I ended up taking the whole pan back home (save for the few that we snuck to the coach's family).
Alex was sad that we had to renege on our surprise, but thrilled that now we have cookie bars all week long for lunches. Me? I want them out of the house NOW...
Posted by: betsy | October 20, 2003 04:04 PM
lisa, the trick is that you have to freeze them immediately. rock hard cookies are no fun. as for what's in the air around here, you don't even want to know. I've got several dozen in the freezer already, with plans for many, many more.
Posted by: terry | October 20, 2003 04:35 PM
What are these citrus slices of which you speak?? Must know.
Posted by: Molly | October 21, 2003 10:56 PM
i'll e-mail you the recipe! it's one my mom pulled from good housekeeping circa 1983. they're the...orange slice-looking ones...in the picture linked above. you could also do lemon or lime.
Posted by: julie | October 22, 2003 08:17 AM
Thanks! Looks eminently doable. I miss making spritz cookies with my mom. Being Italian, baking wasn't really her focus when I was growing up, and I can remember her cursing at the cookie press. A cozy holiday memory.
Posted by: Molly | October 22, 2003 01:22 PM
i approve of any holiday that includes swearing.
Posted by: julie | October 23, 2003 12:39 PM