i really was gonna cut down on the number of different kinds of cookies i’m going to bake for xmas, but today i stopped by to see dad and he gave me the recipe for YET ANOTHER COOKIE.\u00a0 and since he’s the most important person on my cookie-baking list, of course i’ll bake them.\u00a0 luckily they’re fast and easy cookies, but i do have to go out and buy some butterscotch chips.<\/p>\n
these are the sugar and real butter-full cookies i’ve made thus far:<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0 snickerdoodles – mmm, i love them, even if they’re not chocolate.<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0 angel bars – delicious bars full of nuts and coconut<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0 peanut butter blossoms; peanut butter cookies with a hershey’s kiss in the middle.\u00a0 mmm, one of my favorites<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0 lebkuchen – delicious german cookies filled with spices; they get better as they age, plus there’s the huge added bonus that you’re supposed to let them sit, unrefrigerated, for a couple of weeks.\u00a0 my freezer space is at a premium right now, and i’m glad i can leave them on the counter.<\/p>\n
DAMN, that doesn’t sound like many cookies.<\/p>\n
this is what i have left to bake:<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0 seven layer bars – the recipe dad gave me today, involving chocolate and butterscotch chips, coconut, condensed milk, nuts.<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0 pralines – i used to make pralines when i was a teenager; my mom went to new orleans and brought me back a little new orleans candy-making cookbook.\u00a0 they’re really delicious and easy.<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0 gingerbread – dad just requested this, too.<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0 wedding cakes – dad claims they’re his “favorite.”\u00a0 he has many favorites, really.<\/p>\n
5.\u00a0 cashew brittle – dad is also anxiously awaiting the cashew brittle.\u00a0 he bought some the other day when he and mom went to peases’ candy store and he told mom NOT TO TELL ME he bought some, because he was afraid that i wouldn’t make him any.\u00a0 of course i will, even though i can see the big tub of it he has under his table in the living room.<\/p>\n
6.\u00a0 sugar cookies – definitely the more labor-intensive, plus all my cookie cutters are so big that the cookies are huge and there aren’t very many of them.\u00a0 i’m tempted to just cut them all into circles and slap some icing on them; does anybody really care if they’re in the shapes of trees and stars and stuff?\u00a0 somehow i don’t think it would matter to anybody.<\/p>\n
7.\u00a0 bourbon balls – i haven’t mentioned these to dad, but i made them last year and they were a big, rich, chocolatey-bourboney hit.<\/p>\n
DAMN, that’s a lot of cookies still to make.\u00a0 plus i’ve run out of vanilla and must get some more ASAP.\u00a0 luckily amy just bought a big bottle and is willing to share.<\/p>\n
here are the low sugar and fat cookies i’ve made:<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0 pumpkin chocolate chip bars – i made these at thanksgiving and i really don’t see how they can be that healthy because they taste very rich and decadent.<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0 peanut butter cookies – they definitely aren’t rich and peanut buttery, but kevin is very happy with them.<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0 coconut macaroons – kevin LOVES coconut, and i was excited to get another new splenda cookbook that had this recipe in it. i’ve made one batch and will make one more.<\/p>\n
i have to make four more kinds:<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0 oatmeal cookies – kevin’s “favorite”<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0 orange ginger pecan biscotti<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0 chocolate chocolate chip<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0 lacy orange oatmeal<\/p>\n
5.\u00a0 one more recipe of coconut macaroons.<\/p>\n
hmm, there seems to be a lot of overlap in the orange and oatmeal department.\u00a0 i’ll have to ask kevin which ones he REALLY wants, in case i don’t get all of them made.<\/p>\n
i should really be baking right now, instead of sitting here typing.<\/p>\n
ok again.<\/p>\n
mrs. monday night hughes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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