Baked a batch of the Morning Glory Muffins from Julia Turshen’s What Goes With What. Easy and delicious. The recipe made more than the 12 servings stated. I got 18. Most of them will be going into the faculty room tomorrow at work.
I also mixed up a batch of Sweet Dough from Baking For the Holidays book. I’m going to use half of it for the Nutella Star Bread. I had planned to make it for Thanksgiving but that didn’t happen so that’s what I’m doing today. The other half will go into the freezer as an experiment to see if it can successfully be frozen and then used at a later date.
The only one I find really appealing is the dark 'n stormy cookies. Mocha brownies with a cream cheese swirl may be delicious, but hardly news, and something calling for just 3 T. of sweetened condensed milk is a PITA in my world, since it’s not something I use often. The rest look ho-hum, or are flavors I’m not crazy about (or both).
I just looked back at the last few years of cookie week, and I was reminded that I mostly had the same reaction then - trendy / stunt flavors, very little that I wanted to bake.
There’s a blogger who sources and bakes all the cookies from cookie week every year within 24 hours of them being released; I’ll get my ya-ya’s from watching her. Her handle is “constellationinspiration.”
Condensed milk comes in a squirt tube these days if you don’t want to open a can. (Though I love condensed milk on its own and in coffee, and also condensed milk ice cream is pretty easy and delicious – but I get that it’s silly to have find recipes to use up most of a can.)
Yeah, I know, but it’s just not something I’m going to get through. I tend to buy a can if I’m making something that will use that amount (like a lime pie). I only have it in (iced) coffee when I get it from a Vietnamese restaurant, otherwise I never take any sweetener except during eggnog season, when I like it with coffee.
“Don’t worry: These cookies only look like slices of mortadella, getting their slightly chewy texture and marzipan flavor from almond paste and almond extract.”
I saw someone talking about a mortadella panettone and I know it’s in Toronto but I didnt pay more attention because that’s an automatic nope for me. LOL
Oh dear. I suppose you could simplify the mortadella recipe and just make baloney cookies. (Then you wouldn’t have to explain to anybody what mortadella is .)
The popcorn buckets look tacky to me, not festive.
The mint chocolate chip cookies want you to thin the green mint chocolate with a little evoo. And use blue and yellow food coloring to achieve green food coloring.
Yikes I’m turning into Scrooge or the grinch here. I’ll stop in a minute.
The dark ‘n’ stormys contain rum, cayenne, clove, lime --and like 5 more flavors – whoa that’s too many isn’t it?
The brown butter peanut cookies do sound tasty, those are a maybe.
(Just back from Reddit) Yes, I’m not alone I see. Now I’m trying to think of unusual cookies I’ve come across that do appeal to me. I’d like to try these–Goose Feet Cookies - Peter’s Food Adventures
I like the shape and I get to make cheese like I’m Ina or something!
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