I love the book, and have a lot of things ear-marked. The only other recipe I’ve baked to date (twice, now) is the Blueberry Drop Scone (I wrote about it here).
Maybe @Nannybakes will chime in? She also has the book, and I believe has tried more recipes from it.
Great tip on getting them so perfectly round. Thanks! I have made Dorie’s World Peace Cookies and frozen them before mailing to family. They held up well.
For those not familiar with the technique, here’s a you tube video showing it. Tip #3 is at about 1 minute and 45 seconds in.
I am going to pull out the book I got for Christmas last year, ‘The Cookie Bible’ by RLB. I will peruse it along with the huge folder of cookie recipes I finished going through for the last 3-1/2 years.
I will choose six cookies, one candy (real pralines) and a dozen loaves of pülla to make this year. We’ll see.
Another holiday favorite in miniature – Italian shortbread with almonds and jam. From The 150 Best American Recipes by McCullough & Stevens (which quotes the original source as Desserts: Mediterranean Flavors, California Style by Cindy Mushet).
I made a half recipe in a 7” spring-form pan. Still bubbling hot from the oven, I can hardly wait until it is cool to cut into it.
I’m taking part in a cookie swap and trying to decide.
Some new ideas here
Interesting - any of them particularly appeal?
These ones caught my attention
I just went through RLB’s Cookie Bible and found a slew* of recipes that I want to make for cookie trays and thought many were exchange worthy.
*Like too many!
I got that book last year for Xmas cookie season and I don’t think I made anything from it, an omission I’d like to correct this year!
Definitely worth exploring! I’m trying to limit myself to six different cookie recipes, all told among the hundred+ I have made over the years.
Brown butter anything is always a winner!
I made a variation of kourabiedes that used brown butter in 2021, which added a nice subtlety.
ooo those pretzel linzers.
Alright, I just went through my copy. Here’s what I bookmarked:
One of my late sisters used to make a treat at Christmas that she called “braids”; she always had a large can of them for me as I loved them. Unfortunately the recipe got lost on her passing. On doing some googling I found that they are South African, and are called “Koeksisters”. I found a few recipes, and tried one; they were nothing like the real thing. They are somewhat like churros: deep-fried braided batter soaked in syrup. If anyone has a recipe they like, I’d like to see it, please.
Like to know how the Turkish ginger-lime cookies turn out. Sound interesting.
Chocolate-almond biscotti (one missing). I used Valrhona Dutch process cocoa powder and Lindt 70% for the chocolate elements.
Baking prep finally started. Candied orange and lemon peel, home dried and ground ginger in the middle.
Candied cherries and spice blends next. Good things make good things. 
Here are the ones I dog-eared 
• Lemon Poppyseed Cookies
• Mom’s Coconut Snowball Kisses
• Filbertines
• Chocolate Phantoms. ( these look interesting)
• Churro Nuggets
• Pecan Tassies (an interesting take on this classic)
• Chocolate Caramel Candy Bars
• Double Chocolate Toffee
There are two or three traditional ones from my collection that may or not make the cut. Traditionally I make the doughs the day after Thanksgiving.
Decisions…decisions…
