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Technically, I am still baking, but it's just the last tray of dough. There will be more to come, but it's the last of what I need for Christmas Day and good timing as the power flickered not too long ago.
What I have made today:
- peanut butter cookies
- the ginger cookies that bite back
- coffee shortbread cookies
-disco cookies
- fudge
- snickerdoodles
- and I'm finishing up the mini pecan turtle delights with rolos shoved in the middle
I briefly went home this evening to help my mother make cabbage rolls.
It's been fun watching the cats I'm taking care of try to help me bake and argue over my knitting bag. They don't want in it, they just want to sleep on it. They have dragged it off to another room and the shy one has it at the moment.
Get the cookies cooled and put up, some more clean up, and glue a card together, then I will be off to bed.
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I was going to post the recipe, but it looks like I sent it home. I am 99% sure I used the one from Southern Living magazine though, so it should be online. It's a basic shortbread (of the variety that has brown sugar in it), but with 2 tablespoons of instant coffee. It made a fairly dark cookie. I felt it tastes pretty much like a regular shortbread cookie. My mother insisted it had a definite hint of coffee.
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1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons instant coffee granules
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 cups all-purpose flour
1. Preheat oven to 300 F. In a large bowl, cream butter, sugars, coffee granules, and salt until light and fluffy. Gradually beat flour into creamed mixture.
2. On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to 1/4-in. thickness. Cut with floured 2-in cookie cutters. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets.
3. Bake 20-22 minutes or until set. Remove to wire racks to cool completely.
They then drizzled the cookies with melted semi-sweet chocolate and white chocolate, I did not.
Mine also spread quite a bit, but I think that is because my dough got a bit warmer than it should have before I baked it.
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They were the mini muffin pan cookies this year. Every year, I make mini muffin pan cookies in a different flavor. They help fill up gaps in the cookie tray. Basically, you take drop cookie batter of choice (or even better to save time, pre-made store bought dough of choice). Put around a 3rd of the amount of batter you would for a single cookie in each cup of a mini muffin tin. Bake for around the same amount of time you would a batch of whatever cookie you are doing. Take out of the oven, and while they are still hot, shove a candy of a complementary flavor in the top of the cookie. Let cool. The exact amount of dough you need for each muffin cup is always a gamble and I generally end up with at least a third of the cookies being tiny hard flat rocks with a massive candy sticking out of it. And of the ones that do end up filling the whole muffin cup properly, there are always a few where the top layer of cookie twists off while taking them out of the muffin tin. They are ugly, but they are crowd pleasers. And an easy way to get something a little different without a lot of extra work.
The two most popular flavors I've done have been sugar cookies with the candy cane Hersey's kisses in them and chocolate chip cookies with mini Reese's peanut butter cups. I have gotten no feedback on these one and I hate caramel, so I have no idea if these were tasty or too much XD.
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LOL at the cats stealing your knitting bag!
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They have still been having nightly arguments over it, though none as spectacular as I mentioned here, sometimes Mimi gets it, sometimes, Charlie, no more sharing. It's just so funny as they don't want in it or the contents, just to nap on it. There is a couch, two recliners, several cat beds at varying heights off the ground, and three bedrooms, but no, the knitting bag is the prime real estate, lol. They even politely take turns with the chair in front of the wood stove, but no, no, the knitting bag is special.
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