Well, Cookie-a-thon ’05 was quite successful.
David and David and I made a lot, but I bought enough stuff
for many more cookies, so I hope to keep baking all week long.
First, early in the day, David made these great sugar cookies.
We paint them with colored egg whites instead of frosting,
the colors are beautiful and they stack and store better than frosted ones.
He also made the batter for his great-grandmother’s ginger-molasses cookies,
quite possibly the best received cookie EVER!
The dough needs to set up so it had to sit out in the mud room most the day,
which was cold enough to make my tits swell each time I stepped in!
I made these great sour-cream rum-raisin mini pies.
Bite-sized deliciousness!
Then David joined us. (Yes, there were two Davids, and YES,
I am trying to confuse you. He arrived just as I was ready to dole out the thumbprint
cookies, which he filled with apricot preserves. They were first dipped in crushed almonds.
Almonds are a bitch to crush without a handy-dandy electronic crushing type thingie…
Next I dipped pretzels and almonds (separately) in chocolate and a strawberry flavored/colored
white chocolate (I know, how can a pink chocolate still be white chocolate?)
I decorated the pretzels before the chocolate set. Non-pariels (or whatever the fuck they are called)
for the pink and multi-colored jimmys for the chocolate ones.
Then David reappeared to bake the ginger-molasses cookies.
Then his day was done and off to bed. Then David and I finished the night with the first batch
of cookie press cookies. He brought along his ancient hand-crank press
(Yes, he brought along his OTHER hand-crank too, but that’s another story…)
I found a copy on-line of this great jello cookie we used to make as kids.
This batch was lime flavored xmas trees, decorated with candy stars, green sugar
and those annoying little colored ball thingies. (They are only annoying because I can never
remember what they are called or how to spell it.)
David said he would leave the press here, since he has to come back up to KCMO
again soon, so hopefully tonight I will make a batch of cranberry-jello wreaths
with maraschino cherry centers. I also bought some orange and black-cherry jello,
so I might make them all by the end of the week.
I am still missing the infamous gum-drop cookies, the butter nut balls
and the almond crescents, so I might be a busy-busy ‘mo all week long!
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