Cookies, cookies everywhere....

[primsong]

Well, I survived and even managed to enjoy a pretty good birthday for my son, a piano recital and a church Christmas party in the last two days - except I feel that every time I turn around I'm being asked to bring cookies, lol. I've given up on baking them this year, it's a Pre-Fab sort of holiday this time. Looking at the number of other store-bought packages on the tables, I'm not the only one. :-)

The piano recital went very well - being a proud mom and all that I thought *my* daughter was the shining star of the hour, of course. (It's my job!) Our dear, dear Onone has been such a godsend - the perfect teacher for Bluebell. She revived her interest in the piano and gave her the creative boost she needed to break out of the exercises and rote and start developing her own song-writing. Onone allowed her to play one of her own compositions on the stipulation that she start writing them down, and it sounded beautiful.
Oh, and we had to bring cookies.

Tomorrow I have to...you guessed it... bake cookies. Lots of them. Monday is the cookie exchange among the staff at the school, where we each bring at least 6 dozen cookies and swap them so we all leave with a big box of a wide assortment to give out, instead of all one kind. I don't even know what kind I'm making yet - I have a recipe that makes little butter cookies shaped like acorns and may do those. Last year I made English Toffee cookies and typed out the recipe in Old English just for the fun of it. Included things like having to pick all the vermin out of the flour. ;-) It's the one event I can't get away with store cookies.

What sort of cookies have any of you managed to bake so far?

Comments

[elessar852.livejournal.com]

There must just be something about your cookies! :D

Haven't baked any myself, but have enjoyed some great chocolate chip cookies from my sister's oven. :)

[lin4gondor.livejournal.com]

I am beginning my traditional Christmastime routine of thinking about, planning on, swearing I will make cookies this year for sure. But I am also starting wonder if I will manage it. Not much time left! Last year I managed to mix up the dough -- I think I got them baked for New Year's.

My usual cookies, when I manage them, are:
Molasses Crinkles
Norwegian butter cookies of various types (family tradition)
Scotch shortbread (family tradition)
Cut out cookies with frosting
We shall see what gets done. I guess I'd better get started... tomorrow.

Picking the vermin out of the flour... ah yes! I remember that. Had to do that in Pakistan; sifting was essential with a very fine seive, or there would be things visible afterwards. Cooked, but visible. ;-) That's what frosting is good for, hehe!

[solodancer.livejournal.com]

Hey...what's wrong with a little protien in your cookies? ;-)

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Molasses - love it. And the cut-out kind are such fun, though I've only managed to do them twice with my kids, I think. We made several little cups of frostings all colored differently and then flavored them with extracts so the brown was almond, the green was mint, red was cherry, etc. Made weird tasting but interesting artwork.

LOL about the cooked vermin - let's hear it for frosting, all around. ;-)

[solodancer.livejournal.com]

Oi!! Thanks for bringing up yet another thing I have to fit in time for. (just kidding, I was already thinking about it)

I haven't made any yet. I did buy a tube of "slice and bake" cookies with little Christmas trees in them. Does that count?

I'm sure one of these Mondays I have off will be a cookie baking day. Maybe the 20th as that's Aaron's first day off of school (but that's after the Church Christmas program where I'll be asked to bring cookies..hmmm...)

I like to make these cream wafer cookies. They positively melt in your mouth. You put them together with frosting in the middle, but they're really flaky. Really good.

But, I have to get my tree decorated and my curtains done before I can even begin thinking of cookies.

I'm glad to hear Rose is doing well with the piano.

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Ah yes! Those little tubes with the designs in them - they've gotten quite fancy with them lately. I noticed some of those on the table for the Missions event. Too bad they don't taste better - at least the ones we tried even the kids wouldn't eat because they sort of tasted like Crisco and flour, but they looked pretty.

Any you just reminded me that I have to bring cookies for their Christmas programs too - oy!

[maidoforange.livejournal.com]

Cookies. Yuuuummmm. I generally make chocolate chip or brownies.

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Yummmm - The world can never have too much chocolate.

[gondoriangirl.livejournal.com]

I've only managed to get my candy coated pretzels done...still have to start the cookies...waaaaayyyyy too many to do...but it wouldn't be Christmas without them! lol!

[the-tinidril.livejournal.com]

What sort of cookies have any of you managed to bake so far?

none. But DH had baked bread and pumpkin pies recently... =)