Thursday, December 17, 2009
Back to Baking
After making 96 peanut butter cups(96!)for a Christmas Cookie Exchange it is back to the drawing board for me. I had good intentions. I was going to wrap all of the goodies for my neighbors with my Merry Christmas! cards to herald joy on our street. The dozens and dozens of baked goods I brought home are gone. It took 2 days for the 6 Streams to gobble them up like we were treat deprived. I shall be locked away for the weekend baking my fingers to the bone and shall not emerge until cookies overflow my counters yet again.
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I feel your pain. I'm planning on giving my neighbors cookies too. My skin on my hands is raw from washing my hands so much while baking. I had a cookie exchange this morning and was up 'til midnite cleaning up. My chocolate cookies with melted peppermint bark icing turned out OK even tho I added baking soda instead of baking powder by mistake. The names are too darn similar. The batter was thin like cake batter so I added oatmeal to thicken it. Then I glanced at the recipe, realized the problem and mixed in the baking powder. The cookies were a hit. Go figure. Baker beware!
Good luck with your baking. I'd love to hear what you are making next!
Oops, Anonymous was me....
Type Plan B into search to see what happened two years ago.
I am going with those Hershey Kiss cookies. Safe enough.
A cookie I love to make that is trés immpressive but oh-so-easy is this: Mix up a batch of your standard peanut butter cookie dough. Roll dough into balls the size of small walnuts and drop into the cups of a mini muffin tin. Make a depression in the middle of the dough (your thumb works; I use the end of my wooden lemon reamer dipped in sugar) to create a crust like appearance. Bake for the time called for in your recipe. While the cookies are baking, unwrap Reese's minature peanut butter cups (one per cookie). When the cookies come out of the oven, press the peanut butter cup into the center of the cookie. It should look like a small yummy peanut butter pie with a crust around it. Let it cool. And then hide them from the Stream clan if you want them to last because they are de.lish. and oh-so-inhale-able.
De.lish.
Must hide all things de.lish around here.
Carla,
I checked out "Plan B" . It sounded like a good idea to me. As someone said,put red and green M&M's or colored sprinkles on it and wala! Christmas cookies!
I've lost my desire to bake anymore because everything I've touched has gone sour. My daughter feels sorry for me and volunteered to make the spritz I promised I'd make. Thank goodness! I'm concentrating on wrapping and cleaning and finishing the tree this week. Jesus is the reason for the season, not marathon cookie baking, right?
What 'cha doin'?
Hoping to finish the finishing of the Christmas shopping. But I know I will just keep running to the store every day.
Making chili. Putting off cookies until tomorrow. Making the Kiss cookies. :)
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