Cookies

My grandfather sent me a book in the mail called “The Frugal Gourmet on Our Immigrant Ancestors.” The book is a cookbook divided into chapters which are each dedicated to one of the countries from which the people we call “Americans” came. At the beginning of each chapter, the author discusses the history of...
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Mexican wedding cookies are small, crumbly cookies covered in powdered sugar. We made them at cooking camp over the summer a few years ago and they were very fun for the kids to roll in sugar. They were also fun to eat Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Grind 1/2 cup almonds and 1/2...
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Hello Everybody! Valentine’s Day will be here very soon! It’s always so fun for kids to exchange Valentines, especially if they are home-made or if they involve candy/sweets. Here are some ideas for the very best possible combination- homemade AND sweet!! * Use my almond toffee recipe to make delicious chocolate-covered toffee (you can...
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A “cutout” cookie is simply a type of cookie made by rolling out dough onto a floured surface and making shapes from with a cookie cutter. The first cutout cookie recipe I made was for Butter Cookies-almost the same as sugar cookies but a little more delicate- then I made Moravian Spice Cookies, and...
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These cookies have a very unique taste; Mrs. Schmidt, a family friend of the author, brought the recipe from Denmark along with the Lebkuchen bar recipe (also a very unusual cookie). The cardamom cookie recipe uses a tablespoon of cardamom and some heavy cream–not the average ingredients for a christmas cookie. Another interesting aspect of this recipe...
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The recipe for almond roll cookies was very similar to the chocolate pinwheel recipe. After making the dough into a log, though, the recipe calls for each log to be rolled in sliced almonds. I didn’t realize that I only had a few almonds left after grinding them in the food processor to use...
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I made chocolate pinwheels a few days ago, and they were so much fun- I think kids of any age would enjoy helping with them. Even little children can mix ingredients or help roll up the dough into a spiral. The dough can be dyed half and half in any color, but Pasley says that the...
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A few days ago, I made penuche bar cookies. They were very simple to make and have no fat other than the nuts although they taste very rich- the ingredients are eggs, brown sugar, pecans or walnuts, flour, and baking powder. In The Christmas Cookie Book, Pasley says that the cookies should not be judged by...
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So I haven’t really had a lot of time to post about the cookies I’ve been making lately, but after the Lebkuchen I made some cookies called Springerle, then Penuche Bars, and then Chocolate Pinwheels, which are in the refrigerator now chilling. The Springerle cookies were quite a disaster at first, because I didn’t...
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Last night, my friends and I decided to make some cookies. We wanted to bake more lebkuchen, but we didn’t have enough honey. So we looked for recipes from The Christmas Cookie Book that we could make with the ingredients we did have, and decided to use a recipe for Chocolate Drop Cookies from the last...
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