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Dec. 6, 2006
Cookie Exchange, BFS #8
Most people  LOVE cookies and the holidays are just a perfect time of year to share our family favorite cookie recipes.
The assignment this week is to post your recipe and any family history behind the recipe.
First, let me say I don't bake very much, not because I don't like to bake. I love to cook and bake, but mostly because I cannot control myself. If I bake a batch of cookies, I will give each of my children one or two cookies and then I will eat all the rest! So, if it isn't in the house, I can't be tempted by it.
Although I didn't feel prepared, I wanted to do this assignment because we generally like to bake sugar cookies during the Christmas season. So, I chose a recipe from the magazine, Everyday Food, for Cinnamon Sugar Cookies. My three older kids helped make the cookies. I took a few pictures of the process, but they were blurry. I'm not sure if it was my camera or if I was doing something wrong. Hmmmf (I just discovered that the auto focus feature was turned off). Anyway, here is one picture, a bit blurry, but you can't help but enjoy the expression on my son't face:
Anyway, we tripled the batch and put one third aside for rolling out and cutting with cookie cutters. The other two thirds we divided into three separate bowls, dyed each bowl a different color and then rolled them out and created a pinwheel log, which we cut and made one pan of cookies each evening or afternoon throughout the weekend. Conclusion: the rolled out plain cookies were much better than the dyed ones, but the dyed ones were definitely easier to deal with.
This past week I've been thinking that, growing up, my mother didn't make cookies very often, but one kind of cookie she did make was a chocolate oatmeal no-bake cookie that I really liked. Last summer, I got a hankering for these, found a recipe on Food Network .com, and made them. They were served after church for refreshments and I had many people talk about how they used to eat these when they were a kid. If you are interested, here is a link to the recipe, Chocolate Peanut-Butter No Bake Cookies.
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Dec. 7, 2006 - No bake = no eat
be blessed,
Miss Meg