With Christmas being just 1 week away, I decided it was time to 'get into the spirit' and there's nothing like baking batches of cookies that make it feel like Christmastime at home. So, today I started my weekend off with an 8 mile run – my usual loop around Doylestown – and then I got out the mixer and went to town making cookies. Made 4 batches today and am planning to make 2 more batches tomorrow. Cookies at Christmastime just go hand and hand and bring back so many childhood memories of the fun my brother, sister and I had helping our mother with her baking. Even though we weren't together today, we may as well have been in my mother's kitchen, crammed around the table mixing the batters, filling the cookie press with dough, pressing the cookies onto the baking sheets, decorating our artistic creations and of course, listening to Christmas music in the background!
Today I didn't use a cookie press but I still had vivid memories of filling that metal cylinder with dough and deciding which design plate to use. Instead, I just resorted to dropping the batter onto the sheets – a bit more primitive I guess. Perhaps, 'rustic' would be a better choice of words. (It's nice to know that a word like rustic can be used describe 'easier' and 'less complicated'!)
So, here's my cookie list this year. I'll be filling decorative tins tomorrow to pass out to neighbors and friends at work this week. In my book, there's no gift better than one that came from someone's kitchen. Home is where the heart is and today my heart was in the kitchen (after my 8 mile early morning run of course)!
- Chewy Coconut Cookies
- White Chip Chocolate Cookies
- Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
- Peanut Butter Cookies with Hershey Kisses
- Orange-Frosted Cranberry Cookies
- Frosted Pumpkin-Pecan Cookies
Enjoy!
John
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