Throwback Thursday
So last Monday I took cookie decorating class at the Fox Chapel High School and it was a lot of fun.
She is a true Cookie Artist.
1985 Cake Decorating Class
She is a true Cookie Artist.
Tag: cookies
She is a true Cookie Artist.
Split Second Cookies
My friend Jen gave me a lovely large jar of Bonne Maman jam which was perfect for the Split Second Cookies Recipe.
This morning Jen came over and we had coffee and eggs. I gave her a couple of the jam filled logs wrapped in foil. Apricot and Four Fruit Preserves were the two flavors I used.
After you bake the cookie all at once, when they are cool you slice them.
They are a dense buttery shortbread with the fruit jam in the middle.
Windmill Cookies are Spiced as Speculaas
You can make your own Speculaas spice mix at home, too. ‘Tis the season
Here’s the recipe
Here’s the history of Speculaas. In Germany they are called Spekulatius
St.Nicholas Day is coming Friday December 6th.
These are Steenstra’s Almond St. Claus Windmill Cookies from Michigan. I bought them at Weiland’s Market in Clintonville. Columbus Ohio.
You can read about the St.Nicholas legend and the significance of each shape here
Carnegie Library Extravaganza
Celebrating the Summer Reading Program at the main Carnegie Library in Oakland.
Eat ‘n park had 300 dozen cookies! Kids could decorate a smiley face.
Black and White or Half and Half Cookies
My sister sent me a Black and White Cookie Natural Rubber Baby Teether she saw and purchased at MOMA ( Museum of Modern Art) in New York City.
She gave me that NYC bag a few years ago which features the Black and White Cookies. My friend Eileen says in Massachusetts they’re called Half and a Half Cookies. Underneath these items is Ina Garten’s cookbook Modern Comfort Food with the recipe. I found it here at the Barefoot Contessa’s website in case you want to bake a batch.
Pasticceria Rocco window on Bleecker Street
They are found in New York City, Boston, and Florida but I found some small ones on sale in Ohio and Pittsburgh.
Editors addition from dc in a Florida 3/03/2024
“Black & white cookies are famous because they’re such a quintessential New York dessert. It’s believed that the cookie was invented at a Manhattan bakery called Glaser’s, which was founded on the Upper East Side by Bavarian immigrants in 1902 and closed in 2018.”
Our family enjoys them on occasion see blog post here
The Gift of Baking
Merci , Roberta.
They were delicious.
Do you have a favorite cookie?
This afternoon I was baking chocolate chip cookies for my teenage grandsons. They were coming to visit for the weekend, I thought “ I prefer oatmeal raisin”. I knew their preference. Chocolate Chip
A cup of butter and 2teaspoons vanilla, tasty chocolate chips what could be wrong? Well, not wrong but I actually thought of making a batch of oatmeal cookies, too. (I know some friends omit the raisins.)
“…various ingredients and techniques can affect the taste, texture, and appearance of your chocolate chip cookies” the Ultimate Guide to Chocolate Chip Cookies if you want to see varied results click the guide here
Here’s the recipe I used from the back of the bag of chips
Remove Cookies from Oven Before Leaving House
Which Ones to Eat?
Kitchen Sink Cookies
Butter, eggs, brown sugar, vanilla, salt, oatmeal, raisins the basic start to a cookie……but then you add Grape-Nuts, chocolate chips, and coconut, toasted pecans…..Kitchen Sink Cookies (click for recipe). There are other recipes that add potato chips, pretzels and toffee.
Idiom – “everything but the kitchen sink”
“……first print reference can be found in 1918 in the newspaper The Syracuse Herald. The expression became popular during World War II, where it was said that everything but the kitchen sink was thrown at the enemy.”
