One of my favorite holiday traditions is baking cookies. Some years I
bake lots and lots of cookies and give them for gifts; some years I
bake just a few cookies for us. This year, the plan is to make lots.
Yesterday, I got started on my cookie baking. I made four dozen Short Bread Kiss Cookies. You roll your cookie dough into 1" balls and bake them that way. As soon as you take the baked balls of dough out of the oven, you push a candy kiss into the center of the ball.
I've always made my kiss cookies with a peanut butter cookie recipe, which I will do again this year. But I found a Ghirardelli shortbread kiss cookie mix, and thought it looked interesting. The mix even included Ghirardelli milk chocolate kisses. Ummmmmm. The cookies are wonderful--a combination of buttery cookie and chocolaty goodness. I used the chocolate cherry Hershey kisses in a few of them, and boy! was that good. For the peanut butter kiss cookies, I'll use the milk chocolate Hershey kisses. And I'm thinking of making some chocolate kissies and using the rest of the chocolate cherry kisses.
I sacked up a couple dozen of the kiss cookies to take as a hostess gift to the couple, Paul and Karen, who gave our neighborhood Christmas party last night. Clare, I have to brag to you about my frugality here. The bag in the photo holds the gift cookies. I used a purchased plain brown gift bag, a scrap of decorative paper, a blow-in subscription card from the new Mary Englebreit magazine, and four gold brads to make it.
Oh, and the bowl of shiny red ornaments? I got them yesterday at a yard sale for 25 cents. Did I do good, or what?
The temps have finally dropped here; and they're still dropping. It's cold and windy outside. Vann is away at hunting camp, and Sophie and I have decided to spend the whole day inside (except for when Nature calls Miss Sophie out) and read. I'm reading The Time Traveler's Wife by a woman with a funny name. It promises to be a good one. Happy Sunday everyone.
This post was migrated from the old blog. To see the comments on the original post, CLICK HERE. To add a new comment, click "Post a Comment", below.
On 12/16/2007, mom2fur said ...
So...the cute card on the front of the bag is just a subscription card? What a brilliant idea! I never thought about something like that! Brag away...I'm impressed!
On 12/16/2007, Gayle said ...
Oh, those cookies look delicious! The ripe bananas in our fruit bowl are making me think I should bake banana date bread later today after church and last minute shopping. We're expecting snow all week...brrr.
On 12/16/2007, Rian said ...
I love baking cookies too. I no longer do that (no one to eat them but Jim and myself), but when I worked I would bake dozens and dozens starting at Thanksgiving, until I had a huge assortment in the freezer, and take them to work and give them to friends. For some reason, I am especially fond of those bland sugar cookie with colorful icing. I have recently discovered white chocolate-cranberry cookies at Vons, and they are just about as good as anything I might make, so that's the cookie we eat. When we are eating cookies, that is. Which is rarely, but I do love cookies.
On 12/16/2007, Georgina said ...
Ohhhhhh, that's delicious!!!! I can find those chocolate kisses here. There's a small supermarket (Taste of America)which brings all these american products and I love going shopping there. I think I'll try your cookies idea, thanks!
It's cold here too, and I didn't leave the house either. Have a nice Sunday you and Sophie!
On 12/16/2007, Pam said ...
When I was at Costco the other day I saw that Ghiradelli mix but I did not buy it. I was looking for their chocolate brownie mix which if soooo good!
Thanks for your Christmas house tour - it is so nice to see all the Christmas decorations!!
On 12/17/2007, egan said ...
Baking cookies is easy, fast and, most important, fun. Come and join all our readers who decided to give it a try and now, just cannot stop trying to find new recipes, new ways of preparing delicious cookies for all occasions.
On 12/17/2007, Vivian said ...
You've been tagged!
http://studiothreads.blogspot.com/2007/12/ive-been-tagged.html
On 12/18/2007, redgeraniumcottage said ...
Look at you being creative there with the gift bag and wrapping. Love it!!! The cookies I bet were yummy!!
On 12/18/2007, Diane said ...
Thanks for the music this morning.
Glad to hear you too can be tempted by the Christmas Shopping Elves who set up such wonderful displays and discount signs.
Get thee behind me with those cookie ideas. OMG I can smell them now.
I see Vivian has tagged you, too.
:D
On 12/18/2007, Phyl said ...
......wow!!! You got those red glass ornaments for 25 cents?!! You did VERY good, Susan! And those cookies are gorgeous.......I could put my face into the plate full!!! Let us know how the book is that you're now reading...do I need it?!
-----
No comments:
Post a Comment