I went a little overboard baking this year - perhaps too much COVID time. At least my neighbors are enjoying them. Thought I would share some recipes here (and so I don't lose them). To keep this photography-related - This is a reminder I should practice my food photography - the iPhone can only get me so far.
For the 5 cookies, I made dough each day of the week and put it in the
fridge. That was the easy part. Baking them all on a
Saturday was the exhausting part. Lessons learned - start baking
earlier in the day, and let the dough warm up a bit before trying to scoop it
out.
Starting with the diamonds at the bottom and going clockwise
👉Grannie's shortbread
Those golden diamonds are not in any book, but an old family recipe that I've decided to share.
👉Red Velvet white chocolate chip
Recipe here
- kind of.
The website had an 'original' recipe and a 'new'
recipe. Since then (all of 2 weeks ago) the original has
disappeared, so the cookie made here can't be made again. :)
These were a bit of a challenge. I scooped them while they were still
cold, so some baked into weird shapes. Next time I'll let them
thaw a little, then make them into proper balls.
Next problem were the (vanilla) chocolate chips. The recipe said
coca butter chips are the best to use. What a mistake. :)
the chips near the bottom of the cookie just melted and candied the
bottom of the cookies. The rest just turned into puddles.
You can see some of the white globs above. You can also see some
burned chips. No fun. Next time I'll try Ghiradelli
and see if they last better.
That being said - these were very tasty nonetheless.
👉M&M Cookies
Recipe here Photo at top of page
Every year I try a different M&M recipe. They're usually good, but not
great. I have now found great.
I'm not sure if it's a good recipe, or if it is because this recipe calls for
more M&Ms than usual, plus it has you add chocolate chips for good
measure. These are amazing. My search is over!
👉Italian Lemon Ricotta
I tried this on a lark. I like lemon, and these reminded me of childhood
cookie. Ironically, I thought these were good, just not great.
Maybe the other high sugar cookies have me spoiled. But they were
good and the neighbors loved them. I tried drizzling the topping
on, but dipping the top of the cookie in the glaze worked best, and was
actually less messy.
👉Chocolate Chip
Recipe here Photo at top of page
Well, who doesn't love a good chocolate chip cookie. But like
M&M cookies, there's no shortage of recipes out there. And there are
a LOT. I randomly picked one of the many 'this is the best'
from a FB cookie group, and I struck gold. I think they are
literally the perfect chocolate chip cookie for me! Lots of chips, great
texture, and lots of chips. I definitely need to make these again.
👉Chocolate Crinkles
Recipe here Photo above
I got this from a cookie book, but there are a million crinkle recipes out
there. The one above is closest so what my book has. These
are a fun cookie - nice and chocolaty. You can make these nice and
small so they are bite-size. And they're a fun cookie to make with kids
- roll balls like play dough and sugaring them up. My only tip is
to really coat them with powdered sugar. It melts a little when they
bake, so if you have a light coating, you won't have white powder on the
cookies when done. (if you have a cookie like that, you can sprinkle
powdered sugar on them afterward. They'll look different but are
still tasty)
I hope some of these inspire you!!
Enjoy!
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