Thursday, December 3, 2009
Kitchen Gear Bake Someone Merry -- What's Your Recipe?
Posted by Nicki Wood on Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 10:24 AM
Cookie time, er, I mean Christmas time has rolled around again, the ideal time to bake cookies for the flimsiest of reasons.
Deciding which five or six cookie recipes are worthy of The Moss-Covered Three-Handled Family Christmas Cookie Tray is half the fun. Last year Food & Wine had a great spread of renowned chef's cookies -- top of the list for this year's tray are Nick Malgieri's Ginger Sandwich cookies with a lemon filling and Jacques Torres' Cherry Nut Mudslides.
During a Farmers Market foray, we ran across Muddy Pond Sorghum, and that means molasses cookies, preferably the ones from the Silver Palate.
But Relish magazine editor Jill Melton had a blog post recently on soft molasses cookies that sound -- and look -- really good.
The plan is to use the dough in our 1970s as-seen-on-TV cookie gun for molasses wreaths, sprinkled with sparkling sugar.
What other gorgeous bites of cookie pulchritude should be on our cookie tray? And what's on your family's holiday sweets platter?
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A couple of years ago, during a particularly impecunious phase, my household decided to send cookies as presents to far-flung relatives. With a twist: each of us baked two kinds and then each was packaged identically. A pre-printed, pre-stamped reply card was enclosed and each recipient had to judge each cookie on taste, appearance and originality. Everyone mailed their cards back and a Please Family Cookie King was crowned and announced to the world. We've done it every year since and it's the best family tradition we have now.
Competition tip: people like gingery cookies. A ginger-flavored cookie of one stripe or another has taken the top prize every year.
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Gasp. That's a brilliant idea -- aunts and grannies will love cookies, and the voting puts a little edge on it.
