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We made these for Meredith's work party so there was no attempt to lower the calories. We tried one and they were very good. The main recipe is below but we made some changes.
The biggest change was we used creme-de-menthe in the butter cream instead of peppermint. The cookies came out very dense but they have a really nice chocolate flavor. We had to refrigerated everything in the middle of putting it together because everything was getting too soft.
I am not going to try to do the points. It isn't worth it.
Candy Cane Cookies (from Kitchen daily)
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Original Wordpress ID and Date: 807, 2010-12-21_111557
I made Snickerdoodles from the recipe below taken out of one of my Dad's recipe books. I used to make them with the recipe when I was much younger so I decided to use it again.
I followed the recipe pretty closely except I used Wolfram Alpha to convert 3.5 cups flour to 17 ounces and 2 cups sugar to 14 ounces. I also just mixed all of the dry ingredients into the wet slowly at the end.
I made big ones since it was supposed to make 35 to 40 but only made 28. I forgot how much they spread. Some stuck a bit but I was able to separate them. I'll do smaller ones and more batches next time. They tasted pretty good. Some were a bit too cooked but still tasted fine.
They were very good. Nice flavors rich taste. I'd make them again if I have a need to.
Snickerdoodles (from ???)
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Original Wordpress ID and Date: 6715, 2013-09-27_143055
Falafel and Snickerdoodles -- back to top
Manav wanted me to show him how to make falafel so we made this together. We followed the standard falafel recipe spretty much by the book. We made a double batch and cooked them both. The ones towards the bottom of the oven got more browned but both were fine.
We served them with a Za'atar dip (FF Greek Yogurt, Za'atar, salt, pepper garlic powder) and with store-bought hummus on whole wheat pita pockets.
We also made snickerdoodles following the recipe from last time. They mostly came out ok but were not consistently cooked. I moved the racks to the top of the oven but I don't think I left enough space. I staggered them when I put them in and one ones on the bottom shelf that had overlap cooked less than the others. So, when I left them in a bit longer, we got some browned ones. Next time, I need to leave more space between trays.
Also, we made 36 larger ones. We should make more smaller ones next time. It is better when they don't stick and when they are smaller. (FWIW, I also made Manav take most of them home!)
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 6784, 2013-10-17_111836
Rosemary Shortbread Cookies -- back to top
We were tasked (last minute) with bringing a dessert to a party and Meredith came up with this idea. We made Rosemary short-bread based on the Joy The Baker Lavender Shortbread (Local). Essentially, we followed the recipe pretty closely except we used about the same amount of fresh rosemary instead of lavender. We used a bit of turbinado sugar but switched to regular granulated when we used it up (ended up being mostly granulated)
I think we kept pretty true to the recipe. We debated if we needed to make any changes due to the altitude but decided to not worry about it. The only other thing is we only let it sit for 25 minutes instead of 30 since we were cutting it close on time. And we probably rushed cooling them a bit but not much. Also, our butter was too cold to start so I did the trick where you pound it thin. That seemed to work well.
Final note is that I messed up and spilled some flour while adding it. We got most of it in there but probably some was lost.
Oh, and as you can see we cut it into squares. We actually used rolling pin sizers which made life much easier! I highly recommend them!
They did come out very good. A subtle rosemary flavor but not overpowering. We would do this again!
Lavender Shortbread Cookies (from Joy The Baker)
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