Exchange Fate

A week after I asked for recipe ideas for the missus' cookie exchange, someone finally asked what I chose to make. Well, I told the exchange organizer that I would make Mexican Wedding Cookies (using a recipe from Karen). But as you can see from the photo above, when I made them last night I had trouble getting the powdered sugar to stay on them. This photo is from the fist batch and later batches went better, but I'm still not real crazy about how they look. I'm also afraid that any sugar that has decided to stick will come off in transit on the way to the exchange.

So the plan is this: If we get as much snow as they are predicting for Philly on Friday (up to 8 inches) and I end up having off from work, I will make more cookies. If not, I'll stick with what I have.

Right now I'm thinking if I do end up making different cookies for the exchange, it will be Austrian Litzers. I attempted these last year and they came out too big, but they tasted alright. I've picked up the right size cutters and want to try them out. I also picked up some ricotta cheese for some ricotta cookies, a request from the eight-year-old.

Yesterday I took the day off to help the missus get the three-year-old his Santa picture taken (which went extremely well), then I spent the rest of the day baking. In addition to the Mexican Wedding Cookies, I made another recipe of Karen's, Peanut Butter Chocolate-Chunk, which went over well with the family - probably because they're the size of hockey pucks! (Luckily they don't taste like hockey pucks). I also made some old favorites - choc-oat chip, oatmeal raisin, and sugar cookies. Those three I could make in my sleep (in fact, by the end of the night I think I was making them in my sleep). If you doubt just how hard I baked yesterday, take a look at what my cookie scoop looked like at the end of the night:

I killed it!

Thanks to everyone for their cookie suggestions, I kept all the recipes and plan on attempting each of them sooner or later (probably sooner than later).

Comments

[albert]

powdered sugar not sticking? add more powdered sugar! mmmmmm. do they have zeppolis [sp?] down here in philly?

[yoko]

Wow-- that's a lot of cookie making!

One suggestion about the powdered sugar: you can send the missus off with a small strainer or sifter and a bag of powdered sugar along with the cookies to the exchange-- if she's okay with that.

I'm gearing up to making more cookies(!) for my family. At their request, I'm making the traditional rollouts with Christmas cookie cutters. I may make some gingerbread as well, and snowdrop cookies.

I'm sending some of my mojo to you-- more power to you, man!

[Karen]

Hmmm, I wonder why the sugar fell off...well, I don't think it could hurt to add more! You can just roll them around in a big pile of it. I'm glad the others were more successful -- they're so good, I don't think I'll ever bother trying another peanut butter-chocolate chunk recipe again.

[Donna]

You took an entire day off to help the missus get the 3 y/o's picture taken? I know the missus very well...she's smart and quite capable. And man, she's GOOD! I got attitude from the Mister when he had to take off for my SURGERY!!

[Ryan]

The cookies look like they'll make the cut but let it snow anyway.