Saturday Cookies

 

I now have eight of twelve kinds done.  The latest four include Chocolate Crinkles, which are really messy to make but also really tasty.

 

This recipe calls for Dutch-Process Cocoa.  Since my grocery store was out of the kind I usually get, I used this Guittard Cocoa Rouge.  For the Bittersweet Chocolate, I used Guittard Bittersweet Chocolate Discs, which also had a lovely taste and smell.

Next, I made Spicy Ginger Crinkles which I rolled in Demerara Sugar before baking.

 

I also made these Cocoa Espresso Crinkles.  I can't find this recipe online (and it's not my recipe, so I can't post it or send it out) but it was in the Better Homes and Garden's Christmas Cookies Magazine this year.  This is a similar recipe that I've made before and that is very good.

 

Finally, I made these Maple Bar Cookies.  This recipe is from the Land-O-Lakes Butter Cookie Recipe Magazine from a couple of years ago.  (It was called Maple Moons and they made the cookies in the shape of moons.)  I can't find this one online either, but here is a link to the Land-O-Lakes website, which has several other maple cookie recipes.

 

When I'm drizzling glazes and melted chocolate on cookies, I like to use these little plastic bottles instead of drizzling from a spoon.  I find that it's much less messy and easier to get even drizzling.  You can find bottles like this at specialty kitchen supply stores or in the cake decorating section at JoAnn. 

Comments

[Southern Gal]

My children request chocolate crinkles every year. This year was no exception. I just use the plain ole' Hershey's cocoa and they are delicious.

I did try a new recipe this year from a Land O' Lakes butter box that I had stashed away in my cookie folder. They were called Chocolate Caramel Pecan Bars and they only lasted a couple of days. Delicious!

Thanks for sharing your cookies and recipes with us. I love your beautiful pictures of goodies and your quilts!

[jessica]

I think I know what I'm going to bake next...

[floribunda]

OMG -- send me one of each! They all look scrumptious...

[Karen in Wichita]

If I weren't completely burned out on cooking (four family events in four days), those pictures would *so* make me go pull out the Guittard couverture chocolate I've been hoarding and bake something up. So I'm with floribunda: would you send me some of yours?

Also, you can post recipes freely. As instructions, they're not copyrightable. They describe a process, which is the realm of patent.

If there's creative work involved, that part's different (pictures, writing the recipe in the form of a poem, or whatever), but the recipe itself is fair game. After all, imagine a world where you can't bake, for instance, chocolate chip cookies because they're copyrighted.

[Elizabeth]

Thanks, everyone!

In response to Karen, I wanted to clarify about copyright and recipes . . . Karen is correct that the recipe, in terms of a set of ingredients and the process of putting them together is not protected by copyright. However, it's my understanding that the actual write-up of the recipe (for instance a page in a magzine or cookbook where the recipe appears, including the exact language used in a magazine or cookbook) is absolutely protected by copyright and it would be a violation of copyright law for me to post a page from a magazine or cookbook on my blog or send it to others via e-mail. It would be legal for me to post these recipes if I rewrote them in my own words. Unfortunately, I just don't always have time to recreate everything myself, so I've tried to provide links to alternative/similar ones when the exact recipes I've used aren't available online.

[Julie]

WOW, do I wish I had that maple cookie recipe! Living in Vermont as I do, a maple cookie is de rigueur among my holiday offerings, and that one looks delicious.

[greetingarts]

Oh my God, I want to be your next door neighbor! Even if I wasn't lucky enough to get a bag of these amazing creations, at least I could breathe in the chocolate and sugar molecules that wafted in my direction!

[Kelley]

I am fully impressed with your cookie baking ability! WOW!

gotta try those maple cookies!

[Maria]

I love chocolate and my husband would die for one but sadly he can not have these goodies. For christmas I made him pumpkin pie and added splenda and it came out great,needless to say I would love these in my house but to tempting for hubby.:(

[Rebekah]

Chocolate crinkles are my husband's favorite, so I have to make those for him every Christmas. Thanks for the tip on the condiment bottles...seems like a great solution!

[Heather]

I made Crinkles this year and was sadly disappointed...they were a little flat and had a funny taste. By the sounds of things we should keep on looking for a better recipe!

Everything looks fabulous!

[Elinor]

These look amazing! I love chocolate crinkles!

[jackie]

I saw your cookie pictures on flickr - they looked like they came from a gourmet bakery!

[Othersideblue]

hi ..

thank you for sharing your knowledge and your beautiful creative mind.

[Laura]

me and my mom are looking for some interesting recipes to make together. i was wondering if it would be possible to get the recipe for the maple bars. the maple moons are not on the land-o-lake's web site. i looked all over the internet and i couldn't find anything like it. just different things. well. =] it would be awesome if you would pass on the recipe. =]