An almost un-blogged cookie season

I set myself the goal of approximately 10 cookie kinds to be made over Saturday & Sunday, and I basically made it, despite falling off a stool, while reaching for a lid for one of my big cookie containers – and dislocating my little finger. I spent a couple of hours in the ER, but came back home and kept baking. Here’s a picture of my crooked finger, but you don’t have to click on it if you don’t want to. I will never forget the feeling when the doctor gave it a yank and it clunked back into place. Guess I’ll need to take a little cookie box to the ER.

It’s been a really, really compressed-feeling cookie season – I know I’ve said that before, but this year seems worse than years past.

I didn’t even go outside on Saturday or Sunday, except to go to the ER.

I’ll cross off the ones that are done as of 7:08 PM Monday, and add the few pics I have.

1. Springerle I’m afraid these are going to be the ones i don’t get to this year, much as I love them – especially when they get slightly stale after Christmas. With black coffee. Maybe I’ll make a small batch for me even if I don’t make them in time to go in the boxes to ship.
2. spoon cookies – but they seem kinda ragged this year
3. pecan meringues
4. pecan bars
5. chocolate toffee bars used milk chocolate and no de-laminating – so far!
6. slice & bake the pistachio-cranberry and slice & bake the World Peace – I’m only counting as one, because it’s easy! I tried adding a bit of extra flour to the pistachio-cranberry, and that seemed to counteract the spreading
7. Coconut cookies – I’m trying a different recipe this year, rather than the Martha one I’ve been using & have kind of a love hate relationship with – in 2015 they were too big; in 2016 seemed too sweet. I like these Gourmet ones better.
8. Moravian ginger thins, but again I decided to use a different recipe – an old recipe from Bon Appetit, called spice crisps, from something like 1989, so I’m not finding it online. I usually use it to make turkey-shaped cookies for Thanksgiving but I didn’t do that this year, so thought I’d bring it out for cookie season. The dough’s made but don’t know when I’ll have time to roll them out … maybe Tuesday night.
9. Spritz cookies
10. Fig bars – cucidati
11. Rose’s crescents
12. Mexican wedding or Russian tea cakes or pecan snowballs or whatever the least culturally insensitive name they are at the moment.
13. Almond rainbow bars
14. Hazelnut chocolate crinkles these are new this year – they look the same, but I usually make chocolate crinkles with walnuts & Sambucca. I think if I make them next year, I’m going to melt the butter
15. Peppermint patty brownies

I actually think I’ll make my Wednesday deadline for having everything done to ship, but man it’s been a push.