Grassroots Cookiesports?

Nicole Suddard said:

The gingerbread recipe I use is the gingerbread house recipe from the Joy of Cooking cookbook, but of course every edition tweaks its recipe slightly. This is the closest one to mine that I could find online. Instead of making a house with the dough, roll it out to about 1/4 in thick and cut with your desired cookie cutters. Top the cookies with a lemon glaze and sprinkles while still hot.

And gingerbread is done!

RevRico said:

Bananas bread chocolate chip cookies

I will be releasing ALL of my personal recipes over the next year, every single one. Details will be shared when the time comes, think of it more of a heads up for now. 

These were delicious.

Anyone have a good nut roll recipe? I have a pound of hazelnuts and no idea what to do with them, so I'm thinking nut roll. 

In reply to RevRico :

I don't know anything about nut rolls, but you could always grind the hazelnuts into flour and use that as a substitution for a portion of the AP flour in other recipes to add an extra layer of flavor.

In reply to Nicole Suddard :

I didn't plan on baking this year but I love oatmeal cookies and shortbread so I'm going to have to try them. 

Stupid thread........now I want some Snickerdoodles.......

I don't like to bake things. I hate the prep, was scared out of being comfortable with messes, don't like the time. SO when it came time to leave cookies for the trash truck drivers this week I whipped out the old favorite of mine that inspired the "we only make cookies on the weekend because it's TOO easy" rule:

6-Minute Microwave No Bake Cookies

2 C sugar

1/2 C cocoa 

1 tsp salt

1 stick butter (sliced up)

1/3 C milk

Mix that all together in an oversized bowl since it boils up

3 minutes in the microwave 

Stir

2:25 in the microwave (2:30 for drier, 2:20 for gooey)

A splash of vanilla

A glob of peanut or almond butter, sized to your preferred ratio of PB:choc (for PB it's at least a cup)

Stir in quick/minute oats until you you don't see free liquid choc slopping around -- somewhere around 4 cups

Repeat  

If you halve it, the cooking time changes to 2 and 1:24

In reply to Wally (Forum Supporter) :

As someone who got to try Nicole's, I can confirm they're SO GOOD!

My family cookies have always been Spritz cookies, the recipe from the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook. The first batch has already been devoured, so I'll take pics when we make the second batch. It's a super easy cookie if you have a cookie press.

Other cookies on the list are brown sugar sesame cookies. I'm trying a new recipe, so if it turns out good I'll return with knowledge. 

Katie and Nicole are very talented cookiers, and when you put them together it's epic. Here's our output from a couple of years ago:

 this is the first half of today's baking. More oatmeal and chocolate chip coming out of the oven. And I apparently forgot to make snickerdoodles, so I'll get those in too.

Don't freeze oatmeal raisin dough. The tollhouse chocolate chip recipe is questionable frozen. The banana bread chocolate chip recipe I posted earlier in the thread freezes and cooks from frozen amazingly. 

In no particular order: oatmeal raisin, strawberry cheesecake, molasses, no bakes, pecan pie bars, tollhouse chocolate chip, what started as Martha Stewart chocolate chip, hazelnut bars, two kinds of Nanaimo bars, banana bread chocolate chip. 

Come get some cookies, I way over did it, and still have snickerdoodles and another batch of strawberry cheesecake to make. Dammit, and my coconut macaroons

I'm a slacker... just chocolate chip cookies this go round.

I blew the end off a cookie press trying to use it with the dough in my family's usual recipe.

Luckily the pinwheel cookies turned out better. They're basically sugar cookies and chocolate sugar cookies, rolled up and cut into slices before baking.

My MIL has been fighting cancer and is still hosting the family post-holiday this week.  I am unable to attend but I told her to take a break from the baking at least.  With a week off work I may have gone overboard.

Chocolate covered peanut butter filled pretzels

Chocolate covered caramel filled pretzels

Peanut butter blossoms and 

Iced sugar cookies

2 trays like this, they should be set.

here's what the final baked goods spread looked like, featuring Chris Tropea's rum cake and my pumpkin pie

These cookie spreads look amazing.  I'd probably weigh 20lbs more if I had access to those on holidays.

Due to the flu and not wanting to spread it to my parents who are in their mid-80s, no cookies were baked or harmed during this Christmas break. With only seven of us there, it was the smallest Christmas gathering in decades. 

RevRico, I'm going to have to owe you some cookies. 

In reply to Toyman! :

Not a problem. We went through that for Thanksgiving.

You should be getting some today or tomorrow though.

It's that time of year again! Last night was gingerbread night - a double batch of the Joy of Cooking recipe because these are by far my most-requested cookie from friends and family. Note to anyone who might want to attempt this: doubling this recipe will also double the time and effort. Also, add some water to the dough while mixing - by some quirk of physics and chemistry, doubling this recipe always makes it come out super dry.

Last night I also prepped oatmeal date cookie dough and froze it so I can break and bake them when I get back from the PRI show next weekend. 

I'm glad I came back to this thread, because I had completely forgotten how good the cookies that inspired it were. I'll have to add those to the roster again this year.

Well since you brought it up...

Not pictured are the damn roll out cookies I had to make. 

My oven is getting weird this season. The oatmeal raisin and orange came out fine, the chocolate chip are flat, and I had to dump an entire batch of coconut macaroons because they were burnt on the outside and raw on the inside.

Yesterday was a busy day. I started about 7am, for done a little before 10pm.

Chewy CC, giant crunchy CC, vanilla orange cookies with dark chocolate CC, strawberry cheesecake filled, snickerdoodles, CC snickerdoodles, another batch of coconut macaroons because I had extra egg whites, a 4x batch of banana bread CC, and a tray of chip Krispies. 

I mixed everything up first. Mix cookies, bag dough and toss into fridge LABELED WITH COOK TIME AND TEMP, clean everything, and repeat. Then spent the afternoon and evening baking everything. 9 ducking cookies at a time, because my oven sucks and I can only fit one pan in at a time, and my pans that are small enough to fit in the oven only hold 9 cookies. There's only one good rack height in my oven if you don't want to be flipping trays around the whole time, and even flipping trays around, whichever is lower gets the bottom burnt because to close to the element.

Enough complaining, onto the show 

Vanilla orange dark CC

CC snickerdoodles. 

I also did some experimenting with snickerdoodles. Some o rolled in regular cinnamon sugar, some I tried brown sugar and cinnamon. The brown sugar look a lot better, but have way heavier of a cinnamon taste. Experiment on ratios to occur later. 

Banana bread CC.

Keith Tanner said:

Thanks to Curtis, I'm going to be making butter tarts.

And probably tollhouse chocolate chip cookies, because you cannot improve on perfection.

Substitute bacon lard for the butter.  You're welcome.

I need those Snicker Doodle variants!

I need those Snicker Doodle variants!