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.