The end of this semester was a little overwhelming, and so I got behind on my posting. I'm currently in the process of taking care of normal life-type stuff. Taking care of my backlog is very much included, so here are posts! You may notice that I'm putting links on the cookie names - well, these are links to the recipes! I realized a lot of these are available online, so I'll be linking them when available.
I've never been a big fan of milk chocolate - I find it to be too sweet, and prefer the more bitter taste of dark chocolate instead. The more expensive varieties are a little better, and so I have no qualms about buying Ghirardelli when a recipe calls for milk chocolate.
These cookies were very delicious! There's chocolate melted into the cookie dough, as well as chocolate chunks in the cookies. A hefty half teaspoon of salt helps to balance out the sweetness of the chocolate, and the soft texture of the cookies is nice. If you're looking for an easy chocolate cookie, I highly recommend this cookie.
127. Iced Hermits
Since I have less than a year remaining on this project, I realized that I need to get through the Christmas-type recipes now. As I've said before, ginger is very much a holiday ingredient, and so this recipe was a good kick-off to the season.
These cookie bars have raisins, candied and ground ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, molasses, pepper, and cloves in them, which means the flavor is potentially very complicated. However, the recipe recommends waiting a day or two for these flavors to mingle properly (which sounds a lot like instructions for soup or quiche). I waited overnight to put brown sugar icing and more candied ginger on top of these, and this was enough time for the flavors to mix. Once again, these were very easy and well-received by my friends, and I recommend this recipe if you have candied ginger on hand.
128. Lebkuchen
These German Christmas cookies have so many ingredients in them! I had to buy candied orange and lemon peel, almond paste, almonds, hazelnuts, apricot jam, and mace (the spice, not the spray) for these cookies, as well as using dates and various other spices I had at home. I couldn't find whole blanched almonds at the grocery store, so I bought whole almonds and removed the skins by letting them sit in hot water for a minute and then rubbing the skins off. These blanched almonds are in the cookie dough, and on top of the cookies, with a confectioners' sugar and milk glaze on top of them.
With 10 or so distinct flavors mixed together, it was pretty much impossible to notice each one when eating these cookies. I usually don't like it when I can't tell flavors apart, but this mix was superb. The cookies themselves are soft, and the glaze on top adds just a bit of crispness and sweetness, which was well appreciated at bible study this week.
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