Posted on 12/04/2020 7:29:59 AM PST by mylife
In the wide world of desserts, cookies are perhaps the friendliest and most versatile treat. They can be as simple as shortbread, an elemental combination of flour, sugar, and butter, or as time-intensive and beautiful as these Brown-Butter-Cardamom Spitzbuben, each one featuring a jewel-like cutout of jam. They can be studded with chocolate chips or used to sandwich lemon curd, dulce de leche, or minty white chocolate. You can roll them out and cut them out or just dollop them onto a sheet pan. Perhaps your childhood included a cookie of particular significance to you. Maybe, like Food & Wine associate features editor Nina Friend, your family cookie recipe is so good it spurred the creation of a small business.
No matter which cookies you favor, now’s the time to get baking. Crucially for 2020, cookies are portable and easy to share while maintaining a social distance, and endlessly adaptable to suit various tastes and dietary restrictions. You can also wrap them up and put them in the mail, and (carefully) deliver them to friends and neighbors less messily than a pie or cake. If your household is small, you can freeze them to ensure holiday baked-goods abundance will stretch into the new year.
Since cookies are what we all need right now, we’ve put together a treasure trove of cookie knowledge, whether it's finding the perfect chocolate chip cookie for your textural needs, figuring out how to roll out dough without getting flour everywhere, hunting down the most aesthetically pleasing cookies, or finding out which cookies to mail order to the folks you might not be able to see during this pandemic holiday season. Go forth and cookie.
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Yummy
I accept all cookies.
Tell your wife she has lovely buben.
Most cakes and pies too... ;)
:)
I know this is a goofy thread, but there is some seriously good info in the article.
Better than a damned hair with a cinnamon babka baked around it.
I’d love to run off a big batch of choco-chip, but it’s just too much like work. Dammit!
Expensive too, but it sure makes the house smell nice, and we have all this damn milk...
What I truly look forward at Christmas is walnut kolache all warm, slathered with butter, and a nice cup of coffee.
I have seen it no where but NE Ohio
Pinging you to this in case your interested.
“...cookies are portable and easy to share while maintaining a social distance...”
“You can also...deliver them to friends and neighbors less messily than a pie or cake.”
Sounds like they’re suggesting throwing the cookies at the recipients.
Cute
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