I’m frosted white with flour and powdered sugar. The dough and date nut filling are ready for me to wed them together and put them in logs for baking at another time. Then, it is on to the cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and nutmeg that give molasses cookies their bite. I’ll make the dough next and roll and cut the cookies out on Sunday. I’ll nab a certain Antler Man to help frost them. That’s always good for a few giggles.
Later next week, I’ll make peanut butter kisses. Have you ever had them? They are one of Jennifer’s favorites; a peanut butter cookie with a Hershey’s chocolate kiss on top. The dangerous part is taking the foil off of the kisses and not eating them all before getting them atop the warm cookies. I have the hips to prove it.
So sorry for this short post. I just wanted to let you know I am still here, just a tad busy.
How about you? Any baking going on in your house? Do you have a favorite holiday or winter cookie? Do you sometimes forget to turn the mixer down low when adding flour and have your hair turn white?
What fun, Penny! 🙂 I’d love to have one or two of your favourite cookie dough recipes sometime when you’re not busy, so that i can try my hand at genuine holiday cookies.
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How sweet of you to ask, Perpetua. I’ll try to post one or two soon so you can share in the sweetness.
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Peanut Butter Kisses….Mmmm. Nummy. It’s a good thing I’m not in that kitchen with you. Antler Man night not see a single one of those.
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Ha! That would be quite a round of reindeer games, Teresa.
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Ooh I’m hungry just reading that! I’m making some filo pastry mince pies and possibly some florentines.
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Oooo. I’ll bet those mince pies are good with filo around them, Nicola. I love anything with filo.
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I’d like to be a fly on your wall about now. . .just for the scents from all that baking! 🙂
My sister and I have been on a weight-losing-campaign for months and it’s working. Hence, we will severely curtail our baking and munching (for this year anyway). The opportunity to smell all that goodness will be nearly as big a loss as the actual eating. Enjoy!!
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HI, Karen. I love your reindeer.
Good for you. Skip the baking and light a scented candle and you will be better off at holiday’s end.
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Penny, wherever you are, there’s an adventure not far away! It sounds busy, but tasty.
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Isn’t it grand, Juliet? The dough is all made and today the oven is fired up and off we go . . .
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I’ve received a request from my son for the peanut butter kisses, also his favorite. Sometimes I cheat and use chocolate stars in a bag so I won’t have to unwrap! I bought ingredients for molasses cookies which are a favorite of a gal at work but we have had so many goodies lately I might save them for Jan. Your mentioning dates – I just might surprise hubby with date-nut pinwheels. Haven’t made them for him for years.
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I may use those chocolate stars, Joyce. A few years back, Hershey’s actually sold the kisses, unwrapped, for the purpose of the peanut butter kisses. They were a bit more expensive, but, saved on the labor. This year, I’ll be unwrapping them one by one.
PS I make the pinwheels to the point of putting them in logs. I freeze the logs and take them out to back as needed/wanted. It makes for a nice surprise come Valentine’s Day when Christmas cookies are a but a memory. Enjoy!
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It all sounds so wonderful Penny.. winter and all the warmth of baking seems so right. I can about smell your kitchen from here …mm…mmmm!
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I think the fragrances are almost as good as the actual cookies, Joan. If you were here, we could share some over a cup of tea.
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Just as your post beeped in my phone, I had finished a batch of Pizzeles and was starting on my molasses cookies. Now it is after 9:30 and after a friend dropped in, the molasses cookies are dwindling. I will make a double batch tomorrow and hide them from myself so I won’t be tempted. I will still make “forgotten cookies”, church window cookies, and of course sugar cookies. I have some other treats to prepare as well such as sausage bread, sweet potato pie, and maybe some pretzels dipped into something sweet. I haven’t made peanut butter kisses in ages but maybe I will……I can feel my tummy expanding at the thought of all of this.
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Pizzeles! I’m impressed, Janet, and love those sweet delectables. All that work and then the cookies are gone in a flash. You have and will continue to bake up a storm. I can almost smell all your cookies up here. Yum, yum. There goes another notch in the old belt. Have fun!
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CRAZY CRAZY TIME OF YEAR AND WE SHOULD CELEBRATE WITH A CUP OF TEA. . . . . YOUR COOKIES SOUND SO GOOD. WISH i COULD CATCH A SCENT OF THEM BAKING IN THE OVEN. . . . WE ARE CLOSE ENOUGH YOU KNOW.
ONE WEEK TO GO………………….YIKES!!
MARY ANNE
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We should, Mary Anne. Right now, there are boxes and boxes strewn about as we just got the trees up. Sigh. So it goes. (If I have time, I’ll make some jam print cookies and fill some with the little bit of strawberry jam in the jar you gave me. Sweet bliss.)
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Oh, Penny, it’s happy chaos in the kitchen here. Maddie has commissioned her parliament of owls to make a Christmas cake today, and Phil is talking ominously about making a real old fashioned round Christmas pudding using muslin. Erk.
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Happy chaos, indeed, Kate, and three cheers for Maddie and the owls, and that Christmas pudding . . . a grand enterprise for sure. I’ve never had Christmas pudding, though I did make Yorkshire pudding one year, with rather, er, interesting results. tee hee
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I am busy catching up after a busy few days of playing! I love the sound of your molasses biscuits, I am sure I would love them. After my almost-week away I am in catch-up mode but did manage to get a few things done today, but I still have so much to do.
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So nice to see you, Marilyn. Hope you had fun. Such a bus time right now, isn’t it, especially with such a young sweetie to dote upon. Enjoy! It will all get done.
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I am so impressed with your punctual baking schedule! I have not made a single morsel – but plan to do so after finals end on Wednesday. My typical assortment include: M&M cookies, bishops bread, and chocolate covered pretzels. This year I hope to make cranberry biscotti and perhaps replace the decorated sugar cookies with pinwheels instead. I am looking forward to the week ahead 🙂
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I’m not done yet, Molly, besides, there is still plenty of time, especially if one needs to get through final exams and teaching. All your sweets sound wonderful. As I mentioned earlier, I do my pinwheels ahead of time, freeze them in rolls, then bake when convenient. Have fun baking.
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Love the photo, Penny! We are all in the home stretch of the Women’s Olympics! I baked all my cookies before I left for our holiday visit. Now I am tempted to make some more. My favorite, (labor-intensive) Christmas cookies are from the Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook: http://www.amazon.com/Silver-Palate-Good-Times-Cookbook/dp/0894808311. Mostly ground almonds, sugar and butter (a little flour thrown in for good measure)–roll and cut with a tree shaped cutter. Cut little holes in half the cookies before baking (I use a straw). After baking and cooling, make a sandwich–spread raspberry jam on the un-holed ones, put the holed ones on top of that. Voila!–Christmas trees with red balls! Sprinkle with powdered sugar for the snow. Bet you can’t eat just one! Take time to be still, everyone—enjoying the peace of the season, too.
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I love it! The Women’s Olympics! I’ll check out those cookies, Mike. They sounds delicious – and dangerous. I love our old favorites, but, love to try new treats as well.
Such good advice it is to be still. Thank you so much.
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I discovered in this post, Penny, that we are not in synch! I talk about baking, and you DO it! Add my name to the list of others who can almost smell the peanut butter kisses. Yum! Debra
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All in good time, Debra. I still have shopping, both food and gifts, to do, and the kisses are on the docket for tomorrow. sigh
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I could smell the cookies in the oven while reading this!
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Ha! I hope they smelled good to you, Janet.
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