It’s Saturday, not only is
it Saturday but it’s the Saturday before Christmas so we need a Saturday before
Christmas type of cookie. So we are
going with Olive Oil Cookies, not only do they feature olive oil, but also rosemary which turned out nicely in a cookie early in this adventure, and we
finally worked red wine into the mix.
I again went with half the
batch just not knowing what I was getting into.
The batter tasted great but seemed way too runny so I added some more
flour. It was still pretty runny, not
your typical cookie dough when I put the first one in the oven. I learned from the other day – I tested one
by itself first. It came out,
cake-like with a purplish tint. I may
have used more rosemary than the recipe called for but we like rosemary, so
we’re okay with that.
This cookie is uniquely yummy. Not too sweet but I got all three flavors
mentioned above: rosemary, olive oil and
red wine. I used a Coppola Merlot we
had. The kitchen smelled wonderful while
these cookies were baking, the aroma was like we were baking homemade bread.
Before Beth started drinking
wine at noon (JK, JK) I wanted to get a quick and easy batch in to help our
numbers. We haven’t made anything with
toffee bits, so that’s where I headed.
I started with the recipe on
the package and it makes a LOT of cookies.
We baked well over 100 of these and the only adjustment I made was to
swap one cup of oats for 1 cup of AP flour.
These always turn out well, crunchy and sweet, and a good start to a
long day of baking.
Needed to be more creative
in the afternoon, so I went back to the recipes we’d researched from the
beginning of this journey. Beth found
this recipe that featured candy cane Oreo cookies and it sounded really
fun. As you might imagine, I’m not going
to go out and buy a packaged cookie after baking our own for the last 22
days!
It turns out we have a pack
of regular (Reduced Fat) Oreo cookies, so I grabbed 6 of those and found 8
Hershey Peppermint Kisses. I chopped
these and added them to the core recipe and the outcome was exciting.
I’m not a huge fan of
peppermint; but this modest amount, combined with the Oreos and chocolate chips
created a refreshing mix. These were one
of my biggest surprises of the last 3 weeks.
I will definitely make them again.
The elves were out in force,
delivering Joy to the Iversons, Whalens and Poynters. Much more work to be done over the next few
days, so be ready.
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