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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Jackie’s gone Christmas cookie crazy 2009!!!

I had a bit of spare time and a lot of extra chocolate this holiday season so I started dipping and whipping up a storm of Xmas cookies. When I finally finished and I looked back at the boxes of over twenty types of goodies I’d made, the thought did cross my mind that I might need some sort of intervention. I also decided that next year, if I am feeling cookie compelled I would get some elves —if it’s good enuf for Santa…  I shared them, I traded them, I gifted them and even had some hand delivered to Trinidad. Needless to say I spread them around and made a few folks very happy.

Baked Goodies:

• Stained Glass Shortbread: candied ginger, currants, cranberries and apricot shortbread
• Prosperity Cookies: turbinado sugared chocolate dollar signs so all who eat them embody more sweeter profits in 2010
• Peppermint Topped Chocolate Candy Canes: chocolate dipped, cinnamon chocolate shortbread with a little crushed peppermint “snow” on top
• Xmas Trees Sandwich Cookies: raspberry jam filled w/ chocolate garlands, tiny candy canes & gingerbread sprinkles and ivory balls
• Lemon Curd Stars: luscious lemon curd in delicate shortbread (not pictured)
• Espresso Dusted Chocolate Cinnamon Stars: cinnamon chocolate shortbread drizzled with chocolate and dusted with espresso sugar
• Heavenly Hazelnut Squares
• Viennese Crescents: classic buttery almond cookies rolled in powdered sugar
• Pistachio Snowballs: same as Viennese crescent, but with pistachios

Chocolate Goodies:

• T.J.‘s Peppermint Joe Joes
• Christmas Crackle Crunch: crushed sugar wafer and peppermint candy in semi-sweet chocolate
• Nutter Butters
• Xmas Grahams
• Xmas Sugar Wafers
• Xmas Sprinkled Pretzels (not pictured)
• Xmas Tuiles
• Candy Cane Marshmallow Pops
• Xmas Sprinkled Marshmallow Pops (not pictured)
• Toasted Sesame Chocolate Lace
• Pistachio & Cranberry Bark
• Peanut, Pretzel, Raisin, Marshmallow Rocky Road