What are your plans for cookie baking?
By coffeebreak
@coffeebreak (17797)
United States
October 11, 2009 8:20pm CST
I am SOOOO getting in the mood to start baking cookies for the holidays! The triple digit heat is over...well, has been for a week now, but it will probably spike its ugly sweaty head one more time....and the Santa Ana winds have yet to blow the house down, but I am so anxious to start baking cookies. They are my favorite hobby I love best... baking.
So I just baked a batch of Snickerdoodles... granted don't need the calories, but nothing better than cookies and milk at bedtime to help the stress calm down! But I chose Snickerdoodles cause theya re also my daughters favorite and I will make myself give her half of them!!!
I have the list in my head... next week I am doing sugar cookie cut outs - I took a large circle cookie cutter and bent it into the shape of candy corn.. just pulled in the sides a bit and rounded the angles... to make the cookies. I will use white, yellow and orange icing and decorate them as candy corns. My daughter and grand daughters favorite candy!!! So that is my project for next week should the weather allow!
WHat are your plans for cookie baking?
2 responses
@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
16 Oct 09
You must live somewhat near to me! I was in the wintery mood for a couple days with the rain that we had - but today (and apparently for the next 10 days) we had warm weather . . . so there goes my motivating baking weather! When we get the cooler temps again, perhaps I'll get into baking again.
Anyway, snickerdoodles are always good and I love how you rigged a cutter into a candy corn shape - great idea! I don't have definite plans, but I am looking to do more baking with pumpkin recipes - as it is autumn with Halloween around the corner. We mostly do cakes here, but I am thinking to make "bone" type cookies since my little one is into bones and skeletons lately. Need to find a recipe although I'm sure I can do it with any buttery type recipe - even a snickerdoodle!
Have fun with your baking! I want to make candy corn cookies now!! 
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@coffeebreak (17797)
• United States
16 Oct 09
I have a dog bone cookie cutter...they are pretty common if you check the craft stores that have baking stuff. I don't care much for pumpkin anything, unless it is a sugar cookie pumpkin cutout!
Check marthastewart.com for a good sugar cookie recipe and start rolling! Mine is from that ancient Betty Crocker Cookie Book book. You'd think I'd have it memorized after using it for 40 years but I don't!
Years ago I use to make "food baskets" full of all kinds of baked goods for my family for gifts for christmas and I started making my lists now, and the day after T-day I started working.. I'd make all the dough for the things that could be frozen so day or so before Christmas, all I had to do was bake and decorate if needed. That time was always such fun for me!
@coffeebreak (17797)
• United States
11 Nov 09
Didn't get the candy corn cookies baked... I was only going to do a few and used my toaster oven instead of the big oven... and they didn't bake right, it got a little warm that day and I just didn't have it in me to deal with it anymore! It hasn't been cool since.. but I am hoping that at least a day or two before T-day it will be as I will make them for that dinner. Otherwise.. it is cupcakes!
@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
16 Oct 09
Thanks, coffeebreak! Yah, I'm sure a dog bone cutter would be pretty common . . . I'll have to look for that! Martha Stewart has many great recipes period . . . I think I found our pumpkin cake recipe there - yum! Oh - I love homemade food basket gifts - giving or receiving! I did that one year - not with cookies, but with assorted mini cakes. I think I should have done cookies and baked them all the night before giving them to people . . . some of them got moldy by the time I was able to pass it out. So good idea about doing all the mixes and freezing them!! I just wish we had a bigger freezer and oven to do so. How fun!! Have a great baking season!
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@coffeebreak (17797)
• United States
15 Oct 09
ISn't that true!! Kind of the same for me... my daughter refused to learn to cook at all...anything when she was a teen. But she has in last few years (she's 30!) picked up a few things to cook... she has been doing cookies at christmas lately and loves that. I taught her daughter to cook/bake lots of things.. and she has taught mom how nanny does it! That was the best!
And I have noticed to.. that we mom's hand down the torch to the kids when the time is to be... My momused to host all the HUGE family functions multiple times a year... then about 15 years ago, due to divorce issues.. it was handed down to me and now... with my health problems, more an inconvenience than a problem, I have handed the torch to my daughter... who is now seeing that it isn't always the prep that is the hard part... but getting so many people to be "free" on a certain day at a certin time....the cooking/baking/organizing is the easy part! And she is seeing that! And not to happy about that part... I tell her.. ."welcome to my world'!
@savak03 (6684)
• United States
15 Oct 09
I hardly cook at all any more. I've got one desert that I still do but the other day my daughter got tired of waiting for me to do it so she did it herself. I guess she watched me long enough to know how to put it together. It was pretty good too so maybe I won't have to do that anymore either.
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