OOOOHHHHHHHHH! Look what I bought today
This is the exact same one my mom had when I was a little girl (and probably your mom, too, if you are under 40 and over 20). My sister and I would flip through the pages, fantasizing about how sweet of a life one must have to be able to eat everything pictured in this book. Despite the fact that she is a really good cook, my mom is an uninterested baker. She just doesn't get into it. She would bake cookies out of this book for school events, for instance, but she wasn't one to fix up big plates of cookies to take to people's houses, for instance. Rather, we would BUY them at the CD of A bazaars.
But I am going to attempt a few of the less challenging Christmas Recipes. I bought a battery-operated cookie press, too, and some new cookie sheets. I am going to go gang busters sometime this week......
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but yes, isn't that the BEST cooky book??? My mom bought that for me last Christmas- and that night, all three of us "girls" and Mom were reading thru it, going "oh I love these..."
and for some reason, in my family, I have become the cookie princess. One of my gifts for Michelle's wedding was to make cookies... ended up making about 9 different kinds (yeah and then we had to transport them to Kentucky... uh huh,I am crazy)
Suddenly every wedding, shower, event that comes up, people are calling me .."can you make those little cookies..you know.. with the icing...the coconut..." etc...
enjoy it!
I also recommend the Chocolate Crinkles (23) Russian Teacakes (25) and the family favorite--the Creme Filled Wafer cookies(40)-...which take a bit of work but taste SO good (and they've been favorites since my grandma made them!)
If I have time, I want to try to make Pfeffernusse this year, too.
Of course, I haven't been to bed this week before 2am so...I might have to wait til after Christmas to make those.
Those wafer cookies I am terrified to try. My friend Wendy back home used to make them and we called them Wendy cookies. She was preternaturally domestically gifted ( and still is) and made then all the time. Knowing how much work they were for her, I am afraid to even try. But my sister, the biggest fan of Wendy Cookies, would be very happy
Well, then try to make the wafer part one day...and ice them another day. I can do several batches once I'm in the "rolling out dough" mode. This summer, I even froze the wafer parts then iced them closer to the event date.
The hard part is all the effort put into it yet you end up with only half the cookies because you use 2 wafers per cookie...there's a mathmatical equation for that right? ;)
We call ours "Nikki" cookies because my grandma made them for my Aunt Nikki all the time, then when Grandma died, Aunt Nikki made them and she told us how to so now I'm making them...all this time I thought it was some secret recipe and all you needed was Betty Crocker...
and I'm by no means domestic...but I do love to bake...it's one of those activities where I can see the beginning, middle and end to the task.
I'll try to save some Wendy/Nikki cookies for you! You might have to beat my dad off thought..he hoards them.