I have been baking. I made a chocolate gingerbread and it was heaven, but was slightly overcooked by me. The recipe was in our local paper in FOODay, but the link won't work, sorry. Today I made these linzer style cookies with raspberry jam. This is a standard sugar cookie type dough with an egg yolk and the addition of allspice and cinnamon. It's one of those doughs you can use for like, 101 types of cookies. I have a huge lump of it in the fridge and am making different types of cookies with it in between unpacking boxes.
And here's a little group in martha's scalloped cookie boxes that are so stinkin' cute. You can see the same boxes here as well, looking even dandier. Just two kinds are in this box—some Russian teacakes (XL-style) and some milk chocolate marshmallow fudge. Simple and sweet. I actually have yet to give any away. The weather has been dicey causing holiday visits to be spotty. The post office has been hard to get to as well. So, they are being eaten in-house. The dark chocolate salted walnut fudge is totally gone. Oh, well.
I need to point out the holiday goodness over here, which caused much envy and made me both super inspired and wishing for a clone.
