Hot Cookie - the Archive

This is the last and much delayed post in a series of articles about one fantastic afternoon of baking cookies with friends. #43 Acorn Cookies (2000) These take the prize for cutest cookie of the day. The dough pieces, formed into egg shapes drop onto the sheets and only get their acorn essence when the wide end of the cookies are dipped into chocolate, then nuts. Dipped in pistachios, the acorn cookies on the left get a festive holiday green tinge; those on the right are dipped in pecans. It took a while to figure out "the size of an acorn," which is about a teaspoon. Once we got our portions down to size, there were plenty to go around; the cookies filled three cookie sheets. The recipe calls for walnuts, inside and out. But you know my preference for pecans. I thought this recipe would be very much like Mexican wedding cakes, but this recipe wants brown sugar, whereas the south of the border delicacies always want powdered sugar. I think the powdered sugar

New Year's Greetings... to all who have spent a few minutes on the pages of my blog. A year ago I promised to bake a cookie per week and drop ten pounds. I was off to a great start when, as you might expect, life intervened. So, where am I now? I have accomplished about three-fourths of my goals. And it's a three-fourths I can be proud of. I have lost 7-8 pounds, depending on which day you ask me, and the cookie count is up to 46 baked, not all blogged. My 70 blog posts amounted to about one post per week, as planned. Just not every blog was about a cookie. I'll admit at times the blog was a slog, and I've considered ditching the baking, the writing and my goals altogether in favor of some other very important task. Let's see. My garden needs weeding, the deck sweeping, several closets have been ignored for years. I'd really like to get on that quilt project I promised my daughter a while back. And my mom's house needs clearing out. All projects for t