About a week before Christmas, mom and I baked several different cookies, and then put together some holiday gift bags for friends...made up of all the goodies we made...
We had a lot of cute cookie cutters, but not a very good collection of recipes to use them with, so we had to do quite a bit of research. We found several recipes for rolled cookies, and chose the ones we thought would be the most yummy. Then, we threw in my famous peppermint bark, I made up an impromtu bark to use up some chocolate, and we made a regular cookie that we couldn't resist...even though it couldn't be made with a cookie-cutter.
Here are the highlights:
Julbock-shaped Rolled Honey Carrot Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting and Walnuts:
Julbock-shaped Rolled Honey Carrot Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting and Walnuts:
Dala Horse-shaped Rolled Dutch Sugar Cookies with Vanilla Frosting and Chocolate Sprinkles:
White Chocolate Peppermint Bark:
White Chocolate Bark with Dark Chocolate Chips:
Snowflake-shaped Sugar Cookies, Dipped in White Chocolate with Almonds:
Leaf-shaped Peanut Butter Gingerbread Cookies:
Pineapple Cookies with Lemon Glaze and Walnuts: (My Favorite!)
Tree-shaped Traditional Shortbread:
And here are the cookie piles each person was given, ready to be packed up:
The results? Well, I have to admit...while the cookies were pretty good, they weren't as fantastic as I thought they would be. Maybe my expectations were too high! Ha! Even so, I'll be doing some more research for the next Yule bake-a-thon...so we can make some even more spectacular rolled cookies. Yummy!
P.S. I'm sure some people are wondering...what is a Julbock and what does it, and a Dala Horse, for that matter, have to do with Yule? Well, according to the Swedish tradition, a Julbock (or Yule Goat) brings the holiday gifts, and a Dala Horse has been used as a Christmas symbol since the time of the Vikings. Images of both are below...
3 comments:
Just pretty good?! If they were half as yummy as they were pretty, they must have been scrumptious!
I had to laugh about the SWEEDISH horse shaped DUTCH cookie. :-))))
My thing this year was truffels (just basic ones, but gooooooood!). The result: I fortunately still have a couple of pants that fit. :-/ :-D
I've never made truffels...hmmm...something to try!
And it's much easier to make than cookies, so good for the lazy-mother-of-four.... :)))))
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