This Year's Accomplishment!

Okay, bragging now but here is the list of cookies I baked this year!

Chewy Crispy Oatmeal
Chewy Sugar Cookies
Chocolate Crackles
Lebkuchen Drops
Pecan Sugar Cookies
Chocolate Snickerdoodles
Vanilla Cinnamon Snickerdoodles
Hazelnut Sandwiches
White Chocolate Nut Cranberry Cookies
Hazelnut Biscotti
Sour Cream Twists
Sugar Cut out cookies
Jubilee Jumbles
Snow Balls
Linzer Torte Cookies
Chocolate Marble Cookies
Orange Poppy Seed
Toasted Coconut
Ginger & Spice
Chocolate Chip
Hazelnut Chocolate Chip
Toffee Bars
Coffee Thins
Chocolate/Vanilla Checkerboard Cookies
Brownies
Walnut Bars
Cranberry Bars
Mint Brownies
Tosetti
Ossi da Mordere
Coconut Macaroons.

Final Day of Christmas Cookie Baking!

 I finished off cookie baking with Brownies, Walnut Bars, Cranberry Bars, Mint Brownies, Tosetti, Ossi da Mordere, and Snow Balls. The Tosetti come from an Italian baking book and is a chunky bar cookies with candied orange peel and hazelnuts. They are very unimposing cookies and are often looked over when people are helping themselves to the cookie plate. That's fine as it means more for me! The Ossi da Mordere is a cookie basically comprised of cocoa powder, ground almonds, sugar, and egg white. When it bakes, it puffs up a bit and is sort of hollow inside thus the name translated: bones of the dead! In all, I made over 30 kinds of cookies and now get to spend the rest of the week parceling them out to distribute to friends and neighbors for Christmas gifts.

December 12th - Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadaloupe

“Hear me and understand well, my son the least, that nothing should frighten or grieve you. Let not your heart be disturbed. Do not fear that sickness, nor any other sickness or anguish. Am I not here, who is your Mother? Are you not under my protection? Am I not your health? Are you not happily within my fold? What else do you wish? Do not grieve nor be disturbed by anything.” ~Our Lady of Guadalupe