The cookie-baking switch flipped to the ON position sometime in the last week or two. Maybe it's all the holiday catalogs coming in the mail, or the nip in the air, but some subliminal message has been received. It's time to think about cookies. We've been snipping recipes from around the web, so from sugar-crusted shuttles to caramel stuffed apple cider cookies, here are 9 we'd like to try soon.
Here are a few old favorites and new recipes we have bookmarked to bake very, very soon. Preferably tonight.
TOP ROW
• 1 Caramel Stuffed Apple Cider Cookies - At The Cooking Photographer. Say that again with us slowly: caramel stuffed apple cider cookies.
• 2 Flo Braker's Pain d'amande Cookies - From David Lebovitz. Lacy, delicate, and super-crisp. These look irresistible.
• 3 Dorie Greenspan's World Peace/Korova Cookies - At Smitten Kitchen. These chocolate sablés have been on our to-bake list for a long time. This is the year.
• 4 Navettes Sucrées (Sugar Shuttles) - From Gourmet's roundup of the best cookies of the past few decades. These look crispy, shaggy, sugary, and delicious.
• 5 Homemade Oatmeal Cream Pies - At Honey & Jam. We grew up with the Little Debbie oatmeal cream pies as a special treat. These look so much better.
BOTTOM ROW
• 6 Tartine's Soft Glazed Gingerbread - At SugarPunk. We love gingerbread in all its forms, but we've been especially wanting to try this soft, glazed version from the Tartine cookbook.
• 7 Chocolate biscuits with soft chocolate centres - From Jamie Oliver. These are rather simple, but extra-special, with a filling of white or dark chocolate.
• 8 Spritz (Norwegian Butter Cookies) - At Gourmet. Spritz cookies were a major tradition in our house while growing up. We didn't appreciate the plain butter flavor as much then, but now we're excited to try them with our own cookie press.
• 9 Halfway cookies - At Greedy Gourmand. A strange and fascinating hybrid of cookie base and meringue topping.
Your turn! What's on your cookie-baking list? Have you made any of these?
Related: The Best Chewy Chocolate Cookies Ever (& Low-Fat Too)
(Images: The Cooking Photographer; David Lebovitz; Smitten Kitchen; Romulo Yanes/Gourmet; Hannah of Honey & Jam; SugarPunk/Tracey Callison; David Loftus/Jamie Oliver; Romulo Yanes/Gourmet; Greedy Gourmand)
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I made persimmon cookies for the first time yesterday. I had no idea persimmon puree gelled! If you're going to make them, don't make my mistake, pour the puree out of the blender IMMEDIATELY or it won't come out.
Every holiday season, Andes mints comes out with their Peppermint Crunch mints, and I'm dying to chop those bad boys up and stick them into a chocolate-based cookie. mmmmmm
Those pain d'amande cookies are just as good as you'd think. Super easy, and the dough can stay in the fridge or freezer for ages. Really excellent cookies.
I've been wanting to make the navettes sucrées since I saw them.
I will definitely make some of these! I made Martha Stewart's Earl Grey tea cookies last night and they were so easy to put together, with a nice delicate shortbread flavor--I strongly recommend them for gifts for the holidays!
Can't vouch for all of these, but the Korova cookies are a classic and the soft gingerbread was the runaway winner of my informal ginger cookie comparison.
I make World Peace cookies every year, they are amazing.
I just baked a batch of biscochitos, a traditional New Mexican shortbread cookie flavored with anise, cinnamon-sugar and sweet white wine. These cookies melt in your mouth and are delicious after a breakfast with a cup of hot black coffee.
Oooh, have to try those caramel stuffed cookies. We tried the Jamie Oliver chocolate filled ones - quick, easy and very satisfying!!!
Lately I've tried multiple recipes from Vegan Cookies Take Over Your Cookie Jar and they've all been so good. Even my non-vegan friends at work can't stop talking about how good they are. I especially like the recipe for Mexican Hot Chocolate Snickerdoodles. It's cinnamon-y and chocolatey, but with just a touch of kick from cayenne pepper.
http://www.amazon.com/Vegan-Cookies-Invade-Your-Cookie/dp/160094048X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258414793&sr=8-1
I've totally been meaning to make those gingerbread cookies, too. The original Tartine version in the book is soooooo gorgeous that the only thing stopping me is finding a similarly intricate and pretty stamp/roller for the imprint. But looking at the simple snowflake on SugarPunk's cookie, I'm just going to go ahead and make them now.
And yeah, Dorie Greenspan's Korovas (orig. from Pierre Herme) are justifiably legendary!
Oh man, I really kind of want to make those caramel stuffed cookies...but not with Kraft caramels. I'd use Morinaga's milk caramels, provided I could stop myself from eating them all first.
Not like I need to be making cookies right now, though. I just bought a package of these Viennese cinnamon breakfast cookie things that are amazingly good.
We made the sugar shuttles last year. I thought they were delicious and liked the cakey cookie under the crispy sugar outside, but they didn't go over very well with others who dismissed them for being too messy and weird looking.
LOVE Dorie's World Peace Cookies. Best straight out of the oven, when they're molten, delicious goo
Made the apple cider caramel cookies last night. Brought them to work today, and they are nearly gone! They are super yummy, and the reco of letting warm over your cup of tea or coffee is spot on! So Dee-lish!
One comment though... I reduced the amount of sugar to 1/2 cup. Knowing that the cider mix was nearly all sugar, I just couldn't bear to add that much more sugar to it. I think I really could have not added any additional sugar, and they would have tasted fine.
another nod to vegan cookies invade your cookie jar.
planning to make the iced grapefruit icebox cookies tonight or tomorrow night.
Yum! I can't wait to try these - especially the World Peace cookies and the homemade Oatmeal Cream Pies.
Another cookie that is big success every time I make them are chocolate rolo cookies - basically a moist chocolate cookie with a rolo candy melted in the center and then topped with chopped pecans and a sprinkling of sugar. Delicious!
I have that recipe and other cookie recipes on my blog:
http://www.seejencook.blogspot.com
I made Martha's Earl Gray cookies as well! Rave reviews. Now I'm making Ina's shortbread cookies dipped in chocolate for a dinner party on Thursday. Yum!