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Saturday, November 8, 2008

Christmas with CD#3 - The trials begin

Before I could do anything, I had to shop and setup a prep area. As I don't have a lot of space, but I DO have a Costco membership, the results were a bit, um, overwhelming.

This is what happens when I wander Costco with baking on my mind...

And here is my prep area.

Had to have Christmas tunes, too, of course!


Once prepared, I made regular oatmeal raisin cookies to bribe my taste testers! (just in case!)


Ready to go! I have started with something simple: peanut butter. It's really hard to make a bad peanut butter cookie.

Cookie #1 was a flourless PB cookie. It's something I'd never heard of before, but apparently it's fairly popular. They turned out crisp and tasty. The recipe I used is at Lea's Gluten Free Blog. I made them without the chocolate chips that you see in her picture, and I flattened them with a fork first, too.
Yummy and delicious, but I wanted kiss cookies, so I dug out another recipe. One that uses flour.



Cookie #2 uses a combination of GF flours, and I found it at Recipe Zaar.

This is a very good cookie. It's not terribly soft, though. Once it cools, it's crisp like cookie#1, but it still has a great taste. A couple of tips for this recipe:
1. Below the recipe (follow the link above) you'll find some substitution comments and suggestions.
2. You may find it helpful to chill the dough for a few minutes so that it's a little more workable.
3. Make the dough balls much smaller than you would think you need for the kiss cookies. Otherwise you may end up with the oddly proportioned results you see on the right in the picture below!

The dough ball in the picture below is the size I used for the cookie on the left above. It's about 1", maybe a little smaller

4. Let the cookies set on the sheet. If you remove them too soon, it won't work well.

Overall, Saturday was a pretty good cookie-making day. Up next: pie crusts!

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Everything looks yummy. You can send some cookies my way. : )

Shanda said...

I didn't know you had joined SITS! I was just roll calling and you were right above me...didn't know that you had CD...bummer, that explains the gluten free cookies! They look great!!

vanilla said...

Off topic, but I found your site through your comment re: hymns at SCL.
Hymns, indeed, are beauteous!
Your "predictability is for chumps" comment aligns you with my wife who says, The only way in which I am consistent is in being inconsistent.
We made PB cookies and crabapple jelly this afternoon. Wish I had some gluten-free recipes to share.

Wendy said...

I have some family with CD and the cookies you made here are my favorites (with gluten, but I would try without).

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