Christmas cookies
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Holiday Baking: Sugar Cookies
These cookies are excellent for rolling, with a few tried-and-true tricks up your sleeve. 3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour 3/4 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 cup unsalted butter, softened 1 cup sugar 1 egg, beaten 1 tablespoon milk… Continue reading
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Holiday Baking: Rugelach
This recipe is the traditional one. You may find others — I tried currants one year and didn’t like that. Chocolate chips are not traditional but we’ve also tried that and love it. Cookie Dough: 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted… Continue reading
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Holiday Baking: Spitzbuebe
Original recipe here. For years I was making the recipe for Drei Augen from Gourmet, which I posted at Baking Delights (now Blisstree) when I was still blogging for b5media (reposting below). This is also similar to Linzer cookies, although… Continue reading
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Holiday Baking: Stephanie Schrader’s Walnut Cups
Originally posted January 18, 2007. Another mainstay in our holiday lineup. I use the handle of a small baby spoon to get the cookie bottoms pressed into the mini muffin tins, and taught Aisa this technique. As you can see,… Continue reading