Brielle's Avalon

Someone just asked me this (again)…what a question! So many cookies, so little time! Anyway, it lead to a bit of a short essay which I’ll copy and paste here below:

The cookie-cookie I always made most often was chocolate chip. Now I make brownies (bar-cookies) more often because they’re faster to put together and I don’t have to wait for the butter to soften. These are the cookies I taught my grandkids to make when they were 2 and 4 and came over with their Mom a lot. The cookie-cookies I do most when there are no eggs are shortbread (butter, sugar, vanilla and flour! That’s it! Easy-peasy!) and the cookies I make the most when I have a surfeit of eggs are meringues which get made in combination with lemon cookies because meringues use just the whites and lemon cookies use just the yolks. Sometimes I make other kinds of things from the yolks when I need whites or other uses for whites when I use need just yolks for something…but I digress…ANYWAY!!!… I acquired my Mom’s cookie press after my Dad died and we divvied up the rest of the ‘estate’ (house stuff). She used to make cookies that were chocolate and vanilla (I suppose you could use any flavours with contrasting colours, though) * make them 1/2 and 1/2, quartered, spiraled etc…basically mix, divide into sections for contrast, put sections together so they’ll make interesting designs when rolled into a log and cut into cookies. I adore lemon bars (and I suppose one could use other flavours such as raspberry *I love framboise!*, blackberry, apricot…) and fruit/nut bars are yum. Mom also made Mexican wedding cookies (round shortbread cookies with chipped nuts rolled in powdered sugar while still warm). So many cookies, so little time! And there’s so many more from around the world to explore! Around the world in cookies! What an idea!

Well…maybe around the world in (with?) cookies might be a way to spur me to bake and blog ore often on my days off…Cinco de Mayo is coming up, Andrew’s got walnuts in the fridge, maybe Mexican wedding cookies are next…Oh! Tomorrow! Yum! We’ll see if I manage. Happy noms everyone!