Let's get baking those cookies!
....by Tami L. Smith
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Who doesn't love the thought of a warm cookie fresh from the oven, with milk, coffee or just enjoyed alone. I grew up loving to bake, and eat, cookies! Early in my life I grew attached to the sugar cookie. Simple in it's basic flavors, but complex in the versatility of the dough. Depending on how you choose to mold the dough, it can be many things. To this day, many of my cookies start like this, a recipe that I just can't leave well enough alone. I change this, add that, mold it differently, and eventually I come up with something completely new.
With these pages, I hope to introduce you to my favorite cookies, my techniques for making cookies with success, and ideas for holidays and family gatherings. So sit back, relax with that warm cup of cocoa; I bid you welcome, to my cookies?
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For now, you can check out my recipes and techniques with text for:
- Gingerbread Houses
- What Holiday is complete without a Gingerbread House! It doesn't have to be fancy to make a special decoration in your home. Come with me and see step by step how I create my own dough, patterns, and finish the houses into a family masterpiece!
- Rolled Cookies
- I include all of my favorite cookies shaped with a rolling pin, from my famous Blue Ribbon Sugar Cookies to traditional gingerbread and shortbread. Break out your rolling pin, don't flour your board too heavily and dig out those cookie cutters!! Oh, do we ever own enough cookie cutters!!??
- Specialty Cookies
- Cookies that are shaped by hand, pressed with your growing collection of cookie presses, or with the use of specialty bakeware.
- Dropped Cookies
- Probably the most well know of all cookies, simply mix your dough and drop out onto your cookie sheets. They usually have a rough appearance, but many of our favorite recipes are simple dropped cookies.
- Sliced or Ice Box Cookies
- These cookies can be time consuming or very simple. They are stored in the freezer or refrigerator and wait until you need a quick goodie. Then, just slice and bake!
- Bar Cookies
- Bar cookies are baked in a pan, then cut into squares, rectangles or cut with cutters into fancy shapes.
- Pressed or Piped Cookies
- Classic tea cookies, pressed Spritz flavored with almond or peanut butter. What afternoon snack or tea would be the same without these simple, yet wonderful butter cookies!
- Baking for the Holidays
- The Holidays turn the average person into a baking machine. We pull out rolling pins and cookie cutters, aprons and brightly colored sugars. Get ready for the Holidays with tips on bulk baking, recipes, finishing ideas to make the simplest cookies special. And what Holiday can be without Gingerbread! Lovely men and women to eat or to hang on your family tree. Little Houses for gifts or grand mansions for your viewing and eating pleasure.
