300 - Not Spartans, Cookies

Last weekend Donna and I decided that a little baking might be in order. I haven't had the chance to eat any of my Grandma's cookies lately, basically because she doesn't make them anymore and I am like 5000 km away. Anywho, thanks to the wonders of the Internet, I was able to procure some of my Grandma's most tastiest recipes from my Mom within minutes, and make some delicious cookies.

It only took 4 hours, and we didn't actually make 300 cookies, but were able to make 6 batches of cookies, filling 4 cookie tins and various other storage receptacles. I took some to work, we ate a bunch, basically the Christmas eating has started early here in Kingston.

So far, the two kinds of chocolate-chip cookie recipes have been the biggest successes. My Mom's chocolate-chip slab cookies and my Grandma's chocolate-chunk cookies are both very tasty, so I can see why everyone likes them. Plus, how can you go wrong with a chocolate cookie variation? The filbert crescents were the next most popular and, although they taste like my grandma's, they didn't turn out like them at all. They were a lot flatter than my Grandma's (although mine were topped with whole hazelnuts and then I dipped the ends in chocolate).

We also made oatcakes and shortbread. The shortbread was good, but Donna did not like the candied fruit topping I suggested, then I forced her to put it on the cookies as decorations anyway. Apparently she is not a big fan of the candied fruit. I didn't really accept her position, especially since she decided that 4 hours of baking was too much and she decided to take a nap midway through the production.

The only cookies that didn't really turn out were Mom's candy cane cookies. She warned me they were difficult, and I am not sure what exactly happened, but mine ran all over the cookie sheet and I ended up with this big swirly mess of almond flavoured cookies. They tasted fine after I broke them up, but they never really worked out.

We also attended Donna's ER Christmas party last weekend. Lots of fun, good food (an actual full meal this time... turkey and roast pork) and then a ridiculous night of dancing and such at the Grizzly Grill. I had actually never been there before, but it was a good time had by all.

I am expecting a much more hectic weekend in a few days, as we are moving Donna's stuff back from Ottawa. It has been snowing here the past few days, so I am praying for a little bit of good luck. I'll keep you posted.

Stay Frosty