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November 4, 2006
My own running notepad
To impress those who we shall be visiting this week, baked goods have been suggested/requested. So, I figured it might be nice to do a bit of a test run for the baking I never seem to escape during the holidays. One of the unexpected big hits of last year's cookie run was my Lazy Gingerbread cookies. Why lazy? Well, I made the dough quite a bit in advance (no eggs, and fully refrigerated, so no real danger of it going bad per se), and I kept staring at it everytime I opened the fridge, and just could not bring myself to actually roll them out, cut them out, and bake them. I didn't want to throw the dough out, so I finally decided to just roll the dough in balls, coat them in sugar, and smoosh and bake. They turned out fabulous. The coarse sugar on the outside made them extra crunchy, and the flavors were very balanced. And people liked them, even weeks later (I had some test cookies at that point :).
I remembered I'd made some modifications to the recipe, and I could have sworn I'd written them down somewhere, but extensive searches on my computer yielded nothing. Then it came to me -- I bet I blogged about it last year! And I had! I noted the modifications I'd made, not in great detail, but enough to figure it out now. This year I'm going to be keeping better records overall of everything I make, and hopefully that will make future years even more smooth and consistent.
So, tomorrow and Monday night I'm sure, I'll make rice krispie treats (yeah, I know -- not really a recipe, but people really enjoy them, especially when I make them old school style), lazy gingerbread, scotcheroos, and banana nut bread. All of those should travel well and won't be too affected by the fact that we probably won't see folks until Wednesday anyway. The bonus is they're all fairly easy to make as well.
Posted by jodikins at November 4, 2006 11:48 PM