What did you bake today ? OK if not from scratch

[ronandannette]

@ronandannette I love the sound of the apricot and raspberry thumbprints - need to google unless you post recipe - love almost all jelly cookies!!!

Not a complicated recipe, but a bit fussy to roll and fill the cookies. What I'm posting is a 1/2 quantity because I only wanted a few; I got a dozen out of it. It's easy enough to double or triple for a bigger batch:

1/2 soft butter
1/4 c packed brown sugar
1 egg, separated
1/2 tsp. vanilla
Scant 1 c flour
1/4 tsp salt
1 c finely chopped walnuts

Use an electric mixer to beat butter, sugar, egg yolk and vanilla until very creamy (make sure your butter is very soft, but not melted). Sift flour and salt together and stir into the wet ingredients. Since there is no liquid in this recipe, the dough is quite dry and crumby, you may need to work to get it to come together. Add 1 tbsp of water if absolutely necessary. Roll a good sized tbsp. of dough into a ball and dip into the egg white, which has been beaten with a fork to loosen. Roll ball into chopped walnuts to cover well. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet about 2" apart and use your thumb to make a little depression on the top (hence the name "thumbprint"). Fill the depression with about a 1/4 tsp. jam of choice - both raspberry and apricot look beautiful and are delicious with the walnuts. Bake at 325 F for about 10 minutes, a little longer if they seem too pale, but take care not to scorch the nuts. You will LOVE these. Merry Christmas!

 

[Meriweather]

working on 2 "Big Sandwiches" and Corndog Casserole to take to DS's house since the kids are off school, they need food

 

[TiggerTrigger]

Not beautiful, but homemade chocolate chip cookies (only thing DH likes) and cherry almond cookies. Super excited to find the green cherries.

 

[AnnaS]

Not a complicated recipe, but a bit fussy to roll and fill the cookies. What I'm posting is a 1/2 quantity because I only wanted a few; I got a dozen out of it. It's easy enough to double or triple for a bigger batch:

1/2 soft butter
1/4 c packed brown sugar
1 egg, separated
1/2 tsp. vanilla
Scant 1 c flour
1/4 tsp salt
1 c finely chopped walnuts

Use an electric mixer to beat butter, sugar, egg yolk and vanilla until very creamy (make sure your butter is very soft, but not melted). Sift flour and salt together and stir into the wet ingredients. Since there is no liquid in this recipe, the dough is quite dry and crumby, you may need to work to get it to come together. Add 1 tbsp of water if absolutely necessary. Roll a good sized tbsp. of dough into a ball and dip into the egg white, which has been beaten with a fork to loosen. Roll ball into chopped walnuts to cover well. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet about 2" apart and use your thumb to make a little depression on the top (hence the name "thumbprint"). Fill the depression with about a 1/4 tsp. jam of choice - both raspberry and apricot look beautiful and are delicious with the walnuts. Bake at 325 F for about 10 minutes, a little longer if they seem too pale, but take care not to scorch the nuts. You will LOVE these. Merry Christmas!

Thank you so much!!! As soon as I shop again, will pick up walnuts.

 

[ronandannette]

Thank you so much!!! As soon as I shop again, will pick up walnuts.

I've seen quite a few posts here that mention thumbprints and the pictures show just a plain cookie ball with jam on top. They are naked and sad without the walnuts - you don't want to skip them.

 

[mrsstats79]

Sugar cookies, mini M & M cookies and rainbow cookies which are waiting to have the chocolate put on.

 

[pinkxray]

Last night I made Cranberry Orange Muffins with pecans and Cranberry Walnut Biscotti. I am trying to use up all the ingredients I bought for holiday baking. Tonight I will bake off the rest of my cookies I didn’t get to last week and some cupcakes for work tomorrow.

 

[HappyGal]

I’ll be making boxes tomorrow to give to friends and family and making a big platter to bring to a party on Saturday night.

Frosted sugar cookies
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Peppermint meltaways
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The Peppermint Meltaways are lovely! Would you be so kind as to share the recipe?

 

[LoveDaisy]

The Peppermint Meltaways are lovely! Would you be so kind as to share the recipe?

Happy to share. I don’t use the food coloring in the frosting. I think the crushed candy canes pop more on the white frosting.

Peppermint meltaways

 

[Toolulu22]

Frittata. I make usually make these once per week, as suggested by my dietitian, and eat them for breakfast during the week until it’s finished. Then it’s just protein oatmeal.

 

[mmouse37]

Made giant sugar cookie cut out Christmas Trees for the grandkids to decorate. One did hers this morning and the others will do theirs tomorrow when they come over. Decorations were mini m&ms, mini marshmallows, smarties, Christmas tree sprinkles and Christmas colored sprinkles. Bought the giant Christmas tree cookie cutter at target this year. A new tradition. She painted the tree first with a simple confectioners sugar, half-and-half and food coloring mixture.

 

[WorldWacky]

Raspberry Almond Thumbprints today.

 

[dizneegirl]

Chex mix, Nantucket Pie (which I'd call cranberry coffee cake...), and next up is CdnCarrie's eggnog loaf.

 

[Meriweather]

tonight's dinner will be Sweet Potato-Crusted Quiche

 

[Meriweather]

This is what I did this morning.....and it is only 8:30.
They are for tomorrow morning.
They are blueberry, chocolate chocolate chip and orange cranberry

 

[Meriweather]

cookie trays for tonight and tomorrow.



Gluten free cookie tray



And gluten free cinnamon rolls ready for the oven in the morning

 

[disney212]

18 loaves of banana bread for our neighbors. Plain, with nuts, with nuts and chocolate chunks (chopped Hershey bars from Halloween), with chocolate no nuts. DH is out playing Santa now. I bake every year for them! I freeze the over rip bananas all year and use them for bread. By freeze I mean I thow the over ripe whole ones in their peels in our freezer in zip lock bags. Great way to use them up. I had close to 30 this year!

 

[fla4fun]

Today I am making brownies and tomorrow I’m baking a pie. My sister baked a variety of cookies, which she is bringing with her tomorrow when she comes over.

ETA: marshmallows and chocolate chips added

 

[Toolulu22]

Chicken pot pot. So good on this wintry day!

 

[happybaker]

Took my first shot at homemade bagels today. Made four onion, two plain, one cinnamon sugar and one olive oil and rosemary.

Next time I'll take the onion out a minute or two earlier. And make the holes smaller.