Mom and I had a cookie marathon yesterday. Six varieties. 403 cookies! 33.5 dozen. Add in 5 Christmas CDs and you have one very festive, long, sweet day! We started with a pile of ingredients a little Vince Guaraldi and the Peanuts singers isn't it everybody's favorite. I can just see the whole gang oohing and ahhing with their little black outlined noses up in the air. I also love the ethnic sounds of this Putumayo classic, there is something joyous about hearing God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen emerge from steel drums.
We have the flavor rainbow covered.
Spice. Ginger Crisps made from the adorable recipe card that has guided us to these simply the best spicy goody.
Almond and peppermint. The can't be skipped candy cane cookies. Mom discovered these when she was a young mother, I was about 3 or 4.
Nutty. Yuletide cookies. Have always been a favorite. The recipe was lost about 11 years ago and we have been a quest to replace them ever since. A truly vintage recipe. Mom remembers it came from the packaging of the now defunct Spry shortening. We have searched. So over the year we have experimented and we are so close to the delectable cookie we remember. Great with eggnog.
Lemony. Lemon snowflakes got added to the fold in 1997 when mom and I were home recovering together. I from a planned surgery and mom from a life threatening illness, Wegener's Granulomatosis. She was quarantined because of a compromised immune system and I couldn't walk! This cookie appeared in the newspaper we had all the ingredients then and has been a regular ever since. Snowflakes? because they melt in your mouth!
Chocolate. Mayan mystery cookies. YUM. The mystery? I don't think I'll tell.
Fruity rainbow. Cut outs. My dad always wants them. Mom hates to make them. We limited ourselves to stars, I have 5 sizes! Kool-aid frosting give these a fruity sweet/tart twinklers a colorful taste bud pirouette. When I graduated from art school, my portfolio had a fish theme. So for my party I made fish cut out cookies. I found a pile of long unused Kool-aid packets and used them to color and, as a tongue titillating by-product, flavor my frosting. Chopsticks become the paintbrushes creating stripes, swirls dots and other twinkly designs.
