Chocolate chips, pecans, brown sugar, and butter—lots of butter! The cookies I baked today were loaded with these and other forbidden ingredients. I also made Homemade Caramels (see photo below) for the first time. Sinfully delicious!
The hours spent in the kitchen today stressed my need to limit time there. :-)
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| A few of the ingredients and my little helper. The under cabinet light in this work area recently quit working and Frosty added a little extra brightness—all 7 watts of him. |
Move over Keebler Elves. Karen's cookie creations are here! I want some of those;
ReplyDeleteI'm coming over....today.
Wow - those look so perfect and YUM. Now I have to go make cookies!
ReplyDeletep. s. You are so lucky to be in Honeycrisp land. Local farm is nearly out of them.
YUM! What are those cookies topped with walnuts? Please share the recipe. Love your little helper! Mine is a glass of wine :-) And, thanks for spreading the word about the caramels. You do a much better job of cutting them than I do. What is your secret? I use a pizza cutter... but it kind of distorts them. Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to hear that my cookies enticed and inspired. Isn't that the purpose of holiday baking?
ReplyDeleteEverything went quite well on baking day— other than my dousing my candy cane cookies with almond flavoring. I divided the dough and was preparing to put red food coloring in half of it when I grabbed the wrong bottle and drenched my dough. I went ahead and divided the remainder of the dough and was able to produce a half dozen cookies.
Julie: I answered your questions with a post—as you probably already noticed. I actually think I was just lucky that my caramels came out as well as they did.
Julie: I may have cooked my caramels a little longer than what you did in your demonstration. Mine appear to be a little firmer. They also sat for at least 24 hours prior to being cut.
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