Holiday Baking and Candy Making.

[Gogar]

I'm making some peanut butter chocolate chip sea salt cookies for a party later. Pretty yummy. I use those simple truth 72% dark cacao square chips from Kroger and they really work well. Big ol bricks of chocolate goodness



https://www.elisabethandbutter.com/blog/salted-peanut-butter-chocolate-chip-cookies

[Missed Approach]

Originally Posted by craigster59

Charles has some "different" holiday desserts. He's a good Dude, I have a friend who is very close friends with him. He has some good videos with his late Mother cooking up some treats.

I need to try something simple and foolproof.. I can smoke and grill like no tomorrow but baking has always been tough for me. And my Grandfather ran a large bakery in NorCal (Langendorf). Go figure.

Hi Craigster59- Charles is fantastic, and I loved the videos he did with his Mom. Mrs. Missed Approach and I attended one of his awesome slide shows quite a few years ago.


Plus, he's had his own Cherpumple float at the Anaheim Halloween Parade!

[craigster59]

I went to his "America On Vacation" side show and screening of "The Long, Long, Long Trailer".

His Modernism, Disney and Tiki shows are very popular.

[rockfan4]

If there's anyone lazier than me, it is my wife.

Christmas cookies - not even pre-mixed dough, she buys cookies already cut out and then frozen. All you have to do is thaw them and put them in the oven, then decorate.

She does make a fudge with Toblerone bars, but it's the evening of the 23rd and she hasn't started yet.

She bought 3 bags of pre-mixed chocolate chip cookies. All you have to add is a stick of butter and an egg. But she hasn't had time to make them, so I made two batches this afternoon. I don't know what I'm doing. I wanted them a uniform size, so I used a melon baller to get consistent sized cookies, but they ended up pretty small. Each batch was supposed to make 12 large or 24 regular cookies, I got 36 - 38 out of each bag. I haven't tried one yet. The last few didn't even get chocolate chips.

Does anyone eat the peanut butter cookies with a chocolate star or chocolate kiss on them? We used to be able to get a bag of dark chocolate stars, which I preferred, but they have vanished off the face of the earth. I guess we will use milk chocolate stars. Maybe I'll make those tomorrow,

[rwest]

Originally Posted by rockfan4

If there's anyone lazier than me, it is my wife.

Christmas cookies - not even pre-mixed dough, she buys cookies already cut out and then frozen. All you have to do is thaw them and put them in the oven, then decorate.

She does make a fudge with Toblerone bars, but it's the evening of the 23rd and she hasn't started yet.

She bought 3 bags of pre-mixed chocolate chip cookies. All you have to add is a stick of butter and an egg. But she hasn't had time to make them, so I made two batches this afternoon. I don't know what I'm doing. I wanted them a uniform size, so I used a melon baller to get consistent sized cookies, but they ended up pretty small. Each batch was supposed to make 12 large or 24 regular cookies, I got 36 - 38 out of each bag. I haven't tried one yet. The last few didn't even get chocolate chips.

Does anyone eat the peanut butter cookies with a chocolate star or chocolate kiss on them? We used to be able to get a bag of dark chocolate stars, which I preferred, but they have vanished off the face of the earth. I guess we will use milk chocolate stars. Maybe I'll make those tomorrow,

A similar cookie is made with a Hershey’s kiss in the middle and they come in dark chocolate and about a million other flavors.

[vash]

my first job ever was as a cookie baker coming out of high school. looking back it was also when I started getting fat. hahah..

great job! and I learned stuff I still remember to this day. like how sugar is considered part of the wet ingredients. great job Rwest!! great job!!

[rwest]

Oops, I now see you said kiss too, my apologies for quick scanning.

[rwest]

Originally Posted by vash

my first job ever was as a cookie baker coming out of high school. looking back it was also when I started getting fat. hahah..

great job! and I learned stuff I still remember to this day. like how sugar is considered part of the wet ingredients. great job Rwest!! great job!!

Thanks Vash,

But I got nothing on your stollen mission.

I did refresh my toffee ingredients and will make another batch soon, but maybe try to skip the burning myself portion.

[wdfifteen]

I don't normally make Christmas cookies, but this hasn't been a normal year. So we're making cookies. I do the measuring and operate the machinery, and Vicki cuts out the cookies. This is batch one - Bourbon sugar cookies. The recipe calls for Bourbon and buttermilk. All I had was Irish Whiskey and kefir. Hope I didn't ruin them. Batches 2,3,4 tomorrow.