S'more Miniatures for DECEMBER BLENDER

Hey all! In all the miniatures I've ever made, I've never made a s'more... Can you believe it!? It's slightly shocking. I made them as realistic as I could, let me know what you think.

H!L.

D.C.B. Chocolate Pistachio Snowflakes

These were fun and easy to make, you just have to make sure you don't burn them!!! I burned my first batch, and my dogs ended up getting treats. When I figured out a good temperature to bake them at and for how long it was a breeze. At the end of the process these taste like homemade milano cookies with a pistachio crust.... yeah think about that one for a sec. Milano cookies are good, pistachios are good, combined they are amazing! I had no idea when I was making these that it would turn out how it did. It was quite serendipitous.

H!L.

D.C.B. Chocolate Crinkles!

Today I made:
Chocolate Crinkles!

Hello all!

You guys know the date so this is cookie number 3! It's the first time I've ever made these and they don't really look like what I wanted them to...

Since it was my first time working with these cookies I really had no idea what to expect, I was half expecting something cakey. They turned out like a chocolate amaretti, nice light little packages of chocolate flavored air with a caramelized bottom. They are inhaled so quickly you hardly have time to even realize you're even eating a cookie by the time its gone... you're just left with a taste of something sweet.

As all cookies go, you will have your issues. Today mine was this... I made cookies to the size of the recipe BUT they took up the whole pan! If you notice the cookie on the right has a bit of a flat side where I had to break it away from the rest of the bunch. The Crinkle on the left is actually HALF the size of the one on the right, in all I got exactly 80 of the large and 80 of the small.

If you ever need a light cookie with a cup of tea or some morning coffee, this would definitely foot the bill! Not to mention, THERE IS NO BUTTER in this cookie, kind of amazing if you ask me... There may just be a new house favorite here.

H!L.

D.C.B. Holiday Spritz!

Hello, it's now day two of my December Cookie Bender, and not having a camera that works with your laptop is kinda a pain in the butt. I thought maybe I could download the app for Blogger, and that's exactly what I did! However, it kept freezing and crashing on me.... So I've been spending 2hours figuring out how to post without bugging people for help.

...and this is what I came up with. Take pictures with my super awesome camera phone that likes to freeze and crash on me, then email it to myself, BECAUSE I have some weird issue with my phone that won't let me update and won't put my pictures on my computer so, email is really the only way to go here. These were the best pictures my camera would take so enjoy!


Hopefully you guys have seen these things before on a table spread at friend or family members house during the holidays. Perhaps you may have seen these passing a Christmas display somewhere... I'll let you think about it for a minute...

Today I made Holiday Spritz

Usually you will see these around during the Christmas season... at least I always take notice of them when I see them, they scream Christmas! These are super fun to make, I have a cookie gun for them so that kind of explains the excitement =D In the end I had to make two batches because it was so entertaining! I tried to lay out all the shapes I made so you can get a good look at them. If you've never had them and wonder what they taste like, it tastes like a shortbread cookie! They aren't hard crunchy cookies either, they have a nice tender buttery center... I can hear you saying yum over there. If you've seen Holiday Spritz but never tried them you should definitely reconsider, they are delicious!

H!L.

December Cookie Bender!

Hello all!

Today is the first day of December, and soo it's the first day of cookies....

Ooooo Ahhhhh......

These lovely little things are white chocolate lemon cookies w/ a lemon sugar glaze...

For the most part these will be gone by sun up, lemon cookies seem to disappear kinda fast around here... wonder why that is?

I almost thought I wouldn't be home from class quick enough (I got out at 9pm) to make cookies for the first day of the cookie bender. I barely made it .... 11:30pm post... BUT IT'S STILL THE FIRST! I MADE IT!!!

H!L