D.C.B. Truffle Brownies

Hey everyone!

THE LAST DAY OF DECEMBER AND, THE LAST DAY OF A COOKIE BENDER. Today the cookie is a Truffle Brownie, and yes a brownie is a cookie... has been since the 1940s. This super chocolatey truffle brownie melts in your mouth with rich and creamy flavors. However this brownie is super labor intensive with a thick chocolate ganache... it takes about 3 hours from start to finish. It's definitely not a brownie to be messed around with! It has dense decadent flavors, even a tiny piece will carry you through a chocolate paradise.... have a glass of milk on hand!

From this picture you can see all the chocolate layers... I decided to add silver sugar pearls on top of the ganache with a few white and light blue pearls to give it a new years eve feel. I suppose this will be the last cookie for a while, how sad! Hopefully you guys have all enjoyed watching my insanity unfold! Maybe there will be more cookies down the road, until then...

Hope everyone has a wonderful new years eve... HAPPY 2012!!!

H!L.

D.C.B. Shortbread Cookies!!!

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TODAY IS SHORTBREAD!!! YUMMMMM SO BUTTERY!!!! IT'S AWESOME.


So I made two pans of a fluted shortbread cookie, I took a picture of the cookie whole so you can see what it looks like originally before it's all cut up. It kinda looks like a delicious butter pie.... yea that's right, butter pie. Wonder what it tastes like? well, butter obviously! Crumbly buttery goodness... Yumm...

I thought it might be nice to show you the inside of the cookie... I realize how much I like looking at the texture of cookies while I'm eating them. I'll post my LAST cookie tomorrow... sigh, I'm really going to miss this whole December Cookie Bender thing. Anyhow I'm off to the pool hall!

H!L.

D.C.B. Chocolate Pistachio Biscotti

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Tonight I decided to try my hand at making biscotti! It turned out pretty well I think, when you first pull them out they have kind of a brownie texture... Which if you've never made them is more than a little disconcerting. You have to let them cool on a rack for a while before they start drying out, like the ones you're used to dipping in your coffee or tea. There's even some extra chocolate chunks I cut up and stuck in the dough for that little extra something.



A pretty good turn out in the end if I do say so myself =D Biscotti are twice baked cookies and they take well over half an hour to make so if you're in a time crunch this may not be the cookie for you, but since I started at 7pm today I had some time to mess around and get something nice done. If you have a lazy weekend coming up I think you should give these a try, you'll be surprised at what you can make!

H!L.

D.C.B. Chocolate Sugar Cookies

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Today is a Chocolate with the sugar cookie, I used a colorful coarse sugar to make these look like a kaleidoscope. These are really chocolatey and chewy and have a nice crunch from that sugar... THEY ARE SO GOOD!!! Don't let their looks fool you, these little cookies are delicious!

ALSO... they smell like chocolate cake! The house smells so good right now!!!!

H!L.

D.C.B. Coconut Butter Ball

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Today's cookie is a Coconut Butter Ball which is awesome! It even as a pecan in the middle of a little added surprise. These are best eaten as soon as they come out of the oven when the coconut is still warm... and even when they're cold they're good so don't worry about that.



If you're wondering why they are a million colors.... it's only food coloring, a little color never hurt anyone. They are the same thing, not different flavors.

H!L.

D.C.B. Peanut Butter Thumbprint Cookies!

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This is day a thousand and two of cookies... today is a thumbprint peanut butter cookie! It's delicious! It's not your usual chewy kind of cookie... I don't really care for those too much, however I do love light and crunchy which is just what this cookie happens to be.


I hope everyone had a good Christmas, I know I did! So much good food, gotta love the holidays! I think it's time to relax and get some art done.

H!L.

D.C.B. IT'S CHRISTMAS!!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

Today the Christmas cookie is a Chinese Chew... NO I am NOT racist... it's really what it's called, I made these for my dad for Christmas, it's a memory of his childhood. His grandmother used to send these to him for his birthday which just so happens to be near Christmas! They are a date and nut bar which are dunked in powered sugar and put in a tin just like his grandmother used to...


H!L.