The recipe of choice this week is Chewy Chunky Blondies selected by Nicole of Cookies on Friday. As far as cookie bars go,blondies play a very close second to brownies as far as I’m concerned. Especially blondies that are full of chocolate bits and toffee pieces!
I have a TWD double header going on this week. I really did make last week’s Dulce de Leche Duos and was all prepared to post about them on Tuesday but instead I had the pleasure of dealing with a broken refrigerator (which didn’t get fixed until the next morning anyway). After that I just never seemed to find a chance to post about the cookies until it just seemed to make more sense to combine two weeks worth of TWD into one.
And so, here we are…TWD two for one!
This week Mike of Ugly Food Dude selected Thumbprints For Us Big Guys on page 164. I can’t say that thumbprint cookies have ever been a favorite of mine, but I was looking forward to giving these ones a shot. Primarily because cookies are nicely portable and easy to share with my co-workers whom I have been horribly neglecting on the baking front recently.
This week’s recipe was chosen by Kait of Kait’s Plate? – My Best Chocolate Chip Cookies from page 68 of Dorie’s Baking: From My Home to Yours. I positively love chocolate chip cookies and I’m afraid I have to disagree with these being the “Best.” It’s not that they are terrible, it is hard to find a terrible chocolate chip cookie, but I did find them disappointing.
First – apologies for my unannounced (and unplanned) disappearance for the past month-ish. I did make the pecan pie back in December (actually I made it for Thanksgiving and it was wonderful), but we left town the day the post was due and I never got around to posting it in all of our travel chaos. I truly wanted to make the chocolate cheesecake but there was no way I could bring Dorie’s book in my luggage and I clean forgot to make a copy of the recipe before we left. Next thing I know, here it is mid January and I haven’t posted since mid December.
Anyway, enough with the excuses, right? This week Lillian of Confectiona’s Realm picked Chocolate Oatmeal Almost-Candy Bars on pages 114 and 115. This is one of many recipes in the book that doesn’t have a drool inspiring photo paired with it so I have often missed it as I flipped through but I am glad that Lillian selected it.
Tuesday has very nearly come and gone, so we’re aiming for a quickie this week.
Jayne, of the Barefoot Kitchen Witch, chose Coconut Butter Thins for this week’s recipe. Based on the P&Q the groups results on this one were all over the board, although the recipe seemed very simple and straight forward…
I gave some serious thought as to whether or not I was really up to baking these cookies this week. Sable cookies are not my favorite type (too dry, not gooey enough) and I’m still having a difficult time finding a new sense of equilibrium to get me through the next several months (read last week’s post for more info on that). But, this was the first 100% chocolate recipe chosen in some time. How could I look the world in the eye if the recipe I chose to skip was a fully chocolate one. Simply put, I couldn’t, so I baked.
And may I just say – Woohoo! I’m so glad I did…
Here we are on Tuesday again; this time of year time compresses and I can’t explain where each week went. This week’s TWD assignment is Buttery Jam Cookies selected by Heather of Randomosity and the Girl. This is another one of those recipes that I wouldn’t have dreamed of picking myself – no chocolate and I despise apricots (I can’t explain it, but I have simply never liked them). But there again, why did I join TWD – to continue making the same types of recipes I always choose for myself? I think not.
So I opened Dorie’s book to page 80, buckled down, and made these cookies with only a couple of modifications…
Welcome back! It seems like I just did this, oh wait, I did – maybe relaxing the rules isn’t always such a good thing, I feel like I’ve lost time somewhere. I’ll let you know if I find that time anywhere, but in the mean time let’s talk about the TWD pick-of-the-week chosen by Dennis from Living The Life: Linzer Sable Cookies.
This was another new one for me, and I have to admit to a mild twinge of disappointment at seeing another recipe without any chocolate. There are standing jokes regarding the number of (and intensity of) chocolate recipes I make, I have a reputation to uphold here! Then I saw Dorie’s playing around section which set the wheels turning…
