Hi, I'm Chef Mercedes. I'm a graduate of the French Culinary Institute/International Culinary Center's classic pastry arts program. Currently I do not work in the food industry so I use this blog to share my love of eating and passion for baking with the world. I hope you’ll enjoy what I have to share about baking and that I’ll inspire you to bake as well.
Monday, December 27, 2010
Christmas Cookies
Over the next few days I'll be blogging about the Christmas cookies I made. You see, every year I make a variety of cookies to give a gifts. This year I made (clockwise from top), brownies, bourbon currant cookies, my cream cheese mints, gingerbread cookies, and (center) coconut macaroons. I think that gave a pretty diverse selection of flavors while still keeping in the Christmas-y cookie tradition. And they looked so nice together too!
Cookies are wonderful to give as gifts (and to receive, I'd imagine). I just arrange them on a white paper plate and wrap in plastic wrap. Either I tape the ends of the cling wrap together under the plate or tie them with ribbon on the top (though, that's a bit of a pain because usually you have to use two very long strips of the cling wrap to get the plate wrapped properly, so I don't tend to do it the ribbon way.)
By the way, when picking cookies to put together there are no firm rules (at least that I'm aware of). I personally like to do one really chocolaty thing, at least one crunchy/crisp cookie, and one soft/chewy cookie. In addition, I like having one that is slightly unusual and one that is pretty common. Of course these can overlap...for example a chocolate brownie would be a chocolaty, chewy, and common cookie. Don't ignore brownies or other bar cookies--cut into small squares, they count as a cookie for the purposes of a cookie plate. I tend to avoid cookies with nuts unless I'm sure the person I'm giving them doesn't have nut allergies. I also like to include at least one gluten free thing in case of someone being celiac (though that may just be because I know enough many people who can't eat gluten that now I'm used to making gluten free things.)
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