Half-baked
47½ dozen baked so far, about half way through the cookie recipes. I didn’t make candy last year (truffles, chocolate nuts), so I’m definitely needing to do that this year. I wish I had the recipe for my friend’s father’s fudge. I miss it.
This year I was smarter(?) though — I tried all the new (and some quite weird) recipes first. I thought the mashed-potato cookies would be weirdest, but that title goes to the wine cookies. They’re startlingly purple, and quite bland — almost a cracker with sugar on top. But they grow on you. It’s one of those cookies that your grandmother always made and you hated as a kid, but now that you’re older you appreciate having something not so sweet.
However I do think they ought to be dipped in chocolate.
