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These are two of my favorite cookie recipes, provided courtesy of the Lil' Lucy Woman. Housemates: I will try to make these at some point this winter.


Chocolate Mint Pinwheels
One 10 oz. pkg. (1 ½ cup) Nestle Toll House Mint Chocolate Morsels, divided
¾ cup butter, softened
1/3 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 ¼ cup flour
½ tsp. salt

Melt over hot (not boiling) water, ½ of the chocolate morsels, stir until smooth. Cool, set aside in bowl, combine butter and sugar, beat until creamy. Add egg and vanilla extract, beat well (Note: mixture will look curdled). Gradually add flour and salt. Place 1 cup of dough in bowl. Add melted morsels, blend thoroughly.

Shape into ball; flatten. Cover with plastic wrap. Shape remaining dough into ball. Flatten. Cover with plastic wrap. Chill until firm – about 1 ½ hours.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Between sheets of waxed paper, roll each ball of dough into 13” by 9” rectangle. Remove top layers of waxed paper. Invert chocolate dough on plain dough. Peel off waxed paper. Roll up lengthwise, jelly roll style. Cut into ¼” slices. Bake at 375 deg for 7 to 8 minutes. Cool.

Melt over hot (not boiling) water the remaining 1 cup of morsels. Stir until smooth. Spread flat side of each cookie with ½ slightly rounded teaspoonful of melted morsels.
Chill.

Makes 3 ½ dozen cookies.

Ischl Tartlets

2 ¾ cups sifted all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
1 cup (2 sticks) butter margarine, softened
1 package (3 oz) cream cheese, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
½ cup almonds, ground
1 tablespoon grated lemon rind
1 jar (12 oz) raspberry preserves
10X (confectioners) sugar

Sift flour and baking powder onto wax paper. Beat butter, cream cheeses, sugar and egg in a large mixing bowl until light and fluffy. Add flour mixture, blending thoroughly. Stir in ground almonds and lemon rind. Turn dough out onto wax paper (mixture will be sticky). Shape into a ball. Chill several hours or overnight.

Cut dough in half. (Refrigerate other half). Roll out dough to a 1/8” thickness on a lightly floured pastry board with a lightly floured rolling pin. Cut the dough with a 3” round cookie cutter as many circles as you can. Place circles on ungreased cookie sheets. Refrigerate scraps of dough for re-rolling.

Repeat with the other half of the dough, cutting out an equal number of circles as the first batch. Place on cookie sheets. With a 1” cookie cutter or thimble, cut out center of each circle. Ball scraps of dough for second rolling, cutting out equal numbers of solid and cut-out circles.

Bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees) for 8 minutes or until edges of cookies are lightly browned. Remove cookie sheets from oven and let stand for one minute, then remove cookies with wide spatula to wire racks. Cool thoroughly.

Heat raspberry preserves in a small saucepan. Spread each of the solid cookies completely to edge, with a thin layer of hot preserves. Top each solid cookie with a cutout cookie. Press together to make a sandwich. Place on wire rack. Sprinkle tops of tartlets with confectioners sugar.

Spoon a dab of preserves into the opening of each tart; let preserves set slightly.
Store between wax paper-lined layers in an airtight tin.

Makes about 3 ½ dozen cookies.

Date: 2004-12-12 03:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] effrontery.livejournal.com
We missed you at the cookie exchange tonight!

Date: 2004-12-12 05:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] funkyplaid.livejournal.com
Heh. Even a sad marquee makes me happy with glee.

Uh, and chocolate pinwheel cookies! GET IN THE KITCHEN!

:)

your icon

Date: 2004-12-13 05:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angledge.livejournal.com
Uh, and chocolate pinwheel cookies! GET IN THE KITCHEN!

I'm afraid I cannot justify making cookies for people who are heartless enough to steal hats from Toys for Tots (http://www.livejournal.com/users/funkyplaid/51346.html).

Re: your icon

Date: 2004-12-13 05:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] funkyplaid.livejournal.com
Damn. You really know how to rub it in.

Keep your chocolate pinwheel cookies, then. I'll find some other live-in housewife.

Or not.
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Date: 2004-12-13 05:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angledge.livejournal.com
Hope we can smeel them from over here.

Surely teh Intarweb has some way of emailing scents?
*considers all the stinky g33ks out there*
Then again, maybe that's not such a good idea.

Date: 2004-12-12 05:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hollyinpa.livejournal.com
While your Snowman Coffee Mug set was sadly missed at this year's gift exhange, I think we topped it with a 15-piece manicure set - which was not-so-rightly won by our dear Naomi. The teddy bears made a repeat appearance at the exchange and will most likely return for a third time next year. Be there or be square.

Date: 2004-12-13 04:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angledge.livejournal.com
I left the Snowman Coffee Mug set with the Cupcakes! IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE!!!

Date: 2004-12-13 05:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hollyinpa.livejournal.com
They didn't come to the cookie bake.

Date: 2004-12-13 05:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hollyinpa.livejournal.com
They weren't at the cookie bake.

Maybe the snowman mug set will have a new owner at another gift exchange.

Date: 2004-12-13 06:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] calamityshane.livejournal.com
We weren't invited to the cookie bake.

Date: 2004-12-13 06:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hollyinpa.livejournal.com
I am sorry to hear that. Let's try and get together for another game night...one where we actually play games.:-) Although just hanging out and chatting was great fun.

Have a great week.

Date: 2004-12-13 06:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] calamityshane.livejournal.com
Yes, it is a sorry affair, isn't it? Glad you had fun, though and it's good to hear that Joycie got out. The Snowman Mug Set will be re-gifted and used in Andrea's polyanna at work. One of the secretaries is bound to love it! We have a christmas party to attend on the 18th and we're going to Pittsburg for New Year's Eve. Game night after all the hooplah?

Date: 2004-12-13 07:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hollyinpa.livejournal.com
Be sure the Snowman Mug Set gets a good home! Enjoy your Christmas in Pittsburgh. We'll be in the Poconos for New Years. Let's plan a game night for early 2005.

Date: 2004-12-13 12:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] effrontery.livejournal.com
I meant to tell you, too...I'm completely envious of you being so close to serious wine country! I've heard from a couple reliable sources that this is excellent, reasonably priced wine (too bad they don't sell it here...sigh...)

If you happen to try it, let me know how it is, 'k?

You comin' anywhere near this coast for Christmas?

Date: 2004-12-13 04:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angledge.livejournal.com
You comin' anywhere near this coast for Christmas?

Sorry, but no. I'm going to visit my grandparents in Oregon for Christmas this year. I see them, oh, once a decade or so ...

Damn Good Wine

Date: 2004-12-13 05:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angledge.livejournal.com
OK, that's stupid. The URS corporate firewall blocked access to the Damn Good Wine website & gave me the following notice:

"Access Denied.

http://damngoodwine.com/vini_ClineNewYear.htm has been categorized as Drugs. It has been blocked per your organization's Internet Usage Policy for group Public.

If you feel you reached this page in error please, contact your System Adminstrator."

Re: Damn Good Wine

Date: 2004-12-13 05:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] funkyplaid.livejournal.com
Um, YEAH you've reached this page in error.

WINE is not a DRUG.

It's medicine.

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