What’s higher than a night at house with buddies and cookies? Listed here are a number of images of our cookie swap, plus the successful recipe…
What a variety. I hosted my first cookie swap 14 years in the past, as a sleepy new mother (can you notice child Toby in the second picture?), then once more for the previous couple years, and now for the fourth time. It’s all the time certainly one of my favourite gatherings.
My buddy Leah ordered these personalised picture cookies, which made us all chuckle. Brooklyn 9-9! The Warriors! Panda Dunks! Potato chips!
My buddy Zahra made home made Oreos.
Dan Pelosi introduced his Italian cookies, in fact.
We drank wine and egg nog…
And mingled.
A cookie swap isn’t normally a contest, however 14-year-old Toby likes to proclaim himself choose. “I didn’t attempt all of them,” he admitted to the group this 12 months. “I obtained full.” However he did style the lion’s share, and the much-agreed-upon winner was…
These improbable thumbprint cookies within the pink field, above. They had been extremely scrumptious — with tart ardour fruit and a comfortable cookie that tasted nearly like shortbread.
Author and novice baker, Ruby Smith (proper, with Erika), was sort sufficient to e-mail me her recipe the subsequent day:
Ardour Fruit Thumbprint Cookies
1 cup unsalted butter (softened)
2/3 cup (150 grams) sugar
2 egg yolks (room temp)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (you may also add a number of drops of almond extract, should you like)
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 1/3 cup (300 grams) all-purpose flour
1/2 cup (or thereabouts) ardour fruit curd (Ardour Fruit curd might be laborious to search out. I purchase it at Kalustyan’s, and you may also order it on-line. You need to use lemon curd, as an alternative; or any sort of jam. I simply made them for my household with guava butter that my mother introduced again from a visit — scrumptious.)
Preheat the oven to 350 levels and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
Utilizing a stand mixer (or hand mixer), beat the softened butter with the sugar for two minutes, or till effectively mixed. Add within the egg yolks, vanilla, and salt and beat till included. Combine within the flour. The dough can be a bit crumbly, however ought to stick collectively when pressed.
Roll into balls and use your thumb or the deal with of a picket spoon to make indents in every cookie. Spoon the curd into every cookie. Bake for 11-14 minutes. The cookies are carried out once they look matte with none moist or shiny spots, however they need to nonetheless be fairly comfortable to the contact. They are going to set extra as they cool. Let cool utterly and luxuriate in.
Blurry picture however I nonetheless adore it 🙂
What about you? Have you ever ever hosted a cookie social gathering? Or one other sort of gathering you’d advocate? At all times take pleasure in listening to about get-togethers…
P.S. Final 12 months’s epic cookie swap, and the 12 months earlier than that (how cute is that sweater?).
(Movie images by Erika Veurink.)