Tiny Bites giveaways: Christmas cookie sampler and recipe booklet
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Karen Hamilton
December 10, 2008
‘Tis the season to fire up your ovens, and that is exactly what 8 ladies did last week in preparation for this year’s Christmas Cookie Exchange.
Fellow wine enthusiast Karen G. rallied a group of us together at her home to showcase our baking prowess and exchange a dozen of our home baked goodies with all the participants. If your arithmetic gears are already turning, yes, that did indeed require each attendee to churn out a whopping eight dozen treats for this affair. Yikes!
Everyone’s contribution was so yummy that I asked the group’s permission to compile the recipes** into a Christmas cookbooklet, with a sidebar for the baker’s special notes and representative photos from yours truly. Here it is in PDF format for you to enjoy.
Christmas Cookie Exchange 2008 Cookbooklet
(3.6 MB, PDF)
Below is a brief of what everyone made last week:
Lorretta made a batch of lovely peanut butter cookies. One half was mixed in with white chocolate and coconut while the other contained cranberries.
Lori made a batch of no-bake, refrigerator bars crammed with cocoa, oatmeal, and coconut.
Crystal made a batch of brown sugar cookies that seem a breeze to make and a delight to nibble on.
Lucia made a great shortbread with pine nuts and fresh rosemary.
Nicole made ginger snap cookies wrapped like giant Christmas crackers. Some were made with organic sugar (like my dozen) and others with normal sugar. There’s also some molasses in there – yum!
Katie broke the rules by making chocolate chip cookies (as with gingerbread cookies, chocolate chip was discouraged) but we were all glad that she did. Her take on the classic contained heaps of dark chocolate chips, Christmas-coloured M&Ms, and dried cranberries.
After making what I’ve dubbed the candy canes from hell last year, I decided to find something along the same theme that was a little more practical. This year’s candy cane cookies were still a trial to shape and twist into dual-coloured hooks, but with a lot of help from my talented mother-in-law, who flew in that morning from Winnipeg, we got 8 dozen out of the oven in 2.5 hours…thanks Mom!
Our hostess with the mostest made almond biscotti dipped in white chocolate, with miniature cookie cutters attached to each bag as a parting gift. The biscotti that we reserved for our private cookie jar are already gone, and I’m tempted to knock on Karen’s door to ask for more.
Want some cookies?
So here I am at home, staring in dismay at this plethora of fantastic cookies that we cannot possibly ingest before we leave for our 3 week trip to Asia. They are too good not to be shared, so how about this: meet me this Friday and walk away with a sampler tin of Christmas cookies!
The Details:
Uva Wine Bar
900 Seymour Street | Downtown Vancouver
Friday, December 12, 2008
10am – 2pm (continental breakfast, lunch and espresso bar available throughout the day)
Look for me or for the table with a heapload of cookies
The Conditions:
Be the first one to serenade me with a Christmas jingle and this lovely poinsettia tin of cookies is yours!
For those of you that show up after the tin has been claimed, don’t fret. The other tins are set aside for everyone to snack on, and I’ve thrown in some of the other holiday baking that we have in our pantry as bonus treats.
So enjoy these recipes and come on down on Friday to indulge in some Christmas baked goodness with me!
** To date, we have compiled 6 7 all 8 recipes represented at the exchange. Many thanks to all of you for your patience and feedback while we finished amalgamating these recipes.
Categories: Dessert, Events, Food, Recipes
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I would love to receive the refrigerator cookies recipe that Lori made. I’m planning to share this recipe with a friend that doesn’t bake.
Hope to hear from you soon!
May you have an enjoyable Christmas!
Irasema Pimentel
I would love to get a copy of the booklet and the peanut butter cookie receipe. I have made cookies and candy for Christmas presents morwe years than I like to remember and all these look delicious. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas. Carolyn Pluckhahn
The ginger is missing in the gingersnaps how much do we add?
Irasema: I’ve passed on your request to the group and hope to update the PDF with this recipe soon. I’ll email you separately the moment it’s available.
Carolyn: Similarly, the ginger quantity is missing from the recipe that was passed on to me. I’m in the process of confirming that for you and will update the PDF once I hear back from the group.
Great idea with the cookie giveaway! I am trying to moderate my guilty muching, but failing miserably!
I would be happy to share more biscotti with you! I altered the recipe with some fresh rosemary and pinenuts to make a savoury biscotti that pairs *amazingly* with brie and a nice red (JT Meritage Grand reserve was my potion of choice).
I will let you know as soon as I get any updates on the recipes!
such a great idea with the PDF document.
i’ve done a cookie exchange before with my mom’s workplace. but yeah, WAY TOO MANY COOKIES after that. i think i may have ended up bringing some to a christmas party i went to.
Nice meeting you last night at The Cellar
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Karen, it was great to meet you yesterday. Thanks for the cookie, a nice surprise with my coffee! Have a wonderful trip and a fantastic holiday season!
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