- Glittering Lemon Sandwich Cookies (instead of lemon, used candy canes to make them minty)
- Lemon Bars (these don't look like much in the photo below, but they are a HIT)
- Perfected Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Melted Snowmen Sugar Cookies
- Martha Stewart Holiday Fudge
- Stamped Sugar Cookies (using stamps from Williams Sonoma)
I baked every night for a week to get everything done. It was exhausting, but mostly a success.
I've made the sandwich cookies before, and got a bit big for my britches... I didn't space the sandwich halves far enough apart on the cookie sheet, so some were stuck together after baking and crumbled when I tried to separate them.
This is the first year I made Martha's holiday fudge recipe, and I think it's a keeper... but we'll see when I want to do it next year. It's a cheater fudge recipe (i.e. uses marshmallows). Authenticity isn't my concern as much as the lightness of the fudge. It was yummy, but not quite as dense as I prefer my fudge to be.
And I may go back to regular sugar cookies with royal icing for next year. The WS stamps were a cute novelty item (albeit pricey!), but I want sugar cookies to have a big, thick, sugary layer of icing, which you couldn't do with stamped cookies, lest you lose the stamping effect.
Merry Baking!
Madcap J
