#I call the margarita cookies citrus sables when I give them to people

[tj-crochets]

Every once in a while I dig out my favorite recipe books and pick a complicated dessert to make

This time I’m thinking brown sugar walnut bourbon cookies, monster cookies (oatmeal and peanut butter and m&ms), chocolate cinnamon chipotle sugar cookies, cinnamon-cayenne palmiers, chocolate crinkles, or margarita cookies (I leave out the tequila so they’re citrus cookies)

#I can’t decide what to make!! #I mean I don’t have the ingredients for anything except maybe the chocolate crinkles right now #but there is a grocery run in the near future anyway #I totally cheat on the palmiers and use frozen puff pastry #rolling out a dough like that where you have to fold the butter in #when it’s super hot outside #just sounds miserable lol also my attention span is not great #I call the margarita cookies citrus sables when I give them to people #because I never use tequila so they are like orange-lime cookies? #that recipe is online not from these books #hmmmm decisions decisions oh wait almost forgot #food mention #recipe books #I’ll leave the bourbon out of the sugar coating on those walnut cookies this time #because like every antihistamine I’m on is like DONT HAVE ALCOHOL #But I miiight include it in the dough. it bakes off a bit and it’s like two tbsp in the dough that makes like 40 cookies

[tj-crochets]

Hey y’all!! I am on a quest for recipes. I want to make Milly next door (the grandma who invited me to come knit with her on her porch any time) a holiday basket with the plushies for her grandkids, some hot cocoa mix, and several different kinds of cookies/desserts (she’s also the one that made us chocolate banana bread when we moved in to welcome us) What are your favorite holiday cookie/brownie/fudge/etc recipes that don’t use vinegar* and are easy to give other people (so like not cake)? I have my own favorite recipes for gingersnaps, chocolate chip cookies, citrus sables (aka non-alcoholic margarita cookies**), and chocolate oatmeal no bake cookies, but I am still looking for recipes for other types of cookies. Maybe chocolate crinkle cookies? Maybe turning the spiced brownies into cookies somehow?? Maybe some flavor of cookie I am unaware of?? *I know it’s not a common dessert ingredient but I’m allergic **the recipe calls them margarita cookies but I make them without tequila, and one time I brought them to a kids crochet group a church was hosting that I was helping teach and blurted out “citrus sables” when they asked what the cookies were and I realized they probably would not approve of giving kids cookies called “margarita cookies” even without the tequila Edit: Milly is not her name, I always use pseudonyms for other people online but can never remember which one I used last time so please just assume if I am talking about my nice neighbor grandma it’s the same one 

#looking for cookie recipes #food mention #tj bakes #it's holiday baking time and I want to get started #I have a lemon and an orange and the citrus recipe calls for a lime and an orange #so I think I'll make the lemonade version of citrus sables this weekend? #oh wait I don't have coarse sugar for the edges of the cookie #hmmmm maybe I'll grab some? maybe I'll make something else #TJ's quest for cookies #that will be the blacklistable tag for this quest (assuming I get any responses lol) #I should also make a basket for the nice grandma who forcibly adopted my dad at his church #I don't think she literally said 'you're new in town and don't know anyone? not anymore! I'm your grandma now' #but from how my dad told the story that was very much the vibe