What's Christmas without cookies? Especially in our family! The first two batches, made earlier this month, are long gone. So Sarah and I made a double batch of peanut butter blossoms. We then rolled and cut spice cookies made from Grandma Kunde's recipe, which has now been handed down three generations. It is an intimidating recipe. Just to give you some perspective: a whole batch calls for 8- 10 pounds of flour. I usually make half a batch, which results in a lump of dough the size of a small bowling ball. You don't roll and cut the entire batch at one time (unless you've been working out). Today we made a mere 11 dozen: that's 132 of them (yes -- I did count!) These, plus the date-nut pinwheels I made last night, are more than enough for two people who are supposed to be watching what they eat.
Peanut butter blossoms. Less than half an hour after I took this picture, the pile was decimated by the non-bakers in the family sneaking by and grabbing samples.
These spice cookies used up only a third of the half-batch of cookie dough I mixed. (There really are 132 cookies in this pile).
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