The Witchery

I love blueberries. And I really enjoy making rugelach. So...

( Blueberry Rugelach )

Another very good source of cookie recipes is the Williams-Sonoma Cookies cookbook. Lots of very fancy, yet remarkably easy recipes can be found here. This one caught my eye because anything with macadamia nuts, coconut, and chocolate will probably turn out wonderful. Any they did.

( Coconut-Macadamia Triangles )

This year's Cook's Illustrated Holiday Baking issue had a lot of really interesting recipes. This one caught my eye, and came out really, really good.

( Chocolate Toffee Butter Cookies )

Truth be told, I'm not a real big white chocolate fan. You couldn't pay me to eat it straight. But every now and again, when mixed in with other things, it works. It really works in this recipe, as it blends seamlessly with the cranberries and cinnamon.

( White Chocolate Chip Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies )

Once again, I hauled out the cookie sheets, bought stuff in bulk at Costco, and began the 2008 12 Cookies of Christmas bake-athon. Not even my furnace dying this afternoon slowed me down (had two different guys come to fix it - first guy was here for two hours and told me he had to order a part to fix it - the second guy showed up three hours later, didn't know the first guy had been here, and ended up fixing the problem by replacing my thermostats - I gave him some cookies).

One of my friends requested old fashion sugar cookies. I, of course, had to make things a tad more complicated.

( Old Fashion Triple Vanilla Sugar Cookies )

These are seriously chocolaty cookies. They are from the Holiday Baking 2007 issue of Cook's Illustrated (a publication which I cannot recommend highly enough) and, while a bit of work, they are so worth the effort.

( Chocolate Butter Cookies  )

These cookies are actually a bit weird for me. I don't like fruit cake 'cause I don't like candied fruit. Mom, however, loves the stuff. So I pretty much made these for her. If I were to make these again, I would use dried fruit (which I actually like). So... if you like fruit cake or stolen, you'll love these cookies. If not... meh.

( Fruitcake Cookies )

A friend recently noted that you can find these kind of cookies only on the east coast. I don't know if that's true or not, but I have seen them primarily in New York City. These are a mini-version, so I can fit them into my Christmas Cookie tins. They also take a while, so give yourself plenty of time.

( Mini Black-and-White Cookies )

This was actually the second recipe of this sort of thing that I chose. The first looked very good, until I realized that it was written by someone who obviously didn't speak English and tried to translate using BableFish. So instead of a recipe that was "perfect as an annex to a good cup of coffee", I chose the following.

( Chocolate-Espresso Cookies )

I'm detecting a pattern here. A few days ago I made German Chocolate Cake for a co-worker's birthday. This left me with 4 egg whites. Guess what happened...

( Coffee Meringue Kisses )