This was me last Thursday:
Although I was wearing a cult-of-the-housewife apron like hers, I was not nearly so pleasant. Probably because I wasn't making cut-out sugar cookies shaped like gingerbread houses. I was making these *^%$#@ Seven-Layer Cookies from Epicurious.
I try a new holiday cookie recipe each year. Last year I made Cafe Brulot cookies, which tasted like Spanish coffee from Huber's in Portland. The year before I made Lovely Lemon tassies from Cooking Light. But I think I may have set the bar a little too high with the seven layers of intense almond and "sohisticated" apricot. Epicurious promised a treat with a "cosmpolitan air", but forgot to mention the frustration of creaming almond paste endlessly and gently folding in egg whites and seperating dough into three equal portions and baking impossibly thin layers of pastry and simmering an apricot preserves reduction and tempering high-quality dark chocolate. OK. So they mentioned all of that in the recipe. . . but I didn't read the recipe before I picked this cookie?!?! All I was thinking of was the fact that the layers matched my vintage wrapping paper frames, and that the Cabin could use a little "cosmopolitan" this Christmas.
Screw cospolitan. Next year I'm making cornflake wreaths again.
6 comments:
It gives me anxiety just thinking about cookies like that. LOL
(But then again, even sugar cookies are way too hard for me.)
I have learned that I have to read through recipes...to make sure I even understand all the steps. I no speaky cook languange.
Those are beautiful, El. We have friends who make a rainbow jello that looks similar. Even the jello looks to pretty and difficult for me.
Oh, wow. I bow to you and your adventurous spirit. I would have cried just looking at the ingredients. But, you look fabulous in your apron!
but they were so deliciouso!
Atta girl!
Hey at least you can bake.
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