"Cindy Hamilton" > wrote in message
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On Tuesday, December 22, 2015 at 9:19:24 PM UTC-5, graham wrote:
> So far I've made for gifts:
> 8 dozen almond tarts
> 3 dozen choc chip cookies
> 3 dozen crispy cornflake cookies
> 1.5 dozen canelés de Bordeaux
> 4 dozen financiers
> 3 dozen pink peppercorn madeleines
> and there's a batch of the NY Times choc chip dough in the fridge, sans
> white sugar.
>
> Last night I made a batch of Bouchon Bakery oatmeal cookies (for my
> d-i-l) substituting dried blueberries for raisins (which she hates). I
> cut back the sugar significantly and the cinnamon by a third. The
> cookies look fine but they are still repulsively sweet and that masks
> the flavour of the blueberries. I would have thought that such an
> esteemed patisserie would have been more conservative in its use of
> sugar, particularly as the head patissier, at that time, was French.
>
> Tomorrow I will bake the NYT cookies and also make a batch of chocolate
> crunch (a British school lunch treat) for each of my sons. When she
> retired, the head cook at my school gave my mother the recipe along with
> a pan that she used and which I now have.
>
> Many years ago I used to make mince pies but people will nibble on one
> to remind themselves that they don't particularly like them, so I don't
> bother now. I was going to make some macadamia cookies and Parisian
> macarons but I think that I've contributed more than enough calories to
> the season.
> Graham

No holiday baking here; it's just the two of us and we're both
losing weight.

I'd kill for one of my husband's chocolate chip cookies. Just one,
so it's not worth making a whole batch.

Cindy Hamilton

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I've been doing a lot of "to give away" baking, and dh always snags one or
two.

Cheri