cookie week (1): day 7

Thanksgiving:
Happy thanksgiving to everyone. I am saving THOUSANDS of calories today by baking instead of eating thanksgiving dinner! but thank you to everyone who took pity on me and tried to pry me from my baking hovel.

Today is a good day. I have made good progress. Got back from taking Joanne to the airport at 8:30. Set up and started baking at 9:00am.

Made the strawberry (well in my case raspberry) marzipan cookies (quadruple recipe) while I was also making the dough for the Melting moments. Just had to remake them. And these are perfect. :) :) :).

Baked and Iced 240 melting moments (see picture above). Have another 10 doz to go but ran out of icing and need to go get confectioner's sugar. (again). However not sure the White Hen pantry will carry it. Would call-but quite certain whoever is working today does not speak English well enough to distinguish between sugar and confectioner's sugar. So might as well just go see.

With a break in the action I'll put some pictures of melting moments. If you are waiting for the recipe-you'll have to wait till next week. These cookies appear so simple. Yet let me tell you there are a dozen things that can go wrong.

I have taken pictures of the process and will post at the end of the week with explanations. If I gave you the recipe now and you attempted to make them-they would not turn out -of that I am quite certain. But here are some pictures of them in various stages.

They get rolled, pressed, ,baked and iced..

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After a trip to the white hen it will be back to the kitchen for me! On tap for this afternoon:
Italian chews
roll and back lemon ginger gookies
roll and bake honey spice.

that's another 50 dozen cookies for today....
stay tuned. Who knows what disaster awaits me! :).