Friday, July 18, 2008

three for three


Recently, Annika mentioned to the Man that she would like to repeat a day in San Francisco that we had in March. The first place we hit that day was Tartine, a small but well-known neighborhood bakery in the Mission District. While we were there, Annika munched on Mexican Wedding Cookies, covering herself in powdered sugar. This memory, and her wish to return to Tartine helped to decide our Cookie of the Week.


This particular recipe is from Martha Stewart's Cookies, although most of the recipes included are also available online, and you can find it here. The recipe produced a cookie with a very solid, typical taste of a Mexican Wedding Cookie; for that I was grateful, since they didn't exactly look typical. The recipe called for pressing whole, blanched almonds onto the top of the cookie, but whole, blanched nuts are something that would have been picked out by the kids, so I omitted. However, the recipe also asked one to "flatten slightly". It is obvious to me that I flattened "awholelotta". Mexican Wedding Cookies should be dome shaped.

In any case, the cookies are almost gone, which as Martha would say, is a very good thing. After all, 1 cup of butter and 1 cup of almonds is the bulk of the recipe that only yields 20 cookies. Yikes!

5 comments:

Chelsea said...

Dude, I don't know what you're talking about with the Fancy Pants blog since yours has some Seriously socks and some Martha Stewart cookies. I couldn't dream of being more Fancy Pants! ;) Have I mentioned how much I love that pic of those dang cute socks and shoes?!! So jealous! I must get me some of that dang yarn! :p

IrishGirlieKnits said...

Wow!! Those look absolutely delicious!! And do the macadamia chocolate chip ones from last week!! Delish!

a friend to knit with said...

you know. i am going to have to make all of your cookies in the fall. especially after your reviews.
hope you had a fantastic weekend!

At Home Mommy Knits said...

The cookies look yummy.

Anonymous said...

your Mom said....
Check out Cooking Lights Version of the Wedding cookie that a reader sent in. I think Annika would like it.

Where did you get those darling Converses?

Love you
Mom