Baking with Eowyn

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I decided to shake up my cooking experiments this weekend and instead of trying new meals, I focused on desserts. I had a dinner to go to on Saturday night, and wanted to bring something other than a bottle of wine, so I tried two new cookie recipes.

I started out making Butter and Jam Thumbprints, using the leftover apricot jam from my chicken recipe a few weeks ago. Following the tips from the commenters on the website, I refrigerated the dough for about 15-20 minutes before adding the jam and baking. (It's best to scoop the dough onto the baking sheet and shape it first, before refrigerating, otherwise the dough will be too hard to work with.) They came out looking very nice, and they taste yummy. I decided not to bother rolling them in sugar, as the recipe suggests, which was fine, but I don't think it would hurt if they were a bit sweeter. I just didn't have the time, since I was also making...

Lemon Ricotta Cookies with Lemon Glaze. These suckers came out huge - they really spread out in the oven, so I'd advise making your scoops much smaller than the recipe tells you to. Also, I didn't have enough lemon glaze for all the cookies, but maybe I was spreading it on too thick. The cookies themselves are a little bland when eaten plain; the glaze really gives them the lemony flavor.

I got an email from my dinner hosts saying that they couldn't stop eating my cookies, so I guess that's a good review, lol. :)

Comments

[shinybaum.livejournal.com]

Lemon! nobody ever makes them and they're DELICIOUS OMg.

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I love lemon cookies. I used to have a recipe for lemon bars that I should dig up. Om nom nom.

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

Yum! What would you suggest to pep the lemon cookies up? Would more lemon zest have helped?

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Well, they tasted great with the glaze (which has lemon juice and zest). But I didn't have enough, so I ended up with some plain glazeless cookies. I'll probably just buy another lemon and make more glaze! :)

[louise39.livejournal.com]

These sound delicious. Lemon always adds a zing. I've neever had apricot taste with them. Hmm...

How are you feeling?

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I'm feeling better, thanks. Obviously I'm eating more (given all the cooking posts)! I'm still taking lots of medicine, but the doctor says maybe in a month or so we can start tapering off some of the meds.