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[the_rck]

Scott is really missing Christmas cookies. To be honest, I am too. It doesn't seem like the holidays without having three or four different kinds of cookies around all the time. The problem is that I can't manage cookies-- all the in and out of the oven, filling and emptying cookie sheets, wears me out until I can't stay upright any longer-- while Scott doesn't have time to make them. I have a zillion recipes. We just don't have the wherewithal to make them

I've been thinking, though-- I can make anything that is baked as one unit. I know that chocolate chip cookies can be baked that way and cut into bars. I can also make butterscotch brownies (though those tend to come out in such a way that they don't come out of the pan neatly). I'm trying to think of other things that can be baked as bars. After I get through this week and the book fair, I'll look at my copies of Joy of Cooking. I don't know what I'll find, but there's got to be something.

Anybody know any great recipes for bars or other things that don't require a lot of time on one's feet? I can't have walnuts or peanuts, but other nuts seem to be safe.

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[booniverse.livejournal.com]

Hey hey! I was just thinking of cookies. Would it wear you out if, say, I came over with dough in hand and we made cookies? I could do this thing if you wanted. Probably better when my cold is past the moist stage so next weekend would be more ideal than this weekend. I also have a TON of cookie cutter shapes that never get used if you like cut out Christmas cookies.

As far as bar cookies, I have a really good recipe for a candycane/chocolate chip one which is a bit of a pain mashing up the peppermint and you have to cut it right out of the oven but it makes a lot and it's pretty simple (bonus: no nuts). I also have one that has a dark chocolate cream cheese like middle layer that is super tasty called Split Levels (http://www.quirkspace.com/booniverse/?p=2828).

[the_rck]

Both of those recipes sound good to me. I like peppermint, so that's a bonus.

I would enjoy getting together to make cookies. Next weekend, one day, we're taking the girl up to visit her cousins so that we can do some shopping. I don't know yet whether that will happen Saturday or Sunday. There was some possibility that Scott's sister's family might have an event of some sort scheduled one day. They weren't sure.