semi-homemade cookies – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen Making Every Day an Occasion... Simply Sat, 28 Dec 2019 18:11:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-peonies-32x32.jpg semi-homemade cookies – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen 32 32 Peppermint Truffle Cookies http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/really-really-easy-peppermint-truffle-cookies/ http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/really-really-easy-peppermint-truffle-cookies/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:24:42 +0000 http://ingoodtasteblog.net/?p=3560 During the holidays, the internet is awash with complicated cookie recipes. If you read from one blog to the next it’s almost, almost as if each blogger is trying to outdo the next with the extravagance of their brand new favorite holiday cookie. I am not one of those bloggers. Several years ago I saw a cookie recipe on Martha Stewart that required a few simple ingredients: prepared sugar cookie dough, peppermint extract, red food dye, white chocolate and crushed peppermint. The idea was to flavor the sugar cookie dough with the peppermint, dye half the dough red and braid them into candy canes. Once baked and cooled, you dipped them into the white chocolate and crushed peppermints. It was way too complicated for me. I consider myself to be an excellent baker but making things look pretty? Not always my bag. I can make desserts that naturally look appealing, like rustic apple tarts and fudge brownies that relentlessly call your name until you eat a second. I can’t, however, decorate a birthday cake to rival Cake Boss or ice a sugar cookie that resembles anything other than a second graders failed art project. The moral of this story is […]

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