Am…musings

In an effort to save time, I’m experimenting with my Christmas cookies. Bar cookies are my time-saving solution … mix them, press them in the pan, bake for 30ish minutes, cut and eat. No dropping by rounded spoonfuls and baking countless trays at 8-minute intervals.

Bar oatmeal and chocolate chip aren’t out of the ordinary. Although I drizzle the oatmeals with white icing. And I found a crazy Pampered Chef recipe with chopped candy bars on top of the chocolate chip cookies that I just made and they look yummy.

Where I’m getting a little crazy … I’m rolling out the sugar cookies and baking them in one big piece. Then, I’m cutting them with cookie cutters in the pan after they’re baked and still piping hot. I’m not sure this will work, but my inspiration is the ornament-shaped sugar cookies I usually make in the normal way, but then I make a hole in each one with a drinking straw after they are baked and that works great … almost better than regular cutting because they have a nice, crisp edge.

I’m also trying peanut butter blossoms (the peanut butter cookie with the Kiss on top) in the bar pan. I’m really worried about this one working, but figure what the heck.

My plan if they don’t work? Cookie shots … the sugars with drizzled icing and the peanut butters with the Kisses. All the hip restaurants are serving desserts in shot glasses so I’ll play it off as creative and trendy.

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