Today is the start of the second annual 12 Weeks of Christmas Cookies bloghop. I again am joining other fabulous food bloggers around the net who will post a new cookie recipe every Friday for the next 12 weeks. I plan to post new cookie recipes, as well as a couple of my favorite cookie recipes that for some unknown reason I haven’t blogged about yet. Hopefully, we’ll end up with some great ideas and fabulous cookies to give away to friends and family for Christmas. I can’t believe Christmas is only 12 weeks away.
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My first recipe comes from a cute little cookie cookbook, One Dough Fifty Cookies. I was the winner of a cookie contest hosted by the wonderful Jaime, of Sophistimon. (Thanks Jaime!) My prize was from Ice Box Bakery and included fun cookie baking accessories in addition to the cookbook. Ice Box Bakery sells premium all-natural cookie dough, ready to slice and bake. You can buy Ice Box Cookie dough at many locations, including Whole Foods in Utah.
The cookbook gives you a master cookie dough recipe that makes 12 to 20 dozen cookies. Then it gives you 50 recipes to use to change the basic butter cookie dough into nearly any type of cookie you’d like to make. You can make all the cookies at once, or you can freeze part of the dough and make different kinds of cookies later. This would be a great option if you are pressed for time but still want to make a wide variety of cookies.
I tried two of the recipes in the first section of the book, Spritz and Hand-Formed Cookies. The first cookie, Jelly Bowls, is a basic thumbprint cookie which used ½ of the Master Dough recipe and ¾ cup of jam. I used my homemade peach and strawberry freezer jams.
The second recipe, Zesty Lime and Almond Sticks, was my favorite of the two. Both cookies are a crisp, crumbly and lightly sweet cookie, but I loved the added zip from the lime and the extra crunch from the almonds in the lime cookies. I added a white chocolate drizzle to dress them up a bit.
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Zesty Lime Almond Sticks
Ingredients
- 1 cup whole natural almonds
- ½ recipe Master Dough*
- 1 ½ teaspoons freshly grated lime zest
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
- ¾ cup confectioners' sugar
- 3 large egg whites lightly beaten with ¼ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350º. In a food processor, process the almonds until finely ground. (I used almond meal.)
- In a large bowl, beat together the dough, lime zest, juice and ½ cup of the ground almonds with an electric mixer on medium speed until thoroughly combined.
- Chill the dough, if necessary, until firm enough to roll.
Notes
Be sure and check out all of the fabulous cookies the other 12 weeks of Christmas Cookies bakers baked up for this week. If you’d like to participate weekly in our 12 weeks of Christmas Cookies posts, we’d love to have you join us and add your cookie recipe links. April, https://abbysweets.blogspot.com/, is the group’s founder, you can contact her at aprilsattic at comcast dot net to join.
Faith
The 12 Weeks of Christmas Cookies sounds like such a fun event! These cookies sound delicious and are so pretty with the white chocolate drizzle!
natalie (the sweets life)
I absolutely love almond anything in cookies and never would have thought to try it with lime. What a great recipe, looking forward to every Friday 🙂
Joy
I don’t believe christmas is that close. What a great challenge. I would love the participate.
Heidi
I love lime! Can’t wait to try these! I think the citrus flavor will be a great addition to a plate of Christmas cookies. Thanks for sharing this recipe!
Blessings~
~H
Asha@FSK
I like the Zesty Lime and Almond Sticks too!!!! I loved them.. Thanks Barbara for sending me some :)))))))))))))
megan
I think the lime would be my favorite too!
Jamie
I love lime or any citrus in cookies. They add such great flavor. Sounds like an interesting cookbook. Looking forward to all your other cookie recipes.
Barbara
A super idea, Barbara, and I’d love to join in, but I probably couldn’t/wouldn’t do one a week so I’d be a pretty poor addition to your group. I’ll go check to see if your group would put up with a once-in-a-while member!
Love your cookies. They look similar to a Polish cookie I make called kolacky, but that uses cream cheese in the dough.
BethieofVA
These look delicious!! Mail me one.
Megan
I love these! Two for the price of one! That’s my kind of cookie. 🙂
Dajana
They look so lovely and delicate, I think I wouldn’t be able to stop popping these into my mouth.
Kim
Using a master dough sounds like a fun idea. I have to say that I love the name Jelly Bowls – very cute! Saying that, I think the almond sticks would be my favorite too. I love the way the kitchen smells when you baking with almonds.
I’m looking forward to all your cookies this season.
P.S. My husband thought I was crazy when I mentioned that we needed to start saving for xmas. It will be here before you know it.
April
I am so excited this morning, I can hardly stand myself. LOL…These look fantastic! I am going to have to find a copy of that book!
Pam
These look fantastic! I am so excited to have joined and can’t wait to see what else you will be baking up!
Jennifer @ Maple n Cornbread
Yay, here we go! I love the sounds of these almond sticks and the master cookie recipe, how neat! That would come in handy for holiday cookie baking for sure! Jam bowls are always a winner to me and a great use of homemade jam!
Jessica @ How Sweet
Those are genius! Yum!
Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella
Mum I love these posts-I remember last year’s! I get so excited when I see your cookie recipes. You know everyone at Mr NQN’s work went crazy over your Cinnadoodles! 😛 xxx
Lina
WOw, these look amazing!! how does the blog hop work? Can we put in our cookies in too?
Barbara
Thanks Lina. If you’d like to participate weekly in our 12 weeks of Christmas Cookies posts, we’d love to have you join us and add your cookie recipe links. April, http://abbysweets.blogspot.com/, is the group’s founder you can contact her at aprilsattic at comcast dot net
Lisa
Your cookies are so pretty. They’re just the thing to dress up any Christmas cookie plate.
Bridgett
You are so creative! Hard to believe there is such a short time left until Xmas. The lime cookies will definitely put me in the holiday mood!