The Goose Isn't the Only One Getting Fat!

Okay, so these are not ginger cookies. But in the midst of my quest, it turns out that Christmas is coming and I've been invited to a cookie swap and I want to make some Christmas cookies with my grandchildren and then I got an idea so here it is:

I know it looks a little like cranberries in the middle but it is not. It happens to be ground up candy canes. And they are delicious. The plate started out full but.....

The dough is a basic plain cookie dough and I saved a quarter of it to mix with the candy canes. I rolled the plain part out into a pretty good long rectangle and rolled the middle part into a little log. Then I put that little pink log in the middle of the rectangle and wrapped the dough around it and formed a square shape (kind of). Next time I will try a

nd get it to

be more of a square with a circle inside it, but this time it is what it is.

Plain cookie dough

I know you are supposed to sift but I don't. I just put the first three things in a bowl and whisk them all together. Then in the big red mixer, I put the butter and sugar and cream them. After which, I add the egg and the vanilla. Here goes:

3 cups flour

2/3 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 sticks butter

1 large egg

2 teaspoons vanilla (I have the Mexican kind that is really flavorful.)

After the butter mixture is all stirred up, add the flour mixture to it and keep mixing until it's all in.

Once you have the cookie log formed, wrap it in parchment and put it in the fridge until cold.. at least an hour. When ready to bake, cut it into 1/8" slices and place on baking pan. Bake in a preheated 350 degree

oven for anywhere from 7-12 mintes. I know this is a big range, but after the first sheet you will know how long it takes your oven. I take them out when the edges just begin to turn golden brown.

When I first started cooking, I followed recipes to the letter. Now after I have tried something a few times I start to make it mine. Then I do it the way it makes the most sense to me. I have had some serious disasters in my days of cooking, but mostly it turns out yummy.

So here we go a wassailing and Christmas is a comin, the goose is

getting fat, please to put a penny in the old man's hat... How lucky am I to be baking cookies in my nice warm kitchen and singing carols where nobody can hear me???