A CUTE COOKIE INSIDE A CUT'R COOKIE @ SECRET RECIPE CLUB

Yeah , this is the very same recipe that's backed the world over and has been baked in and out since 1856 , the Toll house CCC recipe.

This cookie that has little children want to drink milk or hot chocolate or what have u....
And the cookie that makes us say
"" chocolate ,chocolate , chocolate , oh how i love thee in a cookie....""

But with a little difference , these cookies are stuffed with some other cookies and chocolate too.

Having read reviews and raves and loves and different combis of this recipe , it's the secret  recipe club and Foodies@work that finally got me down to baking this very best CCC for the very first time.

The SRC was started and is organized by Amanda  and every member is assigned a blog to discover ,  explore cook/bake and enjoy.
Now we all would realize the fun and fiesta in this and i wouldnt need to get into the details , instead if u arent already a member , hop by and sign in and sooonn.

Foodies @ work is a blog by 2 foodies from 2 different cities but with one big appetite.
The reviews are fresh and very interesting , if i have to travel to Boston , NYC or beyond , this is one blog i would want to read about some more.

BUTTERY CRUNCHY LEMON VANILLA CORNMEAL SHORTBREAD COOKIES @ BWD

 Buttery and Crunchy together , specially in a shortbread spells pure Joy and happy smiles for me.

Specially more so if they happen to be in Shortbread.

Fair Warning , before ya says , oh no , lemme say , oh yes , there are hearts happening here yet again & i have my baking paraphernalia  to blame for that and happily so...

My fondness for shortbread shines with these and was enlivened when  Rivki  chose these for Baking along for our group Baking with Dorie with these....

Rubbing Zest into sugar , specially Vanilla sugar makes things even more fragrant and the addition of jus a hint of Almond extract , notches flavours to a delightful and heady love ...love for shortbread and all things shortbread.......

U MUST scoop out some butter as it beats with the sugar and the flavours , with the tip of ur little (or middle for dat matter , doesnt matter as long as u do it) , and indulge in how yummy it is and how good a Shortbread this one is going to be.

 And i must , must ,must talk about the crunch , the amazing crunch , that comes from the cornmeal , that also adds texture to the bite which is soo good and welcome.

IN INA'S GARDEN with ALMOND BUTTER JELLY BARS

I find myself reaching out for my cake tin all time whole day long , coz there are these really deliciously addictive bars in there today.

As i said in my previous post i along with my co-hosts are baking PB jelly bars this time round and i did so with almond butter for 2 reasons , i had no skippy around and secondly need to use up all that ground almond which i have.

They are buttery , which always has me grinning, + there is lods of jelly in there , actually a nice jelly layer in between.

\And not jus one type of Jelly/jam but there is some  lovely Vanilla Apricot preserve and Goiabada too .

And thats not all , instead of peanuts , one half of the bars are sprinkled with pecans and the other half with macadamia's that with all the baking get well roasted.

Whether i find a silce of one with Macadamia ....

IN INA'S GARDEN w PB JELLY BARS

Its the 5th of May , Cinco de May and a long time since my last post. There is so muc happening ,but more on that later , for now i wanna talk about Ina's Garden and one of the best PB Jelly Bars ever.

This is the first Bake along for Ina's Garden and Yummy C chose this wonderful recipe (which i am yet to bake and i sure want to and will and here is the recipe just for u )

I m baking it with a sub and am looking forward to share the experience with u , and till then if i hop to town and lay my hands on a jar of skippy PB , PB it will be.

And here are we , the co hosts of Yummy C , with this weeks PB Jelly bars.

April of The 21s Century Housewife and The 21st Century Housewife’s Kitchen

Chaya of Comfy Cook's Kosher Kitchen and Bizzy B Bakes

Louanne of Louanne’s Kitchen

Peggy of Pantry Revisited

and of course, ur truly...

We are a new group and for the introductory post we were so so glad to have many of u join in.

VANILLA SALTED BUTTERY BREAK UPS - A COOKIE for FFwD

If u have Butter ,Vanilla ,and Sel Gris( a goan one) added to flour , what else can u expect but deliciousness galore and lods of it.

Thats exactly what the Salted Butter Breaks ups that we are baking this week with FFwD , is all about , plus lods of fun.

I totally wanted to try these cut out too and at the same time didn wanna loose out on the fun of a large cookies that i could break out and dip with my coffee.(my fav current being Columbian coffee, which am sipping right now as i write).

The egg wash makes it so much easier to sprinkle some more salt , though i went the sprinkle way +  u can play around here , Lavender will be so so pretty , wouldn it ? 

Or maybe some saffron threads of Green sicilian Pistachios ?

Or jus ur fav salted nut , chopped jus the way u like it best?

Another thing i love about these is that they are nice and crispy around the edges and as u get closer to the center they tender with jus a bit of chew in them.

The smaller cookies baked crisp ,all the way thru though.

And its a very easy cookie too , u mix up and bring together the dough in a jiff , press and roll out into the thickness u want , refrigerate, paint egg wash n bake .

AN OREO COOKIE d BAKED WAY @ MANY WAYS ~BAKED SUNDAY MORNS

 If Oreo's are kind of cookie , these will be too.

They have that same ,almost same chocolaty flav ,and are filled with a filling close to the original.

For those in India , this one is a replica of the Pure magic cookie , which is also something i love.

 To begin with i have a filled Shamrock cookie, jus in time for St.Patricks aint it.
I didn sprinkle these with the salt but i think Vanilla Fleur de sal is so good.

 I know , my cookie cutter is like this and then i cut them out with mini hearts.

Baked sunday morns have thought me one thing for sure , that as fas as possible i shouldn miss out a recipe from Baked , coz they jus keep getting better + the fun of baking together is not to be missed.  


And then there are flowers, pretty flowers in time for Easter and Summer, jus round the corner.

What really made me joyful about these cookies , is the filling , always wanted to whisk a filling at home that resembled my fav packaged cookies , coz the way i eat them (read jus below) , i am always running out of cream.
+ i love packing tiffins so am always giving tiffins to family even when home and all those ''creamless'' cookies find their way to the tiffins , with complains galore later.
Infact now , nobody takes an oreo from me , coz its always without the filling.
this fillin recipe has solved this problem for life.

The filling is with more shortening and some butter with some light rum ( used butter extract instead of rum ) and vanilla extract.

Fantastic.

Now whether an Oreo or Pure Magic, there is a way i eat these , i join all the filled sides together to make a sandwhich of 3 layers with 3 layers of the cream , yeah the cream is never enough and the rest i store in my pink , heart painted tin , to dip into Nutella and leftover fillings ,so there are no complains around home that urs truly eats all the cream and leaves the biscuits for the rest of the gang:-)

COOKIE CRUMBLE,JAMMERS + R&J COOKIES in SABLES @COOKIE BAR@NYC with MS GREENSPAN

 Ur are all snuggled up in ur pink bedroom ,dreaming away under  ur pink cuppycake comforter , and u have been thinking cookies all evening and its only natural that as u drift off , ur going to be thinking cookies too.....

And jus as ur drifting off , ur mind starts putting together a dozen and more cookie ideas and u wanna get up , switch on ur laptop and get right away to put the post , bake the next day and complete the post...

This is exactly what happened to me ,the day i read all about Ms Greenspans Jammers and more at the cookie bar.

Adding more goodness to a wonderful Sable , the buttery ,tender ,melt in ur mouth cookie , only makes things better and add some fantastic home made preserves and topped with streusel/Crumble , is always a winner and more.

I mean how can  this go wrong , A Vanilla bean Lemon zest Sable , reinforced with some Vanilla Crush And Fiori di sicilia...

And u need no sprinkles for these , but i could help taking my heart sprinkles out , but finally these babies landed on the cookies:-)

 So here i have some wonderful Vanilla bean Sables , made better , with rubbing some zest in the sugar , and a wee bit of Fiori di Sicilia.
Infact ,along with the Vanilla bean , u can go with any of these flavors , or maybe jus all and they'll be absolutely wonderful.
Go with whatever flavor rocks ur boat , or a little of all maybe?
What ever rocks ur boat , rocks these cookies too.......

I lovee streusel and find myself many a times adding streusel to many a bake and a bit back when i saw lemon bars with streusel i was jus as excited as well.

I am also always adding a Vanilla bean or 2 every where , including my streusel and sables!

Oh i filled them with Caramel and chocolate last time and this time there is something fantastic too...Jammmmm...lods of good fruity jam = jammers.

Beginning with Sables , baking them in rings ( nice straight brown edges on the cookies come coz they are baked in the rings), i used shaped rings , like i do many a time , for cookies ,right from the wedding cookie to many more....so was more than happy when i read that Ms. Greenspan does this too!

 Oh sure , had lods of cookie cutters to wash , some of them custom made , but that was a breeze with some hot water and good dishwashing liquid.

So lets begin with the cookie , for step by step pics , go here , this time i patted them all to cut out the shapes desired and bake them along with the same cutter.

Here is the dough , patted out , roughly into 2 squares , ready to be cut out, after an over night refrigeration.

 And before u go any further brew ur self a coffee, Vanilla coffee is good...and if there are hearts and pink , then fantastic.....

And pour urself some, to begin with ie.....u can dip in more as u go... 

WORLD PEACE COOKIES WITH NUTELLA

World Peace Cookies and Nutella , how good is that!And throw in some Caramel too...

A tray of the World piece cookie, yeah ur rite , aint over Christmas yet , and i love it + i feel like love is soo in the air * 365....

 Dont u jus loveee the Choco chips and bits peeping thru??
I do too...

 

@FRENCH SABLES♥BUTTERY SHORTBREAD♥MANY WAYS♥jus for Christmas Time!

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Buttery makes u happy...buttery makes u gay....and buttery brightens ur day!

Specially at Christmas time , buttery makes me smile.
 
So here we have buttery melt in ur mouth sables  ie french shortbread , many ways ,jus for u and me at Christmas time.
Do i really have ur attention now:-)
And we have the cutest little tarts in Christmas shapes , filled with caramel and chocolate and cookies galore.

Laurie chose Sables @ Baking with Dorie  ,this month , perfecto i thought, and so in time!

And then something else happenned , i checked in Have the Cake , a group i joined a bit ago , and there is shortbread happening there too , and i so wanted to catch up , and here are these buttery Sables.

Well , they add on to 2 of my baking groups , they are so good at Christmas time , with all these cookie cutters , and if that aint enough they are French and buttery.....

 And oh so soft and melty {melt in ur mouth}
They bake beautiful ,are tender and fill ur home with the frangrance of buttery goodness u will love.

They are good rite outa the oven {careful:hot}, and when cooled.