Christmas cookie swap: Chocolate Bites with Candy Cane Kisses
A group of New York bloggers came up with some great ideas for a Christmas cookie swap.
Christmas cookie swap.
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Even before Thanksgiving I started seeing Christmas cookies in magazines and on blogs. Well of course I wanted to make all of them! But who has the time? So I asked my good friends Chris and Karen from The Peche if they wanted to have a holiday cookie swap in New York. And how could we have a New York City cookie anything without involving Gail from One Tough Cookie and baker extraordinaire, Abby Dodge. The four of us got to brainstorming and a few weeks later we were at a midtown restaurant havin’ lunch and swappin’ cookies with more than twenty other bloggers and cookie lovers.
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Veteran cookbook author, Pam Anderson, and daughters, Maggy and Sharon, believe that just about anything worth being part of happens in the kitchen. Each week they share their thoughts about recipes, cooking, eating, and anything that comes with it (which in their world, is just about everything). There are three cooks in their kitchen. Sometimes that’s too many, but usually it’s just right.
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The restaurant gave us the run of the upstairs where everyone laid out their cookies over several tables. We were all so busy drooling over the cookie smorgasbord and filling up our containers that it was hard to break away and order lunch, but eventually we’d all had enough sweet and needed to counterbalance with a bit of savory.
The cookie swap was such a great idea. I baked one kind of cookie and came home with more than three dozen different cookies made by some seriously gifted bakers. There was everything from Anna’s Millionaire’s Shortbread and Chris’ Triple-Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies to Erika’s (now famous) Homemade Nutella Chip Cookies and Jackie’s Peppermint Crusted Double Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies. We are enjoying each and every one.
What did I make, you ask? I had intended to make these delicious Chocolate Bites with Candy Cane Kisses that my friend Amber and I had made during an epic Christmas baking session the week before (Quick Aside: If you haven’t yet had a girlfriend over to do some holiday baking, you should get a date on the calendar post haste! What fun we had that day). These are cookie meets brownie bite with a Candy Cane Kiss in the middle. But typical me – the morning of the event arrived and I still had not made my Chocolate Bites and I couldn’t find mini muffin papers at either of the small shops by my house. So I made my mom’s chocolate chip cookies and added some chopped Candy Cane Kisses into the mix. They were really good, but I still wish I had been able to make these! If you don’t like mint and chocolate together, try a different kind of Kiss or candy (just be sure to freeze them first).
Happy Munching!
Other Cookies from the Swap
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