bakeoff
UPDATE: in case anyone cares, this is what i'll do. tonight i think kriston and susan are coming over for some wednesday night tv viewing (first two episodes of lost and the finale of america's next top model). meanwhile i will bake batches of both the eggnog thumbprints and the peppermint bark cookies. i'm assuming charles and tommy will be around as well, so the four of them will act as my objective taste-testers. when they come to a consensus on the better cookie, i will bake an extra batch of that particular cookie and bring it into work tomorrow. then i will proceed to win many awards and the admiration and awe of all my coworkers.
of course, i also plan on buying a bottle of wine tonight, so this entire plan could be shot to hell.
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well, my company is having a holiday bakeoff tomorrow. that's right, we're so poor that we can even afford to have desserts bought for our holiday party. just kidding. actually, i love this idea because a) i like to bake and b) i am as competitive as all get out. i have to win this bakeoff, or else my self-esteem will crumble into a million little pieces, much like a badly constructed cookie.
anyway, i am stressing out about what exactly i should bake. it's got to be good, obviously, but it also has to make people feel like it's really the holidays - creamy, rich, and maybe pepperminty. here are my options thus far. which sounds best? and if you have any super awesome recipes, please let me know. I MUST WIN.
>>Neiman Marcus Chocolate Chip Cookies (with a holiday twist) (only thing is that i don't have peppermint bark, and don't know if i can get it on such short notice. maybe whole foods has some? i could make some, but it would take a lot of work and perhaps be a spectacular failure.)
>>gingerbread bars with lemon cream cheese icing (i've made these before and they turned out pretty well)
>>double-ginger cookies (subscription only, so here are the ingredients: 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
3/4 cup chopped crystallized ginger
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1 1/4 cups sugar, divided
1/2 cup applesauce
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
Cooking spray)
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those eggnog things look pretty bitchin'
Also, I have to point out that Charles' mom has a recipe for triple ginger cookies. So clearly that last recipe is not a winner.
good god. how much ginger can one cookie have?
my sister makes those neiman marcus cookies, without the peppermint bark...they are absolutely delicious.
Peppermint bark? As in, stripped from the trees of the North Pole? You don't need to go to Whole Foods, you need to go to Candyland.
(To be more constructive, I humbly offer myself as a most impartial bake-off judge.)
good god. how much ginger can one cookie have?
A: 3
yes, i need all the objective tastebuds i can get. if i'm industrious, i might try to make both the eggnog thumbprints and the peppermint cookies and bring in the winner to work the next day.
You realize that peppermint bark is just white and dark chocolate and crumbled candy canes, right? You could just swap it out for chocolate chips and candy canes.
OR even better, go to Trader Joe's and buy one of this bigass pounds of dark dark chocolate and chop it up. Use that and candy canes.
actually yeah, looking around, i realized how easy it is to make peppermint bark. you just gotta melt a bunch of white and normal chocolate, pour it onto a foil-lined baking pan, crush up some candy canes and sprinkle them on top. so that one is definitely an option.
mmmm Eggnog
ewwwww....eggnog
can something have 3 ginger? I made a hamburger the other day with 2 beefs
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