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When we were growing up, we used to have ice box cookies from our local bakery all the time. The best part about them was how colorful they were. Since we started this baking odyssey, I(Sara) have been looking for some recipe that was similar to those cookies. I found one on Martha's site. I know, I know, we are very pro Martha. It is only because she seems to have a great team of people thoroughly testing her recipes and the end product is always pretty tasty.
When I read this recipe, especially since it says to involve your kids, I thought it can't be that hard can it? We don't have a bench scrapper and for some reason the dough came out really sticky no matter how much flour we used. So I attempted to stack my lopsided squares of dough to make the spirals of chocolate and orange.
I left the rolled dough in the fridge overnight and used the thread cutting method. It worked really well. I think this would have been an useful step for when I made the earl grey cookies for the third quarterly challenge, then my cookies would have been perfectly round.
The cookies took the whole 15 minutes to bake. I thought the dough tasted a lot better than the finished product but they sure looked pretty festive. I brought them to the train park where Erin and I are volunteering and there weren't many left at the end of the night. By the way... If you are in the Los Angeles Area, come check out The Ghost Train. The info is here. They put on a great event every year and it is a fun, inexpensive way to celebrate Halloween.
Lessons learned: Martha may not always be right but I am willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. String or dental floss is a great way to cut ice box/shortbread cookies. Even if the recipe says have your kids help, it doesn't necessarily mean it's an easy recipe.
When we were growing up, we used to have ice box cookies from our local bakery all the time. The best part about them was how colorful they were. Since we started this baking odyssey, I(Sara) have been looking for some recipe that was similar to those cookies. I found one on Martha's site. I know, I know, we are very pro Martha. It is only because she seems to have a great team of people thoroughly testing her recipes and the end product is always pretty tasty.
When I read this recipe, especially since it says to involve your kids, I thought it can't be that hard can it? We don't have a bench scrapper and for some reason the dough came out really sticky no matter how much flour we used. So I attempted to stack my lopsided squares of dough to make the spirals of chocolate and orange.
I left the rolled dough in the fridge overnight and used the thread cutting method. It worked really well. I think this would have been an useful step for when I made the earl grey cookies for the third quarterly challenge, then my cookies would have been perfectly round.
The cookies took the whole 15 minutes to bake. I thought the dough tasted a lot better than the finished product but they sure looked pretty festive. I brought them to the train park where Erin and I are volunteering and there weren't many left at the end of the night. By the way... If you are in the Los Angeles Area, come check out The Ghost Train. The info is here. They put on a great event every year and it is a fun, inexpensive way to celebrate Halloween.
Lessons learned: Martha may not always be right but I am willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. String or dental floss is a great way to cut ice box/shortbread cookies. Even if the recipe says have your kids help, it doesn't necessarily mean it's an easy recipe.
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