The Tuesdays with Dorie group is three years old this week. I didn't join until November of the first year, so I'm a solid 10 months behind. If you add up my misses over the past 2 years I'm further behind than that. Well, perhaps not . . . I have made quite a few of the recipes chosen before I joined. At any rate, wow! You know how one human year = 7 dog years? Well, I don't know how many blog years three years would be, but I'm thinking it's quite a few. This week the recipe chosen is Midnight Crackles, and it's perfect because we recently celebrated New Year's Eve. Actually, I don't know about you, but my New Year's Eve was pretty tame. I think I made it to about 8:45 p.m. and then I was asleep. What can I say? NYE is definitely not my holiday.
That might explain why I didn't make these cookies until this afternoon. This time, however, my procrastination paid off because my friend Nancy, of The Dogs Eat the Crumbs fame, sent me a link to a post Dorie wrote on her blog about a different, roll-out method of making these cookies. The roll-out method is a shortcut, and these days I'm all about a shortcut! In this method, you roll the warm dough out between sheets of parchment paper and then give it a quick freeze before you cut and bake the cookies. Of course, this means re-rolling and re-freezing and all of that fun, but in the meantime you'll have a fresh batch of cookies.
I've been on quite the chocolate kick lately, so it's pretty difficult for anything made out of chocolate to disappoint me these days. These cookies are tasty, but they seem to be crying out for something in the middle. I think you could go any number of directions with the filling: double chocolate, or try the Oreo trick and use a creme filling, raspberry is nice with chocolate, or Nancy even used cinnamon ice cream with hers. I only baked one sheet of these cookies, and the rest of the dough is in the freezer for future use. Before I bake it off I need to decide on a filling! The crispy cookies are lovely to make and lovely to eat, and I'm not sure I can convince myself to go for the pillow-y option any time soon.
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OK, I like math as much as any blogger, but you've totally confused me with your plus and minus years musings. Let's just say you've been with TWD for most of the time and baked most of the recipes, and then my brain won't explode!
I love the way your cookies turned out, just stacks of chocolatey goodness! I thought the plain cookies needed something, too, and really would love to try them with a cream filling.
Those are so pretty with the scalloped edges, etc. I didn't make mine until yesterday afternoon either, thanks for the company! I don't think you should look at yourself as "behind" as look at all the things you have made over all this time that you might never have tried for years or maybe at all! Way ahead of the game.
Yum. I love the rolled out option. Does that mean we are all old or young in TWD dog years? :)
they look so perfect, bravo. I was asleep by 10 on New Years.
They look so pretty and I really love the scalloped edges! Im glad you were able to bake them!! I think the oreo filling would be good between two of these or ice cream!! I look fwd to baking with you in 2011!
Crackled cut-outs! I'd say yours are a big success. To me, in blog years it feels like forever. I don't remember not baking and blogging on Tuesdays.
Cookies always look better with fluted edges in my opinion, so I love yours Jessica! Isn't it crazy how long we've been baking with TWD? I don't think I ever envisioned being a part of the group nearly 3 years later when I joined back in 2008 :)
These would have been so much easier to work with if I had rolled them out. And all the shapes that can be made.
Three years of friendship, blogging, tweeting with Dorie. Hard to believe it has really been that long. YAY!!!
These chocolate crackles look wonderful. I think the holidays has put many of us on a "chocolate kick." Great post.
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