I'm going to take the recipes found in Gourmet's Cookie of the Year book, which I received from Shirley on xmas 2010, and try my best to make each cookie type and write about my adventures here. Sure, this is something like Julie and Julia but only with cookies.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
cottage cheese cookies
Here is another sugar cookie which is almost too boring for me, but not quite. It is a nice, very simple, moist cookie. They reminded me immediately of a cookie I favor and make too frequently for my own good, the sour cream cookie. The cottage cheese cookie is not frosted, however, and is crispier and not as cake-like as the sour cream cookie is, as DbR pointed out.
They also should be made teaspoon-sized, and with plenty of space around them so they bake into lovely, petite rounds. I dropped them onto the cookie sheet as larger dollops and crunched them all in together so I would be able to make only one pass at the oven. They still taste nice and we had about 35 of them when we started but they are not pretty-they have that forlorn square shape one gets when one's cookies all bake into each other and stop at the next door cookie's personal space.
I would make these again and take my time with a smaller amount and perhaps a light sprinkle of granulated on top which is a diversion from the Gourmet recipe. Interesting trivia note from book: this was the only cookie recipe published in that magazine during 1962.
Don't forget to brush.
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