Last weekend I co-hostessed a party for a friend. I made my great-grandma's sugar cookies with buttercream icing, devil dog cupcakes with marshmallow frosting, and blue cheese crostini. I wasn't sure how many people to expect so I made a ton of food. And I mean a TON. We had so many left over cookies that I mailed half of them to my baby brother in college. He's a great baker but these sugar cookies are so tasty frozen that you can never have too many around.
The cupcakes are V's fav. Devil Dogs are a New England cake like Hostess things. I'd never heard of them until he started talking about them and was sad when we couldn't find them here. So my brother found this recipe from Epicurious which replicates them. He approves.
The sugar cookies are trippy to bake. The recipe calls for a small teaspoon of one thing and a large teaspoon of another. I didn't know teaspoons came in small, medium, and large but apparently they do. Hehe. It also tells you to basically put in flour until the dough comes together (I use a stand mixer so Imix until it starts to form a ball around the paddle.) Then you use more flour on when rolling them out. They are very tempermental but worth it. Last winter my brother and I had a snow day and we spent the day baking them and watching Glee. That was a great day.
Lots and lots of baked goods.
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