A cookie by any other name
As we head into the holiday season, my thoughts have turned to baking. I've been planning my annual Christmas-baking marathon for months, and now that Halloween has come and gone, it's time to head into the kitchen.
There will be cakes and pies and breads, of course. But I also make dozens and dozens of cookies. I'm talking chocolate chip, shortbread, oatmeal chip, sugar cookies, peanut butter blossoms, crinkle cookies, chocolate-mint cookies, gingerbread, Mexican wedding cookies and spritz cookies in all shapes and colors. My husband’s favorite depends on what’s coming out of the oven, but right near the top of his list are snickerdoodles.
Firstly, the name is just fun to say. Try it with me: Snickerdoodle! Utter it three times very fast, and like Beetlejuice, a dozen of these delicious, old-fashioned treats will magically appear.
Okay, not really, but they're super simple to make and they fill the entire house with the scent of cin…