It's funny because we've had a cookie press in my house for probably about 15 years. And all these years I've really wanted to make cookies using it and I just never got around to it. Plus you can't just use any cookie dough, it has to be a specific recipe for the cookie press, so that was another thing that made me not want to bother. But here I am.
I got in a fight with the cookie press when I first was trying to make the cookies in it. I couldn't get it to screw together and I got really upset. It turned out I just had the piece backwards, so once I figuerd it out I was good to go. Making the cookies themsevles is....a bit strange. It was hard to get the pressure right and get them to come out even. They don't look as nice as Martha's but I think they came out pretty cute. Well, the ones I took the picture of were cute, there were a lot of other ones that weren't cute. Some of them came out thinner and looked more like a wreath, and some of them came out too thick and didn't have a hole in them at all.
Of course, it really doesn't matter what they look like, because you end up eating them anyway. And they taste really really good. The fresh vanilla bean is just awesome, and there's cinammon sugar sprinkled on top. They're delicate and crumbly but they're still rich. They're also really small which makes me want to eat a dozen of them at a time.
I think I need cookie rehab.
Yield:
Recipe predicts: 5 dozen.
Actual: 8 dozen. I think the cookie press I have makes smaller cookies than whichever one they used for the book.
31 recipes down, 144 to go.
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