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So, Dad's made the reservations and it's really last minute, but I'm going to Dallas next week.

I PLAN TO BAKE STUFF. 8D

I'm not quite sure about this, but I might need some people's new addresses. I kind of want to revisit stained glass cookies, but they were a lot of work. (But if I revisit the cookies, I should bring melon FruitGo.)

Seriously, this has potential.

The failures were spectacular- it took three batches to get it kind of right- and that's batches of dough- but I have goat and rhino cookie cutters. (The prettiest were the ones with the circle and smaller aspics inside, though.)

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Those are amazing if they turn out good.

If.

/sobs

This was from um... two years ago, I think, so I forget the exact procedure, but the version I ended up using involved the Joy of Cooking's sugar cookie recipe with orange extract subbed for vanilla and crushed Jolly ranchers. (Choice of candy is important- Jolly Ranchers has pretty, pretty colors.)

The orange extract alone made an amazing difference, and choice of candy is super important. I also ended up proofing the cookies a little. (I baked it a little first, then pulled them out to add the candy, which messed up the shape a little, but when I didn't, the result was kind of like the one at the bottom.)

I used Jolly Ranchers too! They just. WERE RETARDED and overdone and sob.

I think I spent hours on them. The end result was fairly impressive- I don't think the top picture quite does it justice, but it's the best photo I have. (In retrospect, letting it bake longer in the first stage would have produced a nicer golden-brown color, but the longer I leave it without the candy, the more the shape gets out of shape.

I think the cookies tasted better than the candy portion, but the candy part was so pretty. ;___;

That said, I don't bake that often, but when I do it's usually stupidly fancy cookies that require rolling ten gazillion one-inch balls and brushing with egg-white or rolling with powdered sugar. (It's also usually the same stupidly fancy cookies, because they're pretty and taste delicious.)

I need to give you my new address, don't I?? :

That might be good. >___>

uh...are you on aim?

My aunt's pretty good at getting things done, so there's a good chance that I'll actually manage to get these out. :3

(I'd ask if you have any requests, but I'm probably just baking whatever I feel like baking.)

I'm not fussed, really. You just reminded me that maybe i should give you my address. XD

I kind of want to do those brownies again- remember the ones that I found online that were super, super rich?

I think I found a milano cookie clone recipe once, but some of the ingredients were just too damn much trouble.

when she gives you hers -- Gen and I are at the same address, different apartment number. 1124B. :|b

.....goats!

If I recall correctly, finding a goat cookie cutter was really hard. (We had another one, and my aunt donated it because we didn't use it, and finding another rhino was a drag.)

I might just say say screw it and just make sugar cookies shaped like goats and rhinos, because I don't think the stained glass ones would travel well. I kind of want to do Gen's peanut butter cookies too. >___>

Those are pretty :O DO WANT

If I redo them, I plan to go with more multi-colored windows. (I'd probably do them all with the circle base, and then assorted aspics inside.) On the other hand, they really won't ship well, and it would be a ton of work.

(It costs a lot more to mail to Canada, but if I can keep it in the smallest box, it's only $11. >____>)

Oh nonono I didn't mean to make a request, I was just admiring and wishing I had the patience to do such things! XD ♥♥♥ We have SO MANY COOKIE CUTTERS HERE holygod. I really need to sit one day and make a bunch of EVERY HOLIDAY cut out cookies just to get use of them. I think Duck has a cookie-cutter buying compulsion.

Sort of like me and my need to own skull and crossbones ice cube trays XD

But remember that 1) I love baking cookies and 2) I don't really like having to eat them after they're done. (I bake a metric fuckton- double batches of everything.)

My suggestion would be the joy of cooking sugar cookie recipe with the orange extract subbed in. It's niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice. (I usually don't do rolled cookies, but I kind of want to make it again.)

I also kind of want to try ginger snaps. >__>;;

Do want :o

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