S2E8: Christmas Cookies
This episode has hygge updates, various recording hiccups, Gilmour visits and more! Sara had a hygge day and a scary drive in the snow, while Laura is hooked on Orange Theory and is about to boycott her local Starbucks. The main topic is Christmas cookies, so the gals chat about all of their favorites and family traditions, plus Sara has a personal favorite for Laura to try.
PRODUCTS, ETC. MENTIONED:
• Let it Snow on Netflix
• Orangetheory Fitness
• Sara’s Ultimate VEGAN Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Dairy-free chocolate chips: Nestle’s Simply Delicious Allergen-Free Chocolate Chips, Enjoy Life, Kirkland, Guittard
christmas cookies:
• Rich Roll Cookies
• Alvaro bakery in Harrisburg (Laura’s family gets florentines, pistachio amarettos, fig cookies, befanini, pignoli, Italian rainbow spongecake cookies, almond biscotti and baklava.)
• Royal Dansk and Walkers cookies
• Tate’s Bake Shop chocolate chip cookies
• chocolate star cookies
• Sara’s Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
• Reese’s Peanut Butter Temptations
• Skor cookies (This might be the recipe Sara was referring to.)
• Peanut Butter Blossoms
• plastic ice water rolling pin
sara’s oatmeal toffee cookies:
• adapted from the Oatmeal Scotchies recipe from Cookie Love
• Swap butterscotch chips with toffee bits.
• Use a medium cookie scoop (1.5 tbsp) and do 6 cookies per baking sheet.
• Do first pan-bang and rotate at 6 minutes.
• Bake for another 1.5-2 minutes, pan-bang one more time and take them out.
• Cookies are done when there’s a ring around the edges that is baked through and the centers still look undone.
• Allow them to cool completely on the pan before moving to a wire rack.
• They freeze very well and are great eaten straight out of the freezer.
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