The random number generator has me staying in the “Family Favorites” for one more recipe. This time, the Montego Bay Squares on p. 73. These are a layered bar with a date-and-chocolate layer sandwiched between two brown-sugar-oats-and-nut layers. First up was making the date and chocolate filling. The dates and baking chocolate were heated on…
Category: Family Favs
Recipes from the Cooky Book’s recipes for day-to-day family life.
Butterscotch Shortbread
The random number generator is stuck in the “Family Favorites” section! This time, Butterscotch Shortbread on p. 84. I’m not sure I’ve made shortbread cookies before, so I didn’t know what to expect. However, the dough is easy with just a few ingredients. The dough ended up very crumbly — I really wanted more liquid,…
Filled Oatmeal Cookies
The random number generator’s next pick was the Filled Oatmeal Cookies on page 80. This recipe requires not only a cookie dough but also a filling. The recipe offers up either a pumpkin or date filling. I am not a fan of pumpkin, so I chose the date filling. First up was to make the…
Italian Anise Toast
The random number generator picked the Italian Anise Toast recipe on page 92 as the next recipe. This one falls under the “special diets” section of the Cooky Book specifically the no-salt diet recipe. I was a little confused by the “toast” in the name of the recipe, but it turns out this is essentially…
Chocolate Chip Bars
I set up a random number generator to pick the order of most of the recipes I’ll make (with the exception of the holiday cookies….and I might change the order if I don’t have time to refrigerate the dough for certain recipes). First up was the Chocolate Chip Bars on page 71. I was maybe…