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One Badass Cookie - Cookies for a Crowd
- by Nancy, November 30, 2008
Photo Credit: my son, Max, one badass photographer
Time for another post for One Badass Cookie. This week, since the holidays are in full swing, I thought you’d like to see how to present your badass cookies for a crowd. As I noted in the first One Badass Cookie post, these cookies can stand in for any fancier dessert and make a great gift and an impression. So read on for this week’s practical advice on how to present cookies for a crowd, and the Badass Cookie Tip of the Week. Does it work? You bet your badass it does.
Here’s my favorite way to bring cookies for a crowd to any party or holiday dinner. Trust me, you walk in with this, and it will elicit as many oohs and ahs as any fancy cake or pie, and maybe more, from children and adults alike. And one of the nicest things about it is that everybody pretty much gets their favorite, as there is a variety to choose from. It may look like a lot of work, but if you make lots of dough for each recipe in the weeks prior to your event, you can freeze the doughs in logs and then just slice them off and bake them on the day or day before you need them. Look for directions for freezing logs of dough, or for any portion of the recipes here that can be made ahead in all One Badass Cookie recipes.
Here’s my Badass Oatmeal Raisin Cookie recipe in a log that I froze last week. (To get this recipe, check back in the coming weeks when I’ll be posting more badass cookie recipes or scroll down to find the previous weeks’ recipes, Badass Chocolate Chip Cookies, Badass Ginger Molasses Cookies, and Badass Lemon Bar Cookies.) To freeze dough logs, simply take the dough from the mixing bowl once it is finished, and lay it onto a long sheet of plastic wrap. If the dough is soft, you may want to refrigerate it first to get it firm enough to shape. Alternatively, you can also use wet hands to shape logs, shape logs once they are wrapped up in the plastic, or loosely wrap a soft log, freeze it for thirty minutes or so and then take it out of the freezer to further shape it. Whatever you do, you will end up with a log like this, perfect for slicing into thick slices and baking off when you need it.
This is a shot of my favorite cookie basket. I got mine at Zabar’s. I like to line it with a nice cloth napkin in a coordinating color, but you can also use a sheet of waxed paper. Watch for another One Badass Cookie post coming soon that will show you lots of great ways to package cookies for gifts too.
Badass Cookie Tip of the Week: Double your sheetpans to ensure that the bottoms of the cookies don’t burn before the tops are done.
Got a Badass cookie recipe for Nancy and Laura? Send it to us and we’ll test it. If it’s badass enough, we’ll post it as a reader’s recipe and you’ll win a prize of Nancy’s book.
see also: One Badass Cookie - Ginger Molasses Cookie
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