Friday, Finally some baking!

 

Well I guess I just needed a shove to get me going.  Last night as I was teaching a class I got a text from some sister missionaries that wanted to come over and bake today.  They needed to have plates of cookies to deliver as part of their Light the World campaign.  So I ran to Lil sis's after the classes and we hashed out our baking plan. I was home by 9:30 with only one costume in tow.  Of course someone busted out of an invisible zipper (have I told you how much I hate invisible zippers) I have to pancake a tutu, replace a zipper and secure straps, that costume was possessed. But only one so I was grateful.  Still have not fixed it yet, but I will do it later this evening.

After getting home I immediately whipped up a pan of this very easy and delicious fudge. 

1 cube of butter

1 8oz package of cream cheese

1/2 cup or less of coco powder

1 tsp vanilla

soften all in micro wave mix together.  Now add 2 lbs (yes 2 lbs) of powder sugar.  I use a bosch mixer which is a work horse.  So get those stirring musicales ready if you don't have a strong mixer.  Now add nuts if you like.  Smash into a square pan refrigerate.  That's it, that easy. Try it, and let me know what you think.

Then I rinsed mixer and made up the dough for 4 different kinds of Swedish cookies that all have to be refrigerated before baking.   It really only took about 15 minutes to make up each dough.

Lemon Sucre Kasse or lemon sugar cookie, so tender.  These are easy as they are pooped on a cookie sheet with a melon baller (Sluggy no comments) and then stamped down with stamps my mother made years ago and sprinkled with yellow sugar.  These are very tender and wonderful cookies.  They kind of melt in your mouth.

Koko kasse An easy coconut shortbread.  This is made into logs and sliced it goes very fast.  Again a light crumbly cookie.

My favorite Peppakakke or pepper cookie.  These are crisp, and usually decorated at Christmas with white icing and red hots.  Yes they do have 1/2 teaspoon of pepper in them.

Then I made a large double batch of Swedish sour cream cookies, that we did not get made up today.  These are the ones we frost with colored icing and Lil sis has very specific cookie cutters she wants me to use. 

My mistake, in the evenings mess was to think I could do a batch of caramels.  First of all I don't have a gas stove and if you want to make candy a gas stove is the best.  I started the caramels at 11:45 and they were not done until 12:45.  Whew!  On my old gas stove 20 minutes tops.  Plus I overcooked them.  They are still good, but could have been a little softer.  I need to learn how to use this stove.

I was in bed with a clean kitchen (except for the 

floor) by 1:00 a.m.

The missionaries and I had 5 items plated in a coupe of hours. I only did about 1/2 the peppakakke dough.  The sugar cookies are still in the fridge.  I will have to make another batch of caramels and another batch of fudge.

D#2 is due  down here to spend the night with the two kids as she has to be at the studio at 9 tomorrow and if she stays here she can just get up and go.  She will not have to try and get two kids ready and out the door.  We of course are thrilled.

Lil sis and I are going to make more cookies tomorrow.  Rosettes, krumkkake, and lefsa along with finishing up the dough in the fridge. We will also do Spitz, and Krinzla double layer jam cookie then I am done.  We will dip apricots and pretzels.  Busy, busy.

I am tired.  I think daughter just got here.

Have a great and productive day staying positive while you are in the negative.

Kim