Here is the second cookie recipe I baked for December out of Dorie’s Cookies for Tuesdays with Dorie. This recipe uses Dorie’s Good For Almost Anything Vanilla Cookie dough as a base, adding spices to the dough at the end. Although the Spice Cookie recipe calls for one quarter of the base dough, I used all the dough so I would have enough cookies to give as gifts. Because of this, I quadrupled the spices and mixed them with the last addition of flour. (The recipe adds the spices to the completed dough to allow you to use the leftover dough for other types of cookies.)
The dough comes together easily, and rolls out nicely using Dorie’s technique of rolling the dough between two sheets of parchment before chilling. Chilling the dough before you cut out the cookies helps the cookies keep their shape when you push them out of the cutter onto the cookie sheet. (I didn’t chill on the final rollout; they turned out fine but were more difficult to get out of the cutter.)
I could not find sanding sugar so I used sugar sprinkles. The sprinkles are larger than sanding sugar, but they worked nicely with this cookie.
I have double ovens and the upper oven gets hotter when both ovens are on. I forgot this on my baking day. Consequently the first batch out of that oven was overly brown. We gobbled up the cookies anyway. I adjusted the temperature of the oven for later batches and they came out fine.
After the cookies cooled, I bagged them in cellophane to give to family members as an extra gift.
The recipe for Christmas Spice Cookies is in Dorie’s Cookies by Dorie Greenspan. Here is Dorie with me at her book signing at Coyle’s Bakeshop in Seattle. If you love baking, you need this book.
Diane Zwang said:
How nice you have a photo with Dorie. Your cookie packages look really nice. Merry Christmas.
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Mardi (eat. live. travel. write.) said:
Such a nice photo! And we all loved these too!
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Kayte said:
Such fun to see you with Dorie! You both look so happy. Your sprinkles really do the cookies justice, they look just lovely and I do love the shapes you chose. I love the little package you created, that is so pretty and I would feel so lucky to get one of those from you all dressed up like that…I need to remember to do things like this.
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awarmhello said:
I love the photo with you and Dorie! Lucky you! Your cookies look adorable all wrapped up! I think I might just do that instead of doing cookie plates to give out! Even though I have been dreaming of cookie plates since November, I haven’t made much progress towards actually getting them done! Your idea looks just perfect! Thank you for the inspiration!
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lovielou said:
Thank you. The bags were an easy way to spread the love.
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Summer said:
Your cookies look delicious and tempting, what a great idea for gifts. I love your photo with Dorie, so sweet!
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steph (whisk/spoon) said:
i’d love to get a bag of those–they look great! and dorie is just the nicest, isn’t she? what a sweet photo.
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lovielou said:
She is wonderful and takes time with everyone when she signs her books. I love this book!
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