{"id":3401,"date":"2010-12-30T17:02:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T21:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/?p=3401"},"modified":"2010-12-30T17:02:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T21:02:16","slug":"cookies-for-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/?p=3401","title":{"rendered":"Cookies for the New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I made a lot of cookies in the month of December.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow is the last day of this month and I took an inventory of what I have left.<\/p>\n

NOT MUCH!<\/p>\n

We have been eating around the edges of what I didn\u2019t give away.<\/p>\n

I gave most of them away in cookie sampler bags.<\/p>\n

All in all- around 25 bags of some yummy good samples- at least 2 dozen cookies in each bag- <\/p>\n

That is a lot of cookies!<\/p>\n

I have some left- about 6 dozen.<\/p>\n

But I don\u2019t have any of the Finnish Ribbon Cookies left.<\/p>\n

I know because these are one of MY favorite cookies- <\/p>\n

and they are all gone.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m going to make some more in January.  And keep them in a tin.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the recipe if you\u2019d like some, too!<\/p>\n

(I don\u2019t KNOW for certain if these are genuinely Finnish- I got the <\/p>\n

recipe from a copy of Southern Living Magazine many years ago.)<\/p>\n

Finnish Ribbon Cookies<\/p>\n

Ingredients:<\/p>\n

1 cup butter or margarine<\/p>\n

1\/2 cup sugar<\/p>\n

1 egg yolk<\/p>\n

1 tsp vanilla<\/p>\n

1\/2 tsp lemon peel<\/p>\n

2 1\/2 cups flour<\/p>\n

1\/4 tsp salt<\/p>\n

6 TBS preserves ( raspberry, apricot, fig- whatever you choose.)<\/p>\n

Method:<\/p>\n

Cream butter (room temperature) with sugar, add yolk and vanilla and mix until<\/p>\n

light and fluffy.  Add salt and lemon peel to flour and mix into  butter mixture <\/p>\n

cup at a time.<\/p>\n

Divide dough into four portions and roll out onto parchment paper into long rolls.<\/p>\n

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Using pencil or wooden spoon handle or chop stick- make furrows down<\/p>\n

each roll and bake for 10 minutes in a preheated oven at 375 F. .<\/p>\n

  Allow to cool on pan, then spoon your favorite fillings into the<\/p>\n

grooves and cut on a diagonal.<\/p>\n

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Decorate with thin glaze drizzled on top and deal gently with them <\/p>\n

when taking off baking sheet.  They are prone to break. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

And then you can eat them without guilt.<\/p>\n

Broken cookies don\u2019t have any calories, do they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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