The Great Kitchen Calamity of 2010 is coming!

Gearing up for the another year of Kristmas kookieness in the Kitchen.

As I sat back and reviewed my options for the year, we’ve decided to change things up in 2010.

Long time readers know I like to take this time of year to expand my horizons and try out new recipes. Especially those my grandmother tried to throw away…

We tinker with these old, difficult recipes, figure them out, and have some fun and failures.

And, after 2 years of successfully making the Peanut Brittle, it’s time to move on, so it will be skipped this season.

In it’s place comes a marvelous little cookie that caught me by surprise. (we’ve already made a batch of these…)

See, Alec absolutely LOVED the giant pretzels at Lagoon this year.

From 2010 Fun

I figured “how hard can THEY be?”

And, with a recipe from grandma’s discard pile labeled “pretzels”, I figured I had struck gold.

Alarms flared making it however. This was no bread recipe.

Butter, flour, egg and sugar. “flavor of choice”. THIS was some bizarro kind of cookie…

More commonly known as butter cookies or sables, or as you may know them in the little tins…Danish butter cookies. And, pretty darn good ones.

So, expect to see that full recipe in here, once I settle on a final form of it. (toying with attempting a little lemon and/or orange flavoring in a few batches)

The Sugar cookies have to be made, of course. As does the mix.

And, I still want to try my hand at actual Pretzels. So, I’m going to have to find something for those…

Maybe another year attempting the English toffee as it’s been hit and miss.

And, the boss wants to do Yule logs.

I need a second oven.