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If it’s December, that means it’s cookie time, and for members of the group Food Bloggers Los Angeles, it’s our most anticipated meeting of the year.
We meet in real life, and each bring 5-6 dozen cookies, display them on the host’s table, and try not to snitch any as we await all arrivals. (This is easier said than done.)
It’s our third annual cookie exchange, and we highly recommend it as a way to stock your cookie larder without doing all the work yourself. (We’re smart that way.)
We’d like to share our cookies with you today. May we tempt you to get the butter out of the refrigerator and turn on your oven?
Let’s take a look at the visual feast, and then the links to each recipe are below the array of photos.
Happy Delicious December to everyone!
Chai Tea Cookies
Butter Pecan Fudge
Antioxidant Chocolate Bark
Sweet Potato Marshmallow Bars
Naughty and Nice Cookies (I hereby award this most clever entry!)
Vintage Sponge Drops with Double Fudge Filling
Traditional Sicilian Christmas Cookies
Cranberry Orange Walnut Sugar Cookies
Brown Butter Praline Chocolate Chip Cookies
Mini Chocolate Nut Sandwich Cookies
Rosemary Raisin Cocktail Shortbread
Vegan Gingersnaps, Rainbow Chocolate Bark and Blueberry Coconut Mini Cupcakes
Chocolate-Dipped Apricots with Pistachios
Red Velvet Gooey Butter Cookies
Gluten-Free Pumpkin Oat Bars
Crispy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Saketini Christmas Balls, Chocolate Macarons with Japanese Wine Cream Centers, and Matcha Green Tea Cookies with Chocolate Centers & Espresso Cookies with Caramel Fillings
Black and White Cookies
Spumoni Shortbread
Arranging cookie platters for the big grab!
FBLA 2013 Cookie Exchange Recipes
- Chai Tea Cookies — Cathy Arkle of She Paused 4 Thought (She also got tired of rolling the dough and refashioned the rest into Baby Hedgehog cookies.)
- Butter Pecan Fudge — Dorothy Reinhold (me!) from Shockingly Delicious.
- Antioxidant Chocolate Bark — Erika Kerekes (our hostess) of In Erika’s Kitchen.
- Sweet Potato Marshmallow Bars with White Chocolate Chips — Jennifer Richmond of Kitchy Cooking.
- Chocolate Chip and Apricot Walnut Rugelach and Vegan Chocolate Mini Cupcakes (“Naughty & Nice Cookies”) — Dana of Foodie Goes Healthy
- Vintage Sponge Drops with Double Fudge Filling — Leslie Macchiarella of Bake This Cake.
- Sicilian Christmas cookies — Judy Lyness of Two Broads Abroad.
- Cranberry Orange Walnut Sugar Cookies — Patricia Rose of Fresh Food in a Flash.
- Brown Butter Praline Chocolate Chip Cookies — Valentina Wein of Cooking On The Weekends.
- Mini Chocolate Nut Sandwich Cookies — Kelly Page of Tasting Page.
- Rosemary Raisin Cocktail Shortbread — Sharon Graves of Cheesy Pennies.
- Saketini Christmas Balls, Chocolate Macarons with Japanese Wine Cream Centers, and Matcha Green Tea Cookies with Chocolate Centers & Espresso Cookies with Caramel Fillings — Kim Watkinson of Ninja Baking.
- Blueberry Coconut Mini Cupcakes, Rainbow Chocolate Bark, and Vegan Gingersnaps — Judy Weintraub of Bumbleberry Breeze.
- Chocolate-Dipped Apricots with Pistachios — Adair Seldon of Lentil Breakdown.
- Spumoni Shortbread — Nancy Rose Eisman of Adventures with Nancy Rose.
- Crispy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies and Cardamom Gingersnap Cookies — Alison Ashton of Nourish Network .
- Gluten-Free Pumpkin Oat Bars — Alanna Waldron of Eats Real Food.
- Red Velvet Gooey Butter Cookies — Tanaya Ghosh of Tanaya’s Table. (Tanaya’s Table, the blog, will launch in 2014.)
- Black and White Cookies — Tina Kil. (Her blog isn’t up yet, but watch for her contributions in the future!)
Non-Cookie Items
- Chiang Mai Chicken in Endive Spears — Cathy Arkle of She Paused 4 Thought.
- Seasonal salad — Nancy Rose Eisman of Adventures with Nancy Rose.
- Barrel-Aged Sazerac — Jennifer Richmond of Kitchy Cooking.
Barrel-Aged Sazerac
Chiang Mai Chicken in Endive Spears
Seasonal Salad with persimmon, blue cheese, dried cranberries and avocado
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Love this! Thanks again, Dorothy.
Your pictures are fantastic, Dorothy! They truly do justice to the deliciousness of the bevy of FBLA cookies =)
The cookies and company were fantastic. So lucky to be part of such a creative, supportive group. Since I missed the deadline for adding my recipe to this post, please go to my blog for the Spumoni Shortbread Cookies recipe, if you’re curious. Thanks Dorothy!
This was a delicious spread!
This is an amazing group of cookies and a fabulous resource for anyone wishing to bake for your holiday party. Difficult to choose my favorite, but the first picture of the hedgehogs is definitely the most inventive. Thanks Dorothy for the roundup!
How fun! And look at all these great recipes. Yum!
Thanks for pulling all of our sweet treats together Dorothy. I’m just glad I have some left in the freezer so I can partake again!
Thanks for showing me all the fabulous cookies I resisted. At least I can lick the screen. 🙂
Wow – San Diego bloggers have to take a lesson from our brothers and sisters in LA – what an array!
Liz,
You guys can BAKE! I’ll bet you would have an amazing array.
Thank you for putting this together, Dorothy – thrilled to be part of this stunningly delicious endeavor- Happy December Everyone!
Now I’m hungry all over again!
Dorothy- thank you for capturing the spirit of such a fun and delicious day. I’m happy to have the links to so many great treats. And thank you for my “award.” Maybe the Pinecone award is next.
How fun to see our cookie exchange tradition with your lovely photos! Thank you, Dorothy! I still cannot decide which delicious treats were my fave! They were all so fun and lovely and baked with love!
Awesome roundup. Thank you Dorothy for this. So many wonderful treats by such great cooks!
Jolly girl,
We were missing you at the get-together! You be sure to come next time!
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