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When it comes right down to it, and it always seems to
come right down to it, not everything gets done for the holidays. Still out
buying gifts? Still decorating? Still addressing cards, wrapping, cleaning,
mailing?
What usually throws me are the times I need a quick
gift or a quick cookie or a quick anything that will bring a smile to a
neighbor, youngster, or coming-tomorrow guest; satisfy a last-minute request
for goodies for a party, classroom, church social; provide a little thank
you for a hostess, teacher, bus driver.
 These
welcome holiday season touches can’t always be planned for and even if they
can, I don’t. I’m too busy shopping, mailing and wrapping to remember the
unexpected I have learned through the years to expect.
But there are always cookies. If you think of it ahead
of time, like, a few days ahead, cookies are a great answer to all the above
needs. Of course, if you don’t have cookies on hand in time, you need the
kind you can make lickety-split, for use the very next day – or that
afternoon.
I found some really quick and easy cookie recipes to
fill the bill at this great, kid-friendly and interactive Christmas Web site
called www.Northpole.com.
Navigate to the Cookbook area and you’ll fine scads of reader submitted
cookie recipes.
I culled through many of them looking for fast and easy
cookies. For fast I wanted recipes that needed a minimum of ingredients, no
cooking other than baking, and no making dough to be rolled and needing a
cookie cutter to get the cookies out.
For easy I looked for recipes where the average kitchen
would probably supply the ingredients, so no trip to the grocery was
necessary, and where the mixing didn’t require a lot of messy work, like
breaking yolks out of eggs or cutting or measuring lots of little components
– the diced dried fruit or the ¼ teaspoons of 3 separate flavorings, for
example.
Below are three really quick recipes, really easy to
make, that fit the bill. You can have them made and served in less than an
hour each. And they’re not only festive, they’re homemade! The best kind of
holiday satisfaction.
Have a wonderful, flavorful holiday! |
