Special candy for Christmas...

No recipe today- just praise of a candy I usually only get at Christmas- Mozart Kugel. I've loved these since a visit to Austria 20 years ago. I love anything with marzipan in it!



I have a tin and a bag of them...and I'm not going to touch them until Christmas morning.

Nowadays, I can easily get them online from amazon.com, but keeping them for Christmas only makes them special.

YUM!!

Tricolor Cookies and Cherry Shortbread!



I've been looking for a good recipe for Tricolor Cookies (also called Rainbow Cookies) for a long time. The Washington Post had one in their food section this week! Here it is:

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/recipes/2008/12/10/tricolor-cookies/

I made a batch, and I'm going to make more. They're unbelievably good. They remind me of the cookies I used to get at Alfonso's Pastry on Staten Island, New York, when I was a kid!

They're still there:

http://www.cannoliexpress.com/index.php

These cookies are hard to find outside of the New York City area.



My kitchen smelled like Alfonso's shop while I was baking. It was the mixture of marzipan and orange zest that did it.


Found this recipe for Cherry Shortbread in Rachael Ray's Everyday Magazine, December 2008:

http://www.recipezaar.com/Cherry-Shortbread-Cookies-336955

Least likely to screw up! It is hard to ruin shortbread. The cherries are a nice addition. Next time, I might drizzle chocolate on them.