For my neighbors and friends, chocolate sugar cookies. I added one teaspoon of cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper, and an extra 1/2 teaspoon of salt to this recipe. Baked for only 6 minutes (instead of 10-12, but I have a convection oven, so things go faster). Really good.
Yesterday conversation:
Me: "I'm going to get your Christmas present tomorrow!"
Him: "Oh!!! Are you going to the guitar store?!?"
Me: "Er . . . no . . . "
Him [sad]: "Oh . . . "
Thank you for all the nice words about the quilt these past weeks. I really enjoyed making it, and it's been perfect for snuggling under while watching my new favorite show, Coast Guard Alaska. I was getting grief about watching Ice Road Truckers so I switched to something more refined.
We watch storage wars and I love the hoarder show. Makes me feel better about my sewing room.
Posted by: Susie Sears Taylor | December 14, 2011 at 08:47 AM
Great looking cookies!!!!! Yum!!!!!
Posted by: Lori | December 14, 2011 at 08:49 AM
Chocolate sugar cookies! I've been living under a rock, it seems. Your cookie cutters made my day.
Posted by: Tracy | December 14, 2011 at 08:50 AM
Those cookies are gorgeous (and look delicious)! I've never heard of Coast Guard Alaska, but am now intrigued. While recovering from foot surgery I got hooked on True Blood, which is supremely, embarrassingly trashy.
Posted by: Jodi | December 14, 2011 at 08:55 AM
Hi neighbor! lol
PS A girl can try can't she...
Posted by: Susan M. | December 14, 2011 at 08:56 AM
We call gifts that we're worried about giving (not that you're worried!) "Elephant Tables" after a wicker end table shaped like an elephant that my dad got my mom one Christmas. I'm giving two Elephant Table gifts this year. Hmmmm
Posted by: Lauren | December 14, 2011 at 08:57 AM
I so needed this recipe for teacher cookies! I have all these ingredients and I love the white on the brown. Lovely as usual~~~~ Merry Christmas.
Posted by: Norma | December 14, 2011 at 09:01 AM
Cayenne pepper in chocolate cookies - what a good idea. Your neighbors are lucky.
Posted by: Amy | December 14, 2011 at 09:03 AM
Your photography is seriously beautiful lately. The perfect winter happy place for my eyes :)
Posted by: bobbi | December 14, 2011 at 09:09 AM
Lucky neighbors--those cookies look delicious!! Oh, and my girlfriend text me at 11:30 pm Sunday night to let me know that Bomb Patrol was on. :) xoxo
Posted by: irene | December 14, 2011 at 09:11 AM
Chocolate and spices... as nature intended. Good choices.
Your cookies look pretty... (feel as though I am stating the obvious, but it bears stating.)
And Alicia... one more thing: thank you! I light up when I see you have posted, and finding what you've shared gives my day an inspiring light and warmth.
Posted by: Natalie VV | December 14, 2011 at 09:12 AM
Ice road truckers freaks me out so much! I can't watch it because I get too wound up! Love the cookies!
Posted by: mo | December 14, 2011 at 09:13 AM
There's no shame in Ice Road Truckers.....besides I've probably got you beat....I watched an entire season of Gold Rush Alaska in less than 2 days.
Cookies look wonderful!
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/gold-rush-alaska/
Posted by: Natalie Bishop | December 14, 2011 at 09:15 AM
Sugar cookies just got better! You make such lovely things and photograph them so well. Blessings to you and your husband....and the dog and cat ;)
Posted by: Aime | December 14, 2011 at 09:22 AM
Pretty cookies there. Love baking Christmas cookies.
Posted by: Bobbie Lynn Duran | December 14, 2011 at 09:40 AM
ok...."neighbor" can mean cross country right???!!!
oh and i have 3 guys here who will love you if you watch ice road, ax men, american loggers, shrimpers, fishers, shooters, swamp thingys........whatever.
Posted by: sharon from farm and fru fru | December 14, 2011 at 09:51 AM
Chocolate Sugar Cookies? Sold!
Did you ever watch the show when some of the ice road truckers went to India to drive on their most dangerous roads? I peed my pants for them. SO INTENSE!
Happy Christmas!
Posted by: Sabrina | December 14, 2011 at 09:53 AM
Love the cookies and how you decorated them!
Posted by: Christine | December 14, 2011 at 10:04 AM
Beautiful pictures, calm and christmassy. Make some cookies for yourself too, you deserve them.
Posted by: Jayne | December 14, 2011 at 10:07 AM
Ahaaaa ha ha ha! Thanks for the generous chuckle at the distinction between Ice Road Truckers & Coast Guard Alaska. You are so dead on; Coast Guard Alaska is haute culture by comparison to the truckers.
Posted by: amy | December 14, 2011 at 10:10 AM
Would you mind sharing where you got your cookie cutters? They are unique and darling!
Posted by: Tracy | December 14, 2011 at 10:14 AM
I love Storage Wars That's all I am willing to admit to.
Your cookies are - like everything else in your house - so pretty! Seriously, you need your own magazine. Shove over, Martha.
Posted by: Melissa L. | December 14, 2011 at 10:15 AM
Augh! These look delicious! You're inspiring me to pick up my camera more often..and my sewing machine...and warm up my oven.
Posted by: Laura Jane | December 14, 2011 at 10:16 AM
xxx
Posted by: P | December 14, 2011 at 10:31 AM
Your quilts are now inspiring me to think about making my own (I said I would never make a quilt then I made the farm house quilt out of your book). Yours look so nice and I can't find affordable bedding that I like at all.
Posted by: jessie heninger | December 14, 2011 at 10:32 AM