Holiday Cookie Week: Spiced Snickerdoodles with Big Girls, Small Kitchen {Tales from the Trenches}
This is the latest installment of my Tales from the Trenches Series. An ongoing series where friends and readers share their stories and recipes about the great food they fit into family life. We all have tips and tricks to share with each other: when we cook, what we cook and how we cook the delicious food we love to eat. If you are interested in contributing a story and recipe please feel free to contact me. Today my friend’s Cara Eisenpress and Phoebe Lapine, the talented bloggers behind Big Girls, Small Kitchen and Small Kitchen College are sharing one of their favorite holiday cookie recipes. Be sure to check out their first cookbook, In the Small Kitchen: 100 Recipes from Our Year of Cooking in the Real World, it was published in May and makes a fabulous holiday gift!
Holiday Cookie Week!:Don’t forget to enter to win my HUGE holiday cookie week baking package giveaway, details below!
Around this time last year, as our Thanksgiving fullness waned and our tummies grumbled in anticipation of holiday food, we had the opportunity to attend not one but two cookie swaps.
Full admission: we’re not sure we’d ever been to a cookie swap before those two invitations landed in our inbox, but the idea is pretty genius, and of course we caught right on. If it’s not obvious (it wasn’t to us!), here’s how it works: everyone in attendance makes enough cookies for everyone else in attendance to take at least one of each variety home. Participants put out their own cookies, fill up empty boxes, and leave with a far vaster assortment of cookies than they’d ever have had the patience to make themselves. Like a potluck, a format of which we’re very fond, since it cuts down so much on prep time and clean up. And a cookie swap is even more productive than our philosophy of BYOB to dinner parties, since normally by the end of those there isn’t anything to take home. All the wine’s been drunk.
