cookie slave

these are the photos chronicling the entire cookie-making process that spanned over more than two weeks his month, from preparing the dough to getting the cookies mailed out.
two recipes: nigella's butter cut-out biscuits, and dorie's sables. the chocolate ganache was a bonus. i broke out the good butter, organic flour and nielsen-massey vanilla on these cookies, and with my care and constant vigilance around the oven, you can be sure that they were good. nigella's biscuits behaved well in the oven, but dorie's sables just had to be slightly burnt on the edges before the centres were cooked.

merry christmas, still.