This has been one of the weirder conversations I've encountered all weekend.

Carry on. You're doing just fine!

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Long as we're in the wierd category....


Yummy... Nuthin' like raw, force-fed, duck liver to get you in the Christmas spirit.

Might have imbibed a but much of the sweet white wine...

 

Lookin' a lot like good eats there, Sean!!

A Riesling, perchance?

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Missy's baking Christmas treats (that's code for stay out of the kitchen)...


or steal 'em while she's not lookin'.

 

I know that feeling >_> Delicious yummy cookies within your site and you make a ninjas approach to get them and *WACK* with a wooden spoon. The one with the hole hurts

 

My grandmother made them, my mom makes them, my wife makes them.

We still call them, phonetically, schmer'-bock-els-ee.

I tried to Google it, but came up with nothing.

Grandma was Swedish, and shoulda' known, but us kids may have mis-interpreted it all.

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Missy calls 'em Mexican Wedding cookies. My mom made 'em too but the recipe was from Betty Crocker's cookbook. From the web search:

"This favorite holiday cookie is known by many different names around the world, such as Mexican Wedding Cakes, Russian Teacakes, Swedish Tea Cakes, Italian Butter Nut, Southern Pecan Butterball, Snowdrop, Viennese Sugar Ball, Sand Tarts, and Snowball. Butterballs. They always contain finely chopped nuts and are twice rolled in powdered sugar. These cookies always seem to be a favorite of men and also a favorite Christmas Cookie.

This recipe is originally from a 1950's Betty Crocker's Cookbook."

 

Yea, I know they're "duck-soup-simple" to make.

I have also heard them called Mexican Wedding Cakes, Swedish Tea Cakes, and Russian Tea Cakes.

Good, any way you name them!

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Well, I'm a Marine and I want to keep up with my manly persona by sharing my cookie recipe with you gents:

preheat over to 350 F with the baking sheet in the oven. If you don't preheat the baking sheet the bottoms of the cookies won't cook.

Mix:
1 box of cake mix ("moist" cake mix works best)
2 eggs
1/2 cup oil
a cup or so of chocolate chips, candies, or whatever you'd like.

Mix together and use a teaspoon to make dough ***** and bake for 9 to 11 minutes. Let them cool to harden up.

My personal favorites are:
1. vanilla cake with white chocolate chips and sometimes Heath bar chunks (found in baking section of grocery store). I usually dye them blue and give them to my Jewish friends haha.
2. chocolate/fudge cake mix with chopped up Andes mints.

Enjoy!

 

Both sound very good, indeed!

I love the simplicity with which they are mixed and baked. No frills, just results.

Damn, I gotta' go find some Andes mints now........

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Yep! Just simple and quick to make but they're the best cookies! They stay soft. And even if a cookie doesn't have a piece of the mints in it, the mint flavor still permiates the batter. Sooooo good! I make them every year around this time. Everyone's been bugging me for them.

 

moms cooking so lamb right now, will have to take pics of it later

 

I've probably brought this up before, but if you haven't already, if you have a FB please like my page https://www.facebook.com/socalsweettreats I only need 19 more people to break 300 "likes"...and if you could spread the word =]

 

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Thanks!!!