Kekszeit

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My flatmate is an excellent cook and baker (I used to think that having cooking classes in high school is unnecessary because people can learn cooking at home but now I think it's a great idea) and this year she again baked nine different kinds of Christmas cookies. Today we ate some and lamented that while you could in theory make the same cookies in other months than December, it just feels weird. Like eating Faschingskrapfen not during Fasching. But then, after realizing that the same ban mysteriously doesn't apply to chocolate chip cookies because they're not associated with Christmas, I got the fantastic idea that in other months instead of calling them "Kekse" we'll just call them "cookies" and I think it might actually work. I really hope so because especially her nougat cookies, and the ones with rolled oats, and the ones with cardamom, and those with egg liqueur were all fantastic.

In general there will be more baking in the new year than in the past few months because she's finally done with her strict nutritionist-prescribed diet (for now...) and clearly that needs to be celebrated. With baking.

Comments

[lilly_the_kid]

Those sound delicious! It's interesting how much the name influences our perception. For me "Plätzchen" are the ones only made for christmas and "Kekse" are the ones you can buy at the supermarked all year round :)

[yuuago]

Mmm, all those cookies sure sound delicious. (Egg liqueur? What is that?)

[rueckenfigur]

In our house Plätzchen are specifically christmas only, Kekse are whenever ... but it’s the same issue. Why these small delicious treats only 1/12th of the year?!

[merit]

I found cooking in school a bit too regimented (measure spices? I don't understand) but then if you learn how to cook at home, it is less of an issue!

That is a good number of Christmas cookies! I hope there's more baking in the future.

[extrapenguin]

Ooh, cookies! Om nom nom.

Cooking classes in school are a good idea in general, since not everyone's parents have time to teach the kids cooking, and there are always those families that subsist on readymade microwave meals... Part of the great equalizing mandate of the school system.

[queenofanything]

That sounds lovely! I miss having a roommate who cooked, I'm capable but too tired/lazy haha

[dancing_serpent]

I'm with the "Plätzchen" people. *g*

As for cooking classes...there were none at my school(s). And I certainly didn't learn at home. So, ready made stuff or take away it is for me. *g*

[starshipfox]

I'm so impressed that she made nine different kinds! I made about 100 rum cookies today, but that's only one flavour. I don't particularly associate cookies with Christmas, though these rum ones taste very Christmassy to me.