a -i have to try this some year- xmas cookie wish list item achieved.

[mopinko]

so, the one absolutely mandatory xmas cookie is my klatckes. (also spelled kolatchky, etc)
mine are made from the recipe of an old german grandma friend of my mom's. the dough is the common, unsweetened, cream cheese dough. it gets special w the fillings. most people just use jelly. i use real fruit.
#1 is a stewed apricot. usually the only ones i make, tho this year i have a couple others.

anyway, the wish list thing is this-
every year i look at the syrup left over from stewing those apricots.
i know it could easily be made into a candy, and always had a divinity candy in the back of my mind. i keep it sitting there, but dont get to it. just get tired!

so, i finally did it. heated up the syrup, whipped up a few egg whites, and i have a batch of fantastic apricot divinity.
mmmm. also candied the tiny meyer lemons from my tree. i think they will make an unusual and delish klatchky, and that lemon syrup....
hope i have time for another batch.

[Kali]

1. omg

apricot divinity sounds WONDERFUL! drool...

[mopinko]

2. unfortunately i have to say that the sugar sort of drowns out the apricot.

but then again, if i do it next year, i can wait till the really end, and put a little plop on a left over apricot. and a shmear of leftover ganache.
or just a bottom of chocolate.


yes, it is an obsession.
the last minute left over recycling efforts are often the best. i pressed the scraps from a cookie cutter cookie in a small pan, and baked it. i will pour some hot jelly on it, or frost it, or both, or something.

my annual insanity. truly.

[dem in texas]

3. Dried Fruit Filling

I make coffee kringle, a recipe from my Swedish Grandmother. The kringle is a big flat coffee cake with fruit filling in the middle and icing on top, then cut in squares. It calls for a filling of cooked dry prunes. I have thought I might try an apricot filling next time I make it. I read in a cookbook that the filling made of dried fruits works better than jelly because it has less sugar and the filling will not run like the jelly filling does. When I read that, it was an aha moment, explained why the jelly always runs out of my thumbprint cookies