Umpleby's Bakery & Café

Day 6: The Hazelnut Linzer  The Return of the King.  This cookie is so good that is will have its own entry on our Holiday Menu.   It’s a shortbread thumbprint cookie that contains ground hazelnuts and then rolled in a ball and covered in more hazelnuts and then for good measure baked with raspberry preserves in the center.  And don’t forget the 10x snow on top!  This cookie has it all – the great hazelnut flavor, the great cookie crunch from the nuts, plus the color element from the preserves.

Day 5: The Pecan Thumbprint  

Today we have the good fortune to spotlight the Pecan Thumbprint. The basic baking building blocks of butter, flour, sugar and flavoring (in this case pure vanilla) are at it again with the addition of ground pecans on the inside and a whole pecan on the outside.  And to finish, yes you guessed it,  10x snow on top.

Day 4:  The Peanut Butter  Here is a cookie that arguably isn’t Christmas-y.  However, what I like about it is that it brings a unique flavor and look to the cookie tray.  One look at those cross hatch marks on the top and you know it is a PB (as a personal preference I like using a 3- prong fork over a 4 pronger)

And for the peanut butter lovers out there this is the best cookie to have for the season.  Sandwich two of them together with some more peanut butter and you get that huge Girl Scout cookie seller – the savannah.