Umpleby's Bakery & Café

Day 7: – The Ukrainian Snowball  Yet another Holiday Classic, the Ukrainian Snowball, or Mexican Wedding Cookie can be spotted a mile away on any cookie platter.  It’s the ball shaped one coated in 10x sugar!
The recipe consists of only butter, 10x sugar, almond flour, all purpose flour, salt and vanilla extract.   They are a year round huge seller here at the bakery. 

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.