This “of the Month” section here is shamefully under attended. 2 nibblers posted in Dec., none in Jan. and now into the second half of Feb I haven’t written a lick about anything at all let alone the stinking cookie column. But I’ve got bacon on the brain as of late so let me update the cookie crap for 2009 and move on to some expositions on nature’s wonder meat.

Cookie of the Month, January 09 – After my rhapsody on December’s Molasses Clove cookie, devout reader and uber-chic consumer goddess Alex Masud pointed me towards the Cherry Almond Ginger number, also a product of the Dancing Deer Baking Co. January was a big suck of a month overall and I never got a chance to try them. But Alex is rarely wrong about anything, or at least I’d be afraid to say so to her face, so I’m deferring to her on this one. Besides, since the Dancing Deer people have shown themselves able to create the near perfect cookie in the Molasses Clove and cherries, almonds and ginger sound like such an ass-kicking triumvirate what the hell could possibly go wrong?

Invisible packaging! It's like magic!

COTM February 09 – Rugelach. That sound cool with everyone? How about Apple Butter Rugelach made with a cream cheese dough? Oh, hell yes, that’s what I said. And I’m in possession of such an arrestingly awesome Apple Butter Rugelach w/ cream cheese dough recipe that people I share it with are suddenly compelled to fabricate stories about how their grannies grew up in Polish ghettos. I’m tellin’ ya, they’re that good.

Now, I’ll be happy to post my instructions for this mother of all East European cookies as soon as somebody leaves a comment asking for it. (Unless immediately requested, then it will be as soon as I get home from sunny Ottawa in a couple of days) Just testing to see if anybody is out there.

I stole this picture too!