Christmas Cookies

Once a year if it I get it into my head I decide to make Christmas cookies and it turns into quite the baking extravaganza. I blame Mike who got it into my head that he wanted my rainbow cookies and ricotta cookies, don't ask me where he got ricotta cookies from because I'm still not sure, not my favorite but if the boy asked for them I'm going to bake them. I was off to bake all kinds of delicious cookies. I had decided on the following:

1. Seven-Layer Cookies (aka Rainbow Cookies)
2. My new favorite coconut macaroons 
3. M&M Cookies - I had to go to 2 supermarkets to get the darn M&M's
4. Ricotta Cookies for Mike 
5. And Truffles  

I was also going to make peppermint bark but I nixed that in the store when my cart was already full of expensive ingredients. After that I was off and baking. I soon realized that my kitchen was way too small for this big endeavor, counter space was limited to say the least. I also had a couple of baking fails along the way, as I sit here writing this post I had the recipe open for the truffles, Mike just walked over and said "oh you tried to make those, they looked like them on the outside but the inside tasted like poop." The recipe looked so simple, I'm still not sure where I went wrong but they def did not taste edible so those were a waste. I also failed at my macaroons, I made them exactly the same way just the week before and these were a complete flop so I was without my macaroons sadly. The M&M cookies, ricotta cookies and rainbow cookies all turned out delicious, I sampled them all so I can vouch for them. Overall it made 4 trays of cookies so I still had plenty to go around for 4 trays worth, although I think my Dad made a big dent in eating through 2 of them!