Crash-O-Cookies

These oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are named for a family friend of Dorie Greenspan.  An unusual ingredient is raisins soaked in hot water, red wine, brandy, cognac, rum, or black tea.  I kept it simple and used hot water but I would like to try tea.  One of my favourite oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipes is from an old edition of The Joy of Cooking and contains orange peel.  I wonder what the raisins would taste like after a soaking in Constant Comment tea?

Anytime Tarragon-Apricot Cookies

These Tarragon-Apricot Cookies are the second cookie we've baked from the Cocktail Cookies section of Dorie's Cookies.

I just love them.  A shortbread cookie with dried apricots, fresh tarragon, olive oil, and salt - it sounds strange but tastes so good.

My cookies are more rustic in appearance than Dorie's because I rolled the dough into a log and sliced it into cookies.  The dough was in the fridge for several days before I baked it.  I wondered if that would make the cookies taste strongly of tarragon, but no, they have a delicate flavor.

I am looking forward to baking more interesting and unusual cocktail cookies in the coming months.