The baking begins

Unless something happens to change things, my Saturday morning will begin about 3:00am, loading everything up, picking up the crochet ladies and heading to the feria. Natalie says we can swing by her house and pick her up and she will go with us. She is such a treasure and has been such a help. Yesterday I met her in Cartago and she even went to the market to get manzanilla for me to make a soak for my foot. No, it isn’t great yet.  I have been gathering things all week to take along. We will probably need an 18 wheeler.

Since Otto switched to this afternoon, I figured I would make a double batch of cookies this morning. Another tomorrow. It is 5 cookies for 1000 colones. AND, here is my feria cookie recipe.

CHOCOLATE CRINKLE COOKIES 

Preheat oven to 350 Bake for 10-12 minutes

This makes about 32 cookies.

Grease pans or use parchment or baking sheets.

Put in a bowl and mix together

1 2/3 cups flour

1/2 cup cocoa powder

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

In another bowl

1/2 c soft butter

1 1/4 cups sugar

Beat till creamy

2 eggs 

Add one at a time and beat

1/2 tsp vanilla

Add and beat

Add dry ingredients and beat. 

In a small bowl sift 1/2 to 1 cup powdered sugar. I always seem to need more than 1/2 cup.

Now here is where I do things a little different. It says a tablespoon of dough into a ball and roll it in the powdered sugar. The dough is sticky so I skip the rolling into a ball stage. I take a spoon of dough, and roll it around into a rough ball in the powdered sugar. Seems to work good because people love these cookies.

I have lots of recipes but this one works really well. It is chocolate but doesn’t melt in the heat. I can get large containers of cocoa at PriceSmart so it isn’t ingredients I have to bring from the 

US.

I also plan to make fruit bread to take to eat along with coffee, cold beverages, yogurt and egg  muffins. Next thing you know we will have people wanting to buy breakfast from us. Except no Gallo Pinto.

Pictures will have to wait till baking is done.