TOD:Too many of Mom's creations.
One is called a chocolate surprise cooking. The base is a chocolate-peanut butter cookie that you bake; halfway through, you top the cookie with half of a large marshmallow. Then when it's finished baking and had a chance to cook, you frost it with a coffee-chocolate glaze. They're scrumptious.
Another is the rum tart, which she would roll out to a paper-thin width, then use cutters to create whatever shape she wanted. Once the cookies had baked and were cool, she would sandwich homemade raspberry jam between two of the cookies then top it with a rum glaze.
German cinnamon stars, which I still get for Christmas, are simple yet irresistible. Russian tea cakes (aka Mexican wedding cookies) have plenty of butter and pecan pieces (some then roll the balls in powdered sugar, but I find that too sweet). German Springerle, which have anise in them and are pressed into a mold so they have pictures on them, are perfect with coffee. Gingerbread.
Many of these are happy memories. Mom can't bake all of her old favorites anymore because of arthritis. I don't care much for making cookies. I prefer cakes. Less work.
