Welcome to Part 2 of my Christmas cookie bake-a-thon! (Part 1: Butterscotch Bars)
The thing about baking is that unless you're a pasty chef, or exceptionally gifted in the kitchen, or happen to have memorized countless ratios of fat to sugar, you can't really bake without a recipe. It's different for savory dishes, like a stew or salad, whose recipes afford lots of room to add, subtract, or substitute ingredients according to your taste. That's why baking recipes are still so important to me, why 90% of the recipe hunting I do in my life is geared toward cookies, pies, and cakes. It's also why it's so important to share the good recipes when we find them. Bakers must be a society of sharers.
