Adult-only cookies

Tonight I made Giada's Apricot and Nut Cookies with Amaretto Icing, and oh man, were they yummy! It was a super easy recipe and the results were amazing. I creamed together butter, cinnamon, sugar, sea salt, and vanilla and then added an egg to the mixture. In went flour and finally slivered toasted almonds, toasted pine nuts, and roughly chopped dried apricots. I worked the dough into a log that, in all honesty, looked like an enormous penis, wrapped it up in plastic wrap, and stuck it in the fridge for a couple of hours. I sliced the roll into cookies and baked them off at 350 for 13 minutes and then let them cool on a wire rack. At that point, I snuck a taste of the smallest cookie and was totally blown away by the result. It was definitely a denser, crunchier cookie, and even though I am definitely in the soft/chewy preferred cookie camp, my mouth was still happy.

After they cooled, I iced them with a mixture of powdered sugar whisked together with Amaretto. I cut back on the amount of icing I made because I didn't want leftovers and I ended up making exactly the right amount (I did one cup of sugar instead of the 1 3/4 cups asked for and cut back on the Amaretto accordingly). I had to have another cookie at that point--soo good! The Amaretto was so tasty and cut through some of the sweetness of the powdered sugar, giving it a really nice flavor. Hopefully Jim likes 'em as much as I do.