Baked goods

The holidays are all about indulging, and what is more indulgent than an unlimited supply of baked goods?  By New Year's Day, our kitchen table looked like a bakery case.  Here is a small sampling of the deliciousness.  

Jon made Barefoot's amazing Banana Crunch Muffins.  They are best right out of the oven, and really ought to be eaten within 24 hours of baking (preferably with a cup of coffee).  

John made Baked's Cowboy cookies, which were to die for!  (Note: they all disappeared when John and Kristen packed up...hmmm...)

Kristen and Andy made chocolate meringues, so gluten-free Kristen could join in the indulgence.  The idea was to approximate the chocolate meringue cookies at the Wild Hive Cafe, which are so dense they taste like brownies.  They came out more like, well, meringues.  But they did the trick.  We will keep trying.

In addition to the pictured treats, Jon also made a huge, experimental batch of Barefoot's Dried Fruit Cookies, substituting Lagavulin for the sherry.  It was amazing how much that one change threw off the flavor.  Lagavulin's signature smokiness made the sweet treat almost savory.  Still good, but kind of weird.

And John made a batch of some kind of gluten free cookies from a store bought mix that no one besides Kristen went for.  She insisted they were delish.