cookies!

I baked a lot of cookies yesterday and today. A whole bunch are just plain butter cookies made from shortpastry, but I also made two kinds of lebkuchen. (I realize that ideally those ought to have sat a few days at least for best taste before the intended eating date, in particular the first recipe, but whatever. I tried some right after they were cool and they tasted quite nice already, and I apparently suck at Christmas bakery planning.)

( picture and recipe for the first kind of lebkuchen, the classic kind without any flour, just nuts, candied and dried fruit, sugar, eggs and spices )

( picture and recipe for the second kind, this one with flour )

( finally a picture of the boring but tasty butter cookies, no recipe for those )