Angel Pie

Ok.  I know.

I know I was 2 cookie recipes short of the 12 Days of Cookies. 

Please forgive me.  No excuse except I became so sick of butter and sugar and needed to consume vegetables and healthier fare for a while.

To make up for it, I am posting a dessert recipe that should take the place of those missing cookies.  Fair deal?


This is a very retro dessert.  I haven't had it in about 32 years (wow, dating myself a bit).  So, 1970's retro.  Basically, it's a pavlova in a pie.  Have I got your attention yet?

12 Days of Cookies - Chocolate Peanut Butter Surprises

For someone who is not a fan of chocolate, I sure am baking a lot of chocolate cookies!  Who can pass up chocolate with peanut butter though?  Ok, easy answer...anyone allergic to nuts.  I think I would even try this with a different spreadable nut mixture like hazelnut, almond butter, or even soy butter, sunflower butter, or "Peabutter" for my husband and others with a nut allergy.

12 Days of Cookies - Mexican Hot-Chocolate Cookies

These cookies are for the serious chocoholic.  They are a nice change to the regular chocolate cookie, however, next time, I would add some chopped up chocolate bar - like "Chocolove" which contains dark chocolate with chiles and dried cherries.  It sort of screams for a surprise inside. 

12 Days of Cookies - Fruitcake

I have never made fruitcake before.  Probably because it always seems so difficult and time-consuming to bake.  This recipe is pretty easy to create.  Just blend your favorite dried fruits, macerate in liquor for a couple of days, then bake in a low temperature oven for a couple of hours.  Pretty easy and delicious.

12 Days of Cookies - Coconut Lime Macaroons



These do not taste like those macaroons you buy at the grocery store bakery.  You know the ones.  They taste of solid coconut and are almost like a Bounty Bar.  These are light and limey and delicious clouds of meringue which happen to have coconut in it.  The lime is makes these outstanding.  I don't think I'll give any of these away.  They are too delicious!