Calorific!

Czech Christmas cookies are totally loaded with calories. This I learned just by reading Mamka's recipes. Imagine all 250 grams of Hera butter plus more or less 300g of powdered sugar, eggs, couple hundred grams of ground nuts in just two trays of cookies. Caloriiiiific, isn't it? But who cares, really? Certainly not me. Gazillion calories notwithstanding, the husband and I baked two kinds last weekend. Then, as if suddenly hit by a strong feeling of success, he announced he would like to bring his officemates the products of his own labor. This drove me to bake the immortal brownies and choco-chip cookies to add some variety and for the husband to be Mr. Popular the next day at work.

And he got the title, of course, hehe.... The cookies in a shape of a flower and moon are my most fave Czech Christmas cookies. They are called "Linecke" ( which doesn't mean anything in Czech according to A). The chocolate ones are called " Medvedi Pracky" or Bears' Paws. They look totally harmless because of their size, right? Now I tell you, if you're constantly checking your waistline, immediately put these cookies to a place where the sun wont shine---like someone else's stomach. But if you're all for the season of giving and eating, have one or two, and then some more. After all, Christmas only comes once a year so eat and be merry!