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I don't blog anymore (NO time!) but these are SO cute and SO fun and **SO** good - I'm calling them Peppermint Candy Christmas Cookies!
I had high hopes for this recipe (I even used the legendary William Sonoma Peppermint Bark) but it was simply too sweet.  A bit of tweaking gave me the the PERFECT thing for anybody else who is **obsessed** with peppermint, and who knows that you can...

No idea where to start with this but it's been such an unexpected, emotional experience that I know I'll want to look back on it.  I also know I've already forgotten so much ... the first few weeks were a whirlwind of panic .... So here we go.
Part I:  Spiral Into Darkness...

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Fresh from the oven, ready to be iced! (picture shows a half-batch)
Mmmmmm, cardamom.
If you're not Swedish yourself, you might not know it by name.  Even so though, you'd probably associate the taste with Christmas (or winter) if you had a slice of cardamom bread.  It's a spice made from the seed pods of various plants in the ginger...