Finally that moment arrives... :) Hot Buttered Rum Cookies

For me, the best moment of baking cookies happens when I cannot get another cookie cut from the wee piece of dough that I've rolled, re-rolled, and rolled out again. It's at that moment that I know that I now get to eat that piece of raw cookie dough!!! I can almost hear the choir start singing. :)  Please, no raw egg lectures needed. I've been eating raw cookie & pastry dough since I was a child. I'm still here & I've never gotten sick or even felt unwell afterwards... Just a feeling of sadness because there wasn't more of it to eat. ;)

Today I made the dough for 3 diff batches of cookies. Figured I'd better get to all the room temp butter before hubby started complaining about my taking up the cupboard space with bowls & bowls of softening butter. :)  I made my Coffee Cutout dough http://the-metamorphosis-of-me.blogspot.ca/2014/11/coffee-cut-out-cookie-recipe_20.html?m=1, Sweet Hope Cookies' Hot Buttered Rum cookies http://www.sweethopecookies.com/hot-buttered-rum-roll-and-cut-cookies/, & In Katrina's Kitchen's sugar cookies (which I subbed 1t of Rum flavouring & 1/2t Butter flavouring instead of Vanilla & Almond and added in 3/4t ground Nutmeg) http://www.inkatrinaskitchen.com/2011/12/best-sugar-cookie-recipe-and-kitchenaid_28.html.

I rolled out & put the coffee dough in the freezer to cut & bake tomorrow. Two of the 3 discs from the Hot Buttered Rum recipe are in the fridge till then too (they were awaiting a square cookie cutter that was loaned to me tonight at Zumba class). One of the discs I baked in balloon shapes for a party coming up. The last batch I baked as stars awaiting a genius Christmas design I'll see on Pinterest. 

Here are the results from the Hot Buttered Rum recipe: 

As you can see there is minimal spreadage (well, my spell check doesn't like my word choice... But I do!) and this dough was fairly easy to work with & is quite tasty!

It's definitely a keeper!

Here's what I did with the balloons:

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