Riverside Bakery

Ladie's Wafers are the first of what looks like hundreds of French cookie options to come from the French Cookie Book.  As with all things French, it also looks like French cookies are as much about the look of things as the taste or filling-ness of things.  The great chocolate chip cookie is as tantalizing as anything else round and chocolate on earth, but it's not necessarily supposed to be aesthetic as well.  French cookies have swoops, they have layers, they have varying shapes, icings and they have those

pastry bags as pipers and ice cream style cookie scoops so needed to complete.  Voila.  To get started, the authors begin with "this simple cookie...the prototype for many of the fancier cookies...are thin round disks with browned rims that, with a soupçon (very small quantity) of imagination, recall the rope rings used in that game."  Whatever the origin, the Palets de Dames is a stand-by French cookie based off of a creamed butter and sugar batter.

After the equipment arrives, next up, Cats' Tongues

and after that Bruxellois, Brussels Rum Cookies.