Favorite Christmas Cookies

honeychile · #1 12-04-2004, 10:32 PM

What are your favorite Christmas cookies? Do you like to stick to the somewhat pedestrian chocolate chip, or go for the rum balls or peanut butter blossoms? I'm in cookie baking mode (which is all the more "exciting" by a cookie exchange that I'm attending), and I'd like to hear some Greek Chat opinions on The Important Cookie Debate!

PS- feel free to include recipes!!

norcalchick · #2 12-04-2004, 10:49 PM

I like those Russian Tea cookies or whatever they are. It's like a shortbread cookie coated with powdered sugar. I think that's the name of them...?

AOIIalum · #3 12-04-2004, 10:54 PM

Tollhouse Cookies!! Pedestrian or not, they're my favorites any time

Peanut butter with a Hershey kiss smooshed on the top

Chocolate Chip Brownies (usually used boxed mixes)

Chocolate Peanut Butter No-Bakes

I have an alumnae cookie exchange in less than 2 weeks, so this is a very good thread! Thanks Honey!

cutiepatootie · #4 12-04-2004, 11:00 PM

Definitely russian tea cake cookies
Tollhouse
Frosted and decorated Sugar cookies
peanut butter cookies with a hearshy kiss on top

Additional christmas stuff i like:

and home made fudge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
( the 30 minute meal way)

Divinity ( only grandma knows how to do it right!)

bannana bread
pumpkin bread
friendship cake

these are the things i will be making here this coming week or next!

valkyrie · #5 12-04-2004, 11:40 PM

-my mom's pecan shortbreads, although she makes them with walnuts -- they're crescents coated in powder sugar, and her peanut butter cookies and toffee cups

-homemade butter cookies with sprinkles

-oatmeal choc-heath bar cookies -- you can find the recipe here. These are INSANE and I think I'm making them this weekend.

WCUgirl · #6 12-04-2004, 11:41 PM

When we were kids, my best friend's mom was always baking cookies during the holidays. My favorite cookies that she made (and luckily she gave me the recipe!!!) are her ginger molasses cookies. Mmmmm.....guess it's time to break out the recipe and start baking!

Of course, my all-time favorite holiday dessert is fudge.

Jen · #7 12-05-2004, 12:06 AM

SUGAR COOKIES

1 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar (granulated)
1 egg yolk, slightly beaten
3 teaspoons of milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Sift flour, baking powder and salt together. In another bowl cream the butter, adding sugar gradually, beating between additions. Add egg yolk, mix well. Add dry ingredients alternately with milk, add vanilla. Chill dough thoroughly. Roll 1/4" and cut into shapes. Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet at 375 for 8-10 minutes.

PEANUT BRITTLE

3 cups sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups unsalted peanuts (or use salted ones and omit the 1/2 tsp salt)
2 tablespoons butter

Combine salt and sugar in pot. Heat over high and stir constantly until sugar lumps, then lower heat and continue stirring until all the sugar has melted. Stir in nuts and butter (be QUICK about it lol) and spread on a cookie sheet to harden (do this with the sheet on cookie racks, the sugar got so hot one year it melted the counter top underneath the cookie sheet!).

ISUKappa · #8 12-05-2004, 12:15 AM

My mom always made the following during the holidays: peanut clusters, almond bark cookies, cutout sugar cookies (using a special recipe) and poppyseed bread. So now I'm starting to do the same.

AGDee · #9 12-05-2004, 07:08 AM

My holiday baking includes:

Sour Milk Cookies (like sugar cookies but puffier, tastier and you don't have to chill the dough first) Cut out in Christmas shapes and frosted of course

Lemon Spritz (made with the cookie gun) decorated with sprinkles

Peanut butter with hershey kiss on top

Corn flake wreaths (made like Rice Krispies treats but you use Corn Flakes instead, add green food coloring and cinnamon red hots, shape into wreath shapes)

"Mary Lou's Cookies"- This is a recipe we got from our neighbor Mary Lou when I was a kid. I've never seen anybody else make them except our family. They are a layer cookie with dough on the bottom, then a layer of chocolate chips melted and spread out, and the top layer is a walnut/egg/sugar/butter mixture which gets firm. You sift confectioners sugar on top after they've cooled for a few minutes. YUM!

Pistachio coffee cake (green coffee cake for the holidays! YUM!)

And lastly, if I have time, Buckeyes (no bake peanut butter balls dipped in chocolate)

They always request my cheesecake at the office holiday potluck too.

I love to bake!

Dee

mmcat · #10 12-05-2004, 09:29 AM

sugar cookies, tollhouse cookies, meringues, dark chocolate cookies with coconut that my mom makes, fudge.

honeychile · #11 12-05-2004, 01:00 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by valkyrie

-oatmeal choc-heath bar cookies -- you can find the recipe here. These are INSANE and I think I'm making them this weekend.

*gasp* They sound obscenely wonderful!!!

ariesrising, I'll be checking out your recipes - they sound good!!

AGDee, we make "Mary Lou's Cookies", too, only we call them "Alice Lee's Cookies"! I think a generic name could be "die & go to heaven cookies"!!!

Everyone, keep 'em coming! 'Tis the season to be baking!!

Tippiechick · #12 12-05-2004, 02:56 PM

Ok, this sounds really gross... BUT, is is some of the sweetest, most decadent candy ever!

My mom makes Peanut Butter Potato candies. It's basically a lot of karo syrup, confectioner's sugar, peanut butter and instant potatoes all rolled up together.

OMG! I can eat them for days!

Edited b/c I could not spell.

33girl · #13 12-05-2004, 07:29 PM

The best Christmas cookies in the world are Swedish Sprits. Egg, flour, sugar, vanilla and about 50 tons of butter. I can eat a couple dozen of these at a sitting without even thinking about it.

AGDee · #14 12-05-2004, 07:48 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by honeychile
*gasp* They sound obscenely wonderful!!!

ariesrising, I'll be checking out your recipes - they sound good!!

AGDee, we make "Mary Lou's Cookies", too, only we call them "Alice Lee's Cookies"! I think a generic name could be "die & go to heaven cookies"!!!

Everyone, keep 'em coming! 'Tis the season to be baking!!

Wow! Someone else who makes these! I'm excited!!!! The weird thing is, I've looked everywhere for this recipe in a cookbook somewhere and have never found them. Not on allrecipes.com, not in my Encyclopedia of Baking, nowhere!

honeychile · #15 12-05-2004, 09:10 PM

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Originally posted by AGDee
Wow! Someone else who makes these! I'm excited!!!! The weird thing is, I've looked everywhere for this recipe in a cookbook somewhere and have never found them. Not on allrecipes.com, not in my Encyclopedia of Baking, nowhere!

Our Alice Lee was our former pastor's wife. She made cookies like nobody's business!! She had one of those cookie shooter things to make those cream cheesy cookies AND cheese straws, and made pecan bark with toffee in it. We miss her something fierce!!