My mother-in-law made these oreo cookie balls this weekend. I'm not a huge oreo person, but these things were awesome. All it was- a package of oreos smashed up and mixed with a package of cream cheese. Blend well, then shape into balls. then dip the balls in chocolate. My nephew and I hid the container so they wouldn't all get eaten!

I think I might have to try these!

Dip them in white chocolate instead of milk chocolate. Milk chocolate is good but the white chocolate is yummy! People at work have been tormenting me to make them again so I'm doing them tonight.

That sounds good. For us, I will be making traditional Icelandic (as much as one can find ingredients for in South Texas.)

I think our Jólakaka is similar to your Norwegian one, we don´t use much fruit in it, just a few raisins and some candied peel.

For Christmas we would like to have Jólarjupa (Christmas Ptarmigan) or Hangikjöt (Smoked Leg of Lamb) served with Kartölflur í jafningi (potatoes in Bechamel sauce.)

I'm also making lots of Christmas cookies :)

it isn't Christmas without akavit

Amen! OMG I should buy some and bring it on Christmas Day! Think my grandma would kill me??

Teehee ;) Do it! And if you can find some, buy some Icelandic Brennivín. We put it in coffee and call it Black Death! Tastes like anise.

Bumping one of my favorite threads. The "creative holiday" thread made me think of this one. Anyone have any new recipes?

Nah, same ol' same ol'! Haha sorry. My family is super traditional on certain things for Christmas. If we do anything "new," it's usually just a revival of a super old recipe.

We always watch "A Christmas Story," "Christmas Vacation," and "It's a Wonderful Life." We always make eggnog and almost always make Julekake and paintbrush cookies. :p

I made these this afternoon for some of the brothers in my Fraternity and they loved it. I put some purple sugar on top and they looked very pretty. Thanks for the recipe!!

I can't wait to do my holiday baking this year! It will have to wait until I finish my class.. December 7th is the last day, but I'm hoping to finish everything up early!

I don't come home from school until December 16th this year, so I'm going to have to cram a TON of baking into just a week! :[ My Christmas cookie list so far:

Bumping because it is that time of year :)

I am looking for a thumbprint cookie recipe that does not have nuts. Someone gave me oodles of homemade jam and I would love to use it for cookies but I'm trying to find another cookie that my daughter can have. Anyone?


Nevermind, I found one :)

http://www.peanutallergy.com/content...-cookie-recipe

I've never made any with coconut on top, but I have made this recipe:

http://www.joyofbaking.com/LemonBars.html

It's delicious if you are willing to try it without the coconut. The website is really informative too.

Here's a couple of my favorite recipes that the guys in my fraternity love:

These are simply milk chocolate bite-sized brownies, covered with white chocolate and drizzled with dark chocolate...

Gagic Brownies

Ingredients:
3/4 cup sugar.
1/3 cup butter. (5 and 1/3 tablespoons)
2 teaspoon water.
4 Cups (one regular package) milk chocolate chips.
4 Cups (one regular package) white chocolate chips
1 teaspoon vanilla.
2 eggs.
3/4 cup flour.
1/2 tablespoon salt.
1/4 teaspoon baking soda.
3 teaspoon shortening

Cooking:
1. Bring the sugar, butter, and water to a boil. Then remove from heat.
2. Add 1 cup (half the package) of chocolate chips and the vanilla. Stir until smooth and let sit for 5 minutes.
3. Add eggs to mixture (one at a time).
4. Add flour, salt, baking soda and the rest of the bag of chocolate chips.
5. Bake at 355 for 35 minutes
6. Take straight from oven and put into the freezer for 40 minutes.
7. Use a butter knife and cut into bite sized chunks

Coating:
1. Melt the white chocolate chips (in the microwave in a bow, 10-20 second intervalsl) and add shortening halfway through the melting process
2. Take a plastic fork and break the middle two tongs off. Use the fork to dip the brownies into the coating mixture. (or you could sit it into the coating and use a plastic spatula to ensure even covering)
3. Put the brownies onto a baking sheet covered in wax paper.
4. Decorate immediately. (the dark chocolate was some extra dark chocolate chips I had that I melted and put into a piping bag)

Some other decorating things you could do is use a gumdrop on top, a fresh strawberry would go well with it, even maybe some hard candy like a cinnamon disk might go well to balance out the chocolate.

This is an extremely easy Peppermint Bark recipe.

Peppermint Bark:

Ingredients:

1 package of white almond bark
1 package of regular candy canes
1 Tablespoon of peppermint Extract

Preparation:

1. Unwrap candy canes and put into a ziploc bag
2. Pulverize the candy canes into little pieces
3. Melt the almond bark in the microwave (10-20 second intervals)
4. Add 1/2 - 2/3 of the candy cane pieces and peppermint extract
5. Spread the mixture onto a foil lined pan (it's important that it is a foil, like aluminum foil)
6. Sprinkle the rest of the candy cane pieces on top
7. Put into freezer and let sit (approx. 1 hour for a truly solid piece)
8. Break the solid slab of peppermint bark into pieces.

This is just one of those things that is extremely easy to do, yet people who don't know how to do it think you're amazing.