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Favorite Christmas Cookies
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!! :D |
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...?
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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! |
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! |
-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. |
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. :D |
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.
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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 |
sugar cookies, tollhouse cookies, meringues, dark chocolate cookies with coconut that my mom makes, fudge.
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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!! |
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. |
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.
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Y'all know, as an Airman who won't be spending Hanukah/Christmas at home and instead on base (save for a short weekend trip to chicago in two weeks) i'll be pretty lonely on base...cookies could definitely make me feel better ;) ;) ;) :D
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Sugar cookies with really good icing.
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I also love cookies. The best job that I ever had in college was working at a bakery - where all that was sold was cookies (16 kinds), muffins, scotcheroos and kringla. My sister and I are going to be baking 12 dozen cookies that she needs for some church event. We plan on making cookies shaped like candy canes - two types of dough twisted together, pinwheels and fudge. I love fudge. Also a fun easy recipe that I got from a friend's mom involves those long pretzel sticks, melted white almond bark, smashed up candy canes and melted chocolate bark. You dip the pretzels about 2/3 of the way into the almond bark, then roll them into the smashed candy canes and drizzle with the melted chocolate. The Christmas cookies that I grew up with were called Christmas Card Cookies. I don't have the recipe handy, but they have ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and some other spices. They're similar to a gingerbread cookie, but the taste is a bit different. Then we'd ice them and my mom is a cookie decorating queen. |
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How could I forget about Buckeyes? I was lucky if the peanut butter mix even made it to the chocolate stage! |
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One good thing about decorating sugar cookies, if they look awful, it's easy to get rid of the evidence! ;) |
My mom used to always make the peanut butter blossom cookies - those are the peanut butter cookies with a hershey kiss smashed in to them. She hasn't made them this christmas and I don't have time right now since I'm trying to get my thesis done. Hmmm....wonder if i can start leaving hints around the house that I'd love some of those cookies.
The tradition in my house was mom would start to make the cookie dough for sugar cookies and for the peanut blossoms. While she did that we kids would unwrap a few bags of kisses getting them ready for the cookies. Of course, between us kids (and dad) a bag of kisses probably got eaten while we were unwrapping them. The thing about my mom's peanut blossoms - she puts something in her recipe that makes them taste different then any other I've eaten. I dont' know if it's because she rolls the dough in sugar before she bakes or what. |
Date Balls, fudge, and divinity.
I also must admit that I love the sugar cookies that you buy in the roll with the little holiday pictures on them (reindeer and Frosty the Snowman)!!! |
I LURVE Gingerbread.
My mom makes these cookies called "Ginger Cremes." Basically they look like if you were to mash gingerbread mix into little balls and bake them. So there is no snap in the cookie. And then she frosts the tops and we dip them in sprinkles. Good stuff. |
Wonderful holiday traditions
Hi, Honey.
I our homes at the holidays, one can always find Pecan Tassies (best thing EVER) Divinity with freshly cracked pecans Lemon Bars A recent addition is Elvin (also called Elvish) shortbread (Two words...OH MY!) Grandmother's Nanapudding Mother's Chess Pie I couldn't believe it, but MANY of my students had not heard of chess pie! One of my students made chess pies for the whole class! :) Happiness, Silver |
What's Chess Pie?
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Full-sized chess pies are a tradition in many southern homes during the holidays. Made in small tarts for individual servings, chess pies are also appropriate for summer outings. Chess pies are, in some ways, like pies made out of the filling for a pecan pie. However, the chess is a rich, bright yellow color and is made mainly from eggs and LOTS of sugar. It has a VERY thin, light crust where the top of the confection cooks to a crispy layer. You might think of it as a cross between a custard pie and the filling for a pecan pie. Yum! Silver |
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Anyways, back on topic: These aren't necessarily "Christmas cookies", but I've made two double batches in the past week and they are SOOOO good and so easy to make. Banana Butterscotch Drops 3 medium ripe bananas 1 box yellow cake mix (the author of the cookbook I got this from recommends Betty Crocker Super Moist, but any yellow cake mix will work) 2 cups old fashioned oats 1 cup butterscotch morsels Take the bananas and mash them using a hand mixer for about 1 minute. Add the cake mix to the bananas and with the mixer, mix for another 2-3 minutes or until the mixture is a little creamy. Add the oats and the butterscotch chips using a wooden spoon. Using a measured teaspoon (according to them :D), place on a cookie sheet and bake for 14-15 minutes (mine usually cook about 20 minutes) at 350 degrees F or until the bottoms are golden brown. They come out of the over not looking completely done, but they firm up as they cool, and everyone loves the smell of them - I took them to a chapter Christmas party this year and the women LOVED them! Other staples that I make with my grandma are Swedish icebox cookies, Snowballs, Almond Cresents (as long as we remember to put enough butter in them! :o), Chocolate chip, and I can't remember the others right now. Most years, I spend two or three days with my grandma at her house baking cookies! :) If I find any other receipes, I'll share them here! :) |
Yesterday I ate lots of cookies and pastries at a Christmas party. My favorite were the gingerbread man cookie. It was an inch tall gingerbread man. I wanted to eat more, but they ran out of them.
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I *heart* Moravian Spice Cookies.
Also fudge. |
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Lemon spritz (cookie gun) and Sour milk cookies done... so many more to go! I didn't get nearly as much done today as I'd hoped. Then again, the kids were helping all along the way. We had fun, but it does slow things down again as they each have to have a turn at cracking an egg, measuring an ingredient, etc. Dee |
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Does anyone have a recipe for chocolate-covered coconut balls? I ADORE them--my grandmother used to make them and no one got her recipe when she passed on. :(
Chess pie...ah yes, the only dessert that the cooks at Mississippi State seemed to be able to make for banquets. I went to 3 straight sorority banquets in a week there, had chess pie at every one, and I swear my teeth hurt for days. Our oldest girls come home from college this week! BAKING PAAARRRTYYY! |
Carnation, are you talking about the cookies that a lot like macaroons covered in chocolate? Lord forgive me for being a squeal, but I had one aunt who just could NOT cook - but she thought she was great at it! The only good thing she ever made was macaroons, so when anything came up, we'd IMMEDIATELY beg her to make those (so she wouldn't make anything else!).
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These weren't cookies--more like candy. I'll never forget the time I flew home with some of that candy she was sending with me and she'd wrapped each piece individually in foil and the box set off the metal detector in the airport. I had to unwrap the box and each little piece for the inspector.
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Sugar cookies!!!!!! :D (frosted or topped with powdered sugar)
Bourbon balls (technically not a cookie, but only eaten around Christmas in my family) Gingerbread men!!! AOIIsilver, I LOVE chess pie too! Memories... |
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Swedish Icebox Cookies (Doubled Receipe) 4 cups flour 1 cup powdered sugar 4 sticks butter 2 tsp vanilla Mix dough. Divide and roll into rols about 1 1/2 inches in diameter. Roll in colored sugar, nuts, etc. Put in refrigerator for about 2 hours. Slice and bake about 10 minutes in 350 degree F oven. |
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I'm also a big fan of Amish sugar cookies-great to use with some colored homeade icing. They're not crisp like most sugar cookies-they almost have a cake-like texture. So good! |
The flour cookies covered in powdered sugar are called Russian Tea Cookies or Mexican Wedding Cakes. I have heard them called both. My mom makes them every christmas and I want to eat all of them. They are so good. Also she makes these chocolate balls covered in powdered sugar...they are really good too.
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Happiness to you! Silver |
Yeah, chess pie... O come all ye faithful to the pie...
Sweet Potato Pie with a bit of rum Spiced Tea with a bit of bourbon Irish Whiskey Cake--never made, purchased from Neiman's and Red Velvet Cake... Last but not least, Sugar Cookies for Santa... Use Butter Nut Vanilla rather than plain vanilla to give it more "umph"... And I going to try Extra Dark Chocolate Girahdelli's Truffle Recipe that was advertised in the newspaper... And I have a pizzelle iron--gonna try to make pizzelles this year--we'll see if I have the time... |
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