Holiday Baking

KatieKate1244 · #1 12-09-2006, 11:33 PM

Well, I'm not allowed anywhere near the kitchen. But my mom makes Pumpkin Rolls that are really popular with those who like them. That, and candy glass. When my dad taught in a middle school for 3 years she made them each year for his homeroom. Making candy glass is.a.big.stucky.mess. I honestly can't eat it anymore.

ISUKappa · #2 12-10-2006, 10:15 AM

I try to make

frosted sugar cookies
peanut clusters
almond bark cookies
almond poppyseed bread
buckeyes

This year I'm also attempting gingerbread men

Munchkin03 · #3 12-10-2006, 10:58 PM

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Originally Posted by ISUKappa

I try to make

frosted sugar cookies
peanut clusters
almond bark cookies
almond poppyseed bread
buckeyes

This year I'm also attempting gingerbread men

Awww, I love buckeyes! My supervisor back when I was an RA used to make buckeyes for us from time to time.

When I go to Florida next week, I am making gingerbread men with my crazy-ass niece and nephew. I am getting boy and girl cookie cutters. I hope they like it!

AchtungBaby80 · #4 12-10-2006, 11:17 PM

OK, I need some holiday cookie-baking advice...I want to make gingerbread cookies, but I want them to come out chewy. This is apparently very hard to do. My grandmother's gingerbread men were always hard as rocks, and my mom doesn't like to make gingerbread because she thinks it never comes out right (even though she makes great desserts!). I know I'm probably biting off more than I can chew, but I'm going to a Christmas party and I was asked to bring Christmas cookies. Any advice on how to make these things so they don't break your teeth?

AGDee · #5 12-10-2006, 11:18 PM

Sugar cookies (made today, will frost tomorrow night)
Spritz cookies
peanut butter/hershey kiss cookies
lemon bars
buckeyes
a cookie we call "Mary Lou's cookies" because a neighbor (Mary Lou)of my mom's gave us the recipe and it had no name, but it's a layer of pastry, then a layer of chocolate chips, then a layer of walnuts/eggs/sugar stuff, baked in layers
Pistachio coffee cake
"grandpa's" fudge (which we found out recently was simply the Hershey's cocoa fudge from the old cocoa tins.. after thinking it was some secret family recipe for decades!)

I'm making a cheesecake for our work holiday potluck dessert contest.
I have to make a dessert for an alumnae club meeting and a dessert for my daughter's Girl Scout progressive party. Haven't figured out WHAT I'm making for either of those yet... I have a lot to do, and not a lot of time left here! I'm way behind with the baking this year!

VandalSquirrel · #6 12-11-2006, 01:24 AM

I've never heard of those bars with the name "Hello Dollies", we call them Magic Cookie Bars, and the recipie came off of an Eagle brand canned milk label. I've also heard of them as 7 layer bars.

My sister and I make stained class cookies, which are sugar cookies with open areas broken up hard candy is put into, and then it melts and cools flat. We also make rosettes, which are deep fried and covered in powdered sugar (yum!).

For the work party next week I am making a cranberry cherry pie instead of my usual trite yet tasty jello salad.

Tippiechick · #7 12-11-2006, 01:27 AM

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Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel

We also make rosettes, which are deep fried and covered in powdered sugar (yum!).

Hey, gimme that recipe.

VandalSquirrel · #8 12-11-2006, 01:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Tippiechick

Hey, gimme that recipe.

It requires a special rosette iron (with different shapes). I'll find one online and send you a link to it. They keep really well too, so you can make them days ahead of time or mail them to people.

ETA: I found that they have expanded the kinds of irons one can get, and includes all kinds of holidays. There isn't a crown for Zeta, or a squirrel for Alpha Gam, but you can get bunnies and eggs for Halloween, and spiders and bats for Halloween. There is also a Texas shaped one, wtf.

aephi alum · #9 12-11-2006, 02:52 PM

I'm looking at these lists and wondering how long it's going to be before we see a recruitment thread with Christmas cookie types as the code names...

I don't do a whole lot of baking. I usually just make an apple pie for Thanksgiving, and that's about it. This year, I didn't make the pie for Thanksgiving, so I might make one for the December holidays.

GeekyPenguin · #10 12-12-2006, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel

I've never heard of those bars with the name "Hello Dollies", we call them Magic Cookie Bars, and the recipie came off of an Eagle brand canned milk label. I've also heard of them as 7 layer bars.

We call them seven layer bars. I have to make cookies to mail my boyfriend and my grandpa and feed my study group (I make up for my lack of smarts by baking) and I think this year I'm doing:

Sugar cookies
White Lace Inn cookies (thanks valkryie!)
Snickerdoodles
White choc. chip cranberry
Date bars

I usually bake a billion cookies the night before an exam to try and calm down.