Your favorite holiday cookie?

Francl27

I'm doing a cookie exchange for the holidays with some friends... what's your favorite cookie recipe?

Alatariel75

Lemon Melting Moments: https://www.cooked.com.au/Margaret-Fulton/Hardie-Grant-Books/Baking/Biscuits/Lemon-melting-moments-recipe

robbienjill

No bakes!

bioklutz

Not so much as a holiday cookie - but my favorite are alfajores with dulce de leche and coconut. So tasty!

Francl27

Bump

missysippy930

Definitely spritz cookies

AngryViking1970

When I was growing up, Christmas Eve dessert was always fruit salad and an assortment of cookies, baked by my tiny Norwegian Great Grandmother. SO, my faves are Norske Kroner, fattigman, and these crazy thin lacy oatmeal cookies that she used to lay over a rolling pin while hot so they would curl.

Need2Exerc1se

https://www.mccormick.com/recipes/dessert/pecan-cookie-balls

Best cookie ever.

emcclure013

We always make Ritz Cracker cookies. Peanut butter between two Ritz crackers dipped in vanilla almond bark. We'd usually put some fun Christmas sprinkles on top. No bake, easy to make, and oh-so-tasty!

KANGOOJUMPS

shortbread with that little cherry on top. yum. with abottle of wine of course.

bmeadows380

Betty Crocker's Snickerdoodle recipe
https://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/snickerdoodles/7ffc92a9-d847-4869-9ecb-99de3b751b14

I also love a good, soft peanut butter cookie, or a soft chocolate chip. I make them soft but substituting shortening for half the butter and lowering the baking time down a bit. I've learned that if you take them out a minute or two early or so and leave them on the pan, cookies will finish baking, and I like this method because it does keep them softer.

kdbulger

Shortbread cookies are my all-time favourite. Specifically my mom's recipe. It's finicky and I have never mastered it myself.

AngryViking1970

Need2Exerc1se wrote: »

https://www.mccormick.com/recipes/dessert/pecan-cookie-balls

Best cookie ever.

OMG, I LOVE these! I haven't had/made them in ages...

vegmebuff

Lofthouse style soft sugar cookies with butter cream icing...Mom's recipe. Like @kdbulger mentioned "I have never mastered it myself."...same goes for me too

kdbulger

vegmebuff wrote: »

same goes for me too

Some day, right? I'll keep trying!

blondie_mfp

I really like these soft gingersnap cookies (I leave them plain without any chips).

lucys1225

These are my favorites https://www.allergyfreealaska.com/2012/12/06/guilt-free-pecan-pie-cookies/

JennyRATL

http://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipeprint.do?rid=274251
Swedish Ginger Cookies with Crystallized Ginger

And these Sugar Cookie Truffles are no bake and always a big hit:
https://www.ifyougiveablondeakitchen.com/2016/10/31/christmas-sugar-cookie-truffles/

I use the Pepperidge Farms shortbread in them, and oh. my. gosh. they are so good.

lporter229

My MIL's sugar cookies are a serious cookie masterpiece. I have never tasted another sugar cookie that can even compare. But my favorite to make myself are these macaroons. The addition of the orange zest is what sets them apart. So yummy.

https://www.budgetbytes.com/2016/12/sallys-chocolate-glazed-orange-macaroons/

kelsiestoner

The only cookies I ever bother making are peanut butter blossoms, they've always been my favorite.

TeaBea

I make these every year

https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/turtle-bars

I don't spread the chocolate (it just looks messy) but I use mini-chips.....all the nooks and crannies.

AndOne8675

Chewy molasses cookies topped with flake salt and lil sugar.

vegmebuff

kdbulger wrote: »

vegmebuff wrote: »

same goes for me too

Some day, right? I'll keep trying!

me too...the attempts are happily eaten up by my family anyways

grinning_chick

Authentic traditional biscochitos.

Examples: https://www.newmexico.org/nmmagazine/articles/post/bizcochito-recipe-83756/ and http://www.santafenewmexican.com/life/taste/deconstructing-a-new-mexico-original-the-biscochito/article_be5e5fce-32ff-5ef4-bedb-5824e0576d0f.html

vegmebuff

[quote="JennyRATL;

And these Sugar Cookie Truffles are no bake and always a big hit:
https://www.ifyougiveablondeakitchen.com/2016/10/31/christmas-sugar-cookie-truffles/

I use the Pepperidge Farms shortbread in them, and oh. my. gosh. they are so good.[/quote]


These do look super yum...love your idea of using shortbread too. So easy to do too:)

theyoginurse

I love coconut macaroons. I have to find a new recipe that’s better for me and I’ll post it.

Mandygring

I love gingerbread men. We make them every first snow fall of the season

crabbybrianna

Pfeffernusse, shortbread, and gingerbread have always been my favourite holiday cookies.

Lounmoun

Snickerdoodles are very popular with my family.

Sunnybrooke99

I second spritz cookies. They are amazing when homemade, pretty, and easy to make a variety.

Francl27

Sunnybrooke99 wrote: »

I second spritz cookies. They are amazing when homemade, pretty, and easy to make a variety.

You know, it reminds me of an event I went to last year... someone brought over some homemade spritz cookies. They looked gorgeous and there was a big variety... and they tasted like cardboard.

Meanwhile my not-so-great looking cookies were delicious and gone in no time (just basic sugar and almond crescent cookies).

I'm leaning towards those pecan balls for a change though. Or maybe some cranberry pistachio biscotti (I bought a biscotti pan so maybe they will actually look relatively even for once). It doesn't help that I don't care for anise/peppermint/ginger/spiced flavors at that time of the year. Or maybe shortbread. Anyone got a good shortbread cookie recipe?