Your favorite holiday cookie?

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  • HonuNui
    HonuNui Posts: 1,464 Member
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    Trilby
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
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    https://bakingamoment.com/simply-perfect-chocolate-sugar-cookies/

    These were a hit last year and I iced and decorated some of them as well. First time I made them, basic, easy as tasty.
  • DWBalboa
    DWBalboa Posts: 37,255 Member
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    Well I am the real life cookie monster so I love them ALL!!!
    But I do have a slight bias towards peanut butter chocolate no-bakes, macaroons, and Italian wedding cookies. Oh and molasses cookies are a fav too!
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,464 Member
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    My grandma's sour milk cutout cookies with powdered sugar frosting!
  • vegmebuff
    vegmebuff Posts: 31,389 Member
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    lorrpb wrote: »
    My grandma's sour milk cutout cookies with powdered sugar frosting!

    sounds so yummy...did she ever share the recipe with you?
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,464 Member
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    Oh yes! I’ve made them a few times but they are soooooo addicting!
  • vegmebuff
    vegmebuff Posts: 31,389 Member
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    lorrpb wrote: »
    Oh yes! I’ve made them a few times but they are soooooo addicting!

    would you share? It's ok if you want to keep it 'top secret' though :)
  • Nikion901
    Nikion901 Posts: 2,467 Member
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    http://allrecipes.com/recipe/10361/grandmas-cutout-cookies/
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,565 Member
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    Icebox cookies (butterscotch cookies where the dough is frozen before baking)
  • Lizakabibbis
    Lizakabibbis Posts: 370 Member
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    not a cookie but I can eat my weight in peanut butter balls and divinity. I can pass on the cookies.
  • vingogly
    vingogly Posts: 1,785 Member
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    bioklutz wrote: »
    Not so much as a holiday cookie - but my favorite are alfajores with dulce de leche and coconut. So tasty!

    There's a Peruvian sandwich shop near my house, and the owner's mom makes them. They're awesome.

    Here's an Argentinian recipe:

    http://allrecipes.com/recipe/187786/alfajores-argentinean-style/

    My all-time personal favorite is the cuccidatti, a Sicilian fig cookie -- but it's a LOT of work. Here's a recipe that's very close to what my Sicilian relatives made for the holidays (I've used a white chocolate icing on them in the past, which works well but the "classic" icing is great, too):

    https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/italian-fig-cookies-107444
  • plus20UsernameOfPower
    plus20UsernameOfPower Posts: 480 Member
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    Anise cookies. With so much anise that your tongue is numb lol.
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,464 Member
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    vegmebuff wrote: »
    lorrpb wrote: »
    Oh yes! I’ve made them a few times but they are soooooo addicting!

    would you share? It's ok if you want to keep it 'top secret' though :)

    Her recipe is very similar to this one posted above without the nutmeg.
    http://allrecipes.com/recipe/10361/grandmas-cutout-cookies/
    You can sour the milk with white vinegar. I’m sure you can google the quantity.
    The frosting was just powdered sugary and water to desired consistency.
    It would be good with the nutmeg too, I’m not saying don’t use it, just that our family recipe doesn’t have it
    Enjoy!
  • vegmebuff
    vegmebuff Posts: 31,389 Member
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    vingogly wrote: »
    Lizakabibbis wrote: »
    not a cookie but I can eat my weight in peanut butter balls and divinity. I can pass on the cookies.

    If you like peanut butter balls, you might like these "non-cookies". We always had them at Christmas, but I think grandma put nuts in them too:

    http://wegottaeat.com/carolyn.beck/recipes/chocolate-peanut-butter-tempters-no-bake

    The oatmeal makes them nutritious and destroys most of the calories from the other ingredients. ;)

    ^^that's good...cause 2 CUPS of SUGAR...crazy!!!

  • vegmebuff
    vegmebuff Posts: 31,389 Member
    edited November 2017
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    lorrpb wrote: »
    vegmebuff wrote: »
    lorrpb wrote: »
    Oh yes! I’ve made them a few times but they are soooooo addicting!

    would you share? It's ok if you want to keep it 'top secret' though :)

    Her recipe is very similar to this one posted above without the nutmeg.
    http://allrecipes.com/recipe/10361/grandmas-cutout-cookies/
    You can sour the milk with white vinegar. I’m sure you can google the quantity.
    The frosting was just powdered sugary and water to desired consistency.
    It would be good with the nutmeg too, I’m not saying don’t use it, just that our family recipe doesn’t have it
    Enjoy!

    You're sweet...thanks so much! I'm a sucker for soft, cutout cookies with frosting (buttercream frosting just takes it over the top for me)

  • bioklutz
    bioklutz Posts: 1,365 Member
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    vingogly wrote: »
    bioklutz wrote: »
    Not so much as a holiday cookie - but my favorite are alfajores with dulce de leche and coconut. So tasty!

    There's a Peruvian sandwich shop near my house, and the owner's mom makes them. They're awesome.

    Here's an Argentinian recipe:

    http://allrecipes.com/recipe/187786/alfajores-argentinean-style/

    My all-time personal favorite is the cuccidatti, a Sicilian fig cookie -- but it's a LOT of work. Here's a recipe that's very close to what my Sicilian relatives made for the holidays (I've used a white chocolate icing on them in the past, which works well but the "classic" icing is great, too):

    https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/italian-fig-cookies-107444

    This is the recipe I have been playing around with: https://www.mycolombianrecipes.com/alfajores I subbed butter for unrefined coconut oil (yum - it has a coconut flavor!) and found that it was too much fat for the cookie. I reduced the oil to 2/3 a cup and the texture of the cookie is almost right.\

    The fig filling in the cuccidatti sounds heavenly!
  • TheHawk007
    TheHawk007 Posts: 270 Member
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    My late Mother used to make Ginger Snaps, and they were a go to for me as a kid. But my favorite is peanut butter chocolate chip...........either or and you are my friend!
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,464 Member
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    vingogly wrote: »
    Lizakabibbis wrote: »
    not a cookie but I can eat my weight in peanut butter balls and divinity. I can pass on the cookies.

    If you like peanut butter balls, you might like these "non-cookies". We always had them at Christmas, but I think grandma put nuts in them too:

    http://wegottaeat.com/carolyn.beck/recipes/chocolate-peanut-butter-tempters-no-bake

    The oatmeal makes them nutritious and destroys most of the calories from the other ingredients. ;)

    If oatmeal destroyed calories, I would be in luck. Sorry, no such thing!!
  • vegmebuff
    vegmebuff Posts: 31,389 Member
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    lorrpb wrote: »
    vingogly wrote: »
    Lizakabibbis wrote: »
    not a cookie but I can eat my weight in peanut butter balls and divinity. I can pass on the cookies.

    If you like peanut butter balls, you might like these "non-cookies". We always had them at Christmas, but I think grandma put nuts in them too:

    http://wegottaeat.com/carolyn.beck/recipes/chocolate-peanut-butter-tempters-no-bake

    The oatmeal makes them nutritious and destroys most of the calories from the other ingredients. ;)

    If oatmeal destroyed calories, I would be in luck. Sorry, no such thing!!

    ahhh...I was hoping it would totally cancel out those 2 cups of sugar that is used.... :(

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