Your favorite holiday cookie?
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my sister was in norway and promised me moomin-character cookie cutters. i'm watching this thread like a cat at a mousehole while i wait for them to show up.
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Christmas sugar cookies!0
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Helltoupee7 wrote: »I have a recipe for Christmas cookie handed down from many generations that I look forward to all year round.
And these magical cookies are? Please post your recipe!2 -
You bake, I eat.1
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shortbread of course, with the little tiny cherry on top.0
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Sour cream sugar cookies1
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Six-layer cookies0
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I have a great recipe for those peanut butter cookies with the hersey kiss in the middle. It tastes just as great (maybe even better) when I switch out the Hersey kiss for a reeses mini cup! Those pecan butter cookies (the ones rolled in powder sugar and that are oh so dangerous) are divine as well. You can't go wrong with a good sugar cookie recipe either. Just always chill the dough before baking!0
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vanilla_frosting wrote: »Six-layer cookies
What are these?1 -
I'm an abomination
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Completely off topic but I was raised on those cartoons
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hah. i'm even older . . . we had the BOOKS. there was tv in the world at the time, but not where i lived.
i'll be so crushed if there are no hattifatteners in the set. although i guess those little hands of theirs would get scorched.
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Sandies or Pecan Snowballs. Everyone calls them something different. They’re rich and pretty on a dessert plate, as well as the quintessential Christmas Cookie.
https://southernbite.com/pecan-snowballs/1 -
Here's my favorite. I make a lot of these and give them, along with sugar cookies, out for the holidays. As is traditional, I just pipe the frosting to make the outlines & features on whatever shape, rather than cover the entire top of the cookie. The frosting recipe makes a lot of frosting - more than is needed for one batch of cookies.
Gingerbread Cookies:
1 c. butter
4½ c. flour
1 c. sugar
1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
1 egg
1 Tablespoon ground ginger
1 c. light molasses
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 Tablespoons vinegar
1 teaspoon ground cloves
½ teaspoon salt
Cream butter; slowly add sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Add egg. Blend in molasses and vinegar. Sift together flour, baking soda, salt, and spices. Gradually add to creamed mixture. Chill at least 3 hours.
Preheat oven to 375°. On floured board, roll dough to 1/8 inch thick. With floured cutter, cut the dough. With wide spatula, transfer to greased cookie sheets. Bake 6-7 minutes. Remove immediately to cool. Decorate or frost.
Gingerbread Cookie Frosting:
3 cups powdered sugar
2 Tablespoons soft butter
1 Tablespoon light corn syrup
3 Tablespoons hot water
In a small mixing bowl, beat together all ingredients until smooth. If frosting is too thick, additional water may be used.
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rankinsect wrote: »Here's my favorite. I make a lot of these and give them, along with sugar cookies, out for the holidays. As is traditional, I just pipe the frosting to make the outlines & features on whatever shape, rather than cover the entire top of the cookie. The frosting recipe makes a lot of frosting - more than is needed for one batch of cookies.
Gingerbread Cookies:
1 c. butter
4½ c. flour
1 c. sugar
1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
1 egg
1 Tablespoon ground ginger
1 c. light molasses
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 Tablespoons vinegar
1 teaspoon ground cloves
½ teaspoon salt
Cream butter; slowly add sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Add egg. Blend in molasses and vinegar. Sift together flour, baking soda, salt, and spices. Gradually add to creamed mixture. Chill at least 3 hours.
Preheat oven to 375°. On floured board, roll dough to 1/8 inch thick. With floured cutter, cut the dough. With wide spatula, transfer to greased cookie sheets. Bake 6-7 minutes. Remove immediately to cool. Decorate or frost.
Gingerbread Cookie Frosting:
3 cups powdered sugar
2 Tablespoons soft butter
1 Tablespoon light corn syrup
3 Tablespoons hot water
In a small mixing bowl, beat together all ingredients until smooth. If frosting is too thick, additional water may be used.
Thanks for sharing your recipe...love gingerbread - makes around 24 cookies??0 -
If you roll all the way to 1/8" thick and cut in fairly small cookies, you could easily get 3-4 dozen crispy cookies, although it depends a lot on the shapes of the cookie cutters and how thin you roll. I often make thicker cookies (1/4" or even 3/8" for very chewy cookies) so I get fewer but chewier cookies.1
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vanilla_frosting wrote: »Six-layer cookies
What are these?
So sorry, I just saw this. They are super easy. You literally just layer the ingredients and then bake at 350 for @ 30 minutes. I don't always measure - just sprinkle the ingredients on top of each other until it "looks right". I've been making them for so many years that I can do it with my eyes closed
1 stick butter - melted in 9 x 13 pan
1 cup crushed graham crackers
1 cup sweetened coconut
1 package chocolate chips (some people also use the butterscotch chips)
1 cup chopped pecans
1 can sweetened condensed milk
After cooled, just cut into squares. It's messy but oh so good!
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Ginger Bread and Short Bread0
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Pumpkin. They don't need the icing. They're AMAZING, like little pumpkin pillows.
https://dearcrissy.com/pumpkin-cookies-recipe/
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Molasses Crinkles1
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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.
My mom made these when I was little and YUP, I love these too! lol if it involves peanut butter and chocolate - I'll try it.0 -
vanilla_frosting wrote: »vanilla_frosting wrote: »Six-layer cookies
What are these?
So sorry, I just saw this. They are super easy. You literally just layer the ingredients and then bake at 350 for @ 30 minutes. I don't always measure - just sprinkle the ingredients on top of each other until it "looks right". I've been making them for so many years that I can do it with my eyes closed
1 stick butter - melted in 9 x 13 pan
1 cup crushed graham crackers
1 cup sweetened coconut
1 package chocolate chips (some people also use the butterscotch chips)
1 cup chopped pecans
1 can sweetened condensed milk
After cooled, just cut into squares. It's messy but oh so good!
and, I need these in my life.0 -
I still can't decide so I might make a few. I found a recipe for those pecan balls that use almond flour instead and I have a lot of that, so I'm going to give those a shot.. as well as almond butter cookies and these, which I've made before, but I'll just use almond flour instead of the chopped almonds as well.
https://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/toffee-almond-sandies.html0 -
have you ever went to a Double Tree Inn? They have the best darn cookies. the below recipe is pretty darn close
https://www.thelittlekitchen.net/doubletree-hotel-copycat-chocolate-chip-cookies-recipe/0 -
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Biscochitos
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@cwolfman13 - I've never heard of Biscochitos before - I'm sure I'd love them too - I like licorice flavoring...do you have a good recipe?1
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@cwolfman13 - I've never heard of Biscochitos before - I'm sure I'd love them too - I like licorice flavoring...do you have a good recipe?
@PAPYRUS3
They are a New Mexico thing and holiday tradition here, so most people outside of the state have never heard of them or tried them. Also the state cookie. For whatever reason they are stupid expensive to buy at the store...there really isn't anything to them to warrant the cost, so I started making my own a few years ago and they're super easy. I'm a good cook, but I'm horrible with baking and these are the only thing I do and I've never messed them up. I use this recipe...
https://somethewiser.com/2014/12/biscochitos-traditional-new-mexican-cookies.html
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