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    Your favorite holiday cookie?

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    • Posts: 5,199 Member
      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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    • Posts: 1,787 Member
      lorrpb wrote: »
      If oatmeal destroyed calories, I would be in luck. Sorry, no such thing!!

      That might explain the weight I always put on over the holidays.
    • Posts: 1,092 Member
      Christmas sugar cookies!
    • Posts: 2,847 Member
      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!
    • Posts: 1,384 Member
      You bake, I eat.
    • Posts: 6,474 Member
      shortbread of course, with the little tiny cherry on top.
    • Posts: 510 Member
      Sour cream sugar cookies
    • Posts: 104 Member
      Six-layer cookies
    • Posts: 196 Member
      edited December 2017
      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!
    • Posts: 942 Member
      vanilla_frosting wrote: »
      Six-layer cookies

      What are these?
    • Posts: 1,120 Member
      edited December 2017

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      I'm an abomination
    • Posts: 5,199 Member
      crazyravr wrote: »
      Completely off topic but I was raised on those cartoons :):):) j

      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.

    • Posts: 8 Member
      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/
    • Posts: 2,238 Member
      edited December 2017
      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.
    • Posts: 31,389 Member
      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??
    • Posts: 2,238 Member
      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.
    • Posts: 104 Member
      tess5036 wrote: »
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      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!



    • Posts: 41,865 Member
      Ginger Bread and Short Bread
    • Posts: 646 Member
      Pumpkin. They don't need the icing. They're AMAZING, like little pumpkin pillows.

      https://dearcrissy.com/pumpkin-cookies-recipe/

    • Posts: 665 Member
      Molasses Crinkles
    • Posts: 370 Member
      vingogly wrote: »
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      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.
    • Posts: 370 Member
      vanilla_frosting wrote: »
      show previous quotes

      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.
    • Posts: 26,368 Member
      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.html
    • Posts: 1,049 Member
      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/
    • Posts: 13,259 Member
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    • Posts: 41,865 Member
      Biscochitos

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    • Posts: 13,259 Member
      @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?
    • Posts: 41,865 Member
      edited December 2021
      PAPYRUS3 wrote: »
      @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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