Christmas cookies, anyone?

15 years ago

I always used to bake cookies for Christmas. Last year was the first year I didn't, because I was just to busy getting things ready for my boys to come home. This year, they are going elsewhere with their girlfriends, so I am going to bake some to send to them.

What are your favorite Christmas cookies to bake? I love Koularia (sp?), Oatmeal-Raisin-Nut and plain old chocolate chip. I also make something called Sesame Seed Crisps that don't ship well, because they are so delicate, so I don't send those to people much. I also love making "Forgotten Cookies", although they are a pain. I bought copper bowls just to make those, since they are basically just a meringue with nuts and chips.

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phyllis__mn
15 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
Every year,I make Fruit filled spritz, and a drop cookie with dried apricots and coconut. I make others but those are my favorites.
pattico_gw
15 years ago
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Our favorite ones are the rolled and cookie cutter one...with the glazed frosting.

I always make a few other cookies but the decorated ones always are the first to go.

I make chocolate fudge and peanut butter fudge each year too.

Then whatever fun easy thing I can find.

Trouble is...I shouldn't be eating them but I love that stuff.

patti
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15 years ago
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Pralines

1 stick margarine
1 stick butter
place in sauce pan and turn on low to melt slowly. While this is being done line a large cookie sheet with aluminum foil.

1 box graham crackers (I can get almost 2 trays out of a box of crackers)
Place graham crackers close together until you have covered the whole cookie sheet.

1/2 cup brown sugar
add to butter mixture, stir until the sugar is mixed in then turn up heat and bring to a boil. When boiling stir constantly for 2 minutes.

Remove from stove and add stir in 1 teaspoon of vanilla (watch out it will spit). Then pour this mixture over the cracker slowly spreading with a spoon to cover all the crackers.

Then sprinkle chopped pecans over all; approximately 1 cup. Cook for 14 minutes in a 325 degree oven.

When done take out and lift by foil and place on counter. When cool peel from foil and break into pieces.

*If when you make the sugar mixture it doesn't get thick don't worry. Go ahead and spoon the brown sugar over the crackers and spread it around with a spoon to cover all. Pour any of the butter that is left over the crackers also. They will still taste the same and nobody notices the difference. I don't know why this happens since I have always cooked it the same way. Might have something to do with the weather, who knows.
paula_pa
15 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
These are some of my favorite bars, cookies, candies and quick breads that I've made over the years on my blog, recipes that are great for the holidays. I don't make them all every Christmas. Sometimes I alter recipes for Christmas (using Christmas candies, sprinkles, etc).

Some of these dress up a cookie tray, others just taste really good. Christmas cookies aren't just about flash for me - they need to taste good and be comforting so it's nice to throw on some basic chocolate chip, oatmeal, etc.

Welsh cookies are my signature cookie - I always make those. I love the Gingerbread Men too, that is a relatively new recipe for me. Otherwise, I make a different selection every year. I've had to alter things quite a bit after learning my son was allergic to peanuts. I really miss the Four Chip Fudge and peanut butter fudge.

I like the Chocolate Chip Brownies for teacher gifts (I give a gift card but I like to make something to go along with it). They can be dressed up with Christmas sprinkles and they stack nice in those decorated treat bags you can buy in the dollar store.

Bars
Bobbie’s Bars
Cherry Chip Bars
Chocolate Chip Brownies
Glazed Chocolate Chip Brownies
Graham Cracker Chewies
Ruth Wakefield’s Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

Cookies
All-Purpose Cutout Cookies
Apricot Cream Cheese Thumbprints
Big Sugar Cookies
Candy-Cane Twists
Cherry Cherry Cookies
Cherry Drop Cookies
Chocolate Malted Cookies
Chocolate-Peppermint Snaps
Coconut Butterballs
Creamier and Chewier Oat Cookies
Double Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
Elfin Bites
Famous Oatmeal Cookies
Fudge Drops
Gingerbread Men
Raspberry (Peach) Kisses
Rich and Dark Fudge Tassies
Ricotta Cookies
Snickerdoodles, Snipdoodles, or Schneckenoodles
South Seas Cookies
Spritz Cookies
Two-Bit Wonders
Welsh Cookies

These are quick breads that make great gifts:

Amish Friendship Chocolate Bread
Five-Grain Cinnamon Bread
Sour Cream Banana Bread
Sour Cream Raspberry Swirl Loaf

Candy, Fudge, etc.
Chocolate-Dipped Caramels (last year I made the caramel and dipped pretzel rods in it, then dipped them in chocolate. I also put a dab of the caramel on Lorna Doones and dipped them in chocolate. I used the caramel to make the South Seas Cookies too.)
Five-Minute Fudge
Four Chip Fudge
Oreo Truffles
Peanut Butter Fudge
Peppermint Bark
Peppermint Patties
Rum Balls
Vanilla Popcorn

I made these last year using a chocolate sugar cookie recipe from Domino Sugar. I used Sixlets for the eyes and nose but M&Ms would be better.
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15 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
Wow! Thanks for all the recipes! Believe it or not, I got most of my favorite cookie recipes from those Betty Crocker recipe cards that were so popular in the 70's. I got a subscription from a friend for Christmas one year, and I still have my favorite cards, although the container and the rest were donated to Goodwill long ago.
kacram
15 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
Mexican wedding cakes
spritz
yummy!
lilliepad
15 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
I use to bake a lot every Christmas and would send platters of goodies with my DH to the bank where he was a courier.When he retired 4 years ago the girls there asked him if he was still going to bring the goodies every year.LOL I did send them the first year after he retired but after that I stopped making a lot of sweets.I always made Pecan Crescents from a recipe that was given to me by a lady at church.They would melt in your mouth.That was the favorite that all the employees asked for.Usually Pumpkin and Banana Nut bread,fudge(the cooked kind not the marshmallow stuff)Date Nut Roll,Snickerdoodles and Toffee.All of my kids and some of the grands will be here for Thanksgiving so I am going to try to make some of their favorites tomorrow.I don't have my crescent cookie recipe with me so I don't know how those will turn out.
duluthinbloomz4
15 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
I always make Spritz, a little sugar cookie you roll into balls and press down with a glass bottom dipped in sugar and something we always called "Wallies" - a soft fruit and nut filled cookie (no citron or weird bits).

Soft Fruit Cookies

1 cup butter
1 and 1/2 cups brown sugar
2 beaten eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
2 and 1/2 cups flour (reserve the 1/2 cup for dredging the fruit)
1 cup pecans - rough chop
1 cup walnuts - rough chop
1 cup filberts - rough chop
1 pound of dates - cut fine
1/2 pound candied cherries - cut into smaller chunks
1/2 pound green & yellow candied pineapple - cut in smaller chunks
(the candied fruit seemed kind of pricey this year - but I've often bought two of the 8 oz. packages of the cherry/pineapple mix and chopped down the pieces using the extra 1/2 cup flour to keep the sticky fruit from clumping.)

Mix all together in your largest electric mixer bowl.
Drop by rounded teaspoon. Bake at 350 for 10-13 minutes. Done when slightly brown at edges. Approx. 125 cookies.

None of my recipe copies call for greasing the cookie sheet, but I've always been a fan of parchment paper.
jannie
15 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
Spritz
Russian Tea cakes
Rum balls
Sometimes candy
I try to do one batch a day in December.
glenda_al
15 years ago
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My favorites are Noels and cheese straws
carol_in_california
15 years ago
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Oatmeal pumpkin cookies
egg nog cookies
lemon brownies
mary_c_gw
15 years ago
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I used to bake several varieties, but now just one - our decorated gingerbread cookies.

DH and I don't eat sweets, and we don't need cookie trays for work anymore, but my 24-y-o son will not let me stop baking these! He comes over to color the royal icing and to decorate. His roommates, office mates, and girlfriend all think he's a genius.

He's actually baking the cookies this year on his Thanksgiving break.

Here is a link that might be useful:
sue_va
15 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
I used to make many different kinds of Christmas cookies, now (like kat__wa) I only make Mexican Wedding Cakes and Spritz. One of my favorites is Rosettes, but I gave my irons to my DGD, and she makes some for me at Christmas.

Another favorite is Christmas Mice.

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Sue
jel48
15 years ago
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Those Christmas Mice are really cute!
aggiewife
15 years ago
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Jannie or Donna, Want to share your Russian Tea Cakes recipe? I would love to have it. I'm tired of making my usual sugar cookies.

Thanks, aggie

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