What's your favorite holiday cookie?

[Loves Vintage]

Looks like I'm feeling chatty this morning!

I really like those little snowballs or russian teacake cookies or almond crescents. Whatever you want to call them, or whatever variation they are, I feel like they belong on a plate of cookies.

Do you bake big batches of cookies each year? I have in the past, but not consistently. I like a nice Linzer cookie on the plate too. My friend makes amazing ruggelach, and a huge variety of cookies every Christmas. Yum!

 

[justginger]

Is it sad that my favorite Christmas cookie is just plain sugar? My grandmother used to make them, and we'd all bust out the sprinkles and red hots and get decorating. Good memories.

But if you count ALL holidays, I have a favorite cookie from another religion. My Muslim coworker brings in leftovers from Eid al-Fitr (the end of Ramadan) and her things are AMAZING. All made from scratch, of course. Anyway, she has these shortbread/coconut/cherry cookies that rock my world. I count down the days of Ramadan right along with her!

 

[Natylad]

Yum, yum, yum! These are greek christmas cookies, the white ones are kourambiedes and the brown ones are called melomakarona! The first ones are made with sugar, butter, flour,roasted almonds, rosewater and powder sugar (is that what it's called?? ). The brown ones are made with olive oil, honey,walnuts and for the rest of the ingredients i have to ask my mom, coz i don't remember, hehehe! They are the most delicious things in the world...seriously! When i think of Christmas, i think of the taste of those cookies, milk or hot coffee and a huge christmas tree in the living room...Ahhh...happiness!

 

[justginger]

The brown ones look a bit like the cookie version of baklava. If that's what they taste like, I'm in!

 

[Loves Vintage]

NatyLad - A friend of mine brings kourambiedes on her cookie trays to work each year!! Her father is Greek. Those are similar to the snowballs/russian teacakes. We call it powdered sugar or confectioner's sugar. There's a Greek church that has a big festival every year, and they sell a bunch of different types of cookies. I am sure I've had the melomakarona too, from the festival. I do love me some baklava as well!

 

[lizzyann]

My aunt makes these merengue (sp?) cookies that have a pecan in the middle and they are to die for! They melt in your mouth!

 

[Enerchi]

SHORTBREAD!!! Yummy!!! I once had a friend who baked me a batch of shortbread as a birthday present way back when i was about 15/16. We sat up and ate the whole batch... yeah... felt great as you ate it, but after that pound of butter and bag of icing sugar started to sit in your stomach for a bit.... it felt much LESS good coming back up!!! EWWW!!!

Still - that trauma has been dealt with and now, I am V-E-R-Y cautious with how many pieces I eat!!

 

[MichelleCarmen]

Looks like I'm feeling chatty this morning!

I really like those little snowballs or russian teacake cookies or almond crescents. Whatever you want to call them, or whatever variation they are, I feel like they belong on a plate of cookies.

Do you bake big batches of cookies each year? I have in the past, but not consistently. I like a nice Linzer cookie on the plate too. My friend makes amazing ruggelach, and a huge variety of cookies every Christmas. Yum!

I'm not a major cookie fan but this year, on Thanksgiving, I made a chocolate fondue and then cooked up maccaroons to dip into the chocolate sauce and my kids LOVED it. Actually, mostly my older son. He loved the chocolate sauce so much and even dipped carrots into it!

Overall, my fav is the basic chocolate chip cookie with walnuts. I also really love banana walnut cookies (the breakfast cookie ones).

 

[Deactivated member 42515]

I don't have a favorite cookie yet. I have a favorite pie, or cake or bread.

Please send me your favorite cookies my way and I shall pick from the litter! YUM!

My address is

1234 Cookie Monster Ln
Sesame Street

 

[Loves Vintage]

I don't have a favorite cookie yet. I have a favorite pie, or cake or bread.

Please send me your favorite cookies my way and I shall pick from the litter! YUM!

My address is

1234 Cookie Monster Ln
Sesame Street

It's ok. We'll take those too! Post it!

 

[Loves Vintage]

SHORTBREAD!!! Yummy!!! I once had a friend who baked me a batch of shortbread as a birthday present way back when i was about 15/16. We sat up and ate the whole batch... yeah... felt great as you ate it, but after that pound of butter and bag of icing sugar started to sit in your stomach for a bit.... it felt much LESS good coming back up!!! EWWW!!!

Still - that trauma has been dealt with and now, I am V-E-R-Y cautious with how many pieces I eat!!

I was just looking at shortbread molds the other day. Do you use a mold when making yours? I think they are a good basic cookie to have every now and again. I am a baked goods snob, and really try to eat homemade only. Though I make a small exception for the occasional choc chip cookie from Whole Foods. And, the maple leaf cookies from TJ's! Those come in a box, but they do not have horrible ingredients.

 

[Loves Vintage]

Looks like I'm feeling chatty this morning!

I really like those little snowballs or russian teacake cookies or almond crescents. Whatever you want to call them, or whatever variation they are, I feel like they belong on a plate of cookies.

Do you bake big batches of cookies each year? I have in the past, but not consistently. I like a nice Linzer cookie on the plate too. My friend makes amazing ruggelach, and a huge variety of cookies every Christmas. Yum!

I'm not a major cookie fan but this year, on Thanksgiving, I made a chocolate fondue and then cooked up maccaroons to dip into the chocolate sauce and my kids LOVED it. Actually, mostly my older son. He loved the chocolate sauce so much and even dipped carrots into it!

Overall, my fav is the basic chocolate chip cookie with walnuts. I also really love banana walnut cookies (the breakfast cookie ones).

Is he the son that will only eat organic? Cute about the carrots!! Hee-hee.

 

[hawaiianorangetree]

I don't really have a favourite holiday cookie. I'd really like to try making macarons for Christmas this year (red and green ones!) but they are hard work! Has anyone tried making their own?

 

[missy]

My dh's butter spritz cookies. So amazing. He bakes them around the holidays and we give them to friends and family. It's always a big favorite.

 

[missy]

I don't really have a favourite holiday cookie. I'd really like to try making macarons for Christmas this year (red and green ones!) but they are hard work! Has anyone tried making their own?

Hi hot, my dh has made these. They are good!

 

[Deactivated member 42515]

I don't have a favorite cookie yet. I have a favorite pie, or cake or bread.

Please send me your favorite cookies my way and I shall pick from the litter! YUM!

My address is

1234 Cookie Monster Ln
Sesame Street

It's ok. We'll take those too! Post it!

Can I use one post for each dessert? Is that cheating?

Pie: Pumpkin of course!

Cake: Pumpkin with Cream Cheese

Bread: Amish friendship bread... I am craving this now! But it takes so freaking long! All the burping and squishing and taking care of it...

 

[minousbijoux]

Chocolate crinkles, Molasses crinkles, pecan crescents, coffee shortbread dipped in chocolate, thumbprints, cranberry noels (an icebox cookie with cranberries and nuts if you want), I can keep going.

 

[Enerchi]

SHORTBREAD!!! Yummy!!! I once had a friend who baked me a batch of shortbread as a birthday present way back when i was about 15/16. We sat up and ate the whole batch... yeah... felt great as you ate it, but after that pound of butter and bag of icing sugar started to sit in your stomach for a bit.... it felt much LESS good coming back up!!! EWWW!!!

Still - that trauma has been dealt with and now, I am V-E-R-Y cautious with how many pieces I eat!!

I was just looking at shortbread molds the other day. Do you use a mold when making yours? I think they are a good basic cookie to have every now and again. I am a baked goods snob, and really try to eat homemade only. Though I make a small exception for the occasional choc chip cookie from Whole Foods. And, the maple leaf cookies from TJ's! Those come in a box, but they do not have horrible ingredients.

Major clarification here --- I am not allowed *IN* the kitchen so I am just a very willing and compliant consumer of all things edible!! When no one is at home and I can pull out all the ingredients and slowly proceed at my own pace... then I will bake. But - I'm a one trick pony - eventho I do not eat chocolate, I have an oatmeal chocolate chip recipe seared into the back of my brain and I substitute chocolate chips for white chocolate or butterscotch... or I create a separate bowl and throw some chocolate in there...

but it is EXCEPTIONALLY rare that I do anything in the kitchen other than clean up! so (long answer!) I do not have a mold for shortbread.

 

[Loves Vintage]

SHORTBREAD!!! Yummy!!! I once had a friend who baked me a batch of shortbread as a birthday present way back when i was about 15/16. We sat up and ate the whole batch... yeah... felt great as you ate it, but after that pound of butter and bag of icing sugar started to sit in your stomach for a bit.... it felt much LESS good coming back up!!! EWWW!!!

Still - that trauma has been dealt with and now, I am V-E-R-Y cautious with how many pieces I eat!!

I was just looking at shortbread molds the other day. Do you use a mold when making yours? I think they are a good basic cookie to have every now and again. I am a baked goods snob, and really try to eat homemade only. Though I make a small exception for the occasional choc chip cookie from Whole Foods. And, the maple leaf cookies from TJ's! Those come in a box, but they do not have horrible ingredients.

Major clarification here --- I am not allowed *IN* the kitchen so I am just a very willing and compliant consumer of all things edible!! When no one is at home and I can pull out all the ingredients and slowly proceed at my own pace... then I will bake. But - I'm a one trick pony - eventho I do not eat chocolate, I have an oatmeal chocolate chip recipe seared into the back of my brain and I substitute chocolate chips for white chocolate or butterscotch... or I create a separate bowl and throw some chocolate in there...

but it is EXCEPTIONALLY rare that I do anything in the kitchen other than clean up! so (long answer!) I do not have a mold for shortbread.

Ahh, gotcha! Haha. Maybe someone else can recommend a mold?

 

[HollyS]

My mom had a recipe that she passed down to me: Melting Moments. They are made with cornstarch, powdered sugar, and butter; topped with buttercream frosting. They never fail to impress; they are so buttery and light.

I've had similar cookies made by others, but her recipe is still the best. They literally melt in your mouth.

 

[marcy]

Candy Cane cookies. They are a shortbread cookie and have almond flavoring.

 

[hoover]

I love shortbread cookies! I just wish I could bake them. I tried twice - once, they were too dark and both times they were so hard you could crack a tooth from biting into it.

At least the house smelled nice while they were baking

Lol Enerchi, I feel somehow connected to you with my cooking/baking inabilities too

 

[Deactivated member 42515]

I love shortbread cookies! I just wish I could bake them. I tried twice - once, they were too dark and both times they were so hard you could crack a tooth from biting into it.

At least the house smelled nice while they were baking

Lol Enerchi, I feel somehow connected to you with my cooking/baking inabilities too

I love baking! You guys can come over for Christmas!

 

[zoebartlett]

Enerchi, care to share your recipe for oatmeal chocolate chip cookies?

I love anything with chocolate, but I also like sugar cookies, Mexican wedding balls (that's what my family called them anyway), and gingerbread cookies. I'm not much of a cook or a baker but I like to try and make a batch of cookies this time of year.

 

[missy]

Ahh, gotcha! Haha. Maybe someone else can recommend a mold?

My dh doesn't use a mold but instead uses a cookie gun (or press I think is another name for it) for his shortbread/butter cookies.

 

[missy]

Does anybody else wish that you could get real nutritional value from cakes/pies/cookies as you do from fruits/vegetables/lean protein? If one could get a healthy value from eating all the yummy cakes/pies/cookies/ice cream etc that is all I would eat I think! I am the type of person who could easily skip the "real" food and just go for the dessert!

 

[kefira]

I don't know if it counts as an actual holiday cookie, but I do love gingersnaps.

 

[Enerchi]

I love shortbread cookies! I just wish I could bake them. I tried twice - once, they were too dark and both times they were so hard you could crack a tooth from biting into it.

At least the house smelled nice while they were baking

Lol Enerchi, I feel somehow connected to you with my cooking/baking inabilities too

I love baking! You guys can come over for Christmas!

PERFECT!!! Sugar rush at YayTAcori's place!!!! woo hoo!!

....but in the event we don't make it, feel free to ship a care package to both of us!!

 

[Enerchi]

Does anybody else wish that you could get real nutritional value from cakes/pies/cookies as you do from fruits/vegetables/lean protein? If one could get a healthy value from eating all the yummy cakes/pies/cookies/ice cream etc that is all I would eat I think! I am the type of person who could easily skip the "real" food and just go for the dessert!

Oh you are preaching to the choir, sister!!! YES --- why can't sugar, butter and flour be considered nutritional?? It is so unfair! I also find that if I'm out for dinner, I plan my 'meal' around what the desserts are!!! If there is carrot cake with cream cheese icing on the menu, then I'll order the first course accordingly -- because I am *NOT* going to miss out on having my very FAVOURITE-EST dessert!

 

[Enerchi]

Enerchi, care to share your recipe for oatmeal chocolate chip cookies?

I love anything with chocolate, but I also like sugar cookies, Mexican wedding balls (that's what my family called them anyway), and gingerbread cookies. I'm not much of a cook or a baker but I like to try and make a batch of cookies this time of year.

This is the only recipe I know by heart!
Wet combination:
1/2 cup each brown & white sugar
1 cup butter, softened
1 egg (beaten)
1/4 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
(mix all together till smooth)

Dry combination:
1 cup cake/pastry flour (I never have that on hand- I use regular flour or whole wheat flour - hey, if I'm in the kitchen, its all about MY RULES!)
1 cup rolled oatmeal
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup of what ever you like - chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, butterscotch, raisins, walnuts.... what ever you desire - and if you want more than 1 cup - live on the edge!

mix wet and dry together, stir till 'sticky' and if too runny, I'll throw in another 'shake' of flour or oatmeal (you'll notice the technical term "SHAKE"!)

Bake at 350 degrees on parchment paper x 10 - 12 minutes (watch your oven, you want them "tanned" not "charred"!"

Its not an exact science for me - I am not good in the kitchen so while these are the specific measurements, I'm all over the place, but they are yummy and they go quickly!