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Your best Christmas Cookies (1 Viewer)

PIK95

PIK95

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This is a bit of spinoff from my complaints about my wife's Italian Christmas Cookies in another thread. 

What are your family's holiday cookie types?  Are they family recipies or do you get them from a bakery.   Lets talk COOKIES. 

So she makes....

Wandies, cinnamon twists, almond biscotti, wine biscuts, egg biscuts, butter balls, peanut butter (with kisses), chocolate (salty?) balls, ellory nut and creasant horns.  Most of those suck imo.  Who likes wandies anyway?

 
PIK95 said:
This is a bit of spinoff from my complaints about my wife's Italian Christmas Cookies in another thread. 

What are your family's holiday cookie types?  Are they family recipies or do you get them from a bakery.   Lets talk COOKIES. 

So she makes....

Wandies, cinnamon twists, almond biscotti, wine biscuts, egg biscuts, butter balls, peanut butter (with kisses), chocolate (salty?) balls, ellory nut and creasant horns.  Most of those suck imo.  Who likes wandies anyway?
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What are wandies? 

My favorite cookies generally have cream cheese in them come holiday time.  

*Peanut butter kisses, wreaths made from cream cheese, biscotti, other basics. 

 
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Wandies are like a waffle ice cream cone witb powdered sugar all over them.  Messy and gross imo.  What cookies have cream cheese.  I could get on board with that.  I wonder if any of hers do?

 
PIK95 said:
This is a bit of spinoff from my complaints about my wife's Italian Christmas Cookies in another thread. 

What are your family's holiday cookie types?  Are they family recipies or do you get them from a bakery.   Lets talk COOKIES. 

So she makes....

Wandies, cinnamon twists, almond biscotti, wine biscuts, egg biscuts, butter balls, peanut butter (with kisses), chocolate (salty?) balls, ellory nut and creasant horns.  Most of those suck imo.  Who likes wandies anyway?
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No pizzelles? What is this tomfoolery? 

 
Snoopy said:
My late mother's sour cream cookies.  Still in high demand.
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My wife used sour cream in one she made last night.  I only know this because she sent me out to buy some. When I went to get some late night for my chips it was gone.  Found the empty container this morning in the recycling.   Hatta been used in a cookie.

I'll ask tomorrow. 

 
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Anyone else here make the sesame seed cookies? There are some really awful recipes online, luckily we have a solid family recipe.

 
The Sicilian lady next door gave me some homemade cookies for shoveling her snow last week. She swept a lot of the leaves this fall, so I felt it was only right to shovel. I think she just upped the payoff for the shoveling yet to come. Awesome cookies!

 
Mom makes these ranger cookies (like granola and coconut or something.  Fantastic 

and peanut butter with a reeces  cup are awesome

 
I just made them. Cinnamon mini roll cookies, with icing. 

Cookie recipe is here:. 

http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/mini-cinnamon-roll-cookies

But don't use that icing, use this: 

4 T butter

2 Cups powdered sugar 

1tsp vanilla extract 

4 T hot water. 

Melt butter, stir in powdered sugar and vanilla till combined. Add 1Tb at a time of hot water, stirring until consistency acquired. Drizzle over cooled cookies and let set for an hour.

 
My wife is the cookie baker (daughter is getting into it as well).  This year's list:

Dark Chocolate Lace Cookies with orange zest

Salted Dark Chocolate Espresso cookies with smoked sea salt

Chewy Oatmeal Coconut Cookies

Red Velvet Cake Balls

Salted Caramel Chocolate Shortbread Bars

Regular Sugar Cookies

Magic Marshmallow Puffs (Christmas morning along with an egg/sausage/cheese casserole)

Lots of Hickory Farms beef log and good cheeses, firecracker crackers, roasted rosemary cashews, homemade gravlax, bacon wrapped scallops, etc.

 
PIK95 said:
Glorified coasters imo.  Hate those too. Pinkberry throws them in with their yogort fwiw.
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 I always hated them growing up, but now they make me nostalgic. My dad's one cooking tradition was busting out his old 1950s era pizzelle maker and making about 150 every year. I hate the taste of annissette/licorice, so never really liked them.

Seeing the iron come out meant a couple of days of really great panini, though.

 
Wife makes some awesome peanut drop cookies, peanut butter butterscotch bars, and weirdo Spritz cookies (made with a cookie press/caulk gun thingy).  She also makes some awesome gingerbread bars.

 
ProstheticRGK said:
 I always hated them growing up, but now they make me nostalgic. My dad's one cooking tradition was busting out his old 1950s era pizzelle maker and making about 150 every year. I hate the taste of annissette/licorice, so never really liked them.

Seeing the iron come out meant a couple of days of really great panini, though.
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I am so full right now but that panini idea still sounds good.  I had Filet M, BSS, and Antipast plus a million cookies in the last two hours.  I'm ready to explode.

 
too many to post, but I love an easy jelly cookie;

2 sticks unsalted soft butter

2/3 cup sugar 

2 tsps vanilla

2 cups flour

whip butter and sugar.  add vanilla.  add flour.  dough will be soft elastic.  break off small pieces and roll into walnut sized balls.  place on greased or non stick baking pan.  then stick thumb in tops to create mini volcanoes.  fill with jelly of your choice.  bake for 15 mins.  makes 32-40 cookies.  I use strawberry....

 
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My wife makes killer snicker doodles. She makes hundreds of them over the month of December because everyone is begging for them between parties and gifts. Such a simple cookie but she's got them perfected. :wub: :porked:  

 
tommyboy said:
I just made them. Cinnamon mini roll cookies, with icing. 

Cookie recipe is here:. 

http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/mini-cinnamon-roll-cookies

But don't use that icing, use this: 

4 T butter

2 Cups powdered sugar 

1tsp vanilla extract 

4 T hot water. 

Melt butter, stir in powdered sugar and vanilla till combined. Add 1Tb at a time of hot water, stirring until consistency acquired. Drizzle over cooled cookies and let set for an hour.
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Tommy, these cookies were fantastic!  Kind of a pain but sooooo good. Do you need to roll them out or. An you just plop a dollop on the cookie sheet?

 
boots11234 said:
Tommy, these cookies were fantastic!  Kind of a pain but sooooo good. Do you need to roll them out or. An you just plop a dollop on the cookie sheet?
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I take about a tablespoon of dough, roll it out like play doh till it's about 6-7 inches long and 3/8 inch thick then roll it into a spiral, then place on cookie sheet. I used parchment paper.  So it looks like a mini cinnamon roll. 

After they cool then you drizzle the icing on top like a mini cinnamon roll. Let cool for an hour so the icing hardens

 
I'm looking for something new this year.  Saturday night it will all be going down.  What ya got?

 
Binky The Doormat said:
My wife is the cookie baker (daughter is getting into it as well).  This year's list:

Dark Chocolate Lace Cookies with orange zest

Salted Dark Chocolate Espresso cookies with smoked sea salt

Chewy Oatmeal Coconut Cookies

Red Velvet Cake Balls

Salted Caramel Chocolate Shortbread Bars

Regular Sugar Cookies

Magic Marshmallow Puffs (Christmas morning along with an egg/sausage/cheese casserole)

Lots of Hickory Farms beef log and good cheeses, firecracker crackers, roasted rosemary cashews, homemade gravlax, bacon wrapped scallops, etc.
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I need to look more closely at these.  Espresso especially...

 
PIK95 said:
Binky The Doormat said:
My wife is the cookie baker (daughter is getting into it as well).  This year's list:

Dark Chocolate Lace Cookies with orange zest

Salted Dark Chocolate Espresso cookies with smoked sea salt

Chewy Oatmeal Coconut Cookies

Red Velvet Cake Balls

Salted Caramel Chocolate Shortbread Bars

Regular Sugar Cookies

Magic Marshmallow Puffs (Christmas morning along with an egg/sausage/cheese casserole)

Lots of Hickory Farms beef log and good cheeses, firecracker crackers, roasted rosemary cashews, homemade gravlax, bacon wrapped scallops, etc.
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I need to look more closely at these.  Espresso especially...
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We are making all of these again this year.  Still planning on how to successfully put the moves on the wife while she is baking.  

Didn't work out last night when she was doing the chewy oatmeal coconut ones.  

 
Binky The Doormat said:
We are making all of these again this year.  Still planning on how to successfully put the moves on the wife while she is baking.  

Didn't work out last night when she was doing the chewy oatmeal coconut ones.  
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Ironically I pulled that move at dinner tonight. 

 
I'm thinking I am gonna try to slide some cannolies into the mix this weekend. 

My daughter asked the Elf for some more grinch cookies like the ones that he left her a couple of weeks ago.  Luckily I found the spot that made them and its in Cranston.  Crisis averted!

I had got the originals on the way out of a corporate Christmas party up in Foxboro.  What luck they came from my home town.

 
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DallasDMac said:
I made these this past weekend. Peanut butter cookies baked in muffin tins. As soon as I pull them out of the oven, I push in either a Reese's Cup or a Hershey's Kiss. I split them about 50/50.
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We do it a different way.  We make the batter.

Put batter around pbc, roll it into a ball so the pbc is covered.   Then bake

Amazing it doesn't melt lol

 
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