Posted on 11/26/2010 5:23:08 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
I see that no one has started a Christmas Cookie thread...so I will!
I start my Holiday Baking with Dear Old Mom this upcoming Thursday. It's always SO much fun! It's Mom, me, usually my sister (but she can't make it this year), our 'Cherished Grandma Hazel' and a few assorted family friends. (You truly DO have to be on the A-List to attend, LOL!) Mom has a huge kitchen and two ovens, so we all descend upon her house for a day of baking & candy making.
We break for a simple lunch (and usually an Old Fashioned or two!) but when all is done the cookies (usually 24 or so things to choose from) are piled on the (covered) pool table and we walk around and fill our tins and we're DONE! Amen!
So...what's your favorite/traditional Christmas Cookie? And why? And recipes, please!
You like the electric press? I’ve got one, but I’m happiest with the cheapest manual model Wilton makes. If I ever find all the pieces of the electric, it can go to Goodwill.
I do a gazillion little green Christmas trees and add the food coloring with the butter & almond extract. I always use twice as much extract as the recipe on the Wilton box says and add a little dab of flour to compensate for the extra liquid.
yeah, lol...:)
ok Diana...no fair...where’s the indgrediants? :)
My brother used to do those. He’d mix up a dozen different colors of icing and handpaint each one.
Every year my Catholic Daughters group bakes hundreds of cookies and then we get together to make plates of a variety of them. We sell them for $5.00 a plate as a fund raiser and the parishioners love them.
I can’t make the fancy ones with shapes and fun decorations so mine are always just the simple chocolate chip variety. I like one chocolate chip that I do with peanut butter chips also. They taste like a Reese cup:)
I and my siblings all decorated the cookies together, while we sang Christmas carols. Ah, memories!
I really DO like my electric. The recipe works really well in the press, it’s buttery and bakes up nicely in about 8 minutes.
It’s the Super Shooter by Ronco or something, LOL!
Which ingredients? For the Old Fashioned or the Spritz cookies? :)
“I like one chocolate chip that I do with peanut butter chips also. They taste like a Reese cup:)”
What’s not to love about that! :)
It is a Wisconsin thing.
Mom used to have an Old Fashioned now and then.
I tried them a few times in college and they were too much for a lightweight like me!
I’m going to make the Cream Cheese Pecan Cookies, they sound devine!
YANCEY’S FARM BLUEBERRY OATMEAL COOKIES
1/2 C margarine
1 C packed dark brown sugar
3/4 C sugar
2 eggs
2 1/4 C all purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 C oatmeal
1 C walnuts
1 C fresh or frozen blueberries
Preheat oven to 400 F
Cream butter until fluffy; stir in sugars; beat in eggs.
Stir in remaining ingredients, folding in the blueberries last. Drop by heaping teaspoon onto a greased cookie sheet.
Bake 10 to 20 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned.
Makes about 3 dozen.
Yes, the grown up drink.
I'll probably pass it along to my sister.
(*)the shoebox was actually from a pair of size 13 construction boots, so there was plenty of room for stuff.
ping
Thank you for the heads up. There’s nothing like fetching tools from the garage to chisel off burned cookie from a baking sheet to ruin the mood, is there?!
We don’t have celiac’s in our house, I just prefer healthier stuff so I’ve been making my cookies with spelt and quinoa flours. Delicious! And I’m using agave nectar to sweeten instead of sugar.
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