What? No chocolate ship walnut cookies? Gotta have them.
Toll House cookies, with walnuts or without, to me are the ultimate Christmas cookies. Using the recipe on the back of the yellow-packaged Nestle Semi- Sweet Morsels, I bake between 450 and 500 toll house cookies every December, packaging them up as gifts for relatives, friends and service people who do such a good job for us all year long. I have a simple trick that makes them nearly irresistible - recipients often ask why they, following the same recipe, fail to produce as incredibly delicious cookies as I do. That special trick is this: I never use a mixer. All dough is mixed by hand with the last stages being like mixing mortar that has begun to set. I don’t know why it works, it just does.
I only bake them in December and many of the usual people we send them to always make sure to ask for what they consider their ultimate Christmas gift, expressing fear that for some reason I’ll someday stop making them. But as long as I can do it, I will. For me, they’re the ultimate Christmas Cookie!