A few forums discussing this, figured I'd start one here.
What's your family's favorite Christmas cookie?
Ours is the plain and simple peanut butter with the hershey kiss. I need to make 2 batches this year. Seems like I put them on the counter and they're gone before I know it.
sil has his mothers recipe He made 19 doz to feed visiting HS band for Halloween. Wait until Jumper 2 sees this thread.
Well if Jumper 2 has good recipes, get her over here, Mom. I'm going to be making cookies with the grandkids next week.
Oh My favorite - Christmas cookies!!!
Gingerbread of course, but I make some awesome Christmas cookies. I make about 20 different kinds, and this year I've taken orders for about $200 for co-workers. Plus I make a large tray for my office party and one for my family party.
ours are the thumbprint ones with Jelly!!!
DD went to a cookie exchange and came home with these.
Chocolate Mice
What a riot.
Choc waffer(1/2 orio)
Frosting
BODY:Cherry with stem dipped in chocolate
HEAD: Hersheys large choc.drop
EARS: Slivered Almonds
EYES:Geletine frosting dots.
WOW Debilu
That is ambitious.
My oldest son always wants Snickerdoodles, my youngest is chocolate chip of course. When I was a kid my mom always made spritz cookies with the cookie gun and Chrusciki. I did the Chrusciki one year, a tough cookie to make. Now I just buy them for memory sake!! I started making pizzelles a few years ago and now am stuck with the job!! LOL
My mother-in-law always made Swedish Ammonia Cookies (Drommar?) at Christmastime. Simple, yet delicious. Somehow the ones I make never taste the same.
I have eaten a Dutch cookie made from Sunflower seeds and rosemary.They smell heavenly while cooking
Wow, Deb that's a lot of cookies.
JoAnn, those mice are adorable
Allison, those are my mom's and brother's favorite too.
Well, Ronnie, very ambitious trying to do Chrusciki, we just buy it up at the bakery where we used to live. My hubby LOVES it.
Don, Ammonia? cookies
How cute, Jo.
Wonderful Deb! Any extra you can make these days helps. But what a lot of work. I guess probably not if you enjoy it. I'm always amazed by those people who make hundreds of cookies and so many different ones.
The 19 doz. was a double batch! I'll post the receipt when I find it. It's a cutout cookie. DH does my cookie baking. He makes all kinds. I love the mice, I'll have to show him.
And can anyone tell me how to make the icing that a lot of people put on sugar cookies, one that looks like it melts over the top, and turns out kind of crispy? Please and thanks!
Isnt it a regular sugar and water(no butter) thats put on while the cookies are warm?
No, I don't think so, unless I've done it wrong. It's a hard, crunchy, but very thin coating. But I may have done it wrong.
I'm not positive either.
Dont beat yourself up Polly.Lets hope someone else has an idea.
My bet is on either Pixi or Debilu.
Rum balls.
Yum, rum balls. Do you have a good recipe for those? I suppose not for the kids, although it might be fun. Just kidding, just kidding.
Polly, I have the recipe for that icing I have to look it up. Unless someone beats me to it.
Thats what I love about Daves,Just call out and someone is there.
I do Pollyk from my Betty Crocker Christmas Cookbook (which I adore). Funny the rum ball receipe is not online, although alot of her other most excellent holiday receipes are. I shall post it tonight.
Thanks Jen!
Much appreciated D'nut.
Found DH's cutout cookie receipt.
1lb butter
2 1/4 c sugar
1/2 tsp. powdered butter flavor
3 lg. eggs
1c milk
1tsp white vanilla
7 1/2 c flour
7 1/2 tsp baking powder
cream butter, add sugar and beat well. add eggs and vanilla. add dry ingredients alternating with milk. Let sit overnight in fridge, covered
Bake at 350 degrees for 8-9 minutes
Makes 8 dozen
Have fun!
For the thin icing on cookies I just use powdered sugar with milk or water made thin enough to "pour" onto the cookie, then set to let harden. Or I dip the cookie into the bowl of icing, let the excess drip off and let set. It gets hard but maybe not crunchy. Before it hardens I use another color to swirl through, or use thin light blue icing, and before it hardens use a thicker white icing to draw snowflakes in it and it becomes a smooth hard icing - very pretty. I'd be interested in another recipe too.
Here is one of Holly's favorites, since the ovens already hot from supper, I'm going to pop some in after the rolls come out. Ric
Molasses Cookies
Original Recipe Yield 5 dozen
Ingredients
• 3/4 cup margarine, melted
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup molasses
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/2 cup white sugar
Directions
1. In a medium bowl, mix together the melted margarine, 1 cup sugar, and egg until smooth. Stir in the molasses. Combine the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger; blend into the molasses mixture. Cover, and chill dough for 1 hour.
2. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Roll dough into walnut sized balls, and roll them in the remaining white sugar. Place cookies 2 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheets.
3. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, until tops are cracked. Cool on wire racks.
jumper that sounds like a lot of milk in that recipe?
This is the one I like best to use on my sugar cookies.
http://www.wilton.com/recipe/Royal-Icing
Yes that makes great lillies!
http://www.wilton.com/ideas/browse.cfm?cat=Cookies&cel=Christmas&thm=Winter&submit=Search
That page made me dizzy with idea's!!!!!! Ho Ho Ho ^_^
My Mom was not a baker, never made cookies---my Gram used to make ausukis, which I think are like chruciki---my German-American aunt made my favorites---a fruit & nut bar, mostly apricots, not baked, coated in granulated sugar---I think the bar also had raisins, dates, & walnuts, but not sure---aunt is gone now, wish I had the recipe. A friend of mine bakes many types of Italian cookies, & I like the pine nut ones. I usually bake 2-3 kinds, Kisses, thumbprints, orange or lemon tea cookies.
Debilu, I checked just now, it says 1 cup milk.
Jen I spike my raspberry thumbs with chamboard... and the cherry ones with cherry liquor!!
I think the royal icing is what I want, just make it runny. I'll try doing what you said, though, too Deb.
Now for the rum balls, ahem???
Thank you!
thanks jumper, I think I'll try them
Flowerjen:
Yes, ammonia. The recipe (you can find them on the web by searching for "swedish ammonia cookies" or "drommar") uses 1 tsp or so of ammonia salt, and the cookies do have a slight trace of that bracing aroma.
DH is working on what he needs for his baking. I saw the list, he does lots of different cookies. They know it's x-mas time when his cutouts show up for coffee hour at church!
Some of you gals are lucky...my husband doesn't even know where the oven is!!
Neither does mine, & doesn't want to know!
Here's a guys baking story I told a few day ago over in MA forum. Ric
I'll fess up, but I guarantee I'm no Lady. JR spent the night Friday after helping Holly babysit the other Grandbabies at their house. After lunch he and I retired to the kitchen to make Darth Vader cookies??? It took me a while too! So we mixed up our dough (Peanut Butter he's 6, and that's the only kind) and started to put it on the cookie sheets.
As an extra treat I began to put dark chocolate chips on the cookies I had pressed with the fork to show him how, I was putting 4 chips on each cookie that had been pressed cross ways. He told me I was doing it wrong, there should only be 2 eyes. He then took the fork, dipped it in the warm water and pressed the dough ball once, from the mid point and pulling to elongate it, he then put 2 chips in the upper unpressed dough and said "See Poppie, Darth Vader". Yup we had Darth Vader cookies...with sprinkles.
LOL Ric
