Will you bake Christmas Cookies this year?

Food Network Fan · 12-01-2007, 12:46 PM

What is your favorite? Do you have a recipe to share?

Callisto in NC · 12-01-2007, 12:53 PM

Technically I don't bake Christmas cookies. I do bake at this time of year, but it's chocolate chip cookies and what not, nothing Christmas related.

BerryBaby · 12-01-2007, 08:24 PM

I make cookies and last year I did all Italian Christmas cookies. Won't be doing that this year.

I have a couple of recipes that I love! One is a chocolate/chocolate chip with orange rind...so good!!! I'll have to post the recipe.

Then, I'm making the holiday spitz cookies. Haven't tried those in years so we'll see.

I also make the buttery cookies that you put a candied cherry or Hershey Kiss inside of it...you cover the cherry or Kiss with the dough. Then, you roll them in powdered sugar while they are warm. My dad use to make these all the time at the holidays.

Our mother would make a Croatian cookie/pastry Thriska..not sure that is how you spell it. They were a treat and very light and fluffy. I'm not a fried food lover, but these were special.

Last year I made Nut Brittle for all my friends and my husband's friends. It was a huge hit and my husband has requested it for his friends this year. Tyler and Paula both have done this recipe on their shows. It's the best brittle and I'm not a sweet eater.

I change up the recipe and use pistachios, pecans and dry roasted cashews. Don't recall all the nuts they use, but I know instead of the cashews they use peanuts.

isilzha · 12-01-2007, 10:02 PM

Sometimes we make pizzelles.

Lucy · 12-02-2007, 12:59 PM

I love Christmas cookies and deserts.

In my family, it is not Christmas without my aunt's homemade carrot cakes. She told me last night that she is making me one today. I can't wait! I love to make peanut butter blossoms, which are my husband's favorites as well as M&M cookies.

I also love spritzes. Last year, I made some and dunked them in melted chocolate and put sprinkles on them. Yummy. Mainly everything I make come from a recipe I found somewhere. One of my favorites comes from the back of a bag of chopped Heath bars - Oatmeal Heath cookies. Last year I also made Paula's Monster cookies and they were a huge hit. I just saw them again today on the All Star Holiday Cookie show and thought I should make some more because I loved them so much.

annabella · 12-03-2007, 09:54 AM

My daughter and I bake cookies every year with my mom - it's so much fun! This year I'm going to make extra...I just found out I'm allergic to soy and several kinds of nuts, so I can't buy from the bakery any longer :-(

Food Network Fan · 12-03-2007, 10:03 AM

Wow that's rough. I hope you find something to enjoy. There seems to be a lot more options these days though. Can you imagine what it must have been like before you could order things and get them so quickly? And even worse if you go back to before grocery stores. I don't know what they did.

Chefnot · 12-03-2007, 11:39 AM

Well I don't bake Christmas cookies.....but my wife does....so I'm refraining from voting.

Chap · 12-06-2007, 03:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by isilzha

Sometimes we make pizzelles.

Now your talking!!!!!!

MiseEnPlace · 12-20-2007, 10:27 AM

I love to make the sugar cookies AB made on Good Eats a few years ago. That's my staple Christmas cookie, now. This year I tried the chocolate pinwheel cookies from that episode and they were a big hit too. I also tried the ginger cookie from AB's cookbook, I'm Just Here for More Food, and they are the most excellent cookie ever! Those will be added to the non-holiday cooking making list for sure! ;-)