Christmas Cookies

WasabiPoptart

WasabiPoptart

I have always made sugar cookie cut-outs and chocolate chip. My mom always made Russian tea cakes around Christmas. We called them meltaways, though. I hated them because of the walnuts. When I was in high school, my (then) boyfriend's grandmother used to make oatmeal scotties and ricotta cookies among others. I added them to my yearly baking. While working in the casino, a friend shared her recipe for snickerdoodles with me. Now I also make red velvet crinkles and sometimes homemade biscotti.

So what you do bake or look forward to having each Christmas/winter holiday?
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

  • Homemade Hot Cocoa
  • Mexican Wedding Cake/Russian Tea Cake/Dusty Choke Balls (made with hazelnuts/filberts, not walnuts)
  • Gingerbread Tree (layered progressively smaller cutouts stacked and iced)
  • Linzer Cookies (This has become more difficult since the stupid CA embargo)
  • Peppermint Pinwheels (refrigerator cookies with a ground peppermint stick layer)
  • Chocolate and Chili Macarons
There might be more that I'm not remembering, since all the baking has gone on while I am at work. No toffee or fudge this year, though. Butter is just too expensive. :(

--Patrick
 
grub

grub

-Sugar Cookies
-Shortbread cookies
-Candy-cane bark (dark melting chocolate with candy-cane pieces mixed in)
-Candy-cane cookies (they look like candy-canes but are basically an almond shortbread)
-peanut blossoms (peanut butter cookies with a hershey's kiss in the middle)

Haven't started on the bottom two yet. Maybe tonight.
 
Celt Z

Celt Z

-Spritz cookies (a family tradition)
-Espresso shortbread cookies
-Orange cranberry thumbprints
-Walnut rum waffers
-Lemon wreathes
-Candy cane cookies
-Chocolate chip (also tradition)

I only had time to make the spritz cookies and the espresso shortbreads this year, but mmmmmm.
 
drifter

drifter

The secret is to mix the scotch with disappointment. Some people say to skip it, but you miss it when it's not there.
 
Gared

Gared

It's been several years since I've had a working oven, but now that that's not an issue, this year's menu includes:

Fruit Cake (a take on AB's recipe)
Grapenut bread
Pumpkin bread
Chocolate Crinkles
Sugar cookies
Thumbprint cookies
Toffee
Triple-ginger gingerbread cake

And probably more. And yeah, I can have like, one or two pieces of each, but I have a holiday party to host on the 3rd for 12 people, and a workplace full of hungry drafters, so they won't go to waste.
 
Siska

Siska

I miss my grandmas ginger snaps. It's a very traditional Swedish holiday cookie and the way my grandma makes them is just the best. Sometimes she mails them to me but it's been years since last. Unfortunately the recipe she uses is in her head and she either can't or wont share it. I actually see Swedish ginger snaps for sale in stores here in the US now and then but the commercially made ones are way too hard and sweet. They are suppose to be light and crispy dammit, not tooth breaking hard. Plus those only come in heart shapes. Where are my stars, Santas, goats, pigs, Christmas trees, snowflakes, gingerbread men and ladies? Think I'm just going to have to start looking up recipes online. Would be so disappointing though if they don't come out like I remember them.

Here's one recipe: Saffron Buns & Ginger Snaps
 
WasabiPoptart

WasabiPoptart

Siska said:
I miss my grandmas ginger snaps. It's a very traditional Swedish holiday cookie and the way my grandma makes them is just the best. Sometimes she mails them to me but it's been years since last. Unfortunately the recipe she uses is in her head and she either can't or wont share it. I actually see Swedish ginger snaps for sale in stores here in the US now and then but the commercially made ones are way too hard and sweet. They are suppose to be light and crispy dammit, not tooth breaking hard. Plus those only come in heart shapes. Where are my stars, Santas, goats, pigs, Christmas trees, snowflakes, gingerbread men and ladies? Think I'm just going to have to start looking up recipes online. Would be so disappointing though if they don't come out like I remember them.

Here's one recipe: Saffron Buns & Ginger Snaps
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I have a recipe for ginger snaps some where around here. I'm the only one who likes them.
 
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