For me, Christmas is all about the sugar cookies. Preferably decorated with colored icing and sprinkles. Here’s the recipe for my sugar cookies Key West style.
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LESLIE BUDEWITZ: My late mother was known all through the neighborhood for her plates of Christmas cookies: spritz, date pinwheels, bourbon balls, Berlinkranzer---I could go on, but you get the idea! When I wrote As the Christmas Cookie Crumbles, the 5th Food Lovers' Village Mystery, which features a cookie exchange, I gave her recipe for Russian teacakes, aka Mexican Wedding Cakes and Snowballs, to the murder victim, with the "state of the cookie" a clue to the time of death and the killer. (Shared here from a previous National Cookie Day.) And in Peppermint Barked, the 6th Spice Shop Mystery, Pepper and the crew have a friendly "bark off," and the staff's least experienced cook and baker brings in Candy Cane Cookies worthy of my mother. (Mine tend to look like pipe cleaners with a hangover. Of course, they looked beautiful when our blogger-writer pal Kim Davis made them, from my mother's recipe.) The favorite in our household? Probably these Christmas Crinkle Cookies, with a touch of espresso powder giving an extra richness to the chocolate. And a penguin plate for an extra dose of cute!
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MADDIE DAY: Ah, cookies, how I love you. My mom always made five or six kinds of cookies for the holiday, the recipes for which I've included in several of my books. Like Leslie, every year I make what we call Mexican Bridecakes (hint: they're the easiest because no rolling and cutting is involved). My version of that recipe was in Christmas Cocoa and a Corpse. I shared the holly cookies from Candy Slain Murder here, which is just my mom's English Butter Cookies recipe cut into holly shapes and sprinkled with green sugars. (No frosting, please!) And my most recent holiday recipe was included in "Scarfed Down" in Christmas Scarf Murder.
The talented Kim Davis made up the recipe for turtle cookies (which copy turtle candies, with chocolate, nuts, and caramel) and, as usual, she takes great food pictures!
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The talented Kim Davis made up the recipe for turtle cookies (which copy turtle candies, with chocolate, nuts, and caramel) and, as usual, she takes great food pictures!
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VICKI DELANY: I'm a big cookie maker. I love making cookies, but these days, because my children are all adults, I don't make them nearly as much as I'd like to - I mean, I can eat them all, but should I? So Christmas is when I come into my own. I've even been known to take containers to my neighbours. I shared this recipe a number of years ago with MLK and here's the link again. This is a family favourite; cookies my mom used to make every year. She's still with us, but not baking so I've taken them on. The dough is a lot like shortbread, with red and green cherries added for holiday colour.
Mystery Lovers' Kitchen: stained glass cookie recipe
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TINA KASHIAN: I love cookies, but I’m not a baker. I’m a cook. But I do love a good cookie! Every holiday, I’m invited to a cookie exchange for a group of mothers. I always stress about this until I found a recipe for chocolate crinkle cookies. With help from my youngest teenage daughter, we made these chocolate cookie crinkles and they were delicious. I will be baking them again this year. I shared the recipe at MLK here: Happy Holidays!
PEG COCHRAN/MARGARET LOUDON: My mother-in-law was the queen of cookies at Christmas time. She made cookie nests, vanilla kifle (small balls of butter, flour, sugar and finely ground nuts rolled in confectioners sugar,) Layered Pita (yeasty dough with sugar mixed with ground walnuts and apricot jam between the many layers and cut into diamond shapes) and more. I don't make a lot of cookies but I do make sugar cookies with my granddaughter. And this year I might make Shrewsbury biscuits, a cookie found in English tea shops like the one in my Open Book Series.
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MAYA CORRIGAN: Baking cookies was one of our holiday traditions as long as I can remember. The staples on our cookie tray were Mexican wedding cakes, hazelnut crescents, and angel slices (a layered bar cookie from a recipe in Joy of Cooking). Though we had our favorites, each year I tried making at least one new cookie, and if everyone liked it, it showed up every year after that. I shared a recipe for caramel almond cookies, which joined the list of must-have treats for the holidays a few years ago. With only five ingredients, they're easy to make.
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LESLIE KARST: In our house when I was growing up, "Christmas cookies" meant my grandmother's sugar cookies in the shape of the myriad cookie cutters my mother had. Mom would make several batches each year, then all us kids (and Mom) would sit around the table and decorate them with different colors of sugar icing, as well as sprinkles and silver balls. As we got older, us kids got more "creative" with the cookie cutter shapes, transforming the angels and reindeer into things such as Martians and zebras.
I recently made a batch of Christmas cookies--after a hiatus of many years--using a set of cookie cutters I purchased in Anchorage, Alaska, of a dog sled team and musher. I guess I'm getting old and nostalgic, because I stuck with the actual shapes. They were simply too adorable to mess with! (Okay, so maybe I did make my mushers into Santa Claus....)
CLEO COYLE: I LOVE Christmas Cookies! When I was a little girl, I couldn't wait to help my Aunt Mary make them in our kitchen every December. (She was born in Italy and lived with our family, making her more of a grandmother, really.) Aunt Mary is gone now, but I still have her crinkle dough cutter she brought with her from Italy. She did not live to see the publication of my first culinary mystery, but I know she would have been tickled. And it's largely because of those influential years, acting as her little helper in the kitchen, that I've enjoyed sharing so many recipes with my ☕ Coffeehouse Mystery readers (and all of you here at Mystery Lovers' Kitchen), including my version of Aunt Mary's GLAZED ITALIAN LEMON COOKIES (aka "Anginetti," pictured below) and her ITALIAN BOW TIE COOKIES (aka Angel Wings)....
I recently made a batch of Christmas cookies--after a hiatus of many years--using a set of cookie cutters I purchased in Anchorage, Alaska, of a dog sled team and musher. I guess I'm getting old and nostalgic, because I stuck with the actual shapes. They were simply too adorable to mess with! (Okay, so maybe I did make my mushers into Santa Claus....)
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My husband (and partner in crime writing) and I love to cook (and eat!), which is why we enjoy experimenting with classic recipes, too, creating tasty twists for our readers. One of our favorite classic Christmas cookies served as the inspiration for the next recipe, which we published in our 14th Coffeehouse Mystery, Once Upon a Grind. Click the photo below for our "Coffeehouse" version of Christmas Gingerbread...
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Thanks for sharing your cookies and a recipe or two. I love to bake cookies for Christmas! Dspinlexo at aol dot com
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DeleteMy favorite Christmas cookie is Gingerbread. 3labsmom(at)gmail(dot)com
ReplyDeleteI love all holiday cookies, but cut out sugar cookies are the very best!!!
ReplyDeleteIts hard to pick one favorite but, for nostalgic reasons, I usually say no-bake peanut butter oatmeal cookies. My mom and I used to make them every Christmas together when I was a kid. They were easy to make and super yummy (even for breakfast!) donnaep7@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteA favored cookie from my childhood is M & M cookies. We made them with our mom every year. I remember going through the bag of candy picking out the red and green ones. They eventually made bags with just the two colors. I also enjoy making Chocolate Reindeer cookies with pretzel antlers. yellowwyytch@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteLOL on the red and green M&M's, Taryn, nice memory. And, as you mentioned, the M&M's candy company now does the holiday sorting for you. They're website even has a new "design your own" feature where you can order your favorite colors. Happy Holidays to you and everyone!
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ReplyDeleteI love to bake at Christmas! One of my favorites is oatmeal raisin cookies. Thanks for the contest! mlduffer@att.net
ReplyDeleteMy fondest memories of the holidays were of cooking and baking with family and my sister from another mother and her kids. Baking three days in a row to make cookies and holiday bread for friends family and associates. Plus knowing this lead my goddaughter to go to Culinary School specializing in pastry. Virginia Maynard. Vhmaynard65@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteI love to bake cookies for the holidays! My favorite is peanut butter blossoms and I also like lemon crinkled. Oh, and gingerbread, of course!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite cookie from childhood and that I still make is cut out sugar cookies iced with many colors of icing. I enjoy them, but think the main reason I love them is the sweet memories of my brother and I making them with Mom and then spending hours trading bowls of colored icing back and forth as we decorated them. Cookies was one of the main things that went into Mom's goodies boxes that she made up to share with others and this was one of them.
ReplyDeleteOne cookie I have added through the years of my making the goodies boxes is the CANDY BAR PRETZEL COOKIES. Here's the recipe.
Serves: Yield: Approx. 36 (3) inch cookies
INGREDIENTS
2 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup light brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
⅔ cup smooth peanut butter
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
2 large eggs
1 [11] oz bag Snickers bars or Baby Ruth bars, cubed
1 cup chopped pretzels
1 cup cocktail peanuts, roughly chopped
1 cup milk chocolate chips
INSTRUCTIONS
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
Sift together the all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream together the softened butter, light brown sugar, granulated sugar, peanut butter and vanilla. Beat for 3 minutes until smooth, fluffy and light beige in color. Add the eggs one at a time beating well after each addition. Stop to scrape the bowl periodically so all of the ingredients fully combine.
Add the dry ingredients gradually while beating on low speed, mixing well between each addition.
Repeat until all of the dry ingredients have been added, stopping to scrape the sides of the bowl as needed.
After all of the dry ingredients have been added, increase the speed of the mixer and beat for 1 minute.
Use a large non-stick spatula to mix the cubed Snickers bars, pretzels, peanuts, and chocolate chips into the batter by hand. The batter will be stiff. Mix until the ingredients are evenly distributed.
Use a 2 or 4 oz ice cream scoop to separate the dough depending on the size you prefer. Place the dough rounds at least 3-inches apart on the baking sheet to allow room to spread. Press the centers to flatten slightly for even baking.
Bake for 18 minutes rotating the pans if needed, until golden.
Cool on the cookie sheet for 5 minutes, then remove to a cooling rack to cool completely.
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Kay, these look wonderful! Thanks for sharing the recipe.
DeleteOh, now I want cookies. I used to bake (and fight off my brothers so there'd be some left for Christmas) but now I'm more likely to head to my favorite bakery, Sucrose in St. Charles, to buy a small assortment of their excellent creations.
ReplyDeleteI always make shortbread or as they are known in Nova Scotia - Scotch cookies.
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DeleteMy favorite cookies would be the ginger snap cookies but I undertake them so they have a chewy texture and are not hard. Dbahn@iw.net
ReplyDeleteI love to bake but I don't make a lot of Christmas cookies. We did not make them when I was I was growing up, and I usually make almond stollen with marzipan as my holiday treat/gift.
ReplyDeleteBut I have made chocolate crinkle cookies (similar to Tina's) during the past two Decembers.
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I love a good sugar cookie. No icing or candied decorations. I love to dunk them in my coffee.
ReplyDeleteI love decorated sugar cookies, but of late I’ve been baking molasses cookies (rolled in powdered sugar) and I’m now addicted to them December-February.
ReplyDeleteChocolate chip cookies are my favorite! Snd what could be better than Christmas and murder?
ReplyDeleteI love to make sugar cookies. I have a whole collection of cutters. ckmbeg@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteMy Grandmother would make pizzelles without anise in them every year, but while they were hot she would wrap a hershey bar in the middle of them. When I got old enough she taught me how to make them. She passed away this year and I am thankful to have learned from her how to make them. My daughter now loves them! The are so good with a hot cup of tea!
ReplyDeleteEach year I would help my grandmother bake cookies. This tradition was so meaningful and special. We made Lemon shortbread and ginger cookies which are my favorite. saubleb(at)gmail(dot)com
ReplyDeleteWOW!!! So many delicious options!!! In honor of International Cookie Day and our taste buds, today my wife and I are making Christmas cookies with ingredients I bought at our grocery store on Friday...we are including several of your recipes such as Valerie's thumbprint cookies, Maddie's Holly cookies, Kim's Turtle cookies plus my all-time favorite: Pecan Tassies, but for the filling we are using Barbara Ross' cardamom pecan pie filling!!! Cleo's Gingerbread Cookie Sticks must be added to our menu...I can almost taste them with some expresso...On December 10 you will find us making Molly's "Beurre & Sel Jammers" (butter and salt with jam...)...if we don't have an ingredient, I will be running out to buy it! Thank you, author friends, for sharing not only your brilliant writing talents, but your delicious gourmet recipes, which have allowed my wife and me to enjoy! Happy Christmas Cookie baking everyone!!! Luis at ole dot travel
ReplyDeleteWhen we prepare for the holidays I look forward to baking cookies with my grandchildren. They are love to bake and we bake their favorite cookies. They have different preferences so we spend hours baking and then enjoying the fruits of our labor. Sugar cookies are a must for them all as well as a yummy shortbread cookie covered with sprinkles. elliotbencan(at)hotmail(dot)com
ReplyDeleteSnickerdoodles & tea cakes. Dloumoore@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteSo many delicious cookies! I’m not a big baker, so for me the recipe has to be fairly simple. My mother used to make several different kinds of cooks for Christmas for the neighbors. One of our neighbors made mini cherry cheesecake bites — I loved those. My favorite was the no-bake chocolate oatmeal coconut cookies. My sister and I used to beg my mom to make them throughout the year…not just at Christmas. cking78503(at)aol(dot)com
ReplyDeleteMy favorite cookies I found one year are these peppermint chip chocolate cookies.
ReplyDeleteTwo mainstay cookies of the Christmas season in our house were and still are pizzelles, usually anise flavored, sometimes lemon or almond too; and spritz butter cookies, with green food coloring using the tree plate of the cookie press of course! Once one of my sisters married, his family had a recipe for apricot cookies that take at least 2 bakers to make, but they rapidly became favorites. They have a cream cheese dough and use a filling made from cooked down dried apricots. I'd post the recipe, but can't find my copy at the moment! YIKES!!! Thanks for reminding me to get busy. makennedyinaz(at)hotmail(dot)com
ReplyDeleteI still love decorating cookies, so the cutout sugar cookies are a must. I have a recipe of my mom's and one from a co-worker and both are good. Then I like to try out one different cookie recipe each year. Last year was a cookie that only took three ingredients- cake mix, cool whip, and an egg. Makes a more soft, chewy cookie than crunchy and it went over well. Year before was a hot chocolate cookie we really liked as well. Haven't picked this year's recipe yet.
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Not really a cookie, but one of my favorites are peanut butter truffles. A Must have each holiday season. Email:biszemom(at)gmail(dot)com
ReplyDeleteWe gave up baking when our grandchildren picked up the bowl and spoon. They supply us with any type of cookies we can imagine. I actually own books by each of the authors listed above. My library is fast approaching the point where I'll need to rent an apartment just for my library. NoraAdrienne (at) gmail (dot) com
ReplyDeleteMy favorite cookies of all time are Sour Cream Nut Rolls, which sound horrible, take all day to make, but when you bite into them they melt like butter in your mouth. My mother used to make them every year, and when she passed away, my older brother would make them. Now, he can't eat nuts, so this year it's up to me to tackle them. Lots of work, but,oh, so worth it! Got to get baking, goodbye and Happy Holidays!
ReplyDeleteMy mom baked hundreds of different cookies at Christmas. She would frost her delicious cut-out cookies (Santas, bells, stars, and Christmas trees) with pink, green, and white frosting with sprinkles. I continue to use her recipe, baking up a batch of cookies and having my local grandkids over for a cookie decorating party. I mix up bowls of frosting that the kids tint in their choice of colors and top with a variety of edible sprinkles. It’s so much fun to see their creativity each year. Beside these cookies, one of my favorites is almond fudge topped shortbread squares. Merry Christmas! bskts4unme(at)hotmail(dot)com
ReplyDeleteSo many wonderful suggestions here! I predict lots of yummy cookie baking ahead!
ReplyDeleteIt's still early morning but some fresh baked cookies would sure be good right now. I got my love of experimenting and collecting recipes from my mom, and at Christmas she really outdid herself. Thumbprint cookies, refrigerator cookies gingerbread people, everything had special shapes and decoration. I'm not quite the baker she was but I love cream cheese cookies, loaded oatmeal, cake-y chocolate chip, anything chocolate. My husband is the sugar cookie monster and fortunately our granddaughter love to make and decorate those (if I have to roll it I don't want to do it, same with decorating) as well as more standards: snickerdoodle and peanut butter. Thanks for the giveaway. Happy Holidays! sallycootie(at)gmail(dot)com
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday cookies are sugar cookies, but not all sugar cookies are fabulous. The recipe that comes closest to my grandmother's can be found in Joanne Chang's FLOUR. My grandsons love Chocolate Peppermint Thumbprints found on Sally's Baking Addiction Website. Be careful or you'll eat them all in one sitting. LOL
ReplyDeleteWhen I was growing up Rosettes were my favorite Christmas cookie and I still love them. We just don't make them as often as we used to because when I got married I was introduced to Honey Cookies. These cookies are amazing not just because of taste or the fun of decorating but because they come with a story of survival. The family recipe would have been lost forever but by miracle of miracles Grandma Smolka survived Auschwitz. Her family name was lost to WWII as only her sister and her survived. Her sister was too young to remember their mother's recipes but Halina did. Our first daughter is named after her ♡
ReplyDeleteWe made candy cane cookies. Nowadays my sister has taken over as the cookie baker. Her rugelach cookies are the best.
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Sugar cookies are my favorite! From mother to me to daughter to grandson—-a tasty tradition! Hanlons1988@att.net
ReplyDeleteI don't have a favorite Christmas cookie recipe but my all-time favorites are chocolate chip cookies. Joannlowehunter@aol.com
ReplyDeleteI must confess that my favorite Christmas cookie is .... all of them! All the cookies mentioned sound delightful! I especially like gingerbread cookies. I also like the chocolate oatmeal drop cookies that were popular when I was a child. I remember making them a number of times.
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I love any cookie with winter spices. Gingerbread cookies, iced molasses cookies, pfeffernusse. Thanks so much for the giveaway and Happy Holidays! aut1063(at)gmail(dot)com
ReplyDeleteI love my great grandma's Pfeffernusse cookies. They seemed to take her a week to make. They were so good though! I remember when my mom would try to make them They wouldn't be soft and chewy, they would be so hard you had to soak them in coffee or hot tea to eat them! My mom was so mad. They tasted good, they just weren't soft.
ReplyDeleteI love Hello Dolly Cookies (aka: Magic Bars). Chocolate, coconut, graham crackers...what's not to love?! cindystamps(at)juno(dot)com
ReplyDeleteAmazing post! So many yummy cookies! I like frosted sugar cookies during the holidays!
ReplyDeleteI love snickerdoodles!!
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So many delicious cookies! I love frosted sugar cookies for Christmas. Thanks for the chance to win.
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My favorite cookie growing up and even now Is snowballs as Lucy mentioned. I was so happy to see you use that name as it wasn't until years later I learned there were other names. My second favorite is cutout cookies from a recipe of my great grandmother, who passed before I was born. They are made using honey.
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My favorite holiday cookie is a "family secret" recipe called Bremerbrot. Of course I won't share the recipe, but it includes the instruction "and don't spare the rum" cwsullivan53(at)gmail(dot)com
ReplyDeleteI love a Southern favorite nutty fingers. A vanilla shortbread with pecans and rolled in powdered sugar.
ReplyDeleteI take a week of vacation to make my Christmas Cookies that is dubbed "Bakation" by my co-workers. My personal favorite are Magic Cookie Bars from Eagle Brand. Many people compliment me on my sugar cut-out cookies, Always make ladylocks, buckeyes, Oreo truffles, tassies, Spritz, Snickerdoodle Biscotti, Gingerbread, Alton Brown Pinwheel and Kaufman's Thumbprint (legendary cookie from Pittsburgh's Kaufman's Dept store), Can't leave doggos out. They get Giada's dog cookies. denisemelch69@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas cookies are the walnut and pecan cookies my Mom used to make. My Sister and I actually made the walnut cookies over Thanksgiving and will probably make them for Christmas also.
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I am a cookie addict and love all cookies. My favorite is butter/sugar cookies. marlros@msn.com
ReplyDeleteAnginetti are my favorite year round!! At holiday time, I like peanut butter blossoms. egoehner(at)roadrunner(dot)com
ReplyDeleteYum yumers to each of you! My grandma raised me, she liked to experiment change thing's around in recipes, Plus I learned later in life most of what we made was amazing French pastry! Grandpa was French she German. Our recipes:
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We use to make Santa Whiskers every year when the kids were small and even when the grands were younger but now everyone is grown and gone their separate ways. Miss those days. nvictoria77@yahoo.com.
ReplyDeleteI have to admit I love cookies, all kinds. Probably my favorites are chocolate chip, but I also love sugar cookies, peanut butter cookies, snickerdoodles, and more. I used to make all kinds during the year including Christmas. kaye.kiĺlgore(at)comcast(dot)net
ReplyDeleteMy favorite cookie would be the one someone else bakes! Three moves back I participated in the church cookie sale each year and contributed praline cookies. They always sold out. And are easy to make. I have to have pecans to make them though, so that's my excuse for not baking. patdupuy@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteMy mom always makes chocolate chip cookies around the holidays which I absolutely love. But my nephews always decorate sugar cookies with my sister-in-law. It's usually a contest to see who can make the silliest or most obnoxiously-frosted cookies. They come up with some real doozies! my Email is grantscrossingbook@gmail.com P.S. I love snickerdoodles, too, but no one in our family actually makes them. Hmm... wonder if I should learn how as my new year's resolution? LOL!
ReplyDeleteI like Gingerbread men cookies & peanut butter cookies with a chocolate kiss. At Christmas, my Mom made different candies. sqbradshaw@hotmail.com
ReplyDeleteI love my grandma’s Italian Anisette cookies for Christmas. Heck, I’ll eat them at any time if the year!
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My favorite is thumbprints which are the Russian tea cake recipe into a ball then before baking press your thumbprint into each ball, bake as directed and after cooling fill the thumbprint with colored butter icing or your favorite jam.
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My favorite Christmas cookie is Gingerbread.
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We always make Sugar cookies, gingies, peanut butter blossoms, and shortbread cookies (my scottish great-grandmothers recipe). I don't have a favorite. I love them all. bella_ringer@hotmail.com
ReplyDeletethank you ladies for sharing your favorite cookies and recipes. Some of my favorite cookies are Spritz, Pecan, Sugar Cookies quilting dash lady at comcast dot net
ReplyDeleteMy favorite is a chocolate cookie sandwich filled with peppermint icing. It was a recipe from my mother in law. My grown kids make them and I make them when the grandkids are here.
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite cookies are Sugar Cookie & good old Chocolate chip cookie 🍪. There are some recipes here I would like to try. Thank you
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My favorite would have to be Russian Tea Cookies that my grandma made when I was growing up. I remember they were covered in powdered sugar and melted in my mouth. I wish I was a better baker so I could try to make them someday..
ReplyDeleteWhat reminds me of Christmas is the wonderful smells that always waft from the kitchen at my grandma’s. The sweet smell of vanilla. My favorite Christmas cookie has to be Swedish butter cookies with a thumb print indentation Filled with your favorite jam. Ours favorite was strawberry 🍓 and blueberry 🫐.
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My favorites are they sugar cookies my Mom makes. At Christmas they were cut in the shape of a tree with green powered sugar frosting. mich_tidw@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteThank you for the opportunity to win! My favorite Christmas cookies are fudge thumbprints, old fashioned cutout sugar cookies, and oatmeal white chocolate cranberry!
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DeleteI love cookies but I'm not much of a baker or cook. Not because of lack of skill, but more a lack of motivation. Add in that my mother was mostly the family baker and I just lost her last year, and you have a storm of emotions when it comes to baking. For our family two of the biggest staples of any family gathering was Mama's Rice Krispie Treats and her chocolate no-bake cookies. There have already been comments at gatherings since losing her that everyone misses those treats. My cousin supposedly is going to make the chocolate no-bake cookies this year, and I'll try them if I get the chance to. But if they fall short of Mama's? I may be having to throwing my hat in the ring next family get together, just to see how I measure up to my Mama. (I expect it will come to this, here's hoping that I can remember all of Mama's little tricks.) Thanks for the chance to win. Blackfur1129(at)aol(dot)com
ReplyDeleteI make sugar cookies with my nieces and nephews every Christmas. It is my special time with them. se.steiner@hotmail.com
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas cookie are my grandma’s sandtart cookies.
ReplyDeleteGingerbread people frosted sugar cookies, and chocolate chip cookies are must haves on the cookie tray.
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I love gingerbread or molasses cookies best!
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My favorite Christmas cookies are almond raspberry thumbprints and molasses crinkles (marcia_calvin@yahoo.com)
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ReplyDeleteI love to make cookies but I adapt the recipes slightly to make bar rather than drop cookies. I love chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips 🍪 jumoreh@bdalecards.org
ReplyDeleteI am so not a baker. But I love holiday cookie swaps. My go to for those is the M&M Cookie Bar cookies using the Betty Crocker sugar cookie mix, Christmas M&Ms, and white baking chips. The only thing I have to measure us the candy! No one has complained yet!
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DeleteMy sister is the baker in our family. She makes the best peanut butter cookies with Hershey Kisses in the middle every December. She also makes sugar cookies and gingersnaps.
ReplyDeleteCutouts - mostly for the decorating...my frosting to cookie ratio may or may not be skewed :)
ReplyDeleteThe cookies all look so yummy. Can’t wait to see Molly’s recipe on the 10th too. Everyone in my family has their favorites they think they can’t live without, so it’s a good thing I like to make cookies!! I usually make Pecan Sandies (aka Mexican Wedding Cakes), Shortbread, Oatmeal Raisin, the Hershey’s recipe of Chocolate Chip cookies made with Hershey brand chips, and Chewy Coconut Cranberry Cookies. The Chewy Coconut Cranberry cookies are a recipe from a Hannah Swenson Mystery book by Joanne Fluke. They are my favorite! They also have oatmeal in them and like Joanne suggests I divide the dough in half and make half with cranberries and half with chocolate chips, but I use a Ghirardelli dark chocolate in mine. Yum!! Last year my niece and I made decorated iced sugar cookies and she wants to do that again this year.
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ReplyDeleteI love anything homemade because the taste is so much richer. Kolachke with apricot or raspberry filling, crispy oatmeal lace cookies with Nutella filling, snowballs, ginger cookies, and many delicious layered bar cookies.
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My favorite are peanut butter blossoms. Thanks for the chance!
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ReplyDeleteRussian tea cakes & decorated sugar cookies,,,love your recipes & books. cmeier2001@live.com
ReplyDeleteMy favorite cookies are macadamia white chocolate cookies!
ReplyDeleteFrosted sugar cookies and chocolate chip.Gogo2007@rocketmail.com
ReplyDeleteThere are several cookies that are favorites in our family. I found a new recipe recently for a lemon crinkle cookie similar to the chocolate crinkles only in lemon. I haven't perfected the looks of the cookies but the taste is very good.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas cookies are pecan snowball cookies. Rolled in powdered sugar, packed with finely chopped pecans…they melt in my mouth and they’re so good I can’t stop eating them. fabfourforever72@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteEasy - chocolate crinkles and peanut butter blossoms. There are other more sophisticated cookies - and I love them all, but those are my honing beacon at the dessert table.
ReplyDeleteI love Mexican wedding cookies aka Butterballs when I was growing up. Now I make them with my grandkids.
ReplyDeleteGrowing up it wasn't Christmas until we made a batch of Candy Lasses, a molasses cookie with crushed candy canes mixed in. This came from a Pillsbury bake off little cookbook my mom bought in the 50's. seboggs at comcast.net
ReplyDeleteI like my mom's ice box cookies and my persimmon cookies.
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My favorite holiday cookie is a Spritz Cookie made with my cookie press. Thanks for your great generosity. Linda May. Maycarlson6848@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteI LOVE Italian Christmas cookies
ReplyDeleteI love to make my Grandmother’s recipe for sugar cookie cut-outs ❤️🎄
ReplyDeleteWe make several different Christmas cookies but my very favorIte cookie is biscottis . I make several different flavors. I hope you all have a Merry Christmas🎄nancyhallenbeck@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteMy favorite is the same as Tina Kashian's except we call them Kris Kringles.
ReplyDeleteAll of the cookies shared look delicious! I don’t think I could pick just one favorite, I love all cookies! If I HAD to choose, I’d go with a classic snickerdoodle! Looking forward to trying some of the ones here too! Melissaann522 at gmail dot com
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas cookie is the sugar cookie recipe handed down from my grandmother. My kids and grandkids make it now also, so it is a treasured recipe. At Christmas we decorate the cookie with icing and sprinkles and other festive decorations.
ReplyDeleteMy mother's sugar cookies and I have the recipe. They are different than anything else I've had.
ReplyDeleteI love to bake a variety of cookies every Christmas. Each year I try at least one new cookie recipe but the rest are ones I have done before so I know they are safe. I ususally have them figured out right about now but I caught a cold so now I am behind schedule. Hopefully, I will feel better soon and can get on it. cherierj(at)yahoo(dot)com
ReplyDeleteMy Dad makes yummy ginger snaps. They’re thin and crispy! Hope he makes some this year. 😋. smurphy(at)macados(dot)net
ReplyDeleteI make chocolate rollo cookies every Christmas, about 2,000 of them every year, and give them to my customers. browntruck8899@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteMy mom made so many kinds of cookies and candy and bread and butter for gifts. I used to make some when my kids were small. I’m lucky if I can make chocolate chip anymore. 🤷🏼♀️ I just don’t have knack or patience for cooking and baking.
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I love decorated sugar cookies (but don't want to make them!), I also love peanut butter cookies. katherinestamps at msn dot com
ReplyDeleteI think my favorite holiday cookie would have to be my Aunt-in-law’s Speculaas (Dutch spice cookies)! LissaSF82@hotmail.com
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ReplyDeleteI have tried many recipes from the coffee house books and Cleo never disappoints. My favorite Christmas cookies are crescents and toffee squares made the way my mom did. bobntoni@aol.com
ReplyDeleteMy favorite cookies are Peanut Butter Blossom cookies. jeanna_massman@hotmail.com
ReplyDeleteI don't remember lots of Christmas cookie baking growing up, but I enjoy it now and look forward to years of baking with grandbabies. My favorite cookies oatmeal raisin, warm out of the oven and soft baked.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas cookies are sugar cookies decorated with powdered sugar glaze. But my favorite cookie of all time are my Grandma's oatmeal cookies which are basically butter, sugar and oatmeal with walnuts. They are chewy and everyone loves them, even those who say they hate oatmeal cookies. I make all kinds of cookies for Christmas and give most away. kathyclugston3@gmail.com
ReplyDeletePeanut butter caramel cookies are my favorites, all these recipes just made me hungry! tWarner419@aol.com
ReplyDeleteAll of the cookies look amazing! I am a big fan of the upside down gingerbread guy that looks like a reindeer. I also enjoy the traditional peanut butter blossoms with dark chocolate kisses. I usually end up eating more kisses than I need too LOL. As always, thank you for the generous giveaway(s), fingers crossed! tracy.condie@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteThey're not exactly cookies, but I love cranberry bliss bars. AND I found a keto friendly version that is divine! journeybound2010 (at) gmail.com
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas cookie is snowball cookies. To make them especially festive during the holidays, I put a red or green candied cherry in the middle. Carter.karen@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteI love snickerdoodle or molasses cookies. I love baking sugar cookies with my kids . we've also made Joanne Flukes mystery cookies ,And Italian ricotta cookies are fantastic. Angelagillooley@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteMy very favorite is Chocolate chip with cranberries and pecans! 2nd is gingersnaps! Verlyne.simmonskey@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteI bake about 6 different kinds of cookies each Christmas. I make up baskets for my family, friends and neighbors to enjoy. My mom always did this and I continued it. paulie39@comcast.net
ReplyDeleteReading this has left me with a mouth longing for cookies!
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Spritz cookies have always been my favorites. Thanks for the chance to win! ElaineE246 at msn dot com
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ReplyDeleteWe love cookies. Portion control is the name of the game. Our favorite four during the holidays: Spiced Molasses; Mexican Wedding cookies. Old fashioned Oatmeal Scotches; and the most popular: Sugar Cookies. Double batches of each. Except the Sugar cookies. four batches of them. Two rolled out, cut and painted. Two batches, one dropped, one slightly rounded, half dipped in melted chocolate, then dipped in sprinkles. We are lucky if there are any left after two days. bessdeepotter 84 at gmail dot com
ReplyDeleteYum! Will have to break out the oven mitts! I can’t find my recipe but I made my sister some vegan pumpkin cookies with chocolate chips and despite my best efforts (ha) they were actually ding-dang delicious!
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I really like to make peppermint pinwheels with my daughter at Christmas! janetm52 at aol dot com
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