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Favorite Christmas cookies?
So today it hit me. I was in Walmart, so I stopped by the Christmas section at the front to pick up some Christmas cards while I was there. While I was wandering down the aisles, I came across the baking stuff and became inspired. I haven't baked anything other than a quick bread in forever, even though I absolutely love to bake. So I bought some tins to fill with cookies and mail to my siblings and their families. I'm so excited!
The weekend after next I'm going to turn on some Christmas music, drink some wine, and bake some cookies! I will do four different kinds. So my question is- what kinds should I bake? I'm not going to do cookie-cutters or anything like that, just yummy cookies that will stack.
I recently found a recipe for pumpkin oatmeal cookies (with white chocolate chips and dried cherries), but I'm not sure if those would be something that everyone would enjoy. Give me ideas please!
Re: Favorite Christmas cookies?
That sounds like a great evening! I do cookie/candy platters each year and people love them.
Last year I did:
-Cream cheese mints
-Easy oreo truffles
-Frosted sugar cookies
-Three ingredient fudge (only semisweet choc chips, 1 square unsweetened chocolate, and sweetened condensed milk, heat together in a pan and then pour into a greased baking dish. Refrigerate overnight and slice in the morning)
-Gingersnaps
-Peppermint bark
Oh good idea! I will definitely do this.
No contest! My hands-down fave is a candy cane sugar cookie:
I am going to a party this weekend and bringing melted snowmen, though:
I love what a friend of my dubbed "cranadoodles"..Oatmeal, crasin, white chocolate chip cookies.
How do you make the melted snowmen? Recipe????
I have a great sugar cookie recipe. You roll it our before you chill is and then after chilling you just cut them out. I will post the recipe for them tomorrow.