What is your favorite christmas cookie to bake?
By coffeebreak
@coffeebreak (17798)
United States
December 1, 2007 4:39pm CST
I am a cookie bakery since I was 10 and have lots of favorites. But I'd have to choose Polka Daters as my favorite as those are the ones my mom made for her christmas parties and they are a dark chocolate cookie bar and sprinkled with powder sugar and theyjust looked heavenly on her 3-tier silver cookie tray and no christmas party was complete without her Polka Daters (chocolate chips and dates and you can't even taste the dates!) My next would be Snickerdoodles because they remind me of my daughter - they are her favorites and she is so happy when I bake her a huge jar full! And for me, My favs are gingerbread cutouts. A cup of hot tea and heaven is in my kitchen!
What's your favorite chistmas cookie and why?
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12 responses
@drannhh (15219)
• United States
1 Dec 07
The most fun to bake are not necessarily the most fun to eat, because my eating favorites are big gooey chocolate chip standards and also those soft molasses cookies (with or without oatmeal) and of course, gingerbread people.
But my favorite to bake are the peanut butter ones where you criss cross with a fork and then position a dark chocolate Hershey kiss in the middle. They taste good, and look wonderful, but I can never figure out how to eat them without getting chocolate on my nose. I'll have milk with mine, thank you...and don't forget to put some out for Santa, as we want to keep that guy plump.
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
1 Dec 07
I make those for my brother every year - they are his fav. But the kiss in the middle - how do you eat that? I have not been able to figure it out - one bit takes the kiss or do you bite it in half or what? One of those questions that plague the generations! No, the most complicated are not always the best... unless someone else bakes them!!! I am getting in the mood and alist going as my GD is spending the weekend with me this next weekend and we will do some baking! Her fav is sugar cookie cut outs!
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@drannhh (15219)
• United States
1 Dec 07
I was thinking of trying a variation on that kiss cookie recipe, leaving out the peanut butter and putting some other flavoring in and pink coloring and using those divine Hershey's cherry cordial kisses in the center instead of the plain chocolate, but I wondered if the cherry stuff would leak out and make a mess. Anybody tried that yet? I'm working up to it, lol.
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@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
1 Dec 07
I seem to remember a variation using a white dough and you cna put the cordial kissis in those. have to look for that for you. Off top of my head, you could probably use a Thumbprint cookie recipe and instead of using the jam in the thumb imprint, use the kiss.
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@lilybug (21107)
• United States
1 Dec 07
I don't really bake many different cookies for Christmas that I don't bake year round. My favorite cookie is peanut butter. My next favorite is plain old chocolate chip. I am going to give gingerbread men a whirl this year though. My 7 year old requested them. I may make some snickerdoodles. I have not made them in a long time.
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@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
1 Dec 07
My 7 yo GD LOVES baking sugar cookie cut outs. She had the recipe memorized at 2,1/2 years old nad can do them from start to finish, except the oven parts! Her fav or course is also the icing and decorations for them! Snickerdoodles are going to be on the list as I will make those to thank my daughter for letting me have the weekend. I usually get a 1 gallon glass jar and fill with the kids fav cookie nad at is a gift - they love it!
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@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
2 Dec 07
A gingerbread cookie with hot tea in the am's... so good!! I bought some gingerbread flavored Celestial Seasons yesterday - had some today and WHAMO BAMO!!! That stuff is fabulous! I can't wait till next Sat when I can give it to my GD. She is going to flip! I also got Peppermint and Sugar Cookie - yes, sugar cookie tea! A very close race btween the 2 of them for being the best! I don't care to much for peppermint, but it was good if you like peppermint! Okay, cookies and tea - is everyone at the oven now!?!?!? We'll have to touch base after Christmas and tell each other what we ended up baking!!!
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@my52cents (569)
• United States
2 Dec 07
Y'all are making me hungry! I used to do cutout sugar cookies with my kids, plus they're my husband's favorite, so I should try to make time to do those this year. I agree, though, that you can't go wrong with chocolate chip, and gingerbread men are always fun to have around. I think I need to go buy some more flour. And eggs. And sugar. . .
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@highflyingxangel (9225)
• United States
2 Dec 07
We started making a certain cookie around Christmas that is chocolate based. Then you place a cherry in the middle of it and bake the cookies. Once you take the cookies out of the oven, you drizzle melted chocolate over the cookies. The chocolate has a bit of cherry juice mixed in so you're getting a double blast of what tastes like chocolate covered cherries. They take awhile to bake but I really like them.
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@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
3 Dec 07
Wow those sound great! Reminds me of another fav or my mom's ..a cherry wrapped in a white cookie dough and rolled in powder sugar once cooled. Those were a christmas staple too! Think I'll do those this year! I used to bake all year round - there were never store bought cookies in my house! But no kids andn o one to eat them but me - my waistline just doesnt' want to play nice!
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@gizmoshere2 (408)
• Canada
2 Dec 07
My kids love smartie cookies and love to bake them. However for the christmas holidays it has become tradition to make shortbread. It just would not be christmas without the shortbread. It does not last long in my house. Have a great day
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
2 Dec 07
Okay, gizmoshere - you can't do that to us! Smartie cookies and no details, no recipe, nothing?!?!?!?!?! Come on, give!! My 7 yo GD favorite candy is Smarties! She is coming this weekend and we are baking - she'll flip if I can tell her we are baking Smartie cookies!!! PLEASEEEEEEEE share your recipe!!!!!
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@moneyandgc (3428)
• United States
2 Dec 07
If I bake cookies they are usually chocolate chip. My mom still bakes our favorites for us at Christmas though. My two favorites are Oatmeal Scotchies, which are a basic oatmeal cookie made with butterscotch chips, and the other is not baked. They are No Bake cookies, made with Oatmeal, cocoa and peanut butter. They are so good and the only time I get them is at Christmas. I guess I could make them myself if I really wanted them. They just seem more special this way I suppose, kind of like a tradition.
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
2 Dec 07
Isn't that the truth? They just represent such a memory it just isn't the same. My mom's make a Hot German Potatoe salad that is outof the world! She has been making it for family functions - (and only family functions - I never remember her making for a dinner at home)but every single family function we ever had (and we used to have alot!) Mom's potatoe salad was there. Now, it is almost like it is not the function or holiday without mom potato salad!! It sounds odd, but really, once everyone sees there is no potato salad, faces literally face in sorrow!! She finally gave me the secret recipe and I make it and it is good, but stil.... there is just something missing - it is just not Mom's.
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@crazyredhead (954)
• United States
3 Dec 07
Every year since I was little I have remembered my great grandmother making these amazing sandwich cookies. They have frosting in the middle and are a bit bigger than a quarter. You poke them three times with a fork and sprinkle colored sugar on top. They are delicious, and last year, I finally got the recipe and she showed me how to make them. My family now wants me to make Mexican Wedding Cakes for Christmas this year. Those, are nummy!
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@dvschic (1795)
• United States
11 Dec 07
man........ probably snickerdoodls, mainly case they are just fun to make! and the smell of cinnamon.......... oh man... i'm a sucker for cinnamon!
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@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
12 Dec 07
Snickerdoodles are my daughters favorite. I get a 1 gallon jar every year and bake the snickerdoodles and fill the jar. She squeals with delight every year! She tells me it is one of her favorite gifts ever!
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@dvschic (1795)
• United States
11 Dec 07
man........ probably snickerdoodls, mainly case they are just fun to make! and the smell of cinnamon.......... oh man... i'm a sucker for cinnamon!
u know, i just got a candle that has the same name as you! its amazing if you like the smell of coffee! its on my profile if you wanna see it1
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@megumiart (3771)
• United States
2 Dec 07
I'd have to say sugar cookies or Ginger bread. I love cutting them into holiday shapes and decorating them aftre they bake.
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@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
2 Dec 07
The best! I make both and use a straw to poke a hole in the upper tip of the cookie and then decorate them, let the icing dry and wrap them in plastic wrap and hang them on the tree! years ago I used to make cookie trees like this.. I had a 16 inch tree and 1,1/2 inch cookie cutters and the kids loved that the best! It was fun to do. I thinkt his year I will make "necklaces " for my 2 GD's, How cool is that - to wear a cookie around your neck to eat when you want! No wonder I am their favorite Nanny!!!!
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@ersmommy1 (12588)
• United States
6 Dec 07
The santa here told my daughter that Chocolate chip was his favorite. So that's it. No question. We will be baking Toll House Chocolate chip cookies again this year. The argument may come up about what to fix for all those reindeer.
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
6 Dec 07
Let us know what they ask for! We never did this as kids. My kids weren't really that big on it. Don't know why. But my GD has been doing it.
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@chenmeimei (19)
• China
2 Dec 07
why not sth. about east cookie?
well, taditional cookies may seems a little ,dull,so why not change you mind and add some eastern elements ?
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
3 Dec 07
You can add anything you want to cookies - you pick and mix!
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