For The Holidays
By redredrose
@redredrose (1105)
United States
November 4, 2012 11:04am CST
Do you like to bake cookies for the holidays and if so what kinds? I love to bake cookies for the holidays and i love to make chocolate chip ones Christmas shaped ones like Christmas trees and such. I have never made gingerbread cookies before but i want to try that this year. I also love to make chocolate mint cookies sugar cookies and peanut butter cookies. My husband has made thumb print cookies. That's where you press your thumb in to the dough before you bake it then put usually some sort of jelly in the print,but you can also put in a Hershey's kiss. My favorite kind f cookie for the holidays has always been chocolate chip. Do any of you like rum balls i do, but only a little bit.
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7 responses
@lynnes75 (443)
• Malaysia
5 Nov 12
Hello :) Your cookies sound yummy, I can almost feel the chocolate chips melting in my mouth already :D
I don't know how to make cookies, so I usually just buy them from shops. About two weeks before Christmas, all the shops and supermarkets will start selling all the cakes, biscuits and cookies we want. I also have some friends who are private caterers and sell home-made cookies, and I prefer to buy theirs. There's all kinds, but I especially love the apple or pineapple tarts, raisin cookies, and butter cookies with chocolate chips in them.
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
21 Nov 12
Boy, lynnes75...you are making me gain weight just reading about your cookies! The butter ones I'll split with you!
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
5 Nov 12
I used to bake HUGE baskets or trays of baked goods for my family gifts. THey'd be for the parents of the family and then I'd only buy a gift for the kids. I made probably 10 different kinds of cookies (specifically a favorite for each person ) and 3-4 kinds of breads or muffins and even brittle or candied grapefruit peel..it was an amazing gift if I do say so myself. Had time finding something big enough to hold it all, but I usually found something. My 2 brothers LOVED this..their respective wives...hated this gift as neither of them baked at all or well and they were very jealous (how stupid was that of them?!?! But my health caused me to have to stop doing it about 10years ago. But I still choose favorites to bake and Christmas time. Ones that "it isn't Christmas without....." favorites. But nothing like I used to. My kids are grown and gone and my husband hates anything I cook/bake so when I bake....it is for just me and I know if it is there, I will eat it so I ahve to just stop and not bake so I don't get big as the side of a barn! But it is fun and I am thinking of how to cut my favorite recipes into at least half...like a dozen or so cookies instead of 4 dozen per batch..and make one each week.
@redredrose (1105)
• United States
21 Nov 12
What a good idea coffeebreak. I thought some times to bake cookies for gifts, but never really did it. I think this year for Christmas since hubby and i are on a tight budget i can do that. I am not the best baker around , but i can bake pretty good cookies.
@mariaperalta (19073)
• Mexico
4 Nov 12
I love to bake anytime here. But I really bale at xmas time. I even have a few friends who have me bake cookies and cakes for their parties as well. its an easy way to make an extra dollar or 2 here. Im going to make sugar xmas tree cookies here monday to sell in my internet cafe. have a great day there.
@Aquitaine24 (11813)
• San Jose, California
3 Dec 12
I like making pepparkakkor and spritsar,2 Swedish specialties.I also like to make chocolate chip cookies,heavy on the molasses.
@anggunmelati (551)
• Indonesia
7 Nov 12
In holiday time, I prefer to make chocolate cake with my best friend. Some times my parents will join with us to create banana's cake. That's very happy time. After we finish our experiment to create chocolate cake, we go to in yard and make little party to enjoy our holiday time
@greenline (14838)
• Canada
5 Nov 12
Sounds so tasty and delicious. You are certainly very good in baking cookies. I am not good at that
at all. I wish I were. But, I like cookies. all kinds of cookies very much.