Family Favorite Christmas cookies

[robvious]

OK Gang..
What are your favorite Christmas Cookies.. the must haves every year... grandmas special treats...
let's share what is special. besides sugar crystal sugar cookies there are..

mom's gingerbread cookies.. actually a cut molasses cookie is one...

one called a Hangover is another.. a fruitcake cookie... and yes one ingredient is whiskey

 

[Rustyt1953]

Like Will Rogers I never met a cookie I didn't like.

 

[SMSgt]

I started making fruitcake cookies last year. They were yummy!

 

[boykinlp]

It has been a bunch of years ago, but I remember having a Christmas cookie that had cranberries in it. It was fantastic! I have no idea what else was in them, old timers, don't ya know? Do you folks have any recipes that might fit the bill?
Larry

 

[Rustyt1953]

Ruthie is a wonderful baker who catalogs all her recipes in her head. Year-round we are blessed with a wide assortment of cookies (biscuits) and baked treats.

Every Christmas season mom focuses on scones w/clotted cream, apricot, raspberry and strawberry tarts and lemon curd. She also makes gingerbread men, pumpkin, zucchini and banana bread, figgy pudding (Christmas cake) and spotted dick throuhout the season.

I do love Christmas so.

Happiest of holidays to all.

 

[arjay]

Basel leckerli and zimstern are two of my favorites from long ago. Haven't made the first,the second I spent several weeks on teaching myself a few years ago

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

Oatmeal raisin or chocolate chip from my side of the family and Russian tea cookies from hers.

Ivan

 

[Rolex28]

The only cookie that is worth mentioning is PEANUT BUTTER

 

[ZGrand]

Old fashioned sugar cookies in various Christmas shapes with various topings were my favorite. My grandmother always made all kinds of cookies at Christmas. I would rather have the cookies than a new toy.

 

[375hh1973]

Loved my grandmother to death but she could burn water. World's worst cook!

Cookies were like cinders.

Give me oreos all day

 

[sureshotbob]

For the last few weeks my wife has been making cookies for the house and gifts for friends.
She has been making peanut butter bom=bom's with peanut butter, gram cracker and french vanilla frosting dipped in milk chocolate {Think Reese's peanut butter cups but round the size of a golfball }.She has also been making Madoline's { a vanilla short bread type cookie shaped like a scallop shell 1/2 dipped in milk chocolate}.
Just yesterday when doing my Santa gig we delivered a large bag full of Christmas boxed tin's to my friends.

 

[SS336]

robvious, I see what you did with your "deer" cookies. Perfect lung shot.

 

[Donn]

They're known by other names, Mom. (RIP), always called them peanut butter blossoms. Peanut butter cookie with a Hershey Kiss in the middle.

 

[SMSgt]

It has been a bunch of years ago, but I remember having a Christmas cookie that had cranberries in it. It was fantastic! I have no idea what else was in them, old timers, don't ya know? Do you folks have any recipes that might fit the bill?
Larry

Not hard. Take any cookie recipe, add cranberries. Tah-dah!

 

[walkinghorse]

It has been a bunch of years ago, but I remember having a Christmas cookie that had cranberries in it. It was fantastic! I have no idea what else was in them, old timers, don't ya know? Do you folks have any recipes that might fit the bill?
Larry

Possibly cranberries and orange.
My wife started making cranberry orange cookies as I like cranberry orange relish.
Cookie is like a chocolate chip in style or maybe a sugar cookie with the orange flavor provided by orange zest, very tasty if you like those flavors.
Multiple recipes found on the internet.

 

[jbtrucker]

My oldest niece made a few cook books of both Mamaws recipes. She is the one guarding the last few pieces of Magic cookie Bars. My favorite was no bake cookies ,M&M and Magic Cookie Bars.

 

[robvious]

Nice touch JBTrucker..
ADD the recipes if not a family secret... even if it is.. we won't tell

 

[Rammer Jammer]

Not a cookie but every year at Christmas my family makes the best fudge.

And it's not some secret family recipe. It's the Fantasy Fudge that has the recipe on every big jar of Kraft marshmallow cream.

 

[robvious]

Not a cookie but every year at Christmas my family makes the best fudge.

And it's not some secret family recipe. It's the Fantasy Fudge that has the recipe on every big jar of Kraft marshmallow cream.

that was my mother in-laws "secret" recipe.. now my son is in charge of making it..she could only make 3 things well. banana bread, fudge & peanut brittle...

 

[Golddollar]

Oatmeal raisin or chocolate chip from my side of the family and Russian tea cookies from hers.

Ivan

I like oatmeal raisin cookies because that way I can tell my doctors I've been eating more fruit and grain.