Cookie Roundup (My Favorites!)
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I’ve had a lot of folks ask what my favorite cookie recipes are for Christmas cookie exchanges so I’m putting them together in one handy, dandy list to help you with your holiday get togethers. My favorite thing to do is have other families each make one type of cookie and then get together for a big cookie exchange. By making a few dozen of one type and exchanging them like this, we can all end up with a big holiday cookie variety without the mess and also get to enjoy the delicious baking skills of our friends!
For more Christmas treats that are a must have in my family, check out Grandma Lucy’s Coffee Can Bon Bons (p.160), Creole Candy (our version of a praline p.159), Microwave Peanut Brittle (p.162), and Sugared Pecans (p.143) in the Southern Plate cookbook!
Fruitcake Bar Cookies
Candied and Dried fruit layered with cinnamon, brown sugar, and just enough flour and butter to hold it all together until it reaches your mouth!
Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies
These are the cookies that, according to both of my children, make me the absolute best mother in the entire universe.
Chocolate…chocolate…enough said. 🙂
My nephew took one bite of these cookies years ago and declared them to taste just like clouds! Crisp and delicate meringue wrapped around chocolate chips – it’s all good here!
Nothing like a good old fashioned peanut butter cookie and a big glass of milk!
If you make these, my mailing address is P.O. Box 2308….
and I love you.
~wink~
Mama’s Milk Dunkin M&M Cookies
Mama always made these growing up and let us decorate the tops with M&M’s before putting them in the oven. We got to use exactly three M&M’s per cookie…
Santa loves ’em
I love baking from scratch, but I also love being able to turn out cookies as wonderful as this using boxed white cake mix!
This is one of my personal all time favorites. I like to make ’em really big and put each one in it’s own little bag with curling ribbon at top to give out as treats.
This is my go to bar cookie recipe, with the addition of butterscotch chips and raisins to make a cookie that is a favorite of my husband.
Oh. My. Goodness. So. Good. Please don’t leave me alone in the house with them! ~whimper~
Always a classic!
Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.
Start early and freeze so you dont feel the stress trying to bake the day before.
We have an hordeuvre (sp.?) party. Everyone brings their favorite dish and goodies. It is always so good. We always have chicken, chicken salad, beef stick, meatballs etc. My favorites are the sweets.
I love cookies!
My tip is relax and enjoy the season. Don’t feel obligated to do things just because they are tradition if they don’t bring you joy. I used to think I had to recreate my mom’s holiday meals. There are only four of us and making meals like my mom used to, just wore me out and left us with so many leftovers we ended up throwing things out. Now I only cook what someone in the family requests, for thanksgiving I was planning to skip our traditional fruit salad, but both kids (now young adults) not only requested it, they made a trip to the store to pick up the ingredients I didn’t have on hand. Now I knew for sure that was something they really love. The fancy deserts I had bought they never even wanted, so next time it will be fruit salad and probably a simple pumpkin pie, their favorite.
When I was a teenager I baked a friends moms wonderful chocolate crackle cookies. They were made with sugar, cocoa powder and OIL, not butter or shortening. They were so soft that they had to be refrigerated for at least 4 hours to be firm enough to make into the balls for placing in the oven. I cannot find the recipe and the ones on the net use butter and baking chocolate, does anyone have the original? They were melt in the mouth delicious!
My tip has been expressed by many others–let other people help. Some family members enjoy setting and decorating the table, some bring their special dishes, others help with the clean-up. It all helps lessen the load and make for a more relaxed hostess. Thank you for hosting the give away! All of your cookies look delicious. 🙂
When I have company over..I do up cute lil clay pots with goodys for each table setting & include a homemade ornament to take home for their tree. One time it was Snowmen clay pots & ornaments, another time it was angels. Each time it was different theme. They loved it!
I learned from my best friend to plan ahead and cook ahead. Almost everything freezes, and keeps me from having to cook all day of an event,and then being too worn out to enjoy it.
It’s so much fun to decorate cookies with the kids. To avoid getting sprinkles all over the table and the kitchen floor, put the cookies on rimmed baking sheets while they’re being decorated. Speeds the work, saves on clean-up.