Christmas Cookies- Best and worst

[LoveDaisy]

Another thread worthless without recipes for best cookies...

Happy to share any of mine if anyone wants them

 

[disneychrista]

Not a cookie but I almost always will try the fudge if offered. It is about 50/50 it will be good. The one I tried on Friday was good. Wish I knew who brought it so I could get the recipe

 

[disneychrista]

Happy to share any of mine if anyone wants them

Please post.

 

[fla4fun]

I don’t know that I have a least favorite. We have a good cutout gingerbread cookie recipe that my sister makes that is soft and flavorful without being too spicy. We don’t decorate them, just eat them plain. We don’t make any peppermint cookies that I recall. We do make a peanut butter chocolate chunk cookie that is good, a flavorful sugar cookie, one with a date and nut filling, and a linzer type sandwich cookie. I will eat any, or all of them, given the chance.

If I most choose a least favorite, it would probably be a bar cookie recipe with a shortbread crust, a layer of raspberry jam, and then a layer of chocolate on top. They taste delicious, but are very messy to eat because the jam gets all over everything. I feel like I need a bath after eating one.

 

[LoveDaisy]

Whipped shortbread


Chocolate gooey butter cookie


Snickerdoodle

 

[LoveDaisy]

Peppermint meltaways


Peanut butter blossoms


Peanut butter cup cookies

 

[LoveDaisy]

Thumbprints

Sugar cookies

 

[LoveDaisy]

I also made Whoopie pies for the first time and they were a huge hit. They were light and refreshing.

Peppermint Whoopie pies

 

[_19disnA]

I agree with others that we tend to make more Christmas/Holiday oriented cookies this time of year and leave the chocolate chip or oatmeal cookies for other times. Personally, I don't like peppermint, so any cookie with that flavor isn't something I care for. At the office it seems like a LOT of people make those rice crispy/marshmallow bars since they are either easy or cheap to make. Don't care for those either but as with most foods, it is a matter of personal preference.

It is funny when you search around online for recipes, every nationality seems to have their 'traditional' cookies and pastries that are very similar but called by a different name.

 

[CynBeth]

I love everything. With my former job when we were in the office prior to Covid people would bring all sorts of cookies in and I enjoyed sampling every single one.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I'm going for things that only tend to appear (at least where I am) at Christmastime -

"Italian cookies" (they probably have a more official name, but the little round ones with thin icing and sprinkles)

Peanut butter blossoms

Pizzelles


As for what I'll leave for last -

Anything ruined by raisins

 

[Luv Bunnies]

Frosted sugar cookies with sprinkles! They’re my favorites all year round and especially at Christmas. I’m about to mix up a quadruple batch of dough so it’s chilled and ready this evening when DS26 flies in from NYC. He insists I save the cutting and baking until he gets home. It’s nice to have an adult son who still likes baking with Mommy!

 

[Kitty 34]

Best: frosted sugar cookies

Worst: There is one????

 

[Toolulu22]

I tend to avoid roll out cookies- not enough interesting flavors. I love peanut butter, gingersnaps, nut tassies, kiffels with apricot jam, and chocolate chip or dark chocolate.
My favorite, most versatile cookie dough is this dense fudge-y chocolate dough. You can add almost any sweet ingredient to it and it’s amazing. Caramel chips and roll it in chopped pecans? Turtle cookie! Sour cherry jam thumbprint and white chocolate drizzle? Black Forest cookie! Make it a disk, roll the edges in graham cracker crumbs and put half a big marshmallow on top? S’mores cookie!
Those always go quick.

My husband and BIL love nut tassies so much, they each get their own tin and they guard over them!

I haven’t had a turtle cookie in years! My sister and I learned to make them as kids when visiting relatives and my sister made them for years afterwards. I will have to ask her for the recipe

 

[Wayland10]

My husband and BIL love nut tassies so much, they each get their own tin and they guard over them!

I haven’t had a turtle cookie in years! My sister and I learned to make them as kids when visiting relatives and my sister made them for years afterwards. I will have to ask her for the recipe

I put the recipe for my dough on another thread! To make turtle cookies I use Kraft caramel bits and roll the cookies in egg whites and then chopped pecans! You can top them with a half of a pecan if you’re feeling fancy!

 

[DVCjj]

Baked insane amount of cookies for many years (not last few years).

If I’m looking at anyone’s Christmas ‘tray’,
#1 I would absolutely take the powdered sugar pecan balls (wedding tea cakes or however they are called) first and possibly only. My entire family agrees. And guests. And co-workers.

#2 Second definitely are gun-made Spritz cookies made with almond flavor and sprinkled in light colored sugar.

#3 is Pizzelles. Anise/vanilla flavored.

My list never fails me. All 12 other kinds are very appreciated but not favored.

 

[Pooh2]

If you had a Christmas cookie table filled with every cookie imaginable, which one would you grab, which one would you not eat? I did notice molasses cookies seemed to be the last cookies left at work , although they got eaten eventually.

Molasses are my husband's favorite! Along with oatmeal.
Raspberry thumbprints are a favorite of mine. Along with toll house choc chip fresh out of the oven.

 

[Diznygrl]

I never understood the love for Peanut Butter Blossoms. What's the point of having a big honkin Hershey's Kiss in the middle of the cookie when you have to pull it off and eat it separately anyway. Why not just make peanut butter cookies with milk chocolate chips in them and call it a day.

 

[leebee]

I'm going for things that only tend to appear (at least where I am) at Christmastime -

"Italian cookies" (they probably have a more official name, but the little round ones with thin icing and sprinkles)

The ones with anise frosting? I adore these- and can't find good ones now that I'm not in the Boston area. I don't remember the name of the bakery, but my dad used to bring home AMAZING Italian cookies (although one of his employees, Mrs. Imbriano, would regularly send home Italian dishes- her eggplant Parmesan was to DIE FOR- so maybe that's what I am remembering).

 

[leebee]

Thanks, @LoveDaisy for the recipes. I love peppermint, so I'm happy to have the meltaways, and doubly happy for the whoopie pie filling recipe. Whoopie pies are on the agenda for sometime this week, so I'm gonna hijack a couple and put the peppermint filling in them!