What's Your Favorite Christmas Cookie Recipe?

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I try to keep myself elbow deep in flour this time of year, (the baking AND eating are quite therapeutic to me) but I seem to use the same few cookie recipes over & over. I was curious what everyone else's favorite cookie recipe is?

Mine is my mom's Oatmeal Chocolate Chip

2 eggs

1 tsp. vanilla

1 tsp. hot water

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. salt

3/4 c. brown sugar

3/4 c. white sugar

1 1/2 c. flour

1 c. shortening

2 c. oatmeal

1 6oz pkg choc chips

1 c. nuts or cranberries (optional)

Mix all ingredients, by hand. Place teaspoons of batter on ungreased cookie sheets. bake at 350 degrees for 10 min or until your cookies are brown. Let them cool for a few minutes, and ENJOY!

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Oh my, perfect topic. I usually make a million cookies for me, my family and neighbors and to give as gifts this time of year. But I have been ill and am not quite up to it yet. I have a recipe for the best oatmeal cookies ever that I will try to post tomorrow as I am too tired to get out of bed. You are making me go to sleep with a grumbly tummy! LOL

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Hey Colleen,

After being the 'everything made from scratch type' all of my life, I have reached a place now where my favorite cookie recipe is what ever I can buy in a tub or in a roll. Yep, I have caved in to this way of thinking. I still do the turkey feast, and baking is my least favorite thing to do on a stove, I would much rather cook. Sooner or later things change, that changed for me, I now use box cake mixes and prepared dough! Especially during the holidays, when it all takes place here at my house!

That recipe of your Mom's sounds great though!

SK

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Thanks, I'll have to take the time and look for her. My Mother watches news nearly all day long, (sigh) so that could be a good reason why I have missed her.

I'm surprised not more are contributing recipes. I know Punkin' is quite the baker, she specializes in cupcakes though! I'd like to try those!

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I almost forgot, my Grandson likes to make these with me, the no bake ones!

http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1710,145184-233195,00.html

I noticed that you can substitute coconut for the quick oats, that would be tasty too! They're good, taste like fudge, and much easier to prepare!

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Christmas Oatmeal Cookies

1 stick butter, softened
1 stick margarine, softened (I use 2 sticks butter and no margarine)
1/2 c. Sugar
1 c. Flour
1 1/2 c. Quick oatmeal
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp. vanilla

Powdered sugar

Cream sugar and butter. Add remaining ingredients. Chill dough about an hour. Roll into tsp sized balls. Flatten (you want them pretty thing but not paper thin). Cross cross with fork. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes. Remove from oven with just golden brown.

These are so good and will melt in your mouth. I remember my mom used to make tons of cookies for Christmas gifts for teachers and neighbors (guess that’s where I got it from) and she would put them in the freezer downstairs in the laundry room. Well, the five of us kids would always sneak cookies and when it came time to wrap them up, these are the ones that had been “snacked” on the most. Every year she would be furious but that never stopped us! LOL

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Hello

I love making gingerbread men. Also decorating them to hang on christmas tree. By christmas they have a way of disapearing. LOL

slm

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Hi MBP-P, would love to make these cookies as I have been looking for an oatmeal cookie that sounds delicious and is not much work. I do not know how much a stick is, I think maybe a cup..could you help me ..please.

Hugs
Vicky

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One stick= 1/2 cup

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Hi there,

I'm new here and this is my first post. It figures I'd start with a post about treats. I have a major sweet tooth! This recipe is a crowd pleaser and it's cheap and easy. If you've never tried it before, don't be put off by the crackers in the recipe! The results taste like an almond roca! They are not a true cookie, but they are easy to make and delicious.

Ingredients:
1 1/2 - sleeves saltine crackers
1 1/4 - cups butter, not margarine
1 1/4 - cup light brown sugar
1 - 12 oz package chocolate chips
1 - cup chopped nuts (pecans, walnuts or almonds)

Directions:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a rimmed baking sheet with foil.

Lay crackers out on sheet in one layer. In a medium sized saucepan melt the butter and the brown sugar.

Stir often and bring to a full rolling boil. After the mixture comes to a full rolling boil set your timer and boil the mixture for exactly 3 minutes.

Pour over the saltines and bake for 5 minutes.

Remove from oven and sprinkle with chocolate chips and wait until they are almost melted then spread the chocolate evenly all over all the saltines.

Sprinkle on the nuts all over the top as evenly as possible. Refrigerate for two hours and then break up into pieces and store in a air tight container.

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Thank you..will be making them tomorrow

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Am trying this today. It sounds decadently scrumptious!

Also, love your pix and would kill for your hair!

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Thank you! I hope the recipe turns out well for you!

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THE Christmas cookie for at least 4 generations of my family: Russian Tea Cookies.

Unfortunately, they're a little labor intensive and not all that cheap - BUT really worth it - and the recipe itself is forgiving (no special flour or sifting. . .) Also, doubling, tripling or even quadruplating this recipe works fine (once everyone tastes these, you'll be making bigger batches). Here goes:

Russian Tea Cookies

Makes about 80 1/2 to 3/4 inch cookies

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (don't know what this is in C)

Beat until soft:

1 cup Butter

Add and blend until creamy

4 Tbs Sugar

2 Tsp Vanilla

Measure out:

2 cups walnuts then chop finely or grind

2 cups flour

Stir the nuts and flour into the into the butter mixture.

With your hands, roll dough into small, bite-size balls (about 1/2 to 3/4 inch).

Place balls onto greased cookie sheets and bake about 30 minutes (until lightly tanned).

Remove from oven and immediately roll in:

Confectioners' Sugar (you'll need about 2 pounds altogether)

Leave in confectioners' sugar until completely cooled

Roll in confectioners' sugar once again

(Yup, these cookies are pretty delicate, at this stage; be gentle. Even so some will break and crumbs will be liberally mixed into the sugar - this is normal and not a problem.

These babies store quite well, if in an airtight container and surrounded withuz extra confectioners' sugar, and are sure-fire pleasers - once you've convinced everyone they're not pfferneuse (sp?).

Happiest & merriest

S

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UMM!! Tastes like Almond Roca? You are talking my language there, Jasmine! So glad you posted, most of us can talk about loving sweets all day long with you! We got into the 'chocolate' thing on the 'Things that make you go ahh' discussion!

My son loves 'Turtles', so this would be a big hit for our Christmas dinner, and something different! Thank you, very much! I still have nuts in the fridge from the health food store. The difference between those nuts and the ones you buy in a regular grocery store is phenomenal, they are just so much tastier. I was amazed at the difference!

Thanks for letting us in on this great idea for a different cookie! Nice to hear from you, don't be a stranger!

Wishing you well,

SK

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Chocolate is a passion for me. Lucky for me, my father-in-law is a chocolatier!

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A chocolatier? Would he be into adopting me?

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OOOOOHHHH!!! Aren't you the lucky one! Bet you love to visit his kitchen!

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All of these cookies sound good to me! I'm not to the baking yet, getting closer!

I'm wrapping and doing bows as they come to the door. I'm strictly online shopping these days, right down to the gift cards. If they won't ship it, I don't want it!

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Mallow Bars It's a Kraft reciepe and yummy...

1 pkg. (2-layer size) devil's food cake mix
1/2 cup butter, melted
2/3cup milk, divided
3/4 cup Creamy Peanut Butter
1 jar (7 oz.) Puff Marshmallow Creme
1/2 cup Salted Peanuts
6oz Semi-Sweet Chocolate, coarsely chopped

HEAT oven to 350°F.

COMBINE dry cake mix, butter and 1/3 cup milk; press 2/3 onto bottom of 13x9-inch pan. Bake 12 to 14 min. or until center is almost set; cool 3 min.

MIX peanut butter and remaining milk until blended; spread onto crust. Top with small spoonfuls of the marshmallow creme and remaining cake mixture. Sprinkle with nuts and chocolate; press gently into cake mixture.

BAKE 18 min. or just until center is set. Cool completely before cutting into bars.