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Thread Number: 77608
/ Tag: Recipes, Cooking Accessories
What are your favorite Christmas cookie recipes? |
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Post# 1016092 11/28/2018 at 13:21 (1,974 days old) by RevvinKevin  (Tinseltown - Shakey Town - La-La Land) |
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In the past, right around Christmas, a friend or often a neighbor would knock on the door, then hand us a small plastic wrap covered plate, with 6 or 7 or 8 different cookies on it. I loved it because they were usually a unique variety of cookies or bars, etc you wouldn't see the rest of the year.
What are your favorite Christmas / Holiday cookies, bars or other tasty treats recipes?
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Post# 1016095 , Reply# 1 11/28/2018 at 13:51 (1,974 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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Kevin, here are two recipes
that I have been making for 37 years. Raspberry Shortbread Cookies, a recipe I cobbled together myself and Biscotti, a recipe that one of my customers from when I was still doing hair gave me, her name was Alpha Bertolucci. The recipe is in her handwritting. Years later I supervised a women named Carmen, she brought in some homemade Biscotti. I told her that they tasted just like the one’s I make. She said they were her Aunts recipe. I said, and was her name Alpha? To which she replied yes. It’s a small world isn’t it?
The Raspberry Shortbread Cookies were my attempt to duplicate the same kind of cookie that Larsens Bakery in Berkeley, California sold when I was a kid. My Mom, brother and sister all said they were pretty darn close to Larsens. And they are a favorite of my Allergy Dept. nurses at Kaiser. I take them a tin every December, and have for the past 21 years. Be sure to use SHINY cookie sheets, no burnt or brown grease on the top or bottom and no dark nonstick cookie sheets. Dark attracts heat, and contributes to burnt cookie bottoms. Always wash your cookie sheets until they are squeeky clean, any residual grease will burn on them the next time they are used. I bought some cheap cookie sheets at Cost Plus when we were first married, and with proper care I’m still using them 37 years later. Eddie | ||
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Post# 1016102 , Reply# 2 11/28/2018 at 16:07 (1,974 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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A cube of Butter | ||
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Post# 1016111 , Reply# 3 11/28/2018 at 17:01 (1,974 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA) |
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| Post# 1016117 , Reply# 4 11/28/2018 at 17:40 (1,974 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room) | ||
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| Post# 1016120 , Reply# 5 11/28/2018 at 18:01 (1,974 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room) | ||
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It's probably been years since I last baked cookies... I seldom even see cookies, although sometimes people give me a few in December. (One year, perhaps in a pitiful moment, I bought a small package of cookies off the grocery store "day old" clearance rack, and pretended they were Christmas cookies.)
All I have are memories of better times...
One memory: sugar cookies that were rolled out and cut with cookie cutters. The cookie cutter shapes could be fun.
The last year we lived in my main childhood home: my mother baked Christmas cookies. She gave many away--I don't know all the people who got them, but I do remember us going over to give some to an elderly neighbor. My mother baked a new cookie that year that was interesting: it had cutouts with melted candy (Life Savers?) to form a stained glass look. (This may not be the recipe, but it looks like it might be close: www.bettycrocker.com/reci...)
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| Post# 1016128 , Reply# 6 11/28/2018 at 18:44 (1,974 days old) by Xraytech (Rural southwest Pennsylvania ) | ||
I have several favorite Christmas cookies.
As a small child my mother would bake and sell Christmas cookies, and for our Christmas party in Elementary school she would make a plate of cookies for each kid in the class to take home. My favorites of hers are the Betty Crocker candy cane cookies, her chocolate meltaways (a Russian tea cake with mini chocolate chips), and she makes the best lady locks( home made dough, not puff pastry like a lot of folks do), and the thumbprint cookies rolled in walnuts and filled with homemade black raspberry jelly. Then Grandma Diamond always makes the best Anise pizzelles using her Rival Pizzelle Maker Probably my favorite cookies were the Hungarian Kiffles Grandma Rose used to make, following Mrs.Szunyog’s recipe. They were always filled with homemade stewed apricot filling and dusted with confectionary sugar.(pictured) I now make these cookies, I’ll make a few with lekvar filling, but apricot is my favorite
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Post# 1016144 , Reply# 7 11/28/2018 at 20:05 (1,974 days old) by MattL (Flushing, MI) |
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I too make those in that combo. I recall discussing this quite a while back. I'd like to add a strawberry filling this year to the apricot and prune, but need a thicker filling recipe. | ||
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Post# 1016173 , Reply# 9 11/29/2018 at 01:50 (1,973 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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Post# 1016212 , Reply# 10 11/29/2018 at 10:54 (1,973 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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| Post# 1016217 , Reply# 11 11/29/2018 at 11:26 (1,973 days old) by washerboy (Little Rock Arkansas) | ||
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Sanding sugar Speaking of cookies...does anyone know how to get the same "heavy" sugar on cut out cookies at home like the bakery does?/tks | ||
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Post# 1016225 , Reply# 12 11/29/2018 at 12:58 (1,973 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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| Post# 1016252 , Reply# 13 11/29/2018 at 18:55 (1,973 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room) | ||
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If you shop at Target their granulated sugar in the 4 lb. bag has a very good recipe
And if you don't shop Target, at least get there long enough to copy the recipe off that bag of sugar. LOL
I haven't tried that recipe (but then I haven't baked cookies in about 20 years...), but I do recall good experiences with using such recipes. My mother's recipe for oatmeal cookies--and which worked for me the times I made them--was whatever they printed on packages of Quaker oats. | ||
| Post# 1016254 , Reply# 14 11/29/2018 at 19:02 (1,973 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room) | ||
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I'm not much of a baker so I usually cheat and buy them at the bakery of a grocery store. My grandma, however, made them homemade and they were better. Unfortunately, she passed when I was in college and I never found the recipe.
If Eddie's suggested recipe from the Target sugar bag isn't quite right it should still be possible to find something close to what your grandmother made.
I personally have never noticed much of a difference between cookies. Sugar Cookie A and Sugar Cookie B may be made by different people, quite possibly slightly different recipes, and definitely with different kitchens. But whatever differences there are so subtle that I don't notice them. I might notice side-by-side at a cookie tasting. But, say, eaten a year apart? They seem to be the same.
Also worth noting: from what I recall, one doesn't need to be much of a baker for cookies. They were one of the first things I ever baked, and I had success. The only times I've had problems have been when faced with a bad oven (my grandmother's oven just loved to burn cookies), or a recipe that's unusually cranky for some reason.
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