Favorite Christmas sweets to make or eat? It can be cookies, cakes, breads. or candies. I make nut / apricot Kolache

[debm55]

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rolled bread withe apricot or nut filling. Also, thumbprint cookies. How about you?

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. Mexican wedding cookies (aka snowballs and Russian tea cakes)

I could eat my weight in them, LO!

[debm55]

3. I know isn't that the truth. Happy Holidays.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

7. Happy Holidays!🎄🎁

[claudette]

2. Absolutely

Fruitcake!!!! And the lighter one Panettone. SO. Good 😊

[debm55]

5. Thank you, claudette. How long does it take to complete a fruitcake. It seems like a long time. Ty

[claudette]

28. LOL

True. I’m the only one who loves it so I take a small piece every other day until it’s all gone in about a week or more- as a treat with coffee at breakfast. That’s about all I can deal with. 😆 The Panettone goes quickly. We all like it.

[Lunabell]

4. Thumbprint cookies.

Made with apricot jam. And in non-baked goods, the return of peppermint stick ice cream.

[debm55]

6. Thank you, Lunabell. I usually put red or green icing in mine. I have some apricot left over. I think I wiil give it a

try.

[CrispyQ]

29. +1 on the peppermint stick ice cream!!

It's such a pretty color, too! I like it with a tiny drizzle of choco sauce.

[FSogol]

8. I make about 8 types of cookies, and several types of candy/snacks. My top 3 are:

Two-tone Fudge (butterscotch fudge topped with chocolate fudge)
Molasses Cookies
Divinity

[debm55]

10. Yes, I make Divinity also. I learned how to make in Junior High Home Economics games. I won't tell you home many time I

didn't beat the egg whites correctly. HAHAHAHa.

[woodsprite]

9. The old Mirro Cookie Press "Christmas Tree Spritz" cookies flavored with almond.

Top them with a cinnamon red hot for the star. I can't get enough of those or my grandmother's recipe for cake-like oatmeal raisin cookies.

[debm55]

12. Love spritz cookies. And the almond flavor----heaven. TY

[MissB]

11. Toffee

Sugar cookies

Those peanut butter blossom cookies with kisses

Chocolate crinkle cookies

Similar to Mexican wedding cakes cookies but with mini chocolate chips inside

[debm55]

13. Are you finished? I just started making?

[MissB]

15. I won't start making until the week of Christmas

Still need to gather some ingredients.

[debm55]

32. Mine will be gone the week before Christmas.

[MissB]

37. Ha! And that's why I have to wait to make mine

I do give the toffee as gifts so I try to get those done first. I plan to spend much of the weekend before baking cookies, since my kids will be in town.

[doc03]

14. German Chocolate Cake nt

[debm55]

16. Yummy. Love it with a cup of tea. Thank you, doc03

[Ocelot II]

17. Julekake, my grandmother's very old recipe.

I make it sometimes, but the recipe is a bit imprecise, as the old ones often are.

[debm55]

19. I know. The kolache cookies are made with cream cream rolled into the dough. and rolled out into squares . nuts or

apricots are placed inside and opposite ends are folded over. When I watched my grandmother for the recipe, she would say there
isn't one just watch me do it. Same with rolled nut bread. Only later when I took a Christmas baking class at the Community College did I have the precise recipe.

[Chainfire]

18. I like Gingerbread.

[Sanity Claws]

20. Is Christmas your favorite holiday?

You have posted several great questions relating to Christmas over the past few days.
I had to stop reading the Jeopardy one because I was getting hooked.

[debm55]

24. Yes it is. And yes there WILL be a final DU Christmas Jeopardy. PS love your name.

[Polly Hennessey]

21. Fudge, fruitcake, and decorative sugar cookies.

[Polly Hennessey]

22. Add gingerbread to my list.

[debm55]

27. Got ya Polly.

[debm55]

25. YUMMY. I haven't made the decorative sugar cookies since the kid was small and my "helper"

[madamesilverspurs]

23. Danish Aebleskive

Our kitchen was taken over with the prep for two days. Using our great-grandmother's recipe, the ingredients were mixed in large roasting pans which were then covered and allowed to rise overnight. It took Mom and Grandma an entire day to turn the dough into delicious treats. The aroma permeated every Christmas memory and continues to do so. Christmas Day breakfast -- aebleskive dusted with powdered sugar, accompanied by hot cocoa. Ymmmm!



.

[debm55]

26. Oh, madamesilerspurs, that looks delicious. The way you described it makes my mouth water. TY

[CrispyQ]

30. Spritz cookies & 7-layer candy.

I make one pan of 7-layer candy & eat it all by myself, with the last piece on New Year's Eve.

[debm55]

34. Oh my. Well it is just at Christmas time, right? Happy holidays.

[LakeArenal]

31. In times past when the huge family was available at the same time. We made this weird fake Chex Mix

In a brown bag grocery sized bag put assorted stuff in it.
Chexcereal Raisins
Peanuts Oats
Pretzels Whatever you like

We used popcorn butter in a bottle but again use what you like. Olive oil, butter. Mix you butter into the bag with dry ingredients.

A packet of dry Ranch dressing sprinkled over contents.


Shack bag vigorously and place in warm oven. I don’t remember how long.

It makes a ton so we don’t make it now that we are spread all over the US and Central America.

[debm55]

35. We made that! Was reading down through the ingredients for the powdered ranch dressing. I hate to say this but we made

ours in a white garbage bag.

[Dulcinea]

33. Peanut butter blossoms are the quintessential Christmas cookie.

Also Whatchamacallit bars: glorified Rice Krispie treats with a chocolate-butterscotch topping. They have zero shelf life at Chez Dulcinea. I also make homemade gingerbread.

[debm55]

36. Save some for me, Dulcinea!!! They all sound good.