What kind of cookies are you baking for Christmas?

[dem in texas]

At age 82, I am not baking as many Christmas cookies as I used to. I always give tins of cookies at our family Christmas get-together The kids love the cutout sugar cookies and the little gingerbread boys.

I have stocked up my pantry, have butter getting soft on the kitchen counter and will start my baking tonight. I bought plenty of cookie tins to store the cookies from the thrift store.

I am going for peanut butter and oatmeal chocolate chips cookies tonight. If I have any steam left I might make more recipes next week.

Here are my more of my usual recipes for Christmas;
Orange chocolate chippers (hands down family favorite and I will definitely bake them before Christmas)
Mexican wedding cookies
Angel Slices (Joy of Cooking classic)
Little Gingerbread Boys- (another Joy of Cooking recipe)
Sugar Cookies for Christmas cut-outs.

[Walleye]

1. You're wonderful!

[dem in texas]

2. Thank You!

That was so sweet!

[hlthe2b]

6. That's a great selection. Your recipients will be lucky!

[Trueblue1968]

20. CAN YOU PLEASE post your recipe for Orange chocolate chippers

thanks

[hlthe2b]

3. I grew up with my Mom's copy of this Cookie cookbook from Betty Crocker

and have made probably 70% of those recipes over the years. So, while I'm personally "low-carb" 95% of the year, I tend to pick one recipe from it to make to give out. Probably sugar cookies this year because I'd like to decorate them.

(This should be in everyone's collection, btw. Always something relatively easy to fall back on)

[Diamond_Dog]

13. I used that exact same Cookie Book so much

That it fell apart and I had to have the pages re-bound.

[Leghorn21]

4. Wow dem, you've just put me in the SPIRIT!!

I’ll start knocking mine out in about a week - I don’t do all that many, but hey, as I get a little older (71!) it seems like a lot! Just for family and a couple of friends…also, I take beaucoup to my car guy and his team, because—well, I just do!!

Merry Christmas to you, dem!! 🎄⛄️

[rsdsharp]

5. My older brother's first Christmas in 1946, my mother started a tradition of cookies.

She started with sugar cookies that were hand frosted: Santa faces, Christmas trees, bells, stars and candy canes. Each with a specific way to frost, with specific colors that endure to this day.

Each year she added new recipes:

Gingerbread boys (again with specific frosting.)
Spritz
Garabees
Divinity
Fudge
Bourbon balls
Date nut rolls
Pecan dreams
Peanut brittle (not a favorite)
Fruitcake (She made it in October and wrapped it in rum soaked towels in a cool place. It’s one of two fruitcakes I’ll eat. The other is Alton Brown’s.)

There are a few others that were more recent and haven’t stuck in my memory. Mom has been gone since 1985, but we still make many of these at my house. Not the massive production it was when my three siblings and I were kids, but enough to maintain the tradition.

[CrispyQ]

7. Orange chocolate chippers? Choco chip cookies with orange peel or extract?

Years ago Dryer's ice cream made an orange sherbet with tiny dark chocolate pieces. Oh my. It was wonderful!

I am going to attempt vegan sugar cookies this year. I have veganized a few of my cookie recipes, but not this one.

[iemanja]

8. Would you mind posting your recipe

for the orange chocolate chippers?

[MontanaMama]

14. Ditto.

orange chocolate chippers got my attention.

[Luciferous]

18. Yes, I would like to make those!

[Grasswire2]

9. we call Mexican wedding cakes "kiflings"

Because that's what my Aunt Dorothy always called them. I'm about to make some today for my cousin.

I always make Apricot Rollups -- a chilled sour cream dough with apricot jam, chopped nuts and coconut rolled into crescents. The favorite of one of my sons although more difficult to make for him now because he doesn't eat eggs or dairy. (Have to use substitutes)

Danish nut bars drizzled with almond-flavored frosting.

Coconut islands -- chocolate cookies topped with frosting and coconut.

Thumb prints, of course.

Pecan tassies.

Pandemic has meant much less baking. MUCH less.

[PJMcK]

10. Two batches of chocolate chip cookies

I like to make them gooey!

The first batch will go to a couple of neighbors and co-workers.

The second batch will be “enhanced,” as we say in NYC. (Pot’s legal enough here.) Those will be for special friends and family.

[Cracklin Charlie]

11. I usually do snickerdoodles and chocolate oatmeal cookies.

I think I need to know what orange chocolate chippers are, though.

[Nanuke]

12. I make what my mom made.

Then I make up tins for my sibling brothers so we all get at least one or two of our favorites.
Russian Tea Cakes
Cream Cheese Spritz
Rice Crispy Date Balls
Coconut Dream Bars
Decorated Sugar Cutouts
Peanut Brittle
Fudge
Rosettes (made the day before the event so they are fresh)

[SWBTATTReg]

15. Choc. Chip, and Oatmeal so far. The next batch on my list is Peanut Butter!

It's fun, and I do enjoy doing so, and as a bonus, I make four batches each, and freeze the majority of the cookies for later.

Your batches sound really good. You got me thinking about redoing my Oatmeal cookies as I cooked them only w/ raisins in them, next time around, I'll make w/ choc. chip added to, besides just the raisins.

[yellowdogintexas]

21. re: peanut butter cookies: make a batch of chocolate shadows..

Use your best PB cookie recipe, and marble into it a mixture of melted chocolate chips and peppermint extract. Roll them into balls and flatten them with sugar like you would Snickerdoodles

These are to die for; my daughter's favorite cookies.

[SWBTATTReg]

23. Thanks for the tips, I will definitely try it, let you know! Sounds really good/tasty!

[tishaLA]

16. I'm glad you asked this question!

I don't normally bake cookies but I'm going to this year because I decided to get myself a KitchenAid and I'm not going to have that behemoth sitting around and not use it. I've decided definitely sugar cookies, gingerbread cookies, ginger snaps (yes, I love ginger), shortbread, Mexican wedding cookies, and something cranberry-orange, but I was hoping for other ideas to override mine.

[Retired Engineer Bob]

17. I always try to do my duty in these regards

I’m not a cookie baker, but I am a cookie eater.

It takes two to tango, no?

[dem in texas]

19. Orange Chocolate Chipper Cookie Recipe

Orange Chocolate Chippers – Revised - Dec. 2014 (makes about 6 dozen)

My mother (who passed away in 2004) took this recipe from the Recipe of the Month section of a Better Homes and Gardens magazine back in the early 1950’s. It has been a family favorite ever since. When the family gets together, out come the cookies sheets and a batch of these cookies is baked for all to enjoy.

The original recipe called for a 3 oz package of cream cheese and only made 3 dozen cookies. Grocery stores no longer carry a 3 oz package of cream cheese and this recipe is so good that 3 dozen cookies is never enough, so I adjusted the recipe to use an 8-oz package of cream cheese and make 6 dozen cookies. This is truly the Queen of cookies – the best cookie recipe hands down. I am always asked for the recipe.

2 cups shortening (do not use butter)
2 cups sugar
1 8-oz. Package cream cheese
4 eggs
5 or 6 tablespoons finely chopped orange peel, use mirco plane zester for fine peel
4 1/4 cups flour
2 teaspoons salt
2 12-oz bags semi sweet or milk chocolate chips (1 of each is best) Best is the blue bag Ghiardelli chocolate chips

Cream shortening, sugar and cream cheese together. Stir in eggs, one at a time. Add orange peel and vanilla. Mix well.

(Note: I grate the orange peel with a micro planner, it is a very fine grate. This gives the cookie a more intense orange flavor)

Sift flour and salt together. Add to creamed mixture. Add the chocolate chips and mix well.

Drop by teaspoon full, 2 inches apart on cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes or until edge of cookies just start to brown. Remove from oven and cool on cookie sheet a minute, then move to wire rack to cool.

Watch closely as these cookies burn easily.

[yellowdogintexas]

22. won't bake much for us due to husband's diabetes, but if I were doing a cookie exchange

I would bake

Chocolate Chip
Chocolate Shadows,
Snickerdoodles

Also some refrigerator cookies; make dough, roll into a log and wrap with saran wrap. Freeze until you need them. Slice and bake

Varieties:

Spicy Mexican Chocolate - these are a favorite with a good number of my friends; believe the name - they are spicy!

Lemon
Vanilla pecan
I have a cranberry orange slice & bake that I have been wanting to try.