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In my house, the tried-and-true Toll House cookie recipe is The Thing. I live in a household of males who love a simple treat, so nothing too complicated for them. In fact, I made them this week. The only thing I change is instead of putting in a whole bag of morsels, I do equal amounts of morsels PLUS MnM's. So a cup of each morsels and candy. And NO nuts.
Now, as far as for myself, I'm a Snickerdoodle kinda gal.
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My favorite cookie is my mom's Pecan balls - melt in your mouth butter balls with finely chopped pecans fresh from her home state of Georgia. Fond memories.....
Posted by: Colleen Grogan | December 06, 2017 at 09:50 AM
My family's favorite is any type of Chocolate chip. But my favorite is my mom's homemade peanut butter cookies. they are the best!
Posted by: SheilaWard | December 06, 2017 at 09:51 AM
Gingerbread cookies! A coworker shared her secret family recipe over 10 years ago in strictest confidence. I don’t make them every year, but they are always a hit and definitely my favorite.
Posted by: Linsey | December 06, 2017 at 09:51 AM
Basic shortbread cookies and ginger snaps from recipes passed down through four generations. Of all the cookies i make at Christmas these are the friend and family favourite and the ones i have to make again and again.
Posted by: Debra | December 06, 2017 at 09:51 AM
My favorite cookie this time of year is a Chinese chew. My mother-in-law passed down the recipe. You have to mix everything by hand or it doesn't come out right.
Posted by: Lisa Beaufort | December 06, 2017 at 09:51 AM
My favorite cookie recipe is Cherry Winks. I believe it originally appeared in the 1950's on the back of a cornflakes box. Christmas baking time was the only time my family purchased corn flakes! Here's a recipe link: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/11223/cherry-winks/
Posted by: Barbara Seiver | December 06, 2017 at 09:51 AM
Cookies!!! I love cookies, unfortunately (or fortunately) I’m working on healing my gallbladder so I’ve eliminated nearly all cookie ingredients.... until it’s back to good I’ll just daydream about these lovelies. https://smittenkitchen.com/2014/06/coconut-brown-butter-cookies/
Posted by: Sarah Oster | December 06, 2017 at 09:51 AM
My favorite is krumkake, a Norwegian cookie/wafer I've made since I was a little girl with my Grandma. She's 96 this year and still had me over to make them!
Posted by: Abbie | December 06, 2017 at 09:51 AM
My all time favorite cookie is Oatmeal Raison from the Quaker Oats box. I also add chocolate chips, nuts, M&Ms, or anything that sounds good at the time!
Posted by: Janet | December 06, 2017 at 09:52 AM
My favorite has to be the overnight, or forgotten cookie. My son discovered this when he was in cooking in 4-H. We have modified it by adding green, or red food coloring, for the season but otherwise why mess with perfection. So good.
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/9847/meringue-cookies/
Posted by: Kim Napier | December 06, 2017 at 09:52 AM
Chocolate Chip Crunchewy Cookies! They are A-Mazing!! We make them every Christmas and everyone loves them! :)
http://realmomkitchen.com/645/chocolate-chip-crunchewy-cookies-cowboy-cookies-and-more/
Posted by: Jane Kyle | December 06, 2017 at 09:53 AM
We take a shortcut and use this gingerbread cookie mix
https://www.bettycrocker.com/products/cookiemix/limitededitiongingerbread
Then we top it with buttercream frosting. Who doesn't need a shortcut during the holiday season?
Posted by: Courtney | December 06, 2017 at 09:53 AM
My mother-in-law gave me the recipe for Million Dollar Sugar Cookies -- worth every penny :-). The recipe is easy to get on line -- I use real butter, vanilla bean paste and ground pecans -- they just melt in your mouth!
Posted by: Karen | December 06, 2017 at 09:53 AM
We love the orange creamsicle cookies. Sounds odd, but they really are great: http://www.sixsistersstuff.com/recipe/2012/05/orange-creamsicle-cookies-recipe/
Posted by: Tracie | December 06, 2017 at 09:53 AM
This time of year is mostly about homemade candy for us, but my mom’s ladyfingers are one of my favorites that she always makes for the holidays. We’re from the South, so ladyfingers to us are kind of like a pecan shortbread rolled in powdered sugar. They just melt in your mouth! This recipe is pretty close to my mom’s: https://www.southernkitchen.com/recipes/dessert/241-pecan-ladyfingers
Posted by: Dana | December 06, 2017 at 09:53 AM
I love ginger cookies. I like them soft, not snappy! Generally I use the recipe in my tried and true Company’s Coming Cookie cookbook.
Posted by: Lisa | December 06, 2017 at 09:53 AM
Our favorite Christmas cookie recipe is the good old fashioned sugar cookie. My kids love making these into different shapes and then decorating them. It’s definitely a yearly tradition.
Posted by: Sue | December 06, 2017 at 09:54 AM
Toll House cookies because they are my husbands favorite, and he likes to make them. Win, win!!
Posted by: Robin Fisher | December 06, 2017 at 09:54 AM
Our favorite cookie is the peanut butter cookie, with the chocolate Hershey's Kiss on top. I grandpa does not eat all of the kisses we have great cookies. The grands have to keep an eye on him.
Posted by: Sandy Rice | December 06, 2017 at 09:54 AM
My husband found a recipe online for copycat of potbelly's sugar cookie. It's pretty yummy.
Posted by: Kelly Jun | December 06, 2017 at 09:55 AM
Our family loves Cardamom Cookies...they are so rich and delicious and I could eat the whole batch in one sitting....so I only make them at Christmas time!
http://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/finnish-cardamom-cookies-369337?ftab=reviews
Posted by: MoeS | December 06, 2017 at 09:55 AM
I have been making my oatmeal chocolate chip cookes since I was a little girl. Now, at age 66, I'm still making them. They are my go-to "I've got to bake something now!" recipe.
Posted by: Nancy | December 06, 2017 at 09:56 AM
My version of an authentic Scottish Shortbread recipe that we got when we bought a wooden shortbread mold in Braemar, Scotland on our first trip in 1977. We've made these shortbread cookies for our family ever since and highly valued by one and all.
Posted by: Diane Warning | December 06, 2017 at 09:56 AM
Love the regular choc chip right off the package recipe or chocolate crinkles made with cake mix. Both so yummy and I can never eat just one!
Posted by: Joy | December 06, 2017 at 09:56 AM
I like thumbprint cookies, especially since I make my own jams. Cool to know it’s all really homemade.
http://www.chewoutloud.com/2014/12/16/buttery-jam-thumbprint-cookies/
Posted by: sarah trabue | December 06, 2017 at 09:57 AM
I have a tried and true chocolate chip cookie recipe that I have used since I was a kid. I assume I must have gotten it from my mother, but she doesn't know where it came from. It makes delicious cookies that stay soft but that is from my own little trick...I use Becel margarine instead of butter! It is a versatile recipe too and tastes great with any number of additions - peanut butter or butterscotch chips M&Ms, all kinds of yumminess going on!
Posted by: Dayna Lee | December 06, 2017 at 09:57 AM
I'm with you on classic Toll House cookies. I've used Ghirardelli dark morsels to jazz up the chocolate before.
A knitting guild friend brought her take on them to our annual Sit, Knit, & Snack meeting last night--organic sugar, small mill flour, local butter, etc.--and they were really good!
Posted by: Melissa Cox | December 06, 2017 at 09:57 AM
My favorite have to be Pepparkakor--my mother's side of the family is part Swedish, and we embrace the traditions at Christmas (and the link below also has a recipe for Lucy Bread, traditionally served on Dec 13th for St. Lucia's day).
https://sweden.se/culture-traditions/saffransbullar-and-pepparkakor/
Posted by: KrisD | December 06, 2017 at 09:57 AM
My favorite has always been my grandmother's Danish Sugar Cookies. They were so pretty! A basic round sugar cookie, but she put colored sprinkles, sugar and chopped walnuts on top and then a dribble of egg white that became shiny and bubbly when they baked. MMMMM!
Posted by: Mary | December 06, 2017 at 09:59 AM
The favorite Christmas cookies around here comes from my old Betty Crocker cookbook. Just looked at the website, and now it is called the 'classic sugar cookie'. It is made with powdered sugar instead of granular and makes a great roll-out cookie.
Posted by: Geraldine Scott | December 06, 2017 at 09:59 AM
I really do not care for baking at all, and have been actually searching for a recipe for my favorite cookie I've had -- a former coworker made it and I haven't been able to get the recipe. Drunken cherry chocolate cookies. Soft, chewy, chocolately, cherry...amazing.
Posted by: reanna | December 06, 2017 at 09:59 AM
My favorite Christmas cookie is the tried and true peanut butter blossom. I like to use dark chocolate kisses and smooth them flat while they are melting in the peanut butter cookie, then you get a taste of both flavors when you take a bite!
Posted by: Deb | December 06, 2017 at 09:59 AM
When my kids were little, I was known as the cookie mom. The neighborhood kids knew that there were always fresh baked cookies in my home. Now I bake cookies for the homeless. Since I bake all the time, the holidays are no different. My favorite cookies are the peanut butter blossoms with a Hershey kiss on top. https://www.hersheys.com/kitchens/en_us/recipes/peanut-butter-blossoms.html
Posted by: Elizabeth Ley O'Brien | December 06, 2017 at 09:59 AM
I love to bake cookies at Christmastime. The recipe I have to make every year is actually a no bake recipe. It is my grandma's Bourbon Balls. I also like to bake Speculaas and Springerle. My dad's favorite cookie was a raisin filled cookie, but my husband dislikes raisins, so I make them date filled.
Posted by: Diane Gladstone | December 06, 2017 at 09:59 AM
My favorite cookie recipe is one I found in my Betty Crocker cookbook when I first got married (many, many years ago). It's a sugar cookie recipe for cutout cookies which are then frosted with buttercream frosting. So good! The recipe calls for powdered sugar in the dough instead of regular sugar and is flavored with vanilla and almond. They work for any holiday, just switch out your cutters!
Posted by: Shelly | December 06, 2017 at 10:00 AM
My favorite cookie recipe is one my sister makes ... she lives in New Mexico and its a favorite Spanish cookie however i cant remember the name.. its shaped like stars and is spicy and sweet .
i will have to ask her! but the tin that she mails to me each year is guarded and doled out very slowly.
Posted by: EJ Michel | December 06, 2017 at 10:00 AM
I am also a fan of traditional chocolate chip cookies. We just made a batch to share last night.
Posted by: Kay | December 06, 2017 at 10:00 AM
I make a cookie we call Chocolate Snowflakes...they are a brownie like cookie rolled in powdered sugar that cracks when you bake them... I'm off to the store this morning to get more flour to bake a batch.
Posted by: carol fun | December 06, 2017 at 10:00 AM
I have so many favorites that it’s hard to pick just one. I think it would have to be the tried and true Buckeyes; simple, fast, and no-bake.
Posted by: Lugarda Cappetta | December 06, 2017 at 10:01 AM
When I was younger my Mom and I used to make these simple snowman cookies. I may have to have her find the recipe again!
Posted by: Jennifer Walker | December 06, 2017 at 10:01 AM
Three Ingredient peanut butter cookies are the best!
I use the AllRecipe.com version...
Perfect and easy!
Posted by: DB | December 06, 2017 at 10:01 AM
My favorite is because it's easiest! Take a roll of chocolate chip cookie dough and cut into slices an inch or so thick. Cut each slice into 4 quarters. Place each quarter into a lined mini muffin tin and bake. After removing from oven, place one unwrapped miniature peanut butter cup on cookie and push in. Let cool. Sometimes we decorate the tops with wreaths for Christmas using piped frosting. Super easy!
Posted by: Chris Wells | December 06, 2017 at 10:02 AM
My special recipe that the kids and hubby love everyday is my chocolate chip cookies. I've made this one so often, I could do it in my sleep now. But for Christmas it's always Finnish pipparkakkut. A spicy crispy gingerbread cookie.
Posted by: Liisa | December 06, 2017 at 10:02 AM
At christmas my family loves sugar cookies which the grandchildren and their friends decorate.
Posted by: Bonnye Bulla | December 06, 2017 at 10:03 AM
Buckeyes; fast, simple, and no-bake.
Posted by: Lugarda Cappettay | December 06, 2017 at 10:03 AM
Peanut Blossoms, and chocolate cookies with cherry cordial & mint truffle kisses. But my oven died yesterday!!!
Posted by: Susan Ritchie | December 06, 2017 at 10:03 AM
Mint surprise cookies a firm buttery dough with a chocolate mint inside and half a walnut on top.
Posted by: LP Starr | December 06, 2017 at 10:04 AM
Pillsbury sugar cookies in a roll then decorate them. Yum
Posted by: Debbie Hallamek | December 06, 2017 at 10:04 AM
my favorite is my mother's Ice Box Cookies. You mix up the dough which includes home grown pecans, pat into long rolls which are wrapped & refrigerated. When it's time top bake, slice into thin discs or rectangles, sprinkle with colored sugar decorations & bake. So crispy & yummy!
Posted by: Debra Davis | December 06, 2017 at 10:04 AM
My grandmother's thumbprint cookies. She always made a box just for me when I was a little girl. She put a dollop of red or green frosting instead of jam. Yum!
Posted by: Dana Lovitt | December 06, 2017 at 10:05 AM
It's hard to go wrong with Nestle Tollhouse cookies. At this time of year, homemade pfeffernusse are the best! Here's a recipe I like: http://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/pfeffernusse-german-pepper-nut-cookies-79103
Posted by: Rosemary Moore | December 06, 2017 at 10:05 AM
Our favorite Christmas cookie is so easy and so good. We press peanut butter cookie dough into mini muffin tins then place a miniature Reese’s cup in the center and bake according to the cookie dough directions. After we (barely) let them cool, we scarf them down.
Posted by: Donna Wingfield | December 06, 2017 at 10:05 AM
Love the good old fashioned toll house chocolate chips
Posted by: tami | December 06, 2017 at 10:05 AM
Years ago my daughter’s care provider baked the most delicious and moist cutout sugar cookies I had ever tasted. I believe that the secret to these cookies is the use of sour cream in the recipe. The frosting uses Crisco shortening (this is NOT a Weight Watcher’s dream😊) and is flavored with vanilla or almond extract. I have baked and decorated these cookies along with my daughter EVERY Christmas since first enjoying them at the babysitter’s house. Unbelievably, my daughter is now 34 years old!
Posted by: Kathy K | December 06, 2017 at 10:06 AM
We make Peparkakers, an old recipe from Denmark! They are a spiced (Pepar) cookie (kaker) The dough is rolled out very thin and cut with cookie cutters, sprinkled with colored sugars and baked. For maximum flavor, my mom made them the Saturday after Thanksgiving and stored them in Tupperware containers until Christmas. However, we could not stay out of them. That recipe is Christmas to my family - now the second and third generations are baking them!
Posted by: Teresa Cochran | December 06, 2017 at 10:06 AM
My favorite is an plain sugar cookie made with butter. These cookies melt in your mouth & have not found a person who doesn't like them.
Posted by: Cathy Kostka | December 06, 2017 at 10:07 AM
Hands down favorite in my book are Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies. I got them from a Quaker Oats cookbook in the early 80s. Through the miracle of the Internet, I found the recipe again: http://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/peanut-butter-oatmeal-cookies-359624
Posted by: Teri | December 06, 2017 at 10:07 AM
Toll House and snickerdoodle ring the bells at this house.
Posted by: Sandy C | December 06, 2017 at 10:08 AM
Pioneer Woman's Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe, she uses Malted Milk powder in her cookie recipe, which IMO, makes the difference in this recipe. Also, Snickerdoodles are very popular with my kids!
Posted by: Catherine Barberine | December 06, 2017 at 10:08 AM
Shortbread that was published in the NY Times year ago. It uses a small snount of brown rice flour in the recipe that makes them light as air
Posted by: Michelle | December 06, 2017 at 10:09 AM
Love cookies. My Grandmother always made no bake skillet cookies with chocolate, oats, peanut butter and more set out on wax paper. They always remind me of her and all the wonderful things she made all year round. At our home, we really don't make cookies as much as we make pumpkin bread and are on the Pumpkin kick. I don't know the recipe as my husband even won't let me watch him mix the wet ingredients. Family secret recipe and we've been married for years!
Posted by: Gina Pike | December 06, 2017 at 10:09 AM
Our hands down family favorite Christmas cookie is Peanut Butter blossoms, which are basically peanut butter cookies with a Hershey's Kiss mashed on top as soon as they come out of the oven.
https://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/classic-peanut-butter-blossom-cookies/a3563f6e-96b0-443f-ae0a-53cef4be6db6
Peanut butter? Chocolate Kiss? What more could you want?
Posted by: Elizabeth | December 06, 2017 at 10:10 AM
My mom would make English cookies. They are made with a small amount of coffee with a layer of thin white icing. I don't know where she came up with this recipe, but they are delicious and I don't drink coffee!
Posted by: April R. | December 06, 2017 at 10:10 AM
Snickerdoodles!!
Posted by: Susan | December 06, 2017 at 10:13 AM
My favorite is the classic tollhouse chocolate chip, with snickerdoodles a close second. But really any cookie is eaten quickly in this house ;)
Posted by: Stefanie | December 06, 2017 at 10:13 AM
We make "ugly christmas cookies." It entails me baking up a batch of sugar cookies and then spreading out all the toppings on the table and my toddler son gets to go wild.
Posted by: Caitlin Kennedy | December 06, 2017 at 10:13 AM
Mine is peanut butter blossoms. My MIL makes them using a standard recipe so nothing special but I like the chocolate and PB together and also that I can share the base of the cookie (non-chocolate part) with my dog!
Posted by: Gena | December 06, 2017 at 10:15 AM
My favorite are caramel apple cider cookies, which I found through a post on Ravelry a few years ago. Snickerdoodles are my second favorite.
Posted by: Katie R. | December 06, 2017 at 10:15 AM
Peanut butter cookies are the favorite in our house. I’m not the best baker, so I just cheat and buy the pre-made dough.😆 Thi gives me more knitting time!
Posted by: Gina Kanouse | December 06, 2017 at 10:16 AM
Toll house chocolate chip cookies are good but I like the nuts not m and ms
I think snickerdoodles are good too. I am not a fan of cookies that are all chocolate. Soooooo my favorite cookie is my mom's recipe for crescent cookies. Some call them Mexican wedding cakes or Greek cookies but it's that buttery cookie with pecans and doused in powdered sugar....yum
Posted by: Diane | December 06, 2017 at 10:16 AM
Peanut butter blossom cookies are what I remember most from my childhood. My mother loved chocolate, so unwrapping the kisses was fun and you could sneak a couple as you worked! My mom was not a great cook but she was the best knitter, so these cookies were around on the holidays as she finished knitting Christmas gifts! Great memories!
Posted by: Holly Beam | December 06, 2017 at 10:16 AM
My favorite by far is snickerdoodles! I started making them in junior high. Still have the recipie in a worn and falling apart.
Posted by: Carla | December 06, 2017 at 10:16 AM
Chocolate chip cookies are my go to. I make them all year long! They’re great to take to work or to someone who might need a little pick me up. I’ve used the same recipe for the last 20 years.
Posted by: Susan Mullins | December 06, 2017 at 10:17 AM
I have been making Polka Dot Meringue cookies at Christmas since I was a small child. My mother cut out the recipe from our local newspaper, and I still have the whole page from the newspaper. These cookies are made with chocolate chips and cornflakes folded into the meringue. You can also add nuts if you would like.
Posted by: Nancy Wenberg | December 06, 2017 at 10:18 AM
Easy choice for me! Love cutouts, even unfrosted and unsugared. Taste best with a cup of coffee.
Posted by: Nancy | December 06, 2017 at 10:18 AM
My favorite cookie to make is a chocolate chip cookie with well-drained, diced maraschino cherries added, just because they're so well-received. My favorite to eat is an old-fashioned molasses cookie, soft and spicy.
Posted by: Rebecca Snyder | December 06, 2017 at 10:18 AM
My favorite Christmas cookie is called Santa’s Whiskers, originally found in Better Homes & Gardens cookbook and modified over the years! An icebox cookie with pecans and candied or dried cherries, coated with coconut, giving a toasty whisker effect after baking. You can keep the rolls of cookies in the icebox and slice a few for baking when you need/want them!
Posted by: Karen | December 06, 2017 at 10:19 AM
From Finland, Finland, Finland come Lusikkaleivat or Spoon Cookies! I adore Lusikkaleivat! These are a browned butter based sandwich cookie. They take a couple of days to prepare and then set, but they are crisp, sandy, and a bit salty against your favourite jam or sweet spread. A wonderful texture, complex flavour, and a lovely way to take time, pause and enjoy over the busy festive season.
Recipe here: https://finnishfoodgirl.com/2014/03/finnish-spoon-cookies-recipe-lusikkaleivat/
Posted by: mona | December 06, 2017 at 10:19 AM
My new Christmas favorite cookie is a recipe from the Good Housekeeping Holiday Cookie manual. My son came home from school ecstatic that he had checked this giant recipe book out from the library and was anxious to try one. The recipe called for melted semisweet chips to make a chocolate dough. We followed it almost exactly. While stirring in the rest of the chocolate chips, we added 1/4 cup of chunky peanut butter because what goes better than chocolate and peanut butter? So this is a new traditional recipe for us.
My mother has made peanut butter balls since before I can remember. The basic recipe is Rice Krispies, chunky peanut butter, margarine or butter, powdered sugar, and coated in chocolate. I love these because everything except the chocolate is mixed in a giant bowl and rolled into balls. Really great for Holiday stress relief. The balls are cooled and then coated in a combination of milk and semisweet chocolate. They are popable and I can never eat just one. Thank you for this opportunity. I love your shop!
Posted by: Stitchmom05 | December 06, 2017 at 10:20 AM
Sand tarts, a delicious buttery cookie with a sprinkle of cinnamon sugar and a walnut piece on top.
Posted by: Danyelle | December 06, 2017 at 10:21 AM
My husband is the baker in our family. He has a KILLER soft ginger cookie that we all just LOVE. My friends at work look forward to them every year!
Posted by: Melissa Martinez | December 06, 2017 at 10:21 AM
My favourite Christmas cookies (and a definite candidate for favourite in general) are crescents, which are basically shortbread with pecans and chocolate chips. They’re better if you make them a week or two in advance and let them age, but it’s hard to wait that long.
Posted by: Nicole S | December 06, 2017 at 10:22 AM
Sugar cookies with frosting
Posted by: Joyce | December 06, 2017 at 10:22 AM
I love making cookies with a cake mix as it is so quick and easy! Stir ingredients according to the directions on the box a cake mix but use 1/2 cup peanut butter instead of the oil. A yellow cake nd makes great peanut butter cookies, a chocolate cake mix makes excellent chocolate peanut butter cookies. Add chocolate chips, nuts, raisins ,etc for an even tastier treat!
Posted by: Sandra Jeffers | December 06, 2017 at 10:23 AM
My mother used to make us the chocolate chip cookies using the recipe from the Toll House chocolate chip bag but we haven't had those for a few years since she moved out of the country and isn't around at Christmas time anymore.
Posted by: Corlene Forde | December 06, 2017 at 10:23 AM
I have several favorites and it varies from year to year. The recent winner is not really a cookie at all. It's an OREO truffle -- the recipe is all over the internet. Crushed oreos, mixed with cream cheese, dipped in chocolate. Fast easy delish!
Posted by: Anne | December 06, 2017 at 10:23 AM
Great minds think alike! LOL. My DIL makes the Toll House cookies, and I make the Snickerdoodles!
Posted by: Deborah Pogue | December 06, 2017 at 10:23 AM
My favorite is Mookies (muffin/cookie). Every time I make them, they are crazy popular and go fast.
1 small can of 100% pure pumpkin
1 vanilla cake mix
1 small bag of choc chips
Pour pumpkin into bowl. Pour cake mix (POWDER) on top of pumpkin.
Mix on high for 3 minutes.
Mix in choc chips
Spoon out onto cookie sheet. If the sheet is flat- bake on 350 at 20 mins
If sheet is lipped- bake at 18 minutes
Posted by: Jessica Macon | December 06, 2017 at 10:24 AM
White chocolate with red raspberry jam on top. This is a soft, buttery cookie with melted (quality) white chocolate in the dough and then white chocolate drizzled on the tops when the cookies come out of the oven. Best cookie ever!
Posted by: Stella Fouts | December 06, 2017 at 10:26 AM
Our favorite is a Potato Chip Cookie. It's basically a butter cookie but the chips add a salty, crunchy goodness! They never last long!
Posted by: Mary | December 06, 2017 at 10:26 AM
We have always made a Greek Sugar Cookie that was heavy on almond flavoring and rolled in colored sugar. I don't have the recipe as its a page copied out of a magazine and probably older than me. Off the top of my head I remember that they are heavy on butter and have just enough flour that they don't melt into a pool.
Posted by: Andrea E | December 06, 2017 at 10:26 AM
Happy Holidays! In my family, the answer to the question "Cookie?" is "Chocolate!" I made Martha Stewart's Outrageous Chocolate Cookies several years ago, and now they're in demand.
https://www.marthastewart.com/339686/outrageous-chocolate-cookies
Invite the kids to take part and plan on a mess! Everyone has a good time making these in my kitchen, and I have a ball making them alone, too. Just as an aside: if you're like me, have some extra chocolate chunks on hand. Sometimes they require tasting, you see, and you don't want to short-change the cookies. :)
Posted by: Meg Caulmare | December 06, 2017 at 10:26 AM
At my house we make Christmas Butter cutout cookies and Anise cookies. the Anise cookies were one of my Father'sfavorites. He's been gone for 5 years (he died just before Christmas) but we still make them every year.
Here's the recip:
1 1/3 cup butter
1 1/2 cup sugar
1 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/4 teaspoon anise extract
2 eggs
6-8 teaspoons milk
4 cups all purpose flour
3 teeaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
Thoroughly cream butter, sugar, vanilla and anise. Add eggs; beat until light and fluffy. Stir in milk. Gradually add dry ingredients until blended. Chill several hours. Roll out dough to 1/4" thickness and cut into shapes. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 375 degrees F for 9-11 minutes.
Posted by: Nonny Dee | December 06, 2017 at 10:27 AM
I'm a snicker doodle girl too!
Posted by: Debby | December 06, 2017 at 10:27 AM
My favorite cookies are actually bars. My aunt made these every Christmas for us, and an extra little batch for me, cuz she knew I loved them so much. She has been gone now for nearly 20 years, and I can still smell them... Ive not made them, but this year... Im going to! The most perfect bar in the world.... The Scotcheroo. (link included here) Merry Christmas everyone!
https://www.ricekrispies.com/en_US/recipes/chocolate-scotcheroos-recipe.html
Posted by: Heather Anderson | December 06, 2017 at 10:27 AM
I'm a snickerdoodle cookie girl too!
Posted by: Debby | December 06, 2017 at 10:28 AM
Mine is a white chocolate orange recipe from the 500 Cookies book.
Posted by: chelsea | December 06, 2017 at 10:28 AM
These salted chocolate chunk cookies ruin all other chocolate chip recipes. These are amazing and always get rave reviews:http://www.thecrepesofwrath.com/2011/06/29/infamous-jacques-torres-chocolate-chip-cookies/
Posted by: Heather | December 06, 2017 at 10:29 AM
This is amazing! https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/giant-molasses-cookies
Posted by: Kara | December 06, 2017 at 10:29 AM
I have a nobake fudge recipe that is unique by including graham cracker crumbs. So easy and nofail.
Posted by: Ana Sweet | December 06, 2017 at 10:29 AM