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I picked up a couple of boxes of this Ghirardelli shortbread cookie mix at Target.
It’s a great short cut if you’re looking to have some holiday baking fun with your kids without all the hassle of waiting for dough to chill, etc. And they taste great. We also used striped Hershey’s kisses to decorate. You’ll probably gain weight just looking at them.
Feel free to share your favorite Christmas cookie recipe or short cuts.
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Yummie. Great idea!
I got all my neighbors Moravian cookies. They are crispy spice ginger cookies that are very thin. The Moravians are awesome and they have the best Easter sunrise service of any denomination. . . and their cookies are second to none! mmmmmmmmmmmm cookies.
Cookies are just one of the many ways that God shows He loves us.
Slow news day?????
Kids!!!! The heck with them:):) They look to good to worry about whether kids are around. Mmmmmm!
The way I feel, if I wore a gray jumpsuit and had a yellow-and blue “Goodyear” on the side, nobody’d know the difference - and I still have to face a Pecan Pie on Christmas! Just looking at them filled me up.
I’m rather partial to buckeyes.
Merry Christmas!!
I prefer Soufghaniot (jelly doughnuts for chanukah)
Only thing my family and I usually do for Christmas is eat chinese food :-p
Theres also Nonni’s Biscotti.
I think they also had a special edition holiday flavor set in addition to the plain - hazelnut or white chocolate…
Yum!
& then there’s J.W.LEES HARVEST ALE
‘Matured in Lagavulin Whisky Casks’.
CHEERS! & Merry Christmas Everyone!
The family is taking the day tomorrow to make our annual batch of Christmas kolacky. People have been asking about them for weeks, and I’m sure to make a few new friends when I share them.
(Sorry, but the recipe is secret!)
Merry Christmas!
Christmas is for TOYS! All the little kids get something that makes lots of noise! Bigger ones get cool stuff and the adults get to play with it!
Best cooking idea for me:
I’M HEADED TO MOM’S HOUSE!
A most Merry and Wonderous Christmas to all. May you be ever blessed in the New Year.
Life is about more than news. So is this blog.
See Category - Fun.
It’s not for cookies, but my favorite holiday baked treat is Candy Cane Cake. I found the recipe eons ago (still in high school?) in a magazine while waiting in a doctor’s or dentist’s office.
Take a white cake mix, prepare per instructions on box. Take 3/4 cup of the batter and add 1/2 tsp peppermint extract & 1/4 tsp red food coloring. Prepare a bundt cake pan. Pour 2 cups of the white batter into the pan. Next, carefully pour the red batter into the pan (covering the white batter). Last, pour the remaining white batter over the red batter. Bake per instructions on the box. Once the cake is baked, cooled, and turned out of the bundt pan, decorate by drizzling warmed white frosting/icing over the cake, and then sprinkle crushed candy canes (or peppermint candies) over the warm icing (they will stick until the icing cools and hardens.
Another variation on this that my sister came up with is to mix the batter, add the peppermint extract to the entire amount of batter, put the crushed candy canes in the batter, and make cupcakes. Use white frosting, and you can garnish the frosted cupcakes with more crush candy canes.
YUM!
I’m going to take the cookie post to whish all a Merry Christmas and a special thank you to our troops and their families. I know what separation feels like this time of year.
God Bless ALL!!
Well I have this miserable maladie known as celiac. This means no cookies for me. Also no bread, cake, pies, or anything else with wheat (flour), rye, barley etc. Oh there are substitutes but I can attest to the fact that they are not nearly as good as the real thing. I used to bake a lot before I was diagnosed. Now I just drool while watching others eat the good stuff. The good news is that now I know I have the problem so I can stop damaging my body.
Okay, this will blow you away. Take a small pretzel. Put a striped Hershey’s Kiss on top of it. Put it in the oven until the Hershey’s Kiss melts (but before it makes a pool!) Take it out and stick an M&M in the center of the pretzel (now coated in soft chocolate). Immediately stick it in the refrigerator until the chocolate hardens.
The combo of salty pretzel goodness and chocolate sweetness will make your brain break. Use only red and green M&Ms for a festive display.
And if we’re also talking “store bought”, I LOVE Lebkuchen. We would buy them every Christmas season when Daddy was stationed in Germany. When I was in college here in the States and unable to go “home” to Germany for Christmas, my parents would send me a package of them. We’d sometimes be able to find them in the PX on base stateside, too, but after Daddy retired, we sometimes had to go without. Luckily, I’ve found places to get them in more recent years: World Market cares a variety from Bahlsen, and they also carry some in the fancy tins. Also found GermanDeli.com, but you have to order early, or they’ll be out of stock.
Mark~
Sounds yummy! I’ve purchased the chocolate covered pretzels before (Flipz?), but the M&M is a nice, festive touch…
Sounds like that family from A Christmas Story.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom was last seen trying to find a way to tax this picture.
Good grief, if you can’t enjoy a warm cookie 4 days before Christmas, then you don’t belong in my party. Honestly, you sound like a joyless democrat. All the raging Republicans I have ever known were definitely pro-cookie!
And these are amazing:
Mrs. Sigg’s Snickerdoodles
INGREDIENTS
* 1/2 cup butter, softened
* 1/2 cup shortening
* 1 1/2 cups white sugar
* 2 eggs
* 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
* 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
* 2 teaspoons cream of tartar (can use 2t white vinegar or lemon juice)
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1/4 teaspoon salt
* 3 tablespoons white sugar
* 3 teaspoons ground cinnamon
DIRECTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Cream together butter, shortening, 1 1/2 cups sugar, the eggs and the vanilla. Blend in the flour, cream of tartar, soda and salt. Shape dough by rounded spoonfuls into balls.
3. Mix the 2 tablespoons sugar and the cinnamon. Roll balls of dough in mixture (I place sugar mixture in Ziploc bag and shake balls in it). Place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets.
4. Bake 8 to 10 minutes, or until set but not too hard. Remove immediately from baking sheets.
HOLY CARP!
COOKIESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!
THE BEST SITE EVAH!!!!
There are priorities, making cookies with the kids, thats right up there.
Here is a taste of Heaven for all, if you didn’t try these last time you’re really missing out.
AJ’S KILLER BROWNIES!!!!!
1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
1 ¼ cup cake flour
½ teaspoon salt
¾ teaspoon baking powder
6 ounces unsweetened choc. Hershey’s morsels, half a bag…save other half
12 tablespoons butter
2 ¼ cups sugar
4 large eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla
Middle oven 325 degrees
Whisk to combine flour, salt, and baking powder in bowl set aside
Melt 6 oz. of chocolate and butter slowly 15 sec. intervals in micro……
When melted and smooth slowly whisk in sugar
Add eggs one at a time!
Whisk in vanilla
Add flour mixture in 3 additions until batter is smooth
…..add remaining bag of morsels right out of bag and add nuts!!!!
Grease bottom only of a 13 x 9” pan
Add mixture and bake 30 to 35 minutes….but check depending on ur oven…
Viola! Ajs world famous brownies……………
DANGER YUM LEVEL HIGH
Not to be off topic but I can’t log on the Very Merry Christmas with Hillery cackling. I just get the page for profile updates and it never gives me the space to post a message. By the way the Defense Department should use Hillary’s cackle for punishment on our POWS and they could extract all kinds of information. I am sure the left would not call Hillary’s laugh any type of torture. Does anyone else have difficulty with getting logged in on certain posts?
Run down to Costco for the $6 Panetone from Italy….better yet, run down to Florence.
The headline led me to think this post might involve guns, but I’ll take cookies too. Better yet, bake some cookies and take them with you to the range!
I question the timing.
Cookies Me like Cookies. Cookies good. Me channel Mongo now and go sleepy with cookie coma. Me happy, dream of nice girl who bakes cookies.
/intellect
Thanks MM, sometimes we need a break from great issues, small things ount as this season reminds us.
OK, I admit it. Those of you snuggling in front of a warm fire watching snow coming down while baking Christmas goodies have it good. I could take a week of that!
I’m happy just cutting up a Pillsbury chocolate chip cookie roll. In the past I have gone through the whole bit following the Nestle’s chocoloate chip bag recipe, starting from scratch with flour, eggs, sugar, vanilla, etc., but I got lazy and now prefer using the cookie roll.
I don’t need a holiday for it. Just by happenstance being in the store is enough for me.
COOKIES!!!!!! The original vitamin C!!
Being happy…without all the commercial trappings (anything Oprah pimps), ego and money and enjoying friends and family.
AJ is gonna be in a cookie coma! watch out malkin…..you made his millenium!!!!
LMAO
Cookies are great, but I refuse to shop at Target.
Those exact cookies are my fave and my mother-in-law makes me a few dozen and hides them for me.
hey wait, i just saw the large pic and i think i prefer them homemade and warm from the oven………
We always helped Mom make candy cane cookies growing up. Make a large batch of sugar cookie dough and divide in to. One half gets red food coloring. Roll the dough into thin strands and twist together to make a candy cane. Bake like usual. If you want, sprinkle with crushed peppermint candy before baking.
Of course, who could forget homemade(and handmade) gingerbread cookies?
Some of my fondest memories of Christmas involve baking homemade cookies - not cutting a tube of dough or heating storebought cookies. If ever you want to take your time in the kitchen and enjoy just being home with loved ones, it’s Christmas.
Joyeux Nöel to all.
Divide in two*
Here is a family favorite for all the football fans in the group. Sliced and put out with a variety of crackers and cheeses it is a great game-time snack tray. I use beef, but a friend that doesn’t eat red-meat said she made it with ground turkey and that it worked well for her.
DesertLover’s Home-made Salami
Ingredients:
2 lbs Extra Lean Ground Beef or Lean Ground Turkey
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon coarse ground pepper
¼ teaspoon garlic powder
1 Tablespoon liquid smoke
1 Tablespoon mustard seeds
2 Tablespoons Morton Tender Quick Salt
¾ Cup water
Directions:
Mix all of the ingredients in a large bowl.
Form meat into rolls. Cover and refrigerate rolls for 24 hours.
Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
Unwrap refrigerated rolls and place them on a rack on a cookie sheet.
Bake for 1 hour.
Remove rolls from oven and allow them to cool. Wrap and refrigerate or freeze until ready to use.
Awwwww @#^%!
Bloomberg just outlawed Christmas cookies in NYC… something about trans-fats.
Not to worry! No self-respecting Christmas cookie has been anywhere near a trans-fat. It’s all the real stuff, butter, eggs, sugar, vanilla…
Let me see, I’ll have one of those, And one of those, and ohhhh yea one of those, yum yum and one of those. sorry everyone got to go eat more cookies….. please, all, have a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!!!!
Merry Christmas, all of you out there. And thanks for one of the most fun readings I’ve had in a long time.
#6 Chief Doug
Don’t worry about it-spring PRT is just around the corner, and far enough away that the Pillsberry Doughboy could still pass the BF measurement
GSP
To all of our active duty troops-may you have a blessed Christmas and a peaceful New Year!
43… what’s butter?
Darn it Michelle, now I have to go bake some cookies.
I started two 5-gallon batches of English Brown Ale today. Too late for Christmas, but February’s shaping up to be a good month.
Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies are still my family’s favorite. My shortcut is to get my kids to help. Cleanup takes longer.
I just hosted a cookie exchange at my house on Wednesday. I have a huge assortment of various cookies now. It’s a great way to sample a lot of different recipes! I make something called “White Velvet Cutouts” every year. It’s essentially a very rich shortbread cutout with cream cheese frosting.
1 pound butter (softened)
1 8-ounce package cream cheese (softened)
2 cups white sugar
2 egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (for best results use Gold Medal)
Cream butter and cream cheese together, add sugar and beat until fluffy. Add egg yolks and vanilla extract and mix well. Add flour a cup at a time. Chill dough for an hour and then roll out to 1/4 inch and cut into desired shapes. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes or until lightly brown on the bottom (unless you are using a silpat then use time to judge not color).
Icing:
3 1/2 cups confectioners’ sugar, divided
4 tablespoons cream cheese
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 to 4 tablespoons milk, divided
Combine 1 1/2 cups confectioner’s sugar, butter, shortening, vanilla extract and 3 tablespoons milk in a mixing bowl; beat until smooth. Gradually add remaining sugar; beat until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add enough remaining milk and food coloring until frosting reaches desired consistency. Frost cookies.
Fun cookies for kids:
Stained glass cookies:
You can either use your own sugar or butter cookie recipe or use pre-made cookie dough. Roll the dough out, and cut out desired shapes… cut a smaller shape in the center of the cookie using a miniature version of the same cutter.
Separate brightly colored hard candy (like jolly ranchers or life savers) by color into baggies. Crush candies with a hammer or rolling pin.
If you are making these for ornaments, make a hole at the top with a straw before baking. Place cookies on a pan with aluminum foil. Put crushed candy in the center in patterns or scattered and bake cookies according to package or recipe instructions.
If you don’t want to do cut outs you can also roll pieces of dough into long, thin strips. Create designs with the strips. Make a little hook with some extra dough. Bake at 325 degrees for about 8 minutes. Leave them to cool and settle for a couple of minutes and then fill the open areas with the hard candy. Bake and when the candy starts melts and bubbles a little pull out. Be careful they do burn easily.
Let all of the cookies cool completely before picking them up. They are really pretty and tasty too.
News from my 90 year mother:
Have a very Merry Christmas everybody!
Peanut Butter & Caramel Chip cookies:
2/3 cup crunchy peanut butter
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
2 cups packaged biscuit mix
1 10-ounce package chocolate and caramel swirled pieces
1 teaspoon shortening
Preheat oven to 375
Combine PB, butter, granulated and brown sugar; beat until creamy
Add egg; beat until combined
Add biscuit mix; beat just until combined
Stir in 1 cup of the swirled pieces. Drop dough portions by tablespoons 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake in preheated oven for 8 to 10 mins or until bottoms begin to brown.
In a small saucepan, combine remaining swirled pieces and the shortening; heat and stir over low heat until melted. Cool slightly.
Drizzle cookies with melted chocolate mixture.
Enjoy!!
I am sitting here, mentally going through my cupboards to see if I have the necessary ingredients for some of these recipes!!! Stained-glass cookies sound fun!!!
Merry CHRISTmas to all and a very Happy and Prosperous New Year. : )
I realize my other offering was not for a cookie so will correct that here.
These are an easy drop cookie that is colorful and tasty.
Pineapple Drop Cookies
1/2 Cup Shortening
1 Cup Packed Light Brown Sugar
1 Egg
3/4 Cup Pineapple Bits
2 Cups Sifted Flour
1/4 Teaspoon Salt
1/4 Teaspoon Baking Soda
1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
1 Teaspoon vanilla Extract
1 Cup Chopped Pecan Pieces
Green and Red Maraschino Cherries cut in half for tops of cookies
Mix ingredients thoroughly. Drop by spoonfuls on greased cookie sheet. Press each cookie down, then press one of the maraschino cherry halves cut side down in the center or each cookie.
Bake at 350 degrees until lightly browned.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU OUT THERE!
I made these yesterday and at the rate I’m eating them, I’ll have to make another batch tomorrow to take to a party. My Christmas wish this year is to move into Paula Deen’s house.
Paula’s Loaded Oatmeal Cookies
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
1 1/2 cups packed light brown sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
2 1/2 cups quick-cooking oatmeal
1 cup raisins
1 1/2 cups chopped walnuts
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Brown Butter Icing, recipe follows
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Grease 1 or more cookie sheets. Using an electric mixer, cream together butter, shortening, and sugar in a bowl until fluffy. Add eggs and beat until mixture is light in color. Add buttermilk. Sift together flour, baking soda, salt, baking powder, ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, and allspice; stir into creamed mixture. Fold in oatmeal, raisins, walnuts, and vanilla, blending well. Drop by rounded teaspoons onto cookie sheet. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes. Drizzle with Brown Butter Icing.
Brown Butter Icing:
1/2 cup butter
3 cups sifted powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 to 4 tablespoons water
In a small saucepan heat the butter over medium heat until golden brown, stirring occasionally. Remove saucepan from heat; stir in 3 cups sifted powdered sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Stir in enough water (3 to 4 tablespoons) to make an icing of drizzling consistency. Drizzle on warm cookies.
Yield: enough to ice 5 dozen cookies
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 5 minutes
Ease of preparation: Easy
Cool, a cookies Christmas goodies thread. We used to do a cookie exchange, a lot of fun and tasty morsels and camaraderie.
T’wasn’t it Marie Antoinette Clinton
who said
Let them eat cookies..
and they reclaimed their land.
Happy Holidays
It’s the stuff you use in cookies when you can’t find beef fat!
“If you’re afraid of butter, as many people are nowadays, just put in cream!”
Julia Child
Heh, well I didn’t expect you to do much on Christmas!
Christmas cookies are always good. There’s a good kind that my mother makes, they’ve got like four or five different kinds of nuts, and I think four types of candied/dried fruit, they have just enough dough to hold the cookie together, super tasty. Kinda pricey though because of the type and amount of nuts used.
DONT FORGET THE MILK,and pass me one of each recipe on here.
We make many cookies every Christmas, but there are two I have to make every year:
Homemade Caramels
and
Chocolate Chip Meringue Bars
Ditto. Fresh out of the oven with a glass of cold milk is truly a gift from God.
For all your daily cookie lust needs!
http://www.cookiemadness.net/
Michelle,
How do you stay so skinny? Do you workout a lot or is it metabolism? Or better yet, is it a magic pill i can buy over the counter.
Happiness is a panera bread cinnamon crunch bagel with honey nut cream cheese.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Thank you for sharing the wonderful recipes!
My favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe is the original one found on the bag of Nestle Chocolate Chips. Use real butter and toss in an extra cup of chocolate chips…YUM-O!!
While all the recipes sound great,the best part is “holiday fun with your kids”.Enjoy your holiday with your kids Michelle,and many more to come.You certainly know what is important in life.All the best to you and your family during this, the greatest time of life.MERRY CHRISTMAS.
Here is my favorite CHRISTMAS cake!
Cream Cheese Pound Cake
( Preheat over 325 degrees. )
Needed; 6 eggs, 1 stick butter, 2 sticks margarine, 1 package cream cheese, 3 cups sugar, 3 cups sifted flour, vanilla/almond flavorings
MIX - sugar, margarine, butter, cream cheese together with mixer until smooth.
HINT; I allow these items to get to room temperature before mixing.
Alternate 1 cup of sifted flour and 2 eggs - mixing well….continue until 3 cups flour and 6 eggs are used.
Add flavorings 1 tsp vanilla and 2 tsps almond (optional) I like the almond taste.
Flour/coat with butter a TUBE PAN.
Place on regular rack in the oven….cook for exactly 1 hour and 25 minutes. Do Not Open the Oven Door!
Serve plain or add whipped cream, fruit topping, icecream, etc.
Delicious!! A family favorite in my house! I usually make 2 and freeze one for a later date. Makes a great gift!
Wow! Thank MM for this thread. I would have posted earlier but I baked 3 batches of cookies last night; Sugar, oatmeal raisen/date, and the venerable Nestle’s Chocolate Chip. I still have one more to go, my grandma’s Date Nut cookie. My grandma lived just 4 blocks away and we would “drop” by as kids (8 of us) to see if we could snag one (or more) from her. But she caught on quick and started hiding them. I have very fond memories of those days and those smells. I guess that’s why I have such a strong urge to bake cookies. (That and the fact the wife was born without a sweet tooth. Luckily she has other attributes that have kept me around for 26 years.)
And thanks for the many recipes. I think I might have to make some copies and give ‘em all a try.
To all my fellow posters:
Have a Blessed Merry Christmas and a very safe and prosperous New Year.
To Michelle, Bryan and Allahpundit: I wish I could bake you all a batch of grandma’s cookies and present them as a small gift for all the great work you do.
I’m heading down to the store to get a Christmas pie. Maybe will make pancakes on Christmas morning for the little guy and I.
Marooned… Enjoy your Christmas pancakes with your little guy. Reading that brought tears to my eyes!
When my oldest 3 were just little guys I always made red and green pancakes for Christmas morning. I even had to fashion a pancaked in the shape of bone for the dog per the boys’ request. The 3 oldest are now young men (16, 19 and 22.) The oldest will be spending Christmas in Northern Iraq this year… and we will eat our pancakes and miss him greatly.
It’s funny how the littlest things can bring so much meaning this time of year.
I’ve just spent a Marathon 4 days baking 18 kinds of Christmas cookies with family and these are the two easiest!
Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies
1 cup white sugar
1 cup peanut butter
1 egg
18 milk chocolate candy kisses, unwrapped
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Combine sugar, peanut butter, and egg.
3. Shape into 1 inch balls and place on ungreased cookie sheet. If dough is too sticky, refrigerate 1/2 hour or until easy to handle.
4. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove cookies from oven. Press a chocolate kiss into the center of each warm cookie.
Hello Dollies
1/2 cup butter
1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup butterscotch chips
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
1 1/3 cups shredded coconut
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Place butter in 13 x 9 inch pan and melt in oven. Tilt pan to coat bottom and sides with butter.
3. Spread crumbs evenly over bottom of pan. Layer chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, and nuts over crumbs. Pour condensed milk over nuts. Sprinkle coconut over condensed milk.
4. Bake until edges are golden brown, about 25 minutes. Let cool.
Here’s hoping 2008 brings us many days where cookies can be the big news!
My favorite shortcut? Buy a bottle of wine and travel to the in-laws.
Just made this cheesecake. It’s really easy and delicious.
Prep Time:
10 min
Total Time:3 hr 50 min
Makes:8 servings
2 pkg. (8 oz. each) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla
2 eggs
1 HONEY MAID Graham Pie Crust (6 oz.)
PREHEAT oven to 325°F. Beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Add eggs; mix just until blended.
POUR into crust.
BAKE 40 minutes or until center is almost set. Cool. Refrigerate 3 hours or overnight. Store leftover cheesecake in refrigerator.
I’m not making anything. Being in NYC for the weekend, I am simply walking over to West 51st Street and buying a black cake from the Jamaican food truck on West 51st. Black cake refers to color of the cake which is a fruit cake that Jamaicans make where you put molasses and rum into the mix and it is sooooooo incredibly good. Don’t eat too much or you will get very, very drunk. For those of us who have the pleasure of having Jamaican friends we get to enjoy Jamaican food. Jamaicans have such a love of life and a joy of life that if you ever feel sad, get to know some Jamaicans. You won’t stay sad very long.
I want to wish a happy holiday to Michelle. I am a centrist politically but I start off every day with Michelle’s blogs (along with Curt Schilling’s fabulous sports blog). Reading Michelle’s blog is like waking up and chatting with an old friend. Happy holiday Michelle!
Cookies…It’s what’s for breakfast!!! Thanks for all the fabulous recipes and Merry Christmas.
Two of my “middle” kids are making brownies right now. Looking forward to it.
Until then…
Here are three simple steps to enjoy Christmas festivities.
1. Sight delicious food (any desirable type — chocolate, cheese, and cola are my top three).
2. Eat delicious food.
3. Repeat.
Notes:
These steps are best when plopping the hind end on a comfortable chair in front of a television locked into nothing but football.
Merry Christmas, Michelle.
Thanks alot Michelle. I had to go out and buy cookie dough because of this. Oh well. My daughters and I will have a blast making and eating them. And by the way…a most VERY HAPPY AND HOLY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY!!!!!!
I hope Santa is good to all of you and thank you for allowing me this opportunity to play in your playground. it is even more fun than I imagined as the people here (excluding trolls) are truly wonderful and knowledgeable. Thanks again.
RF
Aw shucks, now I’m hungry and I already brushed my teeth…
I just went through all the recipes here and made notes. I think I gained 5 pounds just salivating. But what is Christmas without the smell of cookies coming out of the kitchen? Merry Christmas, everyone!
MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL,
I do not know if it’s still available, but Jane Skinner has/had listed on her “Fox News Channel” site one of the best chocolate chip cookie recipe’s one could ever want; they’re easy to make, require no fancy techniques or special ingredients, and consistently turn out crunchy and delicious. Although margarine will work just fine, the delectable secret to making these cookies even better is to use real butter, instead of margarine; it gives them an added richness and crunchier texture. Eat these cookies while they’re warm from the oven with a glass of icy cold milk, and you and yours won’t care how cold it is outside!
If peanut butter cookies are you thing (they’re my favorite, too), then Paula Deen’s recipe for flour-less peanut butter cookies is right up your alley. And yes, there’s no flour involved! Just sugar, peanut butter, vanilla, salt and baking soda. The recipe can be found at Paula’s “Foodnetwork” site. I guarantee you and your family will gobble these cookies down in no time!
The very Merriest of Christmases to everyone, and the Happiest of New Years!
Let’s see, the wifes baking bread the last couple of years, but had much to do this year, bought short bread cookies… Got brownies and lefse at a Girl Scout stand outside the local school gym after their Christmas program. Gave some pork adobo to a retired missionary friend and I think we’ll continue the tradition of buying and selling and giving and receiving in spite of any and all such demagogues
Tim