Official Holiday Cookie Thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I made these last year and they were a hit. Thin and crunchy-perfect for dipping in milk.

Brownie Thins
Bon Appétit | December 2007


6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) unsalted butter, cut into pieces
2 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped
1/2 cup sugar
1 large egg
3 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon all purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
Pinch of coarse kosher salt
Nonstick vegetable oil spray
1/4 cup chopped pistachios

preparation

Position rack in lowest third of oven; preheat to 350°F. Butter 2 baking sheets. Place butter and chocolate in medium microwave-safe bowl. Microwave on medium-high power until almost completely melted, about 1 minute. Whisk until smooth. Add sugar and egg; whisk until smooth, about 1 minute. Add flour, both extracts, and salt; stir just to blend. Let batter stand 10 minutes.

Scoop rounded teaspoonfuls batter onto prepared baking sheets, spacing apart (12 per sheet). Spray sheet of plastic wrap lightly with nonstick spray. Place, sprayed side down, over cookies. Using fingers, press each mound into 21/2- to 2 3/4-inch round. Remove plastic wrap. Sprinkle pistachios over rounds. Bake cookies, 1 sheet at a time, until slightly darker at edges and firm in center, about 7 minutes. Cool on sheet 2 minutes. Transfer cookies to rack; cool completely. DO AHEAD: Can be made 5 days ahead. Store airtight at room temperature.


ETS: i used crushed peppermint in place of the pistachios. It was a nice festive touch.

My Christmas fave...old fashioned sugar cookies


Sugar Cookies

Ingredients:

1/3 c butter
1/3 c shortening
3/4 c sugar
1 t baking powder
1 egg
1 t vanilla
2 c all-purpose flour

cookie cutters
colored sugar, dragees, red hots etc for decorating

1. Beat butter and shortening on med to high speed 30 seconds. Add sugar, baking powder, and dash salt. Beat till combined, scraping bowl. Beat in egg and vanilla. Beat in as much of the flour as you can with the mixer. Stir in remaining flour. Divide dough in half. Chill dough for 1-2 hours till easy to handle.
2. On a lightly floured surface, roll half at a time to 1/8 inch thick. Using cookie cutters, cut out cookies. Place on ungreased cookie sheet and decorate as desired with colored sugars, etc. Bake at 375 F for 7-8 minutes till edges are firm and bottoms are lightly browned. Cool on a rack. Yield: 36 +

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Posted by sophisticat13

My Christmas fave...old fashioned sugar cookies


Sugar Cookies

Ingredients:

1/3 c butter
1/3 c shortening
3/4 c sugar
1 t baking powder
1 egg
1 t vanilla
2 c all-purpose flour

cookie cutters
colored sugar, dragees, red hots etc for decorating

1. Beat butter and shortening on med to high speed 30 seconds. Add sugar, baking powder, and dash salt. Beat till combined, scraping bowl. Beat in egg and vanilla. Beat in as much of the flour as you can with the mixer. Stir in remaining flour. Divide dough in half. Chill dough for 1-2 hours till easy to handle.
2. On a lightly floured surface, roll half at a time to 1/8 inch thick. Using cookie cutters, cut out cookies. Place on ungreased cookie sheet and decorate as desired with colored sugars, etc. Bake at 375 F for 7-8 minutes till edges are firm and bottoms are lightly browned. Cool on a rack. Yield: 36 +

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this is one of my faves too!! im starting my baking tom!!! i have deliveries to make at the end of the week..lol!! i'll post some of my recipies when i get them out!!

btw .. great thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had a Christmas Cookie Baking party with a few friends on Sunday. We baked 8 different kinds of cookies! We baked for 10 hours

But, the cookies are awesome..
We made:
Chocolate peanutbutter chip cookies
Nutella Cookies
Delectabites (little walnut cookies dipped in powdered sugar)
Orange cookies & 2 kinds of Lemon Cookies (All three of these are Italian old school cookies)
Pistachio Cookies
and these little brown sugar/walnut/pastry type cookies

I'm cookied out!

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Posted by BeccaJo

I got a cookie press as a Shower gift - does anyone have a good recipe for this? I know the cookies usually come out hard when you make them with a press right? I might make some oatmeal chocolate chip and my friend makes homemade Oreos which are amazing so I'll attempt those if she gives me the recipe

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Ooh, can I have the recipe for the homeade Oreos? I LOVE them!

I am making my mother's chocolate cookies, which she always made with the press. If you want the recipe let me know. I remember them always being so yummy!!!

Here you go the ultimate cookie guide



Yummy Cookie Recipes

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Posted by MikeandJess

This isn't really a cookie recipe but I melted some dark mint chocolate and dipped oreos in it. I had to hide them bc DH keeps eating them! I'm giving them as christmas presents

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YUM DH would love that
I made peppermint bark one year...it was delish

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Posted by chrispar

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Posted by MikeandJess

This isn't really a cookie recipe but I melted some dark mint chocolate and dipped oreos in it. I had to hide them bc DH keeps eating them! I'm giving them as christmas presents

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YUM DH would love that
I made peppermint bark one year...it was delish

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I made that too but instead of bark I did individual clusters. I didn't try that one, if I try all of them I'm going to gain 93408384 lbs. However, I can't contain myself with the fudge

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Posted by DeeluvsVinny

I had a Christmas Cookie Baking party with a few friends on Sunday. We baked 8 different kinds of cookies! We baked for 10 hours

But, the cookies are awesome..
We made:
Chocolate peanutbutter chip cookies
Nutella Cookies
Delectabites (little walnut cookies dipped in powdered sugar)
Orange cookies & 2 kinds of Lemon Cookies (All three of these are Italian old school cookies)
Pistachio Cookies
and these little brown sugar/walnut/pastry type cookies

I'm cookied out!

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Can you post the Nutella recipe please? Sounds delicious!!!

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Posted by GMar9508

Here you go the ultimate cookie guide



Yummy Cookie Recipes

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OMG what an awesome website!!! I'm bookmarking it and sending it to all my friends and family (hint hint)!! Thank you for posting it!!!

We are making cookies tonight

Rainbow cookies
Russian tea cakes
Butter cookies

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Posted by BeccaJo

Here is the Oreo Cookie recipe, its from Smitten Kitchen's website which is a really cool blog if you like to cook. Enjoy!

Recipe

Makes 25 to 30 sandwich cookies

For the chocolate wafers:
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup unsweetened Dutch process cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 to 1 1/2 cups sugar*
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons (1 1/4 sticks) room-temperature, unsalted butter
1 large egg

For the filling:
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) room-temperature, unsalted butter
1/4 cup vegetable shortening
2 cups sifted confectioners’ sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1. Set two racks in the middle of the oven. Preheat to 375 degrees.
2. In a food processor, or bowl of an electric mixer, thoroughly mix the flour, cocoa, baking soda and powder, salt, and sugar. While pulsing, or on low speed, add the butter, and then the egg. Continue processing or mixing until dough comes together in a mass.
3. Take rounded teaspoons of batter and place on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet approximately 2 inches apart. With moistened hands, slightly flatten the dough. Bake for 9 minutes, rotating once for even baking. Set baking sheets on a rack to cool.
4. To make the cream, place butter and shortening in a mixing bowl, and at low speed, gradually beat in the sugar and vanilla. Turn the mixer on high and beat for 2-3 minutes until filling is light and fluffy.
5. To assemble the cookies, in a pastry bag with a 1/2 inch, round tip, pipe teaspoon-size blobs of cream into the center of one cookie. Place another cookie, equal in size to the first, on top of the cream. Lightly press, to work the filling evenly to the outsides of the cookie. Continue this process until all the cookies have been sandwiched with cream. Dunk generously in a large glass of milk.

* Let’s talk about the sugar for a minute, shall we? This is a sweet cookie. A good, sweet cookie. Yet, if you think of an actual Oreos, the wafers are fairly un-sweet and actually on the slightly salty side, which contrasts with the super-sweetness of the filling bringing harmony, happiness, yada yada. If you want your cookie closer to that original, you can take out a full half-cup of the sugar. I usually do. If you want to make the cookie by itself (as I did a while back for ice cream sandwiches), go ahead and use the full amount.

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Thanks!

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Posted by TheFutureMrsM

We are making cookies tonight

Rainbow cookies
Russian tea cakes
Butter cookies

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Lee is baking with you? Sounds like fun!

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Posted by MrsD71208

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Posted by TheFutureMrsM

We are making cookies tonight

Rainbow cookies
Russian tea cakes
Butter cookies

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Lee is baking with you? Sounds like fun!

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My mom came over around 5, and we baked til midnite, lee was a big help when he got home.

We went through 20 sticks of butter, 8 pounds of flour, 2 dozen eggs lol, and much more

pumpkin chip cookies

1.5 c butter, softened. no substitutes.

2 c packed brown sugar

1 c sugar

1 15oz can solid pack pumpkin

1 egg

1 t vanilla

4 c flour

2 c quick oats

2 t baking soda

2 t cinnamon

1 t salt

2 c cinnamon chips

---in a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugars. beat in the pumpkin, egg, and vanilla. combine the flour, oats, baking soda, cinnamon and salt in separate bowl, and gradually add to the creamed mixture. stir in cinnamon chips. drop by tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet (i use parchment paper) Bake at 350* for 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned. remove to wire racks to cool. after cooling, i like to keep the cookies in a big ziplock bag... the cookies stay soft!

Linda!!! Did you make the Thumbprint cookies this weekend?! I just baked them and OMG they are so yummy! DH didn't even know there was cream cheese in them, so that's an added bonus He was eating the dough raw as I was baking

I also made chocolate oatmeal cookies using brownie mix and instant oatmeal - OMG also very yummy and so easy!!!

i just made these and they are sooooo yummy and so easy!!!

Pretzel Turtles

INGREDIENTS
20 small mini pretzels or pretzel snaps
20 chocolate covered caramel candies (rollos or dove chocolate with caramel)
20 pecan halves


DIRECTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).

2. Arrange the pretzels in a single layer on a parchment lined cookie sheet (if you dont have parchment paper, grease cookie sheet with butter). Place one chocolate covered caramel candy on each pretzel.

3. Bake in oven for 3-4 minutes.

4. While the candy is warm, press a pecan half onto each candy covered pretzel. Cool completely before storing in an airtight container.

Optional: you can toast the pecan halves stovetop with a little butter (or bake @ 325 for 10-15 min watching closely to prevent burning)


they are SO GOOD!!! DH kept sneaking more and more from the sheet while they cooled!

eta: i'm going back to the store for more dove candy to make another batch cause DH and I ate most of them

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Posted by KK Holiday

i just made these and they are sooooo yummy and so easy!!!

Pretzel Turtles

INGREDIENTS
20 small mini pretzels or pretzel snaps
20 chocolate covered caramel candies (rollos or dove chocolate with caramel)
20 pecan halves


DIRECTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).

2. Arrange the pretzels in a single layer on a parchment lined cookie sheet (if you dont have parchment paper, grease cookie sheet with butter). Place one chocolate covered caramel candy on each pretzel.

3. Bake in oven for 3-4 minutes.

4. While the candy is warm, press a pecan half onto each candy covered pretzel. Cool completely before storing in an airtight container.

Optional: you can toast the pecan halves stovetop with a little butter (or bake @ 325 for 10-15 min watching closely to prevent burning)


they are SO GOOD!!! DH kept sneaking more and more from the sheet while they cooled!

eta: i'm going back to the store for more dove candy to make another batch cause DH and I ate most of them

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Ooooooh those sound great, Kathryn! Thanks for sharing!!!