Your favorite cookie recipes?

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Do you bake most of the same cookies every year?  What are your favorites?  Are they traditional from your childhood?

I'm looking to add some variety to my baking.  I always bake peanut butter cookies and Jam filled "thumbprint" cookies which are both ones that we always baked when I was a kid.  I usually also make a recipe for chocolate rum cookies that I got from the old woman that lived next door when I was  growing up.  

I also make Russian tea cakes/Mexican wedding cookies because I love them. 

Share your favorites?

[Captain Catnip]

I don't make cookies but am trying to get s recipe from a former co-worker. She hasn't replied to my text though.

I love Russian Teacakes and no one I know makes them. I'm jealous.

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Dec 17, 2016 15:32:25 GMT -5 Captain Catnip said:

I don't make cookies but am trying to get s recipe from a former co-worker. She hasn't replied to my text though.

I love Russian Teacakes and no one I know makes them. I'm jealous.

They're not hard! Use that recipe! 

[CurlyQ284]

I make Russian tea cakes haha
I use my nana's recipe and those are the favorites every year.

I also make chocolate chip, ginger cookies, s'more cups and chocolate mint cookies.

www.food.com/recipe/smore-cups-457788

allrecipes.com/recipe/16212/chocolate-mint-candies-cookies/

[m15]

I switch it up from year to year, but the ones I always always make are snicker doodles, chocolate crinkles, frosted sugar, pb cup cookies, pb blossoms, and spritz.

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Dec 17, 2016 15:52:34 GMT -5 carmenere said:

My mom used to make Russian tea cakes and jam thumbprint cookies 😊

My grandma makes her "top secret" recipe press cookies every year, with a press that's at least 50 years old.

How about candy covered pretzels or meringues?

We used to make the press cookies when I was a kid!  I think I might attempt Pignoli cookies because I love them and can't find them here in the south.  Where the hell are the Italian bakeries!?  #spoiled ex NYer

[circa1978]

I'm baking today. So far, I've made cranberry and pistachio biscotti, double chocolate biscotti and spritz. I'm working on a layered creme de menth brownie bar and Russian tea cakes. I'll also do a ton of cut out sugar cookies and chocolate mice.

Others I like are Italian seven layer (too time intensive this year), brownie chocolate cut outs (I use Smitten Kitchen's recipe and add an extra egg yoke so they hold together better), rum balls, snickerdoodles, gooey butter cake from scratch cut into bars.

My mom does other traditional Italian cookies using my great grandmother's recipes, including enough seasame cookies to give some to everyone here and still have some left over. The flour is measured in pounds, lol.

[AHappierHour]

I just made snickerdoodle cookies from cake mix and that might be my new go to. So fricken easy and delicious!

[usuallylurking]

Every year we make:
- Sugar cookie cut outs, with a royal icing (technically a glaze) and variety of sprinkles for a big decorating ordeal with the kids. They aren't fancy or pretty but they love it and they taste great. This is tradition from my childhood and one of my biggest Christmas time memories.
- LHC's ginger molasses cookies (one of H's favorites)
- craisin, coconut oatmeal cookies (one of H's favorites)
- my aunt's "famous fudge" which is from my childhood
- spritz cookies (with the cookie press) as they were H's biggest "cookie memory" from his childhood

Then I rotate out new/different recipes to try, which is how we eventually settle on yearly favorites. This year I'm also making:
- cranberry orange shortbread (H loves them, they'll become tradition)
- funfetti shortbread bites
- chocolate crinkles
- almond with raspberry jam thumbprints
- Russian tea cakes (a favorite of mine growing up from my Grandma, this will be my first year making them)

And then all of this stuff for goodie boxes to send/give away, plus they get cookies:
- sriracha caramel corn
- spicy honey roasted almonds
- candied pecans
- rosemary roasted cashews
- fireball marshmallows
- fireball fudge
- chocolate dipped pretzel sticks
- chocolate dipped ritz (with different fillings)
- buckeye bark (like buckeyes/peanut butter balls, but less labor intensive)
- puppy chow

[jenna]

My mom makes Peanut Butter Blossom cookies - aka peanut butter cookies with a Hershey Kiss on top.

Those are my favorite

[orval]

Dec 17, 2016 16:01:20 GMT -5 @blueyes623 said:

Dec 17, 2016 15:52:34 GMT -5 carmenere said:

My mom used to make Russian tea cakes and jam thumbprint cookies 😊

My grandma makes her "top secret" recipe press cookies every year, with a press that's at least 50 years old.

How about candy covered pretzels or meringues?

We used to make the press cookies when I was a kid!  I think I might attempt Pignoli cookies because I love them and can't find them here in the south.  Where the hell are the Italian bakeries!?  #spoiled ex NYer

Are you in Charlotte?? I may not be remembering correctly. Nona's Sweets has them.  They are Italian and have Italian pastries etc.

www.nonassweets.com/cookies.php

[hisno1girl]

I make these Chewy Caramel Bars every year and they are amazeballs.

www.christmas-cookies.com/recipes/recipe242.chewy-caramel-bars.html

[bonquiqui]

Molasses cookies, gingerbread, sugar, cream cheese, peanut butter, snickerdoodles and chocolate chip

[sarahswim]

I make cut-outs every year with my Hungarian grandmother's recipe. I would eat all of them if I didn't give them away. I also make Kahlua wafers-I found the recipe in a Southern Living cookbook and have made them every christmas for the past 5 or 6 years.

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Dec 17, 2016 16:40:26 GMT -5 orval said:

Dec 17, 2016 16:01:20 GMT -5 @blueyes623 said:

We used to make the press cookies when I was a kid!  I think I might attempt Pignoli cookies because I love them and can't find them here in the south.  Where the hell are the Italian bakeries!?  #spoiled ex NYer

Are you in Charlotte?? I may not be remembering correctly. Nona's Sweets has them.  They are Italian and have Italian pastries etc.

www.nonassweets.com/cookies.php

I am!!! Thanks, I bookmarked that site so I can check them out!!

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usuallylurking, I'm impressed!!!

[compassrose]

Dec 17, 2016 16:40:26 GMT -5 orval said:

Dec 17, 2016 16:01:20 GMT -5 @blueyes623 said:

We used to make the press cookies when I was a kid!  I think I might attempt Pignoli cookies because I love them and can't find them here in the south.  Where the hell are the Italian bakeries!?  #spoiled ex NYer

Are you in Charlotte?? I may not be remembering correctly. Nona's Sweets has them.  They are Italian and have Italian pastries etc.

www.nonassweets.com/cookies.php

We make them in my family but refer to them as 'the expensive cookies' since the pine nuts and almond paste are so expensive. I have a recipe somewhere.

[compassrose]

I also make thumbprint cookies and molasses cookies (which are my favorites).

Molasses Cookies

3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup crisco
1 egg
1/2 cup molasses
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda
2 cup flour

cream sugar and shortening. add rest. roll into 1 inch balls, roll in sugar and flatten to 3/8 inch with a glass. bake 9-10 minutes at 350.

*I usually use butter instead of Crisco, and I add in a 1/4 t allspice, ginger, and nutmeg.

[agnes]

Ocean Spray's oatmeal craisin chocolate chip

[jinkies]

I only make 2 kinds: butter spritz, and fiesta fudge cookies (which start with sugar cookie mix and are my kids favorite).

My favorite is jam thumbprint, though. I don't know why I don't make them.

My mom always makes russian teacakes, and these flakey butter cookies that you slice on a meat slicer.

[zitiqueen]

Magic cookie bars. It's not Christmas without magic cookie bars.

[usuallylurking]

Dec 17, 2016 20:51:45 GMT -5 @blueyes623 said:

usuallylurking, I'm impressed!!!

Lol. Thanks! Partly out of necessity (gifts) but also indecisiveness on wanting to try a bunch of stuff.

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Dec 17, 2016 21:08:32 GMT -5 zitiqueen said:

Magic cookie bars. It's not Christmas without magic cookie bars.

I always made them for the Christmas potluck at my old job.  Damn they are so delicious.  

[FastHands]

Italian flag cookies are my favorite, but I'm too damn lazy to make them, and you can't buy them here. Hoping my parents bring some from their bakery. They know not to show up without Utz chips for H and Wawa fruit punch for me, but they don't always think about my rainbow cookies. Fingers crossed!

[fortnightlily]

My sister made these last year and I loved them: Ginger orange creme sandwich cookies

www.washingtonpost.com/recipes/orange-ginger-creams/13126/?tid=ss_pin&utm_term=.00d82e8f516c

[venice2007]

I make-
Cut outs
Spritz
Baklava
Snowballs
Some type of new cookie. This year was egg nog cream bars
Biscotti
Snickerdoodles
Butter tarts

Some years I add-Italian drop cookies and m&m chocolate chip

[pierogigirl]

The traditional ones for us are:
Peanut blossoms
Sour cream sugar cookie cutouts

Every year I vary the others. This year is a Crinkle Christmas. I'm trying (for the first time) Mocha Crinkles and Gingerbread Crinkles,

I also bought a bag of crushed candy canes and I want to make chocolate cookies with peppermint frosting and candy cane sprinkles.

[grover]

usuallylurking, would love your buckeye bark recipe if you're willing to share.

...We have two double batches of buckeyes on the agenda for today. Also going to do a batch of plain Nestle Tollhouse chocolate chip cookies for my FIL (for years MIL told me that FIL only ate ghirradeli chocolate chip cookies...Now he snubs down her cookies for my nestle cookies )

If I have time (at this rate, I might do after Christmas while I'm on break) I want to do frosted sugar cookies, brownie crackle cookies, and firecracker (m&m and sprinkle) cookies.

[usuallylurking]

Dec 18, 2016 10:56:12 GMT -5 grover said:

usuallylurking, would love your buckeye bark recipe if you're willing to share.

...We have two double batches of buckeyes on the agenda for today. Also going to do a batch of plain Nestle Tollhouse chocolate chip cookies for my FIL (for years MIL told me that FIL only ate ghirradeli chocolate chip cookies...Now he snubs down her cookies for my nestle cookies )

If I have time (at this rate, I might do after Christmas while I'm on break) I want to do frosted sugar cookies, brownie crackle cookies, and firecracker (m&m and sprinkle) cookies.

Super easy, I just made it last night! Disclaimer is that I haven't eaten any of it yet though, lol.
www.the-girl-who-ate-everything.com/2016/12/buckeye-bark.html

[dragon's breath]

I won't get to make all these this year, but these are the usual Christmas cookie suspects...

Chocolate Crinkle

www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/surprise-package-cookies (Andes mints wrapped in a cookie)

www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/peanut-butter-kiss-cookies (no flour, they have a different texture that I really like)

Candy cane cookies-- the original recipe from Betty Crocker (my book is from the 50s I think, this is one from childhood though, we made them every year, but always skipped the candy/sugar topping. The first bite they just taste weird and I always think "I don't like these". But the second bite I'm addicted and want to eat the whole plate. I think it's the almond extract.) apassionateplate.com/betty-crockers-candy-cane-cookies/

Sonja Henie cookies (these might be the same as what everyone is calling thumbprint cookies?) Use a family recipe, mom didn't make them often when we were kids, just for "special occasions" because they were too time consuming (she had 5 kids).

I love Russian teacakes (now that I've looked them up). I've never heard that name for them, my recipe comes out of an old pecan recipe book I was given years ago.

My mom makes candies-- coconut balls (like mounds bars) and peanut butter balls (similar to buckeyes I think, but they use graham cracker crumbs to cut the sweetness). We always did spritz cookies growing up as well, I should make those again.