S/O are your 'must have' Christmas cookies...

[TBM]

...the cookies of your childhood?

What about the cookies that you don't think of as must have Christmas cookies? Is it because you truly don't like them or because your family didn't bake them when you were a child?





As you can see, I am taking procrastination to a new level today.;p

[mrs.jacinthe]

Must have: Galettes (the belgian waffle cookie - but NOT a stroopwaffle), grandma's sugar cookies, and these weird frosting-filled date things my mom always made for herself.

Non-must-have: chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter blossoms, and anything with mint (I'm allergic). Chocolate chip is NOT a christmas cookie and it bothers me when people want to make them for Christmas. Likewise with PB Blossoms. I like both of them, but they're just NOT Christmassy, IMO.

[thewop]

Rum balls. And it's not a cookie but Bonket. My great-grandma used to make it, and I loved it. So much. I haven't had it since she died years ago. I need to dig out the recipe someone gave me for it, and make it for my mom.

[munkii]

I don't do Christmas cookies, but December cookies of my childhood were rosettes. We also always made buñuelos (like elephant ears) in December.

[mrsemilys]

Yes. My mom and I made sugar cookies and decorated them with sprinkles every year for as long as I can remember. I plan to continue the tradition with DD even though they really are kinda ugly.

[TBM]

There are a handful of cookies that we make that are a tradition in our family, but our other must haves are newer recipes that we love and only make for the holidays.

There are a lot of cookies and treats that don't seem holiday worthy to me, and I know that it is because we never made them for holidays when I was a kid. I am sure that the cookies that we make probably get the 'but those aren't Christmas cookies' reaction from others, because they aren't their tradition.

Some of the cookies that make me think of this are things like snickerdoodles and chocolate chip cookies. We made those often, so they don't seem to have the 'once a year, special' thing going on. And rice krispy treats. We never liked them,(although we loved rice krispies, marshmallows, and butter-separately...go figure), but people we knew always had them for other occasions, so I didn't understand making them for Christmas. I have no idea where these notions came from..some weird logic on my part.lol

[TBM]

Nov 15, 2012 16:28:14 GMT -5 mrsemilys said:

Yes. My mom and I made sugar cookies and decorated them with sprinkles every year for as long as I can remember. I plan to continue the tradition with DD even though they really are kinda ugly.

We used to have 'ugly cookie contests' with our decorated sugar cookies.lol We did 'paintbrush cookies', which I loved and I miss, but I did not inherit the rolled cookie gene. My oldest daughter did, but her youngest is allergic to egg and a zillion other things, so she can't make them with her kids.

[emoflamingo]

Chocolate crinkles and no-bake cookies.

[minniebee]

my mom's sugar cookies (they are not the cut-out kind)

snickerdoodles

peanut blossoms

gingerbread cutouts (this is always an afternoon of fun with my nephews that results in flour being all.over.my.kitchen)

spritz

date trilbies

These aren't cookies, but are standard holiday treats in my family, which as you can tell, is of Norwegian decent:

lefse

rosettes

goro krumkake

sandbakkelser

[darby]

My grandma always made stained glass cookies during the holidays. They will always remind me of her even though I don't particularly like them. They are colored mini marshmallows, with a chocolate binder of some sort & then rolled in nuts (or graham cracker crumbs) shaped into a log & then sliced. Snickerdoodles were only during the holidays for us.

I agree that chocolate chip cookies don't say holiday to me, but my coworkers love for me to make toll house pan cookies, so I brush them with edible gold sparkle powder - which makes anything festive!

[tarheels]

We have a family shortbread/sugar/tea cake cookie recipe from a great-grandmother. They're hard to describe because I've never tasted another cookie like them anywhere. I have no other childhood cookie memories because no one in my family besides me and my aunt can cook

[sjh722]

Nov 15, 2012 16:23:39 GMT -5 thewop said:

Rum balls. And it's not a cookie but Bonket. My great-grandma used to make it, and I loved it. So much. I haven't had it since she died years ago. I need to dig out the recipe someone gave me for it, and make it for my mom.

Mmm. My mom always makes it too (and I have no idea how to spell it. Banquet? Banket? I'm pretty sure it's Dutch, but none of those spellings look dutch to me!). I actually think my mom's recipe card is labelled Butter Letter and you can shape it into long rolls or into letters. (duh)

[munkii]

Nov 15, 2012 22:04:47 GMT -5 sjh722 said:

Nov 15, 2012 16:23:39 GMT -5 thewop said:

Rum balls. And it's not a cookie but Bonket. My great-grandma used to make it, and I loved it. So much. I haven't had it since she died years ago. I need to dig out the recipe someone gave me for it, and make it for my mom.

Mmm. My mom always makes it too (and I have no idea how to spell it. Banquet? Banket? I'm pretty sure it's Dutch, but none of those spellings look dutch to me!). I actually think my mom's recipe card is labelled Butter Letter and you can shape it into long rolls or into letters. (duh)

Are these what you're talking about? If so, they look delicious!


daisylanecakes.blogspot.com/2009/03/banket-dutch-almond-cookies.html

[magdala9]

They are a combination of my childhood cookies and DH's favorites.

[sjh722]

Nov 15, 2012 22:29:34 GMT -5 munkii said:

Nov 15, 2012 22:04:47 GMT -5 sjh722 said:

Mmm. My mom always makes it too (and I have no idea how to spell it. Banquet? Banket? I'm pretty sure it's Dutch, but none of those spellings look dutch to me!). I actually think my mom's recipe card is labelled Butter Letter and you can shape it into long rolls or into letters. (duh)

Are these what you're talking about? If so, they look delicious!


daisylanecakes.blogspot.com/2009/03/banket-dutch-almond-cookies.html

Yes, that's it. It's amazing. The best part of being Dutch at Christmas time.

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[sierramist03]

We have a family recipe for sugar cookies I have to make in a certain bowl even

[cza]

sugar cookies
russian tea cakes
peanut butter blossoms
thumb print
jam shortbread bars
magic cookie bars

[TBM]

Nov 15, 2012 23:31:43 GMT -5 magdala9 said:

They are a combination of my childhood cookies and DH's favorites.

(*) You win the reading comprehension award!