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cookies from an Italian bakery in the town where I grew up that I HAVE to eat when I am back visiting around the holidays. They are harder on the outside and moist and cake-like on the inside with an almond flavor. There is also a candied cherry on top. Yummmmm....
LOVE the ones with a hersey kiss or peanut butter cup smooshed in. Also love the snowflake looking ones (I think pizzelle or something?). And the simple white meringue ones or the peanut buttery ones covered in chocolate...I could go on for awhile!!
When I was growing up, every year my mom would make sugar cookies shaped like different holiday things like reindeers and santas and then sprinkle green and/or red sprinkles on them. Very simple but they epitomize holiday cookies to me. Those and Russian tea cakes!
Peanut butter sugar cookie with hershey kiss ontop of it! mmm, my mom and FMIL make amazing ones!
Mine are a little unusual - they're called Jan Hagel. My Nana got the recipe from her German neighbor when she moved here from Scotland they're amazing and people are always impressed by them. It's basically a sugar cookie recipe doubled & spread out in a sheet pan - sprinkle cinnamon sugar and almonds on top bake & cut it on a diagonal when it's still warm.
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StephinPA: I am a lot like you! My mom and I used to bake and decorate sugar cookies. Those are my favorite. :)
@Dancy - That cookie looks SO GOOD!
@Gemstone - I can't go one Christmas without them!
Mexican Wedding Cakes have always been my favorite since I was a kid. Even better that they are so simple and easy to make.
@Dancy, that looks delicious and my husband loves almonds. Do you have a recipe?
These almond cookies my mom makes. They're super buttery! And shortbread. I like dense cookies with lots of butter! The almond cookies aren't like Dancy's, but they're amaaaaazing! Yankee Candle has a candle that smells JUST like them!
@ bvig they're the easiest things in the world - I literally make a double batch recipe of sugar cookies (I tried it once with a shortbread recipe too), spread it out in a sheet pan and cover it with cinnamon sugar & almonds (sometimes an egg wash helps it stick to the dough), throw it in the oven for 20m or until it's starting to turn brown, then when it's still warm, but not too hot I take a pizza cutter and cut it into little diamonds. When I'm lazy I don't even make the dough - I use a couple of the sugar cookie tubes that you buy in the grocery store. LOL
Ooh Jan Hagels look great! My favorite is the chocolate crackle with powdered sugar on top!
I'm with ottawa - shortbread mmmmm - now you guys made me want to make some!
Maybe I'm boring but its hard to beat a classic chocolate chip cookie. I also love neiman marcus cookies but they're a pain in the butt to make so we don't do it every year :)
MMMMMM I just made 96 of the peanut butter blossoms! (with a hershey kiss on top...yum. yum yum yum. ) But I would have to say my all time favorite christmas cookie is the danish royal, my grandma and then my mom and then me, made them in a cookie press. They look like spritz cookies but they are buttery and almond-y and FABULOUS. OK, guys....trying HARD to stick to my diet here....maybe if I just look at all these cookie pics.....sigh. ;-)
I love gingerbread - perhaps I'm the only one, but gingerbread men just SCREAM Christmas to me! I also like ginger snaps! I always make some sort of break n' bake cookie with our nephew - this year its chocolate chip walnut and chocolate chunk (last year was sugar cookies and gingerbread men). It's neat because even with all the hustle and bustle of the season, I always manage to pick some break n' bakes up on sale somewhere and keep them for Christmas Eve so he and I can bake them! :) Nothing like warm cookies baking as you open gifts around the tree!
Bella
Peanutbutter with chocolate kiss, and coconut date balls. YUM YUM YUMMM!!!!! I'm going to bake Christmas Cookies with my Grandma and sister this weekend!!!!
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@Bratsy - tell me more about this cookie (danish royal). What makes them different from the spritz? They sound really good!!! I might be interested in making them.
@Bella Luna: Gingerbread for sure!!!! Until I got to your post, I was thinking I was the only one!!
They have to be soft though! mmmmm FI and I make a huge batch every year!
Spritz! My mom makes them better than me, even though I use her recipe :)
@ alundberg WOW! Those coconut date balls look awesome. Are they easy to make? I'm lazy hah!
Oh I'm def. a huge shortbread fan too. My Nanny was born & raised in Scotland so shortbread is pretty much a "sacred" thing in my family. My brothers used to make it and I actually get FI to make now it because he's stronger -- it works the butter more & they come out better.
I know it's weird, but I can't eat gingerbread men. I always think they look too pretty to eat - that and I feel bad eating them. It's like biting the ears off the chocolate easter bunnies. LOL
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If you have one, what is it?
Mine is the buttery spritz cookie. Plus it also reminds me of my childhood making them with my mom.
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