What's your favorite kind of Christmas cookie?
By mentalward
@mentalward (14690)
United States
December 3, 2008 9:02am CST
I'm getting ready to start my cookie baking marathon this weekend. After that will come the bread baking marathon. I do this every year and give these out as Christmas gifts. Everyone has come to expect them so I try never to disappoint them.
I was thinking about the kinds of cookies I bake every year and decided I'd like to add one or two different kinds this year. Normally, I make chocolate chip, oatmeal, sugar, butter and gingerbread cookies.
Do you have a favorite that isn't one of these? Something different but not too hard to make? I'd love to surprise everyone with something new but I just don't know which ones to go for. I'll go with the 2 most popular ones mentioned here.
Can you help me out?
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19 responses
@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
3 Dec 08
I actually love the Danish cookies that come in the tin can. I can't get through winter without them. I make Chocolate Chip ones that Hubby really loves but I can't eat them b/c I'm diabetic...I cheat on the Danish ones :)
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@miraclefreebies (3043)
• United States
3 Dec 08
Danish cookies are good. I tried them only once 2 years ago. A neighbor introduced them to me. I never bought them or cooked them a day in my life, but they were off the hook yummy.
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@luvstochat (6907)
• United States
3 Dec 08
I really love the sugar cookies that are decorated with frosting those are so yummy. I love the shapes you can get them in candy canes, Chrismtas trees stars and can make the icing the color you need it the icing is the best part of the cookie! I do like oatmeal chocolate chip cookies too.
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@lilybug (21107)
• United States
3 Dec 08
My favorite thing to do with a batch of basic Oatmeal cookie dough is to split it into 3 bowls. In one bowl I add the cinnamon and raisins for Oatmeal Raisin Cookies. In the second I add dried cranberries and white chocolate chips. In the third bowl I add some cocoa powder and make chocolate oatmeal cookies. I will sometimes do a double batch so I can make some Oatmeal Scotchies too. Those are the ones with butterscotch chips in them.
You can do the same with Chocolate chip dough, well not exactly the same. You can do some with chocolate chips, some with chocolate chips and nuts, some with chocolate chips and m&m's, and you can even do some chocolate chocolate chip by adding some cocoa powder.
Peanut Butter cookies are one of my favorites. I split the batch on those too. Some Plain peanut butter, some with Reeces, some with toffee bits in them, and I even do some with peanut butter cream in the middle(basically peanut butter, butter, and powdered sugar).
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@bunnybon7 (50970)
• Holiday, Florida
3 Dec 08
i used to love and love to bake peanut butter kisses. they are peanutbutter cookies with hersheys kisses put on top as soon as they are out of the oven. my kids and all their friends in the neighborhood would gobble them up as fast as i could bake them.
@miraclefreebies (3043)
• United States
3 Dec 08
I love peanut butter cookies. Yummy, we cook them all the time. You can make them soft or crunchy, any way you want it. Have you ever tried peanut butter cookies?
We use a recipe off the internet. It's very easy to make. I'm not sure if you already make those or not. It's not in your list so I just assumed that you didn't.
I think I'm gonna make some today, I made oatmeal cookies yesterday.
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@chaobreeder16 (425)
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3 Dec 08
Two of my favorites are already there, the ginger bread and the chocolate chip. Did you ever think of making double layer lemon cookies with two biscuits then like a lemony butter in between?
Or a combination like having a peanut butter and chocolate cookie or chocolate and hazelnut cookie.I kind of like the idea of chocolate and orange cookies myself.Or an oatmeal cookie with fruit and nuts? Then it would be more like a granola cookie then I suppose.
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@annjilena (5618)
• United States
4 Dec 08
i like suger cookie and let,s not forget chocolate chip cookes and also like brownies that hot coming out the oven yumme they taste so good.i like oatmeal cookies too.i don,t like butter cookies at all don,t have a taste for them.sounds like you going to have a filled weekend.happy mylot baking
@ahgong (10064)
• Singapore
4 Dec 08
When I bake for Christmas, it is usually to bake the fruit cakes.
And my parents and my in laws, including my wife love it a lot.
It takes a lot of preparation. But it is all worth it when everyone enjoys the cake.
I have cut down on my baking a lot of late. Partly due to a new job commitment. Partly due to my newly marriage responsibilities. And also partly due to the fact that I just bought a new home and it is not furnished with an oven yet.
As for cookies, I rarely make them. If I ever do bake cookies, it is pineapple tarts for the Chinese New Year!
Those get gobbled up pretty fast as well. Faster than I can bake them if I did not bar everyone out of the kitchen! 





@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
6 Dec 08
chocolate chip, butter, sugar and oatmeal!! lol im not that picky
@anitajayakumar (1202)
• India
4 Dec 08
This is one that is always a favorite, and a little bit different:
Rugelach -- 3 dozen
1 cup butter, softened
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
2 ¾ cups all purpose white flour
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup raisins, chopped
1 cup chopped nuts
2 tablespoons cinnamon
1 cup All fruit Apricot jam, Polaner's brand is good
Cream together the butter and cream cheese with an electric mixer. Blend in vanilla. Mix in flour. Chill dough.
Make filling: mix together the chopped raisins, nuts and cinnamon. This is an even better filling when processed in food processor with short pulses.
Divide dough into 4 equal portions. On lightly floured surface, roll out each portion into a 10" circle, 1/8" thick between two sheets of wax paper. Remove top piece of wax paper, spread light layer of preserves over each circle, about 2 tablespoons per circle. Sprinkle top of preserves with 1/4 of the filling per circle.
Cut each circle into 16 wedges. Starting at largest end, roll up each wedge like a crescent. Place each roll, point down, on lightly greased baking sheet that have been lined with wax paper.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Bake cookies for 15 - 17 minutes, or until golden brown. Remove to racks to cool.
@fasttalker (2796)
• United States
3 Dec 08
My favorite store bought cookies are the butter cookies in the tins. Homemade are molasses cookies. I always make a giant batch for Christmas and give them as gifts!
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@angelface23 (2494)
• United States
3 Dec 08
ooohh. Every year some lady gives my Grandma like two tins of cookies she made. I'll go by those cookies. Theres an assortment and trying to remember which kinds were in there.... I liked the peanut butter with the hersey kiss in the middle, a tiny cupcake paper that had a dollop of cheesecake and a cherry on top. That's all I can remember right now but there are a lot of good ones. I can't wait till this year. If I can remember I'll tell you what kind they are.
@eaforeman6 (8979)
• United States
4 Dec 08

@pergammano (7682)
• Canada
3 Dec 08
Well, busy little beaver....How about Rum Balls? My son says Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without them! I find simple to make, as you mix all the dry ingredients together, work the almond paste in, melt the butter, add the rum (some for you, too!) Sit on your duff, and roll them into walnut size, toss them into a bowl with chopped nuts or coconut or powdered chocolate! Voila! Another treat!
I have also rolled them in edible gold foil, just a few, brightens up the gift tray!
@faizi1 (157)
• Pakistan
3 Dec 08
dear mentalward
well the christmas is coming on the way i vish you for christmas happy christmas an there i no favourite cookie of me because i am muslim and we did'nt celebrate that event we celebrates our EID which is also coming away when our EID festival is finished so your chrisdmas is started so happy chrisdmas day



















