what is on your Christmas cookie platter?

[Anonymous]

spritz cookies
M&M cookies
fudge
peanut butter balls (I think people call these buckeyes?)
frosted sugar cookies
jam thumbprints
molasses spice
peanut butter/hershey kiss
chococlate cookie with peppermint kiss

[Anonymous]

I only make four kinds but I think it's a great mix:

Peanut butter/hershey's kiss
Molasses Spice
Spritz with red and green sprinkles
Peppermint shortbread with royal icing

The peanut butter kiss cookies satisfy chocolate cravings, the molasses spice feel seasonally appropriate, the spritz are small and buttery so it's a perfect small bite treat, and the peppermint shortbread are the prettiest and go great with hot cocoa.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I only make four kinds but I think it's a great mix:

Peanut butter/hershey's kiss
Molasses Spice
Spritz with red and green sprinkles
Peppermint shortbread with royal icing

The peanut butter kiss cookies satisfy chocolate cravings, the molasses spice feel seasonally appropriate, the spritz are small and buttery so it's a perfect small bite treat, and the peppermint shortbread are the prettiest and go great with hot cocoa.

You're right - that sounds like a fantastic platter! What's your peppermint shortbread recipe?

[Anonymous]

LOL at "holiday cookie platter".

We make buckeyes, sugar cookies frosted and decorated with royal icing, shortbread candy canes, peanut butter blossoms, and chocolate chip cookies annually. This year we are also going to try stained glass cookies.

[Anonymous]

PP again, I forgot my DD also wants to make snickerdoodles. Anyone have a good recipe?

[Anonymous]

Cherry cardamom rugelach
Chocolate rugelach
Chocolate hazelnut cookies with white chocolate chips, dark chocolate chips and hazelnuts with hazelnut butter in the batter
Mexican wedding cakes with dried cherries and pistachios

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP again, I forgot my DD also wants to make snickerdoodles. Anyone have a good recipe?

I like Sally’s Baking Addiction recipe.

[Anonymous]

Peanut butter kiss cookies
Monster oatmeal cookies
Chocolate peanut butter balls
Chocolate fudge
Scotcheroos
Mint brownies
Vegan chocolate chip cookies
Fudge cup cookies

[Anonymous]

My Grandmothers was:

Chocolate fudge
Divinity
Shortbread
Peanut butter / kiss
Russian tea cakes
...wish I could remember more!

[Anonymous]

snowball
gingerbread men
jam thumbprint
peanut butter kiss
pecan sandies

[Anonymous]

For Christmas I have pumpkin roll and some cutout cookies. That’s it. I can’t marine baking 8 kinds of cookies.

[Anonymous]

Thumbprints with jam, lemon curd & nutella
Millionaires shortbread
Neapolitan checkerboard cookies
Rum butter cookies
Maybe one more, TBD

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I only make four kinds but I think it's a great mix:

Peanut butter/hershey's kiss
Molasses Spice
Spritz with red and green sprinkles
Peppermint shortbread with royal icing

The peanut butter kiss cookies satisfy chocolate cravings, the molasses spice feel seasonally appropriate, the spritz are small and buttery so it's a perfect small bite treat, and the peppermint shortbread are the prettiest and go great with hot cocoa.

You're right - that sounds like a fantastic platter! What's your peppermint shortbread recipe?

I use the holiday cookie recipe from America's test kitchen and add peppermint to the dough and the icing.

Though this year the NYT did a peppermint shortbread recipe so I might try that next time I make them. It's pretty similar though -- shortbread is pretty basic. The trick is more with the icing, balancing the extract so you still get the right consistency for decorating (don't want to thin it out too much).

[Anonymous]

Iced sugar cookie cut outs
Iced Gingerbread men
Peanut butter cookies decorated to look like reindeer
Chocolate cookies
Macaroons
Cranberry bars
Rum balls

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My Grandmothers was:

Chocolate fudge
Divinity
Shortbread
Peanut butter / kiss
Russian tea cakes
...wish I could remember more!

My grandmother made date nut loaf (candy) and oatmeal cookies (because they were my favorite) and my grandfather always whipped up a batch of fudge, which was his specialty. As a teen during the war he once used up his mother’s sugar ration making fudge.