Christmas cookie assortment - what categories of cookies do you make?

[Anonymous]

I was just coming to ask a similar question. I am planning to make 3 batches for a work thing, and I’m trying to figure out the balance of flavors. Love all these ideas. I’m thinking I’ll go with chocolate chip, lemon bars, and either a molasses/spice cookie or a double-layer jam-filled, depending on how energetic I feel.

[Anonymous]

We do a cookie-candy blend.

Chocolate Chip
Cranberry Shortbread
Ginger Snaps
Rolled out Sugar Cookies (Sweaters for Ugly Sweater decorating contest)
Peppermint Bark
Bourbon Balls
Buckeyes
Lemon Bars
Pecan Tassies

[Anonymous]

Christmas cookies are so disappointing. They almost always look way better than they taste. The store-bought ones are especially awful. What is it about Christmas cookies that they’re nearly always dry and crumbly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Christmas cookies are so disappointing. They almost always look way better than they taste. The store-bought ones are especially awful. What is it about Christmas cookies that they’re nearly always dry and crumbly?

What kind are you talking about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you all making full batches of all these cookies? If so, what do you do with them all?

Um. Eat them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Christmas cookies are so disappointing. They almost always look way better than they taste. The store-bought ones are especially awful. What is it about Christmas cookies that they’re nearly always dry and crumbly?

Not mine. I usually end up baking every few days because they go so fast.

[Anonymous]

I usually do:

sugar cookies decorated with sparkling sugar (not royal icing)
molasses ginger cookies
Martha Stewart Chocolate cherry
Chocolate chip shortbread

Sometimes: chocolate mint snow topped cookies (but it's hard to find mint chips so I stopped making these years ago, but found some mint chips this year so I might give it a whirl again).

I want to make fudge, too, and I have a recipe I want to try for mince brownies. I sort of want to try mince hand pies, but not sure if I'll get to it. Also have a recipe for chocolate ginger crinkle cookies from Leite's, thinking about trying it (though I have the mint chips so not sure I need two types of crinkle).

I make boxes for neighbors and some friends and some family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have tons of cookie recipes saved and love trying new recipes but don’t have time to make everything I’d like to, and I have a huge sweet tooth so having tons of cookies in the house is not ideal.

I usually do a jam thumbprint cookie (request from one kid) and cutout cookies with frosting (both kids want those). My other cookies vary - sometimes a ginger cookie (soft or ginger snap), sometimes peanut butter blossoms (the kids like them, though I don’t like biting into a big Hershey’s kiss and would like to try a chocolate ganache filling instead), coconut macaroons dipped in chocolate, biscotti, shortbread, snickerdoodles, butter cookies, chocolate dipped pretzels or some form of chocolate cookie or dressed up brownie. And there are plenty more that I haven’t made but would like to try (iced oatmeal cookies or some kind of whoopie pie, lemon ricotta cookies).

Help me narrow it down. 😀 What are your must have cookies or types of cookies?

Try Nutella instead of a kiss. And easier than making ganache….not that ganache is difficult

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Each family member picks their favorite and that is what I make. 5 in our family, so 5 different cookies. My favorite is peppermint bark. Don't know if that counts as a cookie, but I count it and make it!

yes, that counts!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Christmas cookies are so disappointing. They almost always look way better than they taste. The store-bought ones are especially awful. What is it about Christmas cookies that they’re nearly always dry and crumbly?

Not mine. I usually end up baking every few days because they go so fast.

people make them way too early and they dry out. They’re best when freshest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you all making full batches of all these cookies? If so, what do you do with them all?

Um. Eat them.

Really? If you are making 5+ batches of cookies at a 2-3+ dozen each, that is way more cookies than any one family should/can eat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Christmas cookies are so disappointing. They almost always look way better than they taste. The store-bought ones are especially awful. What is it about Christmas cookies that they’re nearly always dry and crumbly?

Not mine. I usually end up baking every few days because they go so fast.

I like this! Then they are replenished by fresh cookies

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Christmas cookies are so disappointing. They almost always look way better than they taste. The store-bought ones are especially awful. What is it about Christmas cookies that they’re nearly always dry and crumbly?

What kind are you talking about?

Bad ones have probably been made in advance, frozen and defrosted. Don't do this. Fresh only. They won't last more than a few days before they start going stale.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you all making full batches of all these cookies? If so, what do you do with them all?

Um. Eat them.

Really? If you are making 5+ batches of cookies at a 2-3+ dozen each, that is way more cookies than any one family should/can eat.

I am the OP, and that’s why I posted. I normally bake full batches of 4-5 kinds of cookies, freeze most of them, and then toss them soon after Christmas because I will eat them if they’re in the house. After reading the replies, I think I’m going to do 4 kinds of cookies this year - jam thumbprints, oatmeal cherry, ginger spice cookies and peanut butter dipped in chocolate. The kids each picked a favorite and I’m trying new recipes for the other two. I will probably still make full batches of the dough, but only bake half the recipe and freeze the other half of the dough to bake later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Each family member picks their favorite and that is what I make. 5 in our family, so 5 different cookies. My favorite is peppermint bark. Don't know if that counts as a cookie, but I count it and make it!

NP- YUM. I have been craving peppermint and thought about buying peppermint bark. Maybe I’ll try and make it! Do you have a favorite recipe?