The worst Holiday Cookies

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Peanut butter blossoms, the ones with the Hershey kiss smooshed on top.

The minute someone tells me they make these every year I know they are not a good baker.


What cookies do you dislike receiving?

Leave it to someone on DCUM to start a braggy, mean-spirited post in the Food forum. Happy holidays, OP!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Peanut butter blossoms, the ones with the Hershey kiss smooshed on top.

The minute someone tells me they make these every year I know they are not a good baker.


What cookies do you dislike receiving?

Leave it to someone on DCUM to start a braggy, mean-spirited post in the Food forum. Happy holidays, OP!

Right?

Also, my grandmother used to make those cookies, and she was an AMAZING baker and candymaker. But she liked those, and so did her friends and family, so she made them. Good bakers can bake simple things, too.

[Anonymous]

I dislike any dry cookies and cookies with nuts in them. No allergies, we just don’t like nuts or cranberries in baked goods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like the Hershey kiss cookies. They remind me of childhood and they’re easy and fun for kids to help with. My mom always gave me the job of unwrapping all the kisses and placing them in the cookie.

Not 100%, obviously, but I’ve noticed that people who brag about their baking skills are often not that great at it. And I’m always touched by homemade gifts, no matter the skill level of the baker.

They are a cookie you make with your kids or a cookie that your kid makes on their own. DD(12) has declared that they are "her" cookies to bake.

[Anonymous]

I'm not a huge peanut fan but I do love those peanut butter cookies with the hershey kisses. I've never made them, but wish I had a good recipe. My MIL used to make them. Now I buy them at a local bakery that does them very well.

I hardly ever make cookies because they're like potato chips. You make a batch of cookies, they will disappear before the day is over.

When I was younger I used to make tons of elaborate cookies, arrange them attractively in a tin and give them out as Xmas gifts. I enjoyed the process.

[Anonymous]

Those are fighting words, OP! Peanut butter blossoms is the TOP holiday cookie in our household. We already made, and ate, two batches 🤣

[Anonymous]

Thumbprint cookies. Jam belongs on toast, not in a cookie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not a huge peanut fan but I do love those peanut butter cookies with the hershey kisses. I've never made them, but wish I had a good recipe. My MIL used to make them. Now I buy them at a local bakery that does them very well.

I hardly ever make cookies because they're like potato chips. You make a batch of cookies, they will disappear before the day is over.

When I was younger I used to make tons of elaborate cookies, arrange them attractively in a tin and give them out as Xmas gifts. I enjoyed the process.

The recipe is usually on the bag of Hershey Kisses this time of year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Peanut butter blossoms, the ones with the Hershey kiss smooshed on top.

The minute someone tells me they make these every year I know they are not a good baker.


What cookies do you dislike receiving?

What cookies do you make, OP?

Biscotti- cranberry pecan
Amaretti
macarons
Italian 7 layer
pecan sandies
jam thumbprints


made thin mints one year

Ah, pretty cookies that no one actually enjoys.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thumbprint cookies. Jam belongs on toast, not in a cookie.

+1. Also peanut brittle (even though it’s really a candy).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not a huge peanut fan but I do love those peanut butter cookies with the hershey kisses. I've never made them, but wish I had a good recipe. My MIL used to make them. Now I buy them at a local bakery that does them very well.

I hardly ever make cookies because they're like potato chips. You make a batch of cookies, they will disappear before the day is over.

When I was younger I used to make tons of elaborate cookies, arrange them attractively in a tin and give them out as Xmas gifts. I enjoyed the process.

The recipe is usually on the bag of Hershey Kisses this time of year.

They put it on their website now, Hersheyland.

[Anonymous]

Worst holiday cookies? I enjoy most but I would also skip Thumbprints with jam, or anything with fruit/cranberries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Peanut butter blossoms, the ones with the Hershey kiss smooshed on top.

The minute someone tells me they make these every year I know they are not a good baker.


What cookies do you dislike receiving?

What cookies do you make, OP?

Biscotti- cranberry pecan
Amaretti
macarons
Italian 7 layer
pecan sandies
jam thumbprints


made thin mints one year

Depressing list of dry cookies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Peanut butter blossoms, the ones with the Hershey kiss smooshed on top.

The minute someone tells me they make these every year I know they are not a good baker.


What cookies do you dislike receiving?

What cookies do you make, OP?

Biscotti- cranberry pecan
Amaretti
macarons
Italian 7 layer
pecan sandies
jam thumbprints


made thin mints one year

Depressing list of dry cookies.

so what do you make? what is your non-depressing list?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For worst holiday cookies to me it's the ones that don't seem holiday-ish: chocolate chip, stuff like that.

My kids love chocolate chip cookies and always want to make them. For a holiday version, we add the red and green M&M's to the mix. May not seem holiday-ish, but it's what my kids want to make. And frankly, if it weren't for the kids, we wouldn't be making any holiday cookies, so what they want is what we make.