Festive holiday cookie that is not a cutout

[Anonymous]

The NYT peppermint brownie cookies are fabulous and festive looking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The NYT peppermint brownie cookies are fabulous and festive looking.

I find peppermint a horrible smell and taste. I do know that a lot of people like it, even those After Eight mint chocolates make me sick. People love them here, people love them back in my country in Europe.
I am confused about why, though. Can you help me out and understand what you like about the peppermint taste in sweets?
Is it something like cilantro? I hate cilantro too. Is it possible that whatever makes me hate cilantro makes me hate peppermint? I mean, I feel like I am choking if I accidentally eat something with peppermint. Even toothpaste causes me to cough.

This is not ripping apart people's taste, it is more about me understanding what it tastes to people that enjoy it.

[Anonymous]

We do a bunch of spritz sugar cookies with a cookie press every Christmas and they are stupid easy and very festive. My press has a classic spritz design but also a snowman, candy cane, and a wreath (though the wreath never works). Red and green sprinkles. It's a great cookie for when you want a treat but don't want something huge or rich. We also do peanut butter blossoms and orange molasses cookies, but the spritz are the most Christmas-y, IMO. Plus I like giving the kids cookies they can decorate as they wish.

You can also dip them in chocolate or turn them into sandwiches if you want, though I prefer the classic bare or with sprinkles. My mom does maraschino cherries in the middle plus sprinkles. The cherry is gross but I ait it looks very festive on a cookie tray.

[Anonymous]

If you look up former Yugoslavia cookies, kolaci, on YouTube, you will find some of the tastiest cookies ever, and many are easy to make.

[Anonymous]

I make cranberry pistachio shortbreads. They are slice and bake and look festive.

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Anonymous wrote:The NYT peppermint brownie cookies are fabulous and festive looking.

I find peppermint a horrible smell and taste. I do know that a lot of people like it, even those After Eight mint chocolates make me sick. People love them here, people love them back in my country in Europe.
I am confused about why, though. Can you help me out and understand what you like about the peppermint taste in sweets?
Is it something like cilantro? I hate cilantro too. Is it possible that whatever makes me hate cilantro makes me hate peppermint? I mean, I feel like I am choking if I accidentally eat something with peppermint. Even toothpaste causes me to cough.

This is not ripping apart people's taste, it is more about me understanding what it tastes to people that enjoy it.

You may have some kind of sensitivity. I've heard about cilantro allergy/sensitivity but have never heard anyone express such distaste for mint! Personally I don't care for wintergreen flavor, which is in some kind of mint flavorings; but it's just a pure dislike the same way I don't like beets - not a violent reaction like you're describing.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The NYT peppermint brownie cookies are fabulous and festive looking.

I find peppermint a horrible smell and taste. I do know that a lot of people like it, even those After Eight mint chocolates make me sick. People love them here, people love them back in my country in Europe.
I am confused about why, though. Can you help me out and understand what you like about the peppermint taste in sweets?
Is it something like cilantro? I hate cilantro too. Is it possible that whatever makes me hate cilantro makes me hate peppermint? I mean, I feel like I am choking if I accidentally eat something with peppermint. Even toothpaste causes me to cough.

This is not ripping apart people's taste, it is more about me understanding what it tastes to people that enjoy it.

You may have some kind of sensitivity. I've heard about cilantro allergy/sensitivity but have never heard anyone express such distaste for mint! Personally I don't care for wintergreen flavor, which is in some kind of mint flavorings; but it's just a pure dislike the same way I don't like beets - not a violent reaction like you're describing.

I can't stand wintergreen flavor! Pepto bismol anyone? I get so mad when toothpaste or mouthwash says "clean mint" but it's really that BS. I need a wintergreen twin to give it all to.

As for peppermint, I agree that it can be jarring with chocolate but other times it is very very good. It's a mood. If you are that sensitive to it, I would say there's something in the plant or the oil that is more "medicine" to you just like cilantro is "soap". We have primordial instincts to not eat poison. Maybe you were the strong branch of your ancestors, spitting the dangerous stuff out

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Anonymous wrote:Italian rainbow cookies are the clear winner. I am making them today, they will be ready tomorrow.

They are a winner but they’re not any simpler than cutout, frost and decorate with sprinkles cookies…looking for simpler recipe.

The Italian lemon cookies that just get glaze.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The NYT peppermint brownie cookies are fabulous and festive looking.

I find peppermint a horrible smell and taste. I do know that a lot of people like it, even those After Eight mint chocolates make me sick. People love them here, people love them back in my country in Europe.
I am confused about why, though. Can you help me out and understand what you like about the peppermint taste in sweets?
Is it something like cilantro? I hate cilantro too. Is it possible that whatever makes me hate cilantro makes me hate peppermint? I mean, I feel like I am choking if I accidentally eat something with peppermint. Even toothpaste causes me to cough.

This is not ripping apart people's taste, it is more about me understanding what it tastes to people that enjoy it.

You may have some kind of sensitivity. I've heard about cilantro allergy/sensitivity but have never heard anyone express such distaste for mint! Personally I don't care for wintergreen flavor, which is in some kind of mint flavorings; but it's just a pure dislike the same way I don't like beets - not a violent reaction like you're describing.

I can't stand wintergreen flavor! Pepto bismol anyone? I get so mad when toothpaste or mouthwash says "clean mint" but it's really that BS. I need a wintergreen twin to give it all to.

As for peppermint, I agree that it can be jarring with chocolate but other times it is very very good. It's a mood. If you are that sensitive to it, I would say there's something in the plant or the oil that is more "medicine" to you just like cilantro is "soap". We have primordial instincts to not eat poison. Maybe you were the strong branch of your ancestors, spitting the dangerous stuff out

Thanks for replying to me, and thanks to pp above you! I do have food allergies, but in a weird way, I do not break out in hives; I throw up! I remember I ordered a gyro in my 20s and puked in on the same street after two bites.
So, I understand raw onion celery, dairy, and roasted peppers give me these reactions, and you could be right about me; I can move my ears! What genetic gift, separately at that too, without moving a muscle on my face.
Yet, my family (of birth and my kids) eats raw onions like an apple! DS had chili with fresh red onion on top, and DD had red onion in her salad. I was about to hurl just sitting next to them. Either way, I am some sort of a freak show!
Lucky for me (or rather unlucky!), I am not allergic to SUGAR!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We do a bunch of spritz sugar cookies with a cookie press every Christmas and they are stupid easy and very festive. My press has a classic spritz design but also a snowman, candy cane, and a wreath (though the wreath never works). Red and green sprinkles. It's a great cookie for when you want a treat but don't want something huge or rich. We also do peanut butter blossoms and orange molasses cookies, but the spritz are the most Christmas-y, IMO. Plus I like giving the kids cookies they can decorate as they wish.

You can also dip them in chocolate or turn them into sandwiches if you want, though I prefer the classic bare or with sprinkles. My mom does maraschino cherries in the middle plus sprinkles. The cherry is gross but I ait it looks very festive on a cookie tray.

I love spritz cookies and LOVE the candied cherry in the middle - my mom would make these with red and green “cherries” 😂.

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Anonymous wrote:I make cranberry pistachio shortbreads. They are slice and bake and look festive.

Smitten Kitchen has a rosemary chocolate chunk shortbread recipe that always goes super fast at our house. Less Christmas-y but I think of shortbread has holiday centric no matter what.

[Anonymous]

This year I have made brown butter shortbread, pistachio thumbprints, Anzac biscuits, chocolate molasses chewies, meltways, palmiers, fruitcake refrigerator cookies. I also hate cutouts - too fiddly. The thing about the refrigerator cookies is that it’s almost a tradition that I forget a roll of them in the freezer until sometime later in the year. This year I found them on December 1st. They actually baked up just fine.

[Anonymous]

Too late for this Christmas, but my kids love sprinkle cookies. You could make those with a holiday sprinkle mix that’s just red & green.

https://celebratingsweets.com/soft-sprinkle-sugar-cookies/

[Anonymous]

I make peanut butter blossoms, but use the striped kisses (white and milk chocolate) and roll in red/green sugar

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I make peanut butter blossoms, but use the striped kisses (white and milk chocolate) and roll in red/green sugar

I love this idea! Thank you!