The worst Holiday Cookies
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Anonymous
One year, my aunt volunteered to host Christmas and decided that the whole meal would be healthful and served room temperature. The only decent thing was a wild rice dressing, but there was also a gorgeous cake on the sideboard for dessert, so we all consoled ourselves with the thought that at least dessert would be good. As she passed around slices of cake, my aunt announced brightly, "The cake is low fat!" It was dry as sawdust, and the "frosting" was barely flavored low-fat cream cheese. On our after-dinner walk, my 10-year-old cousin offered to buy everyone milkshakes with his Christmas money. |
Anonymous
Sorry OP, but all those are gross. I would take the thumbprint ones over any of those. Beauty and taste is in the eye of the beholder. |
Anonymous
Every Stollen I've eaten - here, in Germany, and even those made by my fairly expert baker Oma - has been dry dry dry. |
Anonymous
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I wouldn't even consider OP's list of cookies to qualify as Christmas cookies.
The trick to the peanut butter blossom is to just slightly under bake them so they stay soft and never get crispy--must be chewy once cooled down! I hate a tough cookie. Yes, I have baked mine at multiple different minutes to determine the perfect cookie baking time for my oven. Roll-out sugar cookies with can frosting and sprinkles are a favorite, love a clove cookie, chewy chocolate soft cookie, and those peanut butter buck-eyes (peanut butter ball dipped in chocolate). I wasn't excited to bake prior to reading this thread, but now I'm ready. |
Anonymous
I don’t like the Hershey kiss cookies either but also don’t like most of the ones on OP’s list! Good old sugar cookies (homemade not slice and bake) and gingerbread cookies are my favorites! I also like cookies like the butter pecan meltaways. And I really dislike those German Christmas cookies listed above. I think a lot of ppl try to get so fancy w their Christmas cookies and they turn out dry and bland. |
Anonymous
or else WAY too sweet |
Anonymous
Thanks for the idea! Much easier than making a ganache. 
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Anonymous
My family loves these. We've made different variations of them. You can also use nutter butter cookies instead of oreos and you get peanut butter balls. I think the key is to make them small. They are very rich so they should only be a couple bites. |
Anonymous
butter helps with the dryness |
Anonymous
This and the roll pretzel thing. That isn’t even a cookie. And anything with butterscotch chips. They taste like plastic |
Anonymous
It's like it never occurs to you that people may have had different cookies growing up in a different culture. |
Anonymous
Like what? OP’s cookies aren’t representative of a different culture. Most Americans descend from some other country & culture anyway. |
Anonymous
Why would making cookies from your own Christmas childhood qualify as "getting fancy?" |
Anonymous
| Peppermint bark or toffee or peanut brittle - type thing. I hate how it sticks to my teeth. I refuse to waste my calories on those |
Anonymous
Yeah I’m not talking about cookies from different cultures, I’m talking about Pinterest type cookies that ppl try to make “perfect” which usually just means they look nice, not that they taste good. No need for your snark. |