Anonymous
Post 12/22/2024 21:32     Subject: what is on your Christmas cookie platter?
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.
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2024 21:23     Subject: what is on your Christmas cookie platter?
Iced sugar cookie cut outs
Iced Gingerbread men
Peanut butter cookies decorated to look like reindeer
Chocolate cookies
Macaroons
Cranberry bars
Rum balls
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2024 18:45     Subject: what is on your Christmas cookie platter?
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
Post 12/22/2024 18:43     Subject: what is on your Christmas cookie platter?
Thumbprints with jam, lemon curd & nutella
Millionaires shortbread
Neapolitan checkerboard cookies
Rum butter cookies
Maybe one more, TBD
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2024 18:04     Subject: what is on your Christmas cookie platter?
For Christmas I have pumpkin roll and some cutout cookies. That’s it. I can’t marine baking 8 kinds of cookies.
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2024 17:49     Subject: what is on your Christmas cookie platter?
snowball
gingerbread men
jam thumbprint
peanut butter kiss
pecan sandies
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2024 17:47     Subject: what is on your Christmas cookie platter?
My Grandmothers was:

Chocolate fudge
Divinity
Shortbread
Peanut butter / kiss
Russian tea cakes
...wish I could remember more!
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2024 17:43     Subject: what is on your Christmas cookie platter?
Peanut butter kiss cookies
Monster oatmeal cookies
Chocolate peanut butter balls
Chocolate fudge
Scotcheroos
Mint brownies
Vegan chocolate chip cookies
Fudge cup cookies
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2024 17:40     Subject: what is on your Christmas cookie platter?
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
Post 12/22/2024 17:27     Subject: what is on your Christmas cookie platter?
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
Post 12/22/2024 16:49     Subject: what is on your Christmas cookie platter?
PP again, I forgot my DD also wants to make snickerdoodles. Anyone have a good recipe?
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2024 16:48     Subject: what is on your Christmas cookie platter?
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
Post 12/22/2024 16:25     Subject: what is on your Christmas cookie platter?
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
Post 12/22/2024 15:48     Subject: what is on your Christmas cookie platter?
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
Post 12/22/2024 15:42     Subject: what is on your Christmas cookie platter?
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