Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chocolate chip cookies are not Christmas cookies and shouldn't be brought to a cookie exchange.

Everybody RUN! The cookie police are here!

(Except the two of you who brought sugar cookies (boring) and fruitcake cookies (gag). You're good.)

I love you. You can come to my cookie exchange even if you bring store-bought cookies.

Chocolate Meringue Cookies
Ingredients

3 egg whites
1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2/3 cup white sugar
1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
1/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Directions

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
Combine egg whites, cream of tartar, and vanilla. Beat until the whites form soft peaks. Slowly add sugar; beat until stiff peaks form, and mixture becomes glossy. Fold in cocoa and chocolate chips.
Drop mixture by teaspoonfuls on to a greased cookie sheet. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes.

use a lip lock bag with a corner cut off to form the cookies.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/chocolate-meringue-cookies/detail.aspx

Gingersnaps

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/grandmas-gingersnaps/detail.aspx

this recipe is for chewier ones (unless you bake them longer.

You may want to substitute butter for margarine. Some reviewers recommended adding candied ginger or cardemom.

If you need to make a lot of cookies, buy a cookie press for $10 and make snowflakes, or Christmas trees. You can fit two dozen on a sheet and they're fast. Putting the cookie sheets in the freezer first helps the dough stick.

seriously, do NOT use store bought cookie dough for a cookie exchange!

For easy and fast, and 5 dozen, how about oatmeal chocolate no bake cookies? They are delish, and you basically just stir up about 5 ingredients in a pot on your stove, then drop them by teaspoonfuls onto wax paper and let them set.

The trick is to dissolve the sugar completely so they aren't gritty (remember, they are no bake!). Tons of recipes for them can be found googling online, with or without peanut butter.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mexican wedding cookies are very easy, if you have a standing mixer. I buy the nuts already ground at Trader Joe's. (I use almonds instead of pecans but either is fine!)

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Mexican-Wedding-Cakes-108073

I agree with PPs... chocolate child cookies are NOT Christmas cookies!

Does it have be an organic child?

LOL of course. EVERYTHING always MUST be organic.

Anonymous wrote:I made these for a cookie exchange last year and they were the hit of the party: betty crocker sugar cookie mix (you have to add eggs, possibly oil?) -- and I will say that the mix cookies taste MUCH MUCH MUCH more "real" than slice and bake. Make small cookies, cool them, and then make cookie "sandwiches" with nutella in the middle. Trust me. These will go FAST.

lovvve the betty crocker sugar cookie mix - doesn't taste like the pillsbury log at all. I think you add a stick of butter and an egg

I only know what rugelach is because it's always the last thing left on the office plate o' cookies, and I have, in moments of desperation, tried it. And learned WHY it was the last thing left, when even those weird little lemon-chalk-flavored shortbread balls rolled in powdered sugar are gone.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone loves rugelach, and it's so easy to make.

No they don't. It's always dry and pretty gross actually.

Oh, you've only had bad rugelachs, and you've never had a rugelach I made. Mine have a cream-cheese-and-butter dough that I roll up with the filling and that bakes up tender, flaky, and moist inside (the secret is high heat so that you brown quickly outside but don't dry out the inside), and I make various fruit flavors as well as a chocolate one.

Sorry but I have had everything from homemade to store bought. They just aren't good - and they are always dry. Even cream-cheese and butter recipes. I have never, ever seen anyone finish these off at a party or cookie exchange - they are definitely an unpopular cookie choice.

Anonymous wrote:Mexican wedding cookies are very easy, if you have a standing mixer. I buy the nuts already ground at Trader Joe's. (I use almonds instead of pecans but either is fine!)

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Mexican-Wedding-Cakes-108073

I agree with PPs... chocolate child cookies are NOT Christmas cookies!

Does it have be an organic child?

Mexican wedding cookies are very easy, if you have a standing mixer. I buy the nuts already ground at Trader Joe's. (I use almonds instead of pecans but either is fine!)

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Mexican-Wedding-Cakes-108073

I agree with PPs... chocolate child cookies are NOT Christmas cookies!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone loves rugelach, and it's so easy to make.

No they don't. It's always dry and pretty gross actually.

Oh, you've only had bad rugelachs, and you've never had a rugelach I made. Mine have a cream-cheese-and-butter dough that I roll up with the filling and that bakes up tender, flaky, and moist inside (the secret is high heat so that you brown quickly outside but don't dry out the inside), and I make various fruit flavors as well as a chocolate one.

Are you willing to share your recipe ?

Anonymous wrote:Chocolate chip cookies are not Christmas cookies and shouldn't be brought to a cookie exchange.

Everybody RUN! The cookie police are here!

(Except the two of you who brought sugar cookies (boring) and fruitcake cookies (gag). You're good.)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone loves rugelach, and it's so easy to make.

No they don't. It's always dry and pretty gross actually.

Oh, you've only had bad rugelachs, and you've never had a rugelach I made. Mine have a cream-cheese-and-butter dough that I roll up with the filling and that bakes up tender, flaky, and moist inside (the secret is high heat so that you brown quickly outside but don't dry out the inside), and I make various fruit flavors as well as a chocolate one.