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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

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.

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.

It's like it never occurs to you that people may have had different cookies growing up in a different culture.

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.

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 wrote:

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

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.

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.

Why would making cookies from your own Christmas childhood qualify as "getting fancy?"

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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

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.

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.

It's like it never occurs to you that people may have had different cookies growing up in a different culture.

Like what? OP’s cookies aren’t representative of a different culture. Most Americans descend from some other country & culture anyway.

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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

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.

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.

It's like it never occurs to you that people may have had different cookies growing up in a different culture.

Anonymous wrote:Those nasty slice and bake cookies. How hard it is to make cookie dough?!

This and the roll pretzel thing. That isn’t even a cookie. And anything with butterscotch chips. They taste like plastic

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Anonymous wrote:I'm half-German & generally love German baked goods but the Christmas fare...? A big bunch of Weihnachten misses.

Stollen (v. dry fruit cake) - Blech
Lebkuchen (spice cookies) - Blech
Pfeffernusse (more spice cookies) - Blech

And also all hard to make. You know you've gotten it right when it's a dry as a desert.

Actual German here. If your Stollen is dry, it's not made right or it's old. Ditto for Lebkuchen, but you have to like spice. German sweets are generally far less sweet than American ones, so they are often not as well liked by Americans raised on more sweet desserts.

Every Stollen I've eaten - here, in Germany, and even those made by my fairly expert baker Oma - has been dry dry dry.

butter helps with the dryness

Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure if they count as cookies but the "truffles" made with crushed Oreos and cream cheese.
I can't eat more than 1/4th of one, it's just too rich for me.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids like the pb blossoms, and I like the idea of them, but don't like how the Hershey's kiss hardens once they're cool. I also like to make small cookies, and it's hard to do that with the pb blossoms. This year I'm going to use the regular recipe but swap ganache in for the kiss and see how that goes.

How about making smaller versions with a chocolate chip instead of a kiss?

Thanks for the idea! Much easier than making a ganache.

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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

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.

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.

or else WAY too sweet

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

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.

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm half-German & generally love German baked goods but the Christmas fare...? A big bunch of Weihnachten misses.

Stollen (v. dry fruit cake) - Blech
Lebkuchen (spice cookies) - Blech
Pfeffernusse (more spice cookies) - Blech

And also all hard to make. You know you've gotten it right when it's a dry as a desert.

Actual German here. If your Stollen is dry, it's not made right or it's old. Ditto for Lebkuchen, but you have to like spice. German sweets are generally far less sweet than American ones, so they are often not as well liked by Americans raised on more sweet desserts.

Every Stollen I've eaten - here, in Germany, and even those made by my fairly expert baker Oma - has been dry dry dry.

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

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Anything that baker has decided to make healthier by reducing/removing sugar or fat. No thank you to weird cardboard applesauce cookies.

Hahaha! Right? I mean just skip the cookies! I kid you not--one year my mother proudly announced that Christmas dinner would be "LOW FAT!" What?!

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.