Favorite cookies

[Johnny Thunder]

What are some of your favorite cookie recipes in your family?

[JackFrost]

Am I suppose to choose one over the other???
NEVER!!! I won't do it! It would not be prudent at this juncture!

[Johnny Thunder]

LOL

No I meant this more as a "Post your favorite recipes here" :)

[Thecandyman]

I don't have one at hand but I remenber on Paula Deans show she made some pb cookies in a snap.
It seemed real simple without even using any flour as an ingredient.
I think it was like 1 cup peanut butter + some butter I believe and maybe a tat of baking soda added? I think it was only like 3 ingredients in the whole shabang! Anyone see or heard of doing this PB cookie recipe ?

[BlackRose]

Cranberry & White chocolate chip cookies are to die for. Just take your favorite Chocolate Chip cookie recipe and use white chocolate chips and dried cranberries instead. They are great!!!

[Mummy deer-est]

Yum, that sounds good Rose.
And don't you just love Paula Deen -- every recipe begins with at least one stick of butter!

[wintersmistress]

Paula Dean is a hoot!..lol,and she has great recipes.I know when I make cookies for everyone I hear a kudos for the Rum-Raisin balls


Rum-Raisin balls

1 1/2 cup granulated sugar,divided
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup sweetened shredded coconut
1 cup of raisins
2 eggs, beaten
1 tsp rum

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.In a large bowl,combine 1 cup of sugar and remaining ingredients;stir until well blended.spoon into a greased 8-inch square baking dish.Bake 20 to 25 minutes,stirring occasionally.Cool on a wire rack 10 minutes,Using damp hands,shape into 1-inch balls;roll in remaining sugar.store in an airtight container


Carmel-Macadamia nut cookies

1 1/2 cups macadamia nuts,coarsely chopped
1 cup of butter or margarine
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 egg
1 tablespoon corn syrup
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
2 cups of all-purpose flour

preheat oven to 350 degrees.spread macadamia nuts evenly on an ungreased baking sheet.stirring occasionaly,bake 10 to 15 minutes or until nuts began to brown.remove from oven;cool to room temperature.
In a large bowl,cream butter and sugar until fluffy.add next 3 ingredients;stir until smooth.add flour;stir until well blended.fold in macadamia nuts.drop tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart onto a greased baking sheet.bake 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown.transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.store in airtight container.

[cindylouwho]

mine are chocolate crinkle cookies.

[Ice Princess]

Ginger snap cookies are my favorite.
I am also going to make a mint chocolate cookies this year. Anything chocolate mint is alright with me!

[AngelEye]

Mine are Rainbow Cookies. My Grandmother makes them. I will post the recipe once I get it from her.

[Thecandyman]

Paula Dean is a hoot!..lol,and she has great recipes.

Yea ,She is great.I could watch her all day. Soooooo funny she is.

Wish I could make it out to her restaurant some day.:)

[Clarice]

My favorite cookies that I put in my goody bags are:
Chocolate chip
Chocolate chip/walnut
Chocolate chip/macadamia
Peanut Butter

This year I'm trying out some new recipes:
Caramel Apple
Maple Pecan

I'll let you know how they turn out.

[Clarice]

I tried the maple pecan recipe today. I wasn't that happy with the result. I'll have to find another recipe.

[Sickie Ickie]

maple-syrup...yuck! :p

[spookineer]

As long as they are round, I like them. Unless they have raisins, I do not eat raisins. If those grapes were not good enough to make wine from, they are not going into my mouth!

[TacoForPaco]

I have never been faced with a harder question. lol. Hmmm. I'll post a resipe for ONE of my favorite christmas cookies later on once I get the resipe. (How do you spell resipe?)

[digbugsgirl]

Unfortunately I don't have the recipes on hand, but my brother gets mad at me if I don't make thumbprint cookies (the traditional ones.) I also love to make gingersnaps. DH always insists on peanut butter cookies. My grandmother used to make an icebox cookie that was sooo good. Don't know how to make it but it had a cinnamon taste. She's been passed for years now, so I can't get the recipe.

[Sickie Ickie]

dbg, have you tried foodnetwork.com? They have zillions of recipes that may have something close to your grandmother's.

[digbugsgirl]

I'll have to look it up Sickie. Thanks.

[wintersmistress]

Digbugsgirl,
I have several icebox recipes,do you remember anything else that may have been in the cookie your grandma use to make?
lets see if any of these sound like what your grandma use to make.

Vanilla nut icebox cookies
coconut icebox cookies
almond icebox cookies


and were they,bars and squares,drop,rolled and sliced,or shaped cookies?
I also have foreign cookie recipes.

[digbugsgirl]

I know they were slice cookies. I'm thinking they may have had almonds. Can't quite remember. I know if I tasted them I would definitely know. :) The vanilla nut could be it. Could you pass along the recipe?

Thanks!

[wintersmistress]

Vanilla-nut icebox cookies:
1 cup of shortening
1 cup of sugar
1/4 cup of firmly packed brown sugar
1 egg, beaten
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup chopped pecans
2 cups of all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt

Cream shortening in a large mixing bowl:add sugar,beating until light and fluffy.add egg and vanilla;beat well.stir in pecans.
Combine flour,baking powder,and salt in a medium mixing bowl;gradually add to creamed mixture,stirring well.
shape dough into 2 rolls,2 inches in diameter,wrap each in waxed paper;chill until firm.remove waxed paper,and cut into 1/4-inch slice.place 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets.Bake 425 for 5 minutes.remove to wire racks to cool.
yield:about 5 dozen.

[digbugsgirl]

Thank you! Thank you! I'll definitely be trying these!

[Thecandyman]

O.K. I think they may actually be called something else like
'High Hampton Balls'....And it a little like the' rum raison balls' that was mention on page 1
And I have'nt made them in a few years but these are really good eaten.

1 STICK BUTTER
1/2 CUP WHITE SUGAR
1/2 CUP BROWN SUGER
1 EGG
1 tp VANILLA FLAVOR
1 CUP CHOPPED NUTS
1/2 CAN COCONUT
8 OZ. PITTED DATES
2 CUPS RICE KRISSPIES
POWDERED SUGER- ENOUGH TO COAT

PUT ALL THESE ITEMS, EXCEPT THE RICE KRISPIES
INTO A PAN TO SIMMER A LITTLE. UNTILL MELTED
MIX IN THE RICE KRISPIES
WHEN COOL ENOUGH TO HANDLE MIX INTO SMALL BALLS
AND THEN ROLL THEM INTO THE POWDERED SUGER TO COAT.
YOU CAN FIT IT TO YOUR LIKING IF YOU DONT LIKE THE PITTED DATES.

I like um in there though.:D

[Silent Knight]

How am I supposed pick....

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a148/daboes/DSC_0321.jpg

[Sickie Ickie]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!! :eek:

[Mistress Muffy]

Now Silent Knight that is a truly terrific picture!! BUT!!!!!lol how about the name of each cookie & a recipe!!!Hohohohoho!!!

the Merry Muffster

P.S. Showed that pic to hubby ...he said....she wish that was my house!! He loves cookies!

[Clarice]

This year I'm trying out some new recipes:
Caramel Apple
Maple Pecan

I'll let you know how they turn out.[/QUOTE]

The Caramel Apple were good however the caramel was a bit too chewy.

Angel Eye did you get the recipe for the Rainbow cookies?

[Xmaslilly]

Oatmeal Choc Chip Cookies
A friend made these for our round robin this yr umm umm good
crispy and chewy

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 cup butter
2 cups packed brown sugar
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tspn vanilla
1 1/2 cups flour
1 tspn baking powder
1/2 tspn salt
3 cups oatmeal
12 oz package choc chips

beat butter til light and soft
add sugars
add dry ingredients except oatmeal...beat till fluffy
add eggs and vanilla
beat well
stir in oatmeal and choc chips
drop by teaspoon full on to a ungreased cookie sheet
bake at 375 for 10 to 12 minutes

[Clarice]

X rated gingerbread! :D

Decorating gingerbread got a little goofy this year.

Definately not suitable for the kiddies or work.

http://s225.photobucket.com/albums/dd258/scubawidow/nekkid%20gingerbread/

[Sickie Ickie]

My 3 yr old hought those were pretty. LOL have no fears about children seeing them

[julianm]

These are funny, Clarice, and yes, not a problem with 3yo kids!

[Mummy deer-est]

how on earth did I miss these?
lol! stripper gingerbread people...that is awesome!

[peyote2004]

Last year I made:
Eggnog cookies
chocolate chip cookies ... I have a great recipe from the daycare where my roommie works, that stays really sofy for days.
Amish Sugar Cookies
Butter Cookie Snowmen
peanut butter cookies Mmmm
Pepermint Kisses (pepermint merangues)
Spritz coolies (various flavors)
Pepermint Pinwheels
Reeces Pieces & M&M cookies

This year, I'm going to be super busy with work, so I need to narrow the list down to about 5 types.

[BlackRose]

The exact recipe doesn't matter but if you roll out some gingerbread cookie dough and mold it over a stainless steel bowl, cut some shapes out of the side with a cookie cutter and bake it (still on the bowl) you get a really cool centerpiece or gift vessel. I make one every year and everyone loves it.

[Sickie Ickie]

Now, THAT is a really cool idea! Hey! Ya gotta take a finished pic and put it up on the SP site!

[Silent Knight]

Favorite, you ask....How in the world am I supposed to pick?

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a148/daboes/DSC_1079.jpg

Personally I've always liked the peanut cookies and apple crisps, but the strawberry cheesecake cookies are pretty darn good(3rd from right, 2nd row back). Women, almost unanimously, like the almond Kifli(sp)(3rd from right, 3rd row back).

Biggest pain in the butt - Stained Glass cookies, they probably won't make the cut next year.

:littlepresent: Also, Here is a tip to perfect cookie baking we discovered this year if your recipe calls for margarine. We usually use just any old margarine, like cheapest or whats on sale, but found out this year that "Imperial Margarine" performed flawlessly. We thought that it was just that we were having a good year of baking but a half a dozen people confirmed that the Imperial Margarine will make you a master baker! I don't why it works but we're sold on it, it also has slightly less transfats than other margarine.

[Sickie Ickie]

Good tip! I'll have to incorporate that into my baking. You did an incredible job baking! How many sleepless nights?

[Silent Knight]

Good tip! I'll have to incorporate that into my baking. You did an incredible job baking! How many sleepless nights?

Thanks Sickie, Actually it took three lonnngg days about 14 hours each just because we're way behind schedule this year. Last year I counted how many there were based on the recipes. A total of 2300 cookies in all and a total cost of about $225. But they would fill about 35-40 medium size tins so they make cheap presents that taste great.

[ChristmasTreeWondy]

My favorite Christmas cookie recipe has to be my Christmas cutout cookies. I use a standard sugar cookie recipe but I use cream cheese as well as butter. They seem to hold their shape better with the cream cheese and adds great flavor. YUM! :)

[chris]

That sounds really good ChristmasTreeWondy!

[Sickie Ickie]

Never thought about that. I bet it keeps them nice and soft, no?

[ChristmasTreeWondy]

YES...it does keep the cookies nice and soft. Cream cheese really gives them a wonderful texture! Cannot wait to make them again this year! :)

[Daisy-Duck]

OK I give up , ummmmmm Silent Knight could you just come over and just bake me about half of what you made...... they look so mouth watering.

[Giles]

Ok. I need your help.

My mother used to make a "cookie" but when i asked her about it she doesn't remember what was in it. It was like a chocolate log that had different colored mini marshmallows in it and was rolled in graham cracker and coconut. I could probably figure it out if I had any idea of how to make a chocolate log. They didn't have to be refridgerated either once they set up the first time.

Mom always called them Stained Glass Cookies and said it came from her mother.

[Craig]

Hey Giles!:)

THOSE sound delicious! I would LOVE to have a recipe for them! (unsubtle hint!):):):)

[Giles]

Well Craig, I'm going to pick at her brain a little more and see if I can't piece it all together. She hasn't made them since I was about 13 or 14 so we are talking a few years here (or 30).

[estertota]

I love my mother poppy-seed cake :D yummy...

[Bears13]

I love snickerdoodles or oatmeal cinnamin cookies

[Sickie Ickie]

I love my mother poppy-seed cake :D yummy...

I wonder if you'd test positive for opium after eating that? :confused:

[estertota]

I wonder if you'd test positive for opium after eating that? :confused:

Oh hehe you don't understand me.
I probably don't know what called Polish cake "makowiec" in English.
It is cake, legall cake xD.
Without any drugs or something like that for example opium.
It's "makowiec" probably called poppy-seed cake in English.
It is that cake:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YHfAKtOgXgU/R3GUIkeerhI/AAAAAAAAAC0/2bgm-E02flM/s400/17.JPG

[katshead42]

This recipe is By Cheryl on Allrecipes.com and it's awesome

3/4 cup vegetable oil
2 cups white sugar
2/3 cup cocoa powder
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
4 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
1/4 cup confectioners' sugar
Directions

In a small mixing bowl combine flour and baking powder.
Beat oil, sugar, and cocoa together in a large mixing bowl. Add eggs to oil and cocoa mixture one egg at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in vanilla. Mix in flour mixture. Fold in nuts if desired. Chill the dough overnight.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease cookie sheet.
Roll dough into walnut-size balls and roll each ball in confectioners' sugar.
Bake cookies for 12 to 15 minutes

[putrid]

Your not going to get opium from the seeds they sell in stores. LOL

Because I cant each chocolate I make the recipe off of the package and replace the chocolate with nuts. Almond and black walnut are the best! Toast the nuts in butter before adding em to the cookie dough. Also adding a bit of extract helps too.

One that I've made for years is an old recipe out of a cook book my mom got as a wedding gift. It's a roll out sugar cookie dough for shapes. Have to find that recipe and post it.

Then there's Almond Biscotti, almond and orange biscotti, orange biscotti, plain biscotti, walnut biscotti, cinnamon biscotti, chocolate chip biscotti, chocolate chip and orange biscotti ( got to make em for folks ) and did I mention biscotti? LOL takes hours to make but worth every minute! No idea where that recipe is at now. Hopefully I'll find when I'm off in a few weeks.

Then there's Scottish short bread. Basically butter held together with powdered sugar and a pinch of flour. LOL

[lisa48317]

Last year I made:
Eggnog cookies

This year, I'm going to be super busy with work, so I need to narrow the list down to about 5 types.

Ooooh! pick these! I LOOOOOOOOVE eggnog!! (both with or without the rum!) post the recipe, please!!!!

[Craig]

Ooooh! pick these! I LOOOOOOOOVE eggnog!! (both with or without the rum!) post the recipe, please!!!!

I will second AND third that request!:)

[estertota]

I will second AND third that request!:)

And I will request it too! :)
Please write recipes:D

[Clarice]

Actually the poppy seeds used in cooking and baking can cause a false positive drug test.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy_seed

[Nevergoback]

I found two recipes for Eggnog cookies on Allrecipes.com. Suggestions made about recipe Number 1 (decreasing the spices and increasing the eggnog), have already been revised by me here. Here they are

Eggnog Cookies I
Ingredients
• 1 1/4 cups white sugar
• 3/4 cup butter, softened
• 3/4 cup eggnog
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or rum extract
• 2 egg yolks
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
2. Combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon and nutmeg.
3. Cream sugar and butter until light. Add eggnog, vanilla, and egg yolks; beat at medium speed with mixer until smooth. Add flour mixture and beat at low speed until just combined. Do not overmix.
4. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet 1 inch apart. Sprinkle lightly with nutmeg. Bake 20 to 23 minutes until bottoms turn light brown.

Eggnog Cookies II
Ingredients
• 1 cup margarine
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 cup eggnog
• 3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
• 3 tablespoons eggnog
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
2. In a medium bowl, cream together the margarine and white sugar until smooth. Stir in the egg and 1 cup eggnog. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; stir into the sugar mixture so it is well blended. Drop by rounded spoonfuls onto the prepared cookie sheet. Drop by rounded spoonfuls onto the prepared cookie sheets.
3. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
4. To prepare the icing, put the confectioners' sugar into a small bowl. Stir in the remaining eggnog one tablespoon at a time until the desired consistency is reached. Spread onto cooled cookies and let dry before serving.

[lisa48317]

WOOHOO! Thanks for the nog cookie recipes! This may be a kind that the daughter & husband won't like so I can have them ALL to myself ! ! !

[bluexmas]

ummm.... i like sugar cookies the best and I use cream cheese icing instead of whatever you call that fake icing. I do enjoy my choc chip cookies and i love the white chips ones the best. i WANT to make alot of cookies sooo i gotta think about this. I will start looking though my book once I finish with the finals.

[MissMandy]

My Godmother would make 7 different kinds of cookies every year. Sugar cookies, peanut butter balls, French cookies, butter cookies, Russian tea cakes, ricotta cheese cookies and Italian cookies. I grew up, my entire life having these cookies. My family actually had a tradition of having them for breakfast on Christmas morning with a nice hot cup of coffee. Sadly, this year will be the 3rd Christmas without them :( My Godparents no longer speak to anyone in the family (long story). And of course, she has all the recipes. Some of these cookies were easy to find on the web. But of all the searching I've done, I still cannot find the ricotta cheese cookies and the beloved Italian cookies. I've found recipes for Italian fig cookies, but they just don't seem close enough to my Godmother's. They were a rolled up cookie with filling. I remember her putting all kinds of dried fruits through a meat grinder. Pretty sure she also added ground maraschino cherries and ground walnuts to the filling. She would roll out the dough and spread the dried fruit filling on it, then roll it up (jelly roll style). She would also brush the logs with an egg wash and sprinkle with colored sugars or nonpereils. After baking and cooling off a bit, she would slice the logs. My family misses these cookies so much. They're so much more than just a cookie. It's a treasured memory for us. If anyone has any idea of what I'm talking about, please share. You would be my Christmas angel :)

[Billybones]

Lemon Ginger Shortbread, or for savory Rosemary Shortbread

[klacc]

Can't wait to make Christmas cookies for all my co-workers. It is a lot of fun to make large batches of Christmas cookies.

[pongman]

I make these every year and send them and give them out to friends and family. Tehey take a couple days to make because you have to refrigerate the dough the yeast dough the night before. My kids loved making them. It's been a tradition for years. They are great with coffee or milk on xmas morning. Pop em in the microwave to warm them up. I cut the sugar down a little because the recipe is a little too sweet. I mail them out frozen so that by xmas time they're perfect. I guess I'm up to twelve batches every year.

Hungarian Coffee Crescents Recipehttp://www.ifood.tv/recipe/hungarian-coffee-crescents

Kind regards,
pongman

[Craig]

Sounds great, pongman! :)

[Charlie Brown]

mine are chocolate crinkle cookies.

Mine too.....and I can vouch for the fact that Santa likes them as well (he always seems to eat the ones we set out for him).

[stormygirl84]

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies. They're more of an Autumn/Halloween recipe, but holy crow, are they good. I'll post the recipe when I find it.

[Is it Christmas yet?]

Sugar cookies. Yum. They barely make it into the oven due to my eating the batter. :cool:

[Buggula]

Favourite cookie? Ummm....yes! I'll try them all. But seriously, I suppose my all-time fav are iced butter cookies. You can colour the icing and decorate them according to season and boy, are they ever good. A close second are chocolate refrigerator cookies. My late mother used to make them a lot. I haven't made since my kids grew up and flew the nest.