Please share with me your favorite holiday cookie recipe. Here is ONE of mine:


Chocolate Chews

6 oz. Semisweet choc chips (or a little more)
¼ lb. Butter, softened
1 ¼ cup sugar (keep the ¼ cup separate for the baking)
2 eggs
2 cups flour
¼ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda

Melt the choc chips in a double boiler or the microwave. I do it in the microwave, 30 seconds, then stir, 30 seconds then stir – until melted – do not overheat

Cream together the butter and ONLY one cup of the sugar

Beat the eggs in, one at a time

Beat in the melted chocolate chips

In a separate bowl, combine the rest of the dry ingredients

Gradually stir in the dry mixture with the initial batter – Mix well (I use a spoon at this point)

Put the ¼ cup sugar into a shallow bowl

Roll the dough into one inch balls and roll them in the sugar, before placing them on a greased (I spray with PAM or equivalent) baking sheet

Bake at 340 degrees for 12 -14 minutes - you will see they are done, when they start to crack and you can see no signs of liquid batter

Good timing on this one too! I'm going to a cookie swap on Thursday and I just found this recipe that I am going to try,
Candy Cane Snowball Cookies
"Tender shortbread like cookies that have a sweet topping of white candy coating and crushed pepermints.

2 cups butter 1 cup chopped pecans
l cup confectioners sugar 1/3 cup crushed hard peppermint candies
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 1/2 cups all purpose flour 8 oz white confectioners coating, chopped

Beat butter and confectioners sugar in a bowl until creamy.stir in vanilla extract. Gradually beat in flour until mixture makes a small dough. Stir pecans into dough. Refrigerate until thoroughly chilled, 3-4 hours

Preheat oven to 360 degrees
Roll dough into small 1 inch balls and place 3 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake until lightly browned, 18-20 minutes. remove to cool on wire rack.

Place crushed peppermints in a shallow bowl. Microwave candy coating fo 20 seconds stir, continue heating in 15 second increments until warm and smooth. Dip tops of cookies in topping and then incrushed candy. set cookies aside to let coating set.

Sounds great, and should be pretty to look at too. i'll report back on how they taste.

Snickerdoodles

1. Heat oven to 400 degrees and grease cookie sheet.
2. Combine in small bowl: 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, and 1/2 teaspoon salt.
3. In large bowl, beat together 1 cup margarine, 3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar, and 3/4 cup granulated sugar until the mixture is light and fluffy.
4. Add two eggs to the margarine/sugar mixture and mix well.
5. Add the flour mixture and mix well.
6. Stir in 1-1/2 cups of uncooked oatmeal (either quick or old-fashioned).
7. Shape the dough into one-inch balls.
8. Combine 1/4 cup granulated sugar and 4 teaspoon cinnamon in a small bowl. Roll the dough balls in the sugar mixture and place on the greased cookie sheet.
9. Bake 8-10 minutes.
10. Cool one minute on the cookie sheet before removing to a wire cooling rack.

Store these in a tightly covered container - at my house they rarely last long enough to store any, we eat them off the cooling racks.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/15/2012 01:45PM by AustinMom.

Spaztck, I'll it a try. I hope I can use part Splenda.

Here's my all-time favorite all year long - at Christmas I make them in red and green.

Pinwheels

1. Mix 4 cups flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1/4 teaspoon baking soda, and 1 teaspoon salt in a small bowl.
2. Beat 1-1/3 cup butter with 1 cup brown sugar and 2/3 cup white sugar until light and fluffy. Add 2 beaten eggs and 1-1/2 teaspoon vanilla and beat until smooth.
3. Stir flour mixture into the butter mixture a little at a time until it is well blended.
4. Divide the dough in half. Tint one half with a drop or 2 of food coloring. (At Christmas, I always tint both halves, one red and one green.)
5. Roll out the colored half of dough into a 1/4 inch thickness.
6. Roll the 2nd half to a 1/4 inch thickness and put it on top of the first one.
7. Roll the dough into a circular log.
8. Wrap in wax paper and refrigerate at least 8 hours.
9. Cut into slices and bake at 400 degrees on a greased cookie sheet for 5-6 minutes.

The dough, wrapped in wax paper, can be stored in the freezer instead of just refrigerated. It will keep for a few months. When my kids were growing up, I tried to keep several rolls of this dough in my freezer all the time because it was so convenient to pull one out and slice and bake. Kids love the pinwheel design. I usually made either red and white or green and white. At Christmas, I made red and green. At Easter, it was yellow and purple.

Hmm I'm going to make those pinwheels tomorrow Austinmom!

Hope your family enjoys them as much as my kids and their friends always have!

Does anyone have a non bake or stove top recipe? My oven died. Thanks for any suggestions

I am not quite a fan of these, but I know other people who have made them. You can substitute corn flakes cereal for the oats.


No Bake Cookies - you can heat the ingredients in the Microwave

Ingredients:
2 cups white sugar
3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
powder
1/2 cup margarine
1/2 cup milk

1 pinch salt
3 cups quick cooking oats
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions:
1. In a saucepan bring sugar, cocoa, margarine, milk, and salt to a rapid boil for 1 minute.
2. Add quick cooking oats, peanut butter, and vanilla; mix well.
3. Working quickly, drop by teaspoonfuls onto waxed paper, and let cool.

spaztck thanks. This looks perfect to do with the great nieces. One year we did apple pie turnovers and the kids loved them. This will not be so messy and I think they will have a good time.

Box of white cake mix, 1/2pd creme cheese, add 1 tbsp. creme and blend with an egg. Mix into dry mix, add chocolate chunks and nuts and cookie away....easy peasy!!

Irene, does this get baked or is it ready to eat after mixing?

Sorry, yes, bake for amount of time in the directions on box.

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> Irene, does this get baked or is it ready to eat
> after mixing?