Question of the Day, Friday, December 19

Good Morning!   And a very Happy Friday!

I spent some time this week baking a few batches of cookies. While I do bake a lot of cookies throughout the year (primarily snickerdoodles and chocolate chip cookies), to me, the Christmas season means cut-out cookies, the kind that you roll out, cut, and decorate. I love eating cut-out cookies, but well, they can be a bugger to make sometimes and I find that I make them during the holidays, but not during the rest of the year. I think  my favorite cut-outs are just regular sugar cookies. They don't even have to be decorated to the hilt.....just a few colored sprinkles, maybe a cinnamon heart or some teaberries and I'm good to go.

What is your favorite Christmas cookie? Is there any cookie that you find yourself eating just during the holidays?

Shortbread are one of my favourites. I don't eat cookies much the rest of the year unless it's just a peanut butter cookie or something store bought.

So far this year we have made shortbread, sugar cookies, gingerbread and peanut butter fudge. My husband is going to make ice box cookies this weekend.

I know they aren't technically a holiday cookie but I think of the peanut butter blossoms as holiday cookies.  I like the cut out cookies as well.  When I make them I use the recipe that has cream cheese in it.  Along with tasting better I don't think they spread out as much and hold their shape a little better.

Chocolate chip cookies have always been my family's favorite cookie. We'd make several different kinds for Christmas, but triple the number of chocolate chip cookies. I rarely bake nowdays, so that's what gets made for Christmas.

Not just the cookies, but houses of it! I really only eat gingerbread during the holidays, not really because I like it a lot, but because an old friend and I build a gingerbread house together, smash it, and eat it this time of year when they're readily available and on sale.

I'll eat most cookies, no excuses or special events required!

:'(:'(:'( I don't get to eat Christmas biscuits but on Hanukkah we eat a lot of doughnuts.

Cookies are my weakness! I'm pretty good about staying away from processed foods but a good cookie is difficult for me to resist.

I've added recipes to TCS recipe exchange here: http://www.thecatsite.com/t/238197/cookies/30#post_3665891. These are the best cookies I've ever eaten. I used to make them for the holidays before the family dairy allergy was discovered. (I have a delicious vegan sugar cookie recipe if anyone is interested I will type it in.)

catlover19 said:

Shortbread are one of my favourites.

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Me, too!  The landlord for the office I work in always brings us a big tin of shortbread cookies for all of us, and I always overdose....     But 'tis the season for yummy goodies, right?  

My mom's m&m cookies, mini pecan tarts (like a bite size pecan pie, mmmm!), and gingerbread molasses cookies.

My mother's co-worker makes the best shortbread cookies!  I like the tinned ones well enough; but hers were just melt in your mouth good!  My Mom just gave me the same co-worker's sugar cookie recipe. You use a glass to flatten them; no cut outs.  I just don't have the patience for the cut out cookies.  I tried with a pouch of sugar cookie mix and they were so insanely sticky I kept adding flour so I could work with it.  By the time I was done they tasted terrible!

My favorite are Italian Horns/Little Horns.  They are a lot of work but MAN are they good!  I haven't had any in several years.  Cookies are an integral part of Christmas on both sides of my family.  Italian Horns, Struffoli Pignolatta, Italian Chocolate Chip, Italian White Cookies, Italian Chocolate Cookies, Biscotti and Pizzelles are staples.  (There is another I can't think of the name of at the moment, chocolate with a powdered coating and cracks in it) Peanut butter blossoms are pretty common as well as the jam thumbprint cookies.  None of those get made the rest of the year.  I make a lot less cookies than I used to.

This year I'm making  varieties I think.  Italian Chocolate Chip, a spiced sugar cookie, Tea Tassies, no-bake haystacks, and the Italian White cookies.  My Mom is making Pizzelles so I'll just have those at her house.  (I don't have a pizzelle iron anyway!)

Not a fan of cut-out cookies. Too much work involved and too much flour. Nice to look at but I want a shortbread that you can literally suck the butter out of. None of my baking involves cut-out. So far this season I've made 24 pie plates of one particular type of shortbread, roughly 200 cookies of a different recipe, 72 of yet another, 48 of yet another, 2 cookies sheets of squares, two more cookie sheets of a different square, one traditional fruit cake, two better-than-traditional fruit cakes, three new recipes tries (creations were not good enough to add to Christmas list), and an attempt at crossing pannetone with scandinavian christmas bread. I give away a lot of baking. Left to do: rum balls and another run at a scandivian pannetone and I'd like to do some stollen if I've time but stollen has to age so it's probably too late; also will have to replenish above stock. Eating wise, I've eaten less than 12 cookies – I have, however, eaten a lot of cookie batter (which is my favourite).

My favorite cookies are these homemade pumpkin chocolate chip cookies I make but I usually make them year round because they are good for breakfast lol. I only make sugar cookies around December and enjoy them a lot as well.

I usually make sugar cookies. Too time consuming! Making/dying frosting, decorating. My favorite are Italian Wedding cookies.  My mom makes them for Christmas. My sister in law makes lebkuchens. I will leave the cookie making to them and just enjoy eating them!!

My all time favorite cookie is whichever one I am about to chomp on!

I have to very careful about eating too many cookies: I have Dunlops disease.

My belly "done lopped" over my belt

Eric

Denice said:

 
I know they aren't technically a holiday cookie but I think of the peanut butter blossoms as holiday cookies.  I like the cut out cookies as well.  When I make them I use the recipe that has cream cheese in it.  Along with tasting better I don't think they spread out as much and hold their shape a little better.

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My sister usually makes peanut butter blossoms; I think of them as a holiday cookie, too; I don't think we eat them at any other time of the year. We roll them in red and green sugar before baking them. 

Bengalcatman said:

 
My all time favorite cookie is whichever one I am about to chomp on!

I have to very careful about eating too many cookies: I have Dunlops disease.

My belly "done lopped" over my belt

Eric

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Rick says that, too! 

Shortbreads. I usually make them every year, except this year I'm too sick and tired to make anything. Staying home for Christmas too.

Winchester said:

 to me, the Christmas season means cut-out cookies, the kind that you roll out, cut, and decorate. I love eating cut-out cookies, but well, they can be a bugger to make sometimes and I find that I make them during the holidays, but not during the rest of the year.

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I have lots of cut outs for Christmas.  I also have a smaller amount for Easter! 

I have a recipe for them with a sugar substitute, as one member of the family is diabetic. 

Growing up, we'd use a toothpick to make a hole in the top of some.  After they baked and cooled, Mum would slip a piece of thread through the hole and knot it, and we'd hang some on the tree.  We had to keep them up high, out of reach of our dog, lol.