Kitchen

[RedTop]

I haven’t made anything since my girls stopped making sugar cookies for Santa.   

I expect to have 2 Mrs Prindables apples left over, and have Juniors mini cheesecakes for dessert on Christmas Day.   

[Eileen in Virginia]

I make 

- chocolate chip cookies 

- white chocolate chip cookies

- chocolate fudge

- shortbread

- macaroons

- sugar cookies (cut-outs)

- Tea Time tassies

- oatmeal raisin cookies 

- pumpkin pie with whipped cream 

I give most of the  cookies to friends as gifts and serve the pumpkin pie for Christmas dessert.

[kitcat51]

I only make Russian Tea Cakes, they are my favorite cookie & my family enjoys then too. I use to make lots of different cookies & sweets but now I get way too many as gifts so I serve them instead of making more. Happy Holidays!

[PhilosophyGirlll]

Happy Holidays Everyone!

I made:

Italian Cookies

Butter Almond Cookies

Italian Strufoli

Peanut Butter Cookies

Linzer Tarts

Snowballs

Chocolate Covered Pretzels

Gingerbread Cookies

Love baking with my kids and grandkids every year!

[susielong]

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@Nicknack wrote:

I am not a baker.  The only thing I make is cracker candy.  It's just saltine crackers, butter, brown sugar with chocolate morsels melted on top.  You keep it refrigerated, and it's delicious.  You can't tell that it's saltine crackers.  Everybody loves it.  I got the recipe years ago.  I think it was from a Junior League cookbook.

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I make these too, taste just like Heath bars. 

[ECBG]

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@kitcat51 wrote:

I only make Russian Tea Cakes, they are my favorite cookie & my family enjoys then too. I use to make lots of different cookies & sweets but now I get way too many as gifts so I serve them instead of making more. Happy Holidays!

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@kitcat51,I would love to know what is in those.  I've never heard of them.

[panda1234]

@Ruby Laine I have an easier chocolate rum ball cookie

3 1/2 cups crushed Oreo cookies

1/4 cup rum

1 cup chopped pecans

let sit in fridge for two days and then roll in to 1 inch balls

[teainlondon]

I hate to be a party pooper, but I bake/prepare no sweets because I am a diabetic. For people who have diabetes, the holidays are very difficult-----sweets are deadly. I love everything sweet. Then the big diabetes was diagnosed and sweets were over. There are no substitutes. I have had nothing for over two years that could be called a dessert or even a sweet snack.

By the way, fruits are not sweets. Chocolate or a grape? No contest. So, my Christmas meal is limited as was my Thanksgiving meal and Halloween candy and birthday celebrations.

Everyone should be aware of sugar content. I never thought about diabetes until the dr. said I have it. It is not a disease that can be cured, so it's for a lifetime.

Be careful.

Merry Christmas!

tea

[lork]

From Thanksgiving on I bake. . . Peppernuts, Waffle cookies, Orange Slice Oatmeal cookies, Frosted Sugar cookies, Monster Bars, Cinnamon Rolls and Teddy Bear Breads (My youngest son, 28, is baking 4 tomorrow for select friends.  I baked them in multiple when I was a child care provider.).  One of my grandsons has already requested homemade pizza for our Christmas dinner; so be it!  

[toja]

I'm done baking cookies, this year I made:

- maple pecan cookies

- cookie press cookies

- orange chocolate shortbread 

- linzer tarts

- almond thumbprints with black currant jam

- lebkuchen with layers of marzipan and plum jam

- gingerbread blondies

- and 6 kinds of biscotti for my son in law  

Most of them will be gifted to eagerly awaiting family members

Happy baking!