Subject: Christmas baking
Posted by: guitargoddess
Date: Dec 05 11
What are your Christmas treat traditions? Or what new things are you adding to your cookie platter this year?
Posted by: guitargoddess
Date: Dec 05 11
What are your Christmas treat traditions? Or what new things are you adding to your cookie platter this year?
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guitargoddess
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So far I've made butter cookies, with half the dough coloured red and rolled with the white dough, pinwheel style (new recipe to me this year); chocolate toffee bars (my brother's favourite bar cookie ever, so a tradition though I do make them for him other times of the year as well); and magic cookie bars a.k.a. hello dolly bars a.k.a. five-layer bars (I love love love these and only make them at Christmas... they're cooling on my countertop right now, can't wait to sneak a taste). Also plan to make soft, not hard, ginger cookies (a new tradition, made them the first time last year); chocolate chunk shortbread "snowballs" (my mom and I used to make them, now I'm making them for the first time in many years); peanut butter fudge; Toblerone fudge (made for the first time a couple months ago, it's sooo good); and possibly coconut cookies to use up some leftover coconut. Also possibly cut-out sugar cookies if I have the time. I think that's it! But also some kind of dessert for Christmas dinner, I usually do a cheesecake of some kind. How 'bout at your house? Reply #1. Dec 05 11, 6:54 PM |
| guitargoddess
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OH and wanting to make Kahlua balls as well, like rum balls but with Kahlua. Will be a new-to-me recipe. Reply #2. Dec 05 11, 6:54 PM |
tezza1551 
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Will make coconut ice this weekend.. and post at least half to my youngest son who lives in Pannawonica (1400 kilometres north of Perth) ! Reply #3. Dec 05 11, 7:32 PM |
sasha67
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I make Italian red wine cookies. Very very good cookie, I always have requests for the recipe. Orange zest, red wine, cloves, allspice, cinnamon, cocoa. YUMMMM! Reply #4. Dec 05 11, 8:09 PM |
| guitargoddess
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I saw a recipe awhile back for Italian Red Wine cookies, never got around to making them! Something to think about for next year, I'm making too much already! Reply #5. Dec 06 11, 12:30 PM |
Cymruambyth
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I make cheddar coins (bite-sized cheese biscuits/cookies), good old mince tarts, good old fruit cake (using a recipe from the 1768 household book of my great-grandmother x 6), shortbread (using a recipe brought to Canada by my husband's Scottish grandmother), and Welsh cakes (also using a recipe from my great-grandmother x 6). I'm something of a traditionalist at Christmas. Reply #6. Dec 09 11, 7:10 PM |
blindcat78
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The assistant manager at my apartment complex is allergic to gluten. So I'm going to make a couple of cookies that are gluten-free. I love to make my all time favorite cookies, which are choclate chip, M&M, & peanut butter. Reply #7. Dec 11 11, 2:32 PM |
| sasha67
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Blindcat, there is a recipe in the october mag of Everyday With Rachel Ray that has gluten free peanut butter chocolate cookies. Reply #8. Dec 11 11, 7:02 PM |
lacybear
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I found a great recipe in one of the Cook's Illustrated magazines for a ginger cookie a couple of years. They come out with soft centers and crisp crusts with deep cracks on the top. There's no store-bought gingersnap that comes close. It's time to dig up the magazine again and make a batch for the holidays. Reply #9. Dec 13 11, 11:56 PM |
Shiningstar7
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Plan to make 'snickerdoodles' which are basically sugar cookies with cinnamon on them, very good! Also going to try a funnel cake recipe I found this year. They are great with powdered sugar on them, love them! Reply #10. Dec 17 11, 9:30 PM |
bananapeel39
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Try dipping Nutterbutter cookies into chocolate almond bark, Tastes like Butterfinger candy bars. I melt the almond bark in a round cake pan in lowest temp of oven (about 170 deg.). If bark starts to thicken up before you are done dipping, just stick it back in oven to remelt. Hold the cookie with tongs while dipping and then turn out onto sheet of wax paper on cookie sheet. Oreo cookies are also good dipped this way. Reply #11. Mar 12 12, 2:55 AM |
Cupra
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The time will be upon us before we know it, we will be baking for Christmas again. Reply #12. Aug 26 12, 11:57 AM |
IAMMAGIK7
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I agree that the holidays are coming fast. I better get my recipes out for my breads, which include, Zucchini walnut, Cheddar-pineapple-walnut and pumpkin. Must not forget the Rocky Road candy and the fantastic fudge! Getting hungry in here now. Reply #13. Aug 26 12, 1:20 PM |
| Cupra
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Sounds delicious Iamagic7. Reply #14. Aug 26 12, 1:27 PM |
| alexis722
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Sasha67, would you share your red wine cookies recipe please! I make lazy cookies now, box of cake mix {any flavor], 2 eggs, 1/2 c oil, add whatever flavor and/or chips/raisins. 350 for 10-12 minutes - easy, quick & good. For Christmas: bacardi rum cake, biscotti & lemon cookies. Reply #15. Aug 26 12, 6:48 PM |
| alexis722
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Christmas eve dessert tradition is 'Ris Alamonde' - white rice cooked in milk, chilled, folded in with fresh whipped cream, vanilla and minced almonds, and served with a red fruit sauce, usually strawberry. One whole unpeeled almond is to be in one of the servings, and whoever gets it wins a prize - used to be a marzipan pig, now it's more likely a CD or video game. Reply #16. Aug 26 12, 6:52 PM |
flojjj
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Xmas cooky baking I am always baking the entire year(cookies mainly). I also am Italian/American so i make traditional Ital.cookies and a few other"american types". I make pizzelles(using an electric iron)and have expermented with pumpkin seasonings instead of usual seasoning)and they come out beautifully. I make fruit biscotti, probably dried apricots(which i cooked with some water in micro) to make them easy to chop...these are just delicious..they stand on their own..can be dipped in wine or coffee or just eat with cold milk. I make Italian pannettone which is a yeast bread..with some liquor in the bread and chopped glaceed fruit. You can buy these ready baked and they are almost as good. Then i make a candy...usually bark..choc peppermint with chopped nuts...sometimes make fudge with dried chopped cranberries and nuts. I make thumb print cookies and fill centers with apricot jam or berry jam.... this may not be all i make..one year i made 12 different types of baked cookies and candy. I usually make up plates for my good neighbors. Every year when i was living at home,my mom had me help her in the kitchen. I think this led me to my profession of NUTRITIONIST? Happy Holidays! flojjj Reply #17. Nov 06 12, 11:52 AM |
| blindcat78
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This year I plan on making no baked cookies as well as baked goods that I can make in the microwave. Reply #18. Nov 11 12, 10:32 AM |
Chavs
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If you like gingerbread, I think this is the best. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/recipes/8774387/River-Cottage-Baking-recipes-loaf-cakes.html - tried and tested several times here, and always delicious. I'm talking about a cakey loaf rather than the cookie variety. The best thing about the loaf is that it gets nicer over time. I can attest to it being nicer after 3 - 7 days, but the 2 weeks it's supposed to last have yet to be reached. Too yummy. Another link while I am here. Being cooks, I am sure this site isn't new to you, but I am not a natural cook, and I love the BBC Food site because its recipes are tried, tested, straightforward, from top cooks, and the results are always good! And it is so extensive! Haven't tried their christmas collection yet but will do: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/occasions/christmas Reply #19. Nov 27 12, 3:48 PM |
| sasha67
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I just started my holiday baking. Im making a few different ones this yr. As usual I will make Red Wine cookies, potato chip cookies and Hershey kiss snowball cookies. But added on this yr I am going to make spritz and cresent cookies. I may make pizzelles I have the old iron my grandmother brought over from Italy. And for Christmas night I think Im going to do a bouche noel ( I hope thats how you spell it). I made one last yr and I didnt have enough milk to make the frosting and I wound up using hazelnut liquid coffee creamer I had in the fridge. It was really good! I had none left! Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy Channuka, Bouna Natale or however you say it. Peace on Earth would be appreciated too. Reply #20. Dec 05 12, 2:02 PM |
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