Cookie Roundup (My Favorites!)
(click cookie name for recipe)
I’ve had a lot of folks ask what my favorite cookie recipes are for Christmas cookie exchanges so I’m putting them together in one handy, dandy list to help you with your holiday get togethers. My favorite thing to do is have other families each make one type of cookie and then get together for a big cookie exchange. By making a few dozen of one type and exchanging them like this, we can all end up with a big holiday cookie variety without the mess and also get to enjoy the delicious baking skills of our friends!
For more Christmas treats that are a must have in my family, check out Grandma Lucy’s Coffee Can Bon Bons (p.160), Creole Candy (our version of a praline p.159), Microwave Peanut Brittle (p.162), and Sugared Pecans (p.143) in the Southern Plate cookbook!
Fruitcake Bar Cookies
Candied and Dried fruit layered with cinnamon, brown sugar, and just enough flour and butter to hold it all together until it reaches your mouth!
Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies
These are the cookies that, according to both of my children, make me the absolute best mother in the entire universe.
Chocolate…chocolate…enough said. 🙂
My nephew took one bite of these cookies years ago and declared them to taste just like clouds! Crisp and delicate meringue wrapped around chocolate chips – it’s all good here!
Nothing like a good old fashioned peanut butter cookie and a big glass of milk!
If you make these, my mailing address is P.O. Box 2308….
and I love you.
~wink~
Mama’s Milk Dunkin M&M Cookies
Mama always made these growing up and let us decorate the tops with M&M’s before putting them in the oven. We got to use exactly three M&M’s per cookie…
Santa loves ’em
I love baking from scratch, but I also love being able to turn out cookies as wonderful as this using boxed white cake mix!
This is one of my personal all time favorites. I like to make ’em really big and put each one in it’s own little bag with curling ribbon at top to give out as treats.
This is my go to bar cookie recipe, with the addition of butterscotch chips and raisins to make a cookie that is a favorite of my husband.
Oh. My. Goodness. So. Good. Please don’t leave me alone in the house with them! ~whimper~
Always a classic!
Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.
my best tip for holiday entertaining is, if they offer to help, let them! i spent years with an ‘i’ll do it myself attitude’ and consequently, was always frazzled and didn’t enjoy myself, or my guest as much as i would have liked. now i’m much more relaxed and able to ‘stop and smell the roses’
I always have paper plates, plastic utensils and cups on hand. So much easier than washing tons of stuff!
I don’t know that I have any holiday entertaining tips–other than keeping a smile on your face and being glad you have friends to show up!
I love baking cookies for the big family get togethers. One I’ve made for years – that family likes – is oatmeal chocolate chip — “Cowboy cookies”. I make a big batch – and then take some to the in-laws and some to my family. I usually add just a touch more of vanilla than the recipe calls for – that’s my secret! Yummy! Now I want to go and make some!
Can’t wait to sink my teeth into those peanut butter cookies. My grandkids are going to love these…..
My entertaining tip is to keep some relish tray staples in the pantry for drop-in guests. I keep things like stuffed and/or tipsy olives, crackers, a festive cheese spread or two, nuts, chips and salsa, and dried figs on hand — that way I have some quick and easy munchies to put out when friends and family drop by (even if it’s just something for them to munch on while I make something else)!
We are having a cookie exchange at work. Just what i needed to begin.
Thank you.