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.
I have a cookie swap on Sunday and now I have so many great ideas to choose from! Last year I made the Holly Jollies and the Bon Bons for a friend of mine and her kids they loved them ! On Monday I got a call wanting to know if I could teach her and her 11 year old daughter how to make them. I told her I’d be there next week with cookbook in hand to help. Thank you so much for giving us this time together at such a crazy time of year to visit with old friends and remember the real meaning of the season! My tip is to keep extra coffee and drinks on hand for surprise visitors and nothing goes better with coffee than your oatmeal cookies!
Enjoy a holiday party at someone else’s house. No muss, no fuss.
I do the same things each year, put same decorations in same places, prepare same goodies. Not only does it become “traditional,” but it also makes it easy to do, no thinking involved.
My tip is I get a ton of finger food, cheese & crackers, veggies and dip and have it all ready in the fridge so the kids (and husbands) can pull it out themselves and pick at it while I am cooking. Keeps them out of my kitchen and me sane.
My tip is just to enjoy yourself and don’t work too hard.
All those cookies look so GOOD! Love the dish pan cookies
This post sure makes me want to get started with my holiday baking, which will include some of your faves, Christi. Thank you.