My oldest is the cook and he has planned and will be making all the holiday meals. Braised leg of lamb for the 25th. Roasted chicken the 24th. Festivus was leftovers as always.

My middle has assumed the youngest's role of cookie master. Today's cookie was a basic peanut butter cookie, but he put Milk Duds inside. Holy cow --- yummy !!!

He also made basic press cookies using the ribbon slide, and then dipped one side in dark chocolate and then in colored sprinkles. Pretty and easy.

Happy Holidays to all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1.5 cups butter flavored Crisco
1.5 cream peanut butter
2 cups sugar (1.5 + .5)
1.5 cups brown sugar
4 eggs
3.75 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp baking soda
1.5 tsp baking powder
.75 tsp salt
10 oz milk duds (2 5 oz boxes)

Cream the shortening, peanut butter, 1.5 cups sugar and brown sugar
add the eggs
Combine the dry stuff and add to the creamed sugary mix
Chill for an hour or so.

Make balls of dough and surround a Milk Dud. Then roll in sugar

Place a few inches apart on an ungreased sheet. 350F for 10-12 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes before taking off the sheet.

We also put some Hersey Kisses on some of them when they came out of the oven. We voted the added chocolate was not overkill.

OH MY--peanut butter w/ milk duds?? That does sound yummy.
I'm a traditionalist--chocolate chip w/ walnuts.

I do make a pumpkin w/ caramel frosting cookie that is divine!

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What is the recipe for that?

I love cookies, but I'm pretty traditional: chocolate chip, peanut butter, ginger snaps, and raspberry thumbprint cookies top my list.

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Nightowlrn, thank you for the recipe, I think I am going to try making a batch today.
My favorites are chcoclate chip, peanutbutter blossoms and butter cookies. I found a recipe this year for hot chocolate cookies and they were soooo yummy.

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Butter cookies the more the merrier omg how I miss growing in my old neighborhood where there was a German bakery on almost every other block, they are the best bakers for sure....... Blessings in this holiday season to all.... Catherine

Chocolate chip, as long as I can get them fresh out of the oven, before the chocolate hardens. I also like butter cookies, amaretto macaroons, and old fashioned oatmeal. Years ago I bought some cookies at a bake sale and I can't remember what they were called. Perhaps lace cookies? They were wonderful.

I hate to bake cookies. Around here it's a thankless task. Lots of work and they are gone within hours unless I manage to hide some. I put two dozen cookies out on the counter on Christmas Eve afternoon and I only got one cookie. In fact five didn't make it off the cooling rack. And it's amazing, but no one in the house ate them. Well actually my husband admitted to eating one, but the rest are unaccounted for. Another Festivus miracle I guess.

Wildwood - Sounds like something for next year's Airing of Grievances.

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If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition, and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

- Stephen Colbert.

Once again I'm the weird one here, I like chocolate chip cookies, but with no chips. I always make a few for me and my oldest and pick the chips out before I cook them.

We made a few cookies this year. Oatmeal Raisin. The recipe I use is so good, you soak the raisins for an hour in the egg and vanilla mixture so they are so plump and moist!
Snowballs. None of my kids really liked these. I wanted to make them because my mom made them when I was a kid. I admit they are kind of different. I still like them.
Thumbprint Jam Cookies. Me and the kids have been calling them Pearl Jam cookies. They were good. Next time I want to get a few different jams, we just used strawberry.

We still plan to make peanut butter, and chocolate chip cookies while the kids are on break.

Oh we made Cake Balls too. We did orange cake and red velvet. They turned out so good! I still have a million balls in the freezer we need to dip in chocolate.

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My husband likes them without the chips too. Why don't you separate out some dough before you add the chips, so you don't have to pick them back out again?

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If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition, and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

- Stephen Colbert.

Yes! And then add all the chips to the rest of the batter, which will make the chocolate lovers even happier.

I prefer to think of it as a miracle. An immaculate ingestion, so to speak.

Besides, I have no shortage of grievances to air.

I love my sugar cookies. I only use butter in my cookies which has a taste nothing else can match. I roll my sugar cookies in sugar which makes them even better. And of course topped with home made cream cheese frosting they are so yummy!

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These sound wonderful. I could and would, eat a vat of of these, should another festivus miracle occur in my house. Of course at my house, things only seem to disappear miraculously.

Wildwood I think I did eat a vat of them. And my neighbors all went on and on about how delicious they are.

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I second only using butter in cookies. Margarine and shortening just don't cut it.

I don't know what they are called,maybe one of you might know.My absolute favorite cookie in the whole world are those chocolate coconut cookies. Basically they look like a big blob of of coconut flakes mixed with chocolate.Anyone know what they are called?

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I think you are thinking of Chocolate no bake cookies.


I went to a cookie walk a few weeks ago and they had a cookie that was "stuffed" with raisins. It was so good. I have to find that recipe now. It is my new favorigt. Of course I have been eating a bunch of the rippin good peppermint "oreo" cookies.

I have an easy chocolate macaroon recipe. You MUST have parchment paper. (I am not kidding - will be a disaster if you don't)

1 14 oz coconut
1 can condensed milk (don't scrape the can)
1 tsp vanilla
(mix these)

2 egg whites whipped with 1/4 tsp kosher salt

Fold egg whites in coconut mixture.

Bake 325 for 25 minutes on parchment paper

Dip bottom 1/4 of the cookies in 3/4 bag of melted dark chocolate (use a double boiler)

If you have chocolate left over, drizzle over the tops.

Slightly off topic, but I was in Aldis a couple of weeks ago and on impulse picked up a package of Grandessa Peppermint Bark. I am in love! Ate the whole package, went back to buy more and it's all gone, I assume until next Christmas. Darn that stuff was good.