whats the best cookie for Christmas?

Question

Have a good recipe

Answer 1

My wife makes the BEST Molasses cookies! Here is her recipe:

These cookies are simply melt-in-your-mouth delicious. I’ve been making them for years, often with help from my kids. Most recently, they’ve been co-opted by my second son as HIS specialty. I don’t mind a bit, because he can make them exquisitely and perfectly nearly every time. These are now called Nate’s Molasses Cookies even though they started out as mine.

Nate’s Molasses Cookies

2/3 c. vegetable oil
1 c. sugar
1 egg
1/3 c. molasses
2-2 1/4 c. flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. ground cloves
1 tsp. ginger
and about 1/4 cup sugar
Mix all the ingredients in order, then roll dough into balls and roll them in the extra sugar. Place them on parchment paper on a cookie sheet.

Bake at 350° for 10-12 minutes until they’re golden brown and cracked on top.

The ONLY down side to this recipe is how quickly the cookies disappear.

Answer 2

I prefer this Butterscotch Christmas cookies from NutriDiets.com . I tasted it at a friends place and loved the flavour, so tried it at home. Excellent results.
http://www.nutridiets.com/3,Butterscotch_Christmas_Cookies

The best thing I liked about it that it was quick to make, unlike other tradional recipes.

Answer 3

Rolled cookie w/ royal icing in festifve shapes and colors-- my favorite! I'm still on the hunt for the prefect rolled sugar cookie recipe.

Answer 4

I don't know what they are called but if you can find the boxed NoneSuch pie filling (has to be boxed) it has a really good cookie recipe on the side. I think they just call them classic cookies or something.

Answer 5

Sugar Cookies.
Date Nut Cookies.
Choclate Coockies

Answer 6

PHOTO CREDIT: Frances Janisch
Walnut Balls


Toni Gerber Hope, health editor: "Although these walnut balls weren't the culinary centerpiece of my Austrian-German grandmother's Christmas table — that honor was reserved for labor-intensive, paper-thin sugar cookies — she would still make them every year. They added variety to her repertoire, and they were so easy. I bake them for the same reason, and I'm always surprised by how yummy such a simple recipe can be."

Yields: About 6 1/2 dozen cookies
Prep Time: 45 minutes
Cook Time: About 13 minutes per batch





1 cup butter (2 sticks), softened (no substitutions)
6 tablespoons granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 bag (8 ounces) walnuts, chopped
1 1/4 cups confectioners' sugar





1. Preheat oven to 325° F. In large bowl, with mixer on medium speed, beat butter, granulated sugar, and vanilla until creamy, occasionally scraping bowl with rubber spatula. Reduce speed to low; gradually beat in flour and salt just until blended, occasionally scraping bowl. Stir in walnuts.

2. Shape dough by rounded measuring teaspoons into 1-inch balls. Place balls, 1 inch apart, on ungreased large cookie sheet. Bake cookies 13 to 15 minutes or until bottoms are lightly browned.

3. Place confectioners' sugar in pie plate. While cookies are hot, with metal spatula, transfer 4 or 5 cookies at a time to pie plate with confectioners' sugar. Gently turn cookies with fork to generously coat with sugar. Transfer cookies to wire rack to cool completely.

4. Repeat with remaining dough and confectioners' sugar. Store cookies in tightly covered container at room temperature up to 1 week or in freezer up to 3 months. Dust with additional confectioners' sugar before serving if you like.

Answer 7

Sugar cookies, with frosting and sprinkles! Yumm!

Answer 8

Well, I am all for the tradition of gingerbread cookies

Answer 9

chocolate chip with a little bit of ginger added, you can crumble ginger snaps to make the ginger, that tastes the best

Answer 10

My favorite is chocolate fudge brownies.