Holiday Recipe Thread

[Krikit 1,164]

WALNUT COOKIES

1 lb butter, creamed

12 tblsp sugar

2 tblsp ice water

1 tsp vanilla

2 cups ground walnuts (or almonds or pecans)

4 cups flour (+ 1/4 if necessary)

icing sugar

Mix all ingredients together.

Bake 10-15 minutes @ 350^o

Roll in icing sugar.

I forgot to add that I shape the cookies into crescents..... about a tablespoon in size. They grow.

[Marilyn. 340]

I plan to do all my baking in those two days...

I snickerdoodles!!

[Marilyn. 340]

the hubby keeps hinting that I should make some sample batches of the cookies so that he can try them to make sure they are good..

[Malrothien 6]

Hehehe, Marilyn. I'm starting now because I'll have a lot to do the closer it gets to January, so might as well get it done.

[Marilyn. 340]

I usually start the end of October and freeze them but this year I decided to wait and do them all at once... I am going to be doing most of the baking at work.. they have a nice big kitchen... my kitchen sucks

[Peachey 10]

hey sorry, I'm here now.

They pretty much answered your questions tho. You can substitute anything you want really. Once I put peppermint on accident instead of the almond and it was REALLY good.

[Marilyn. 340]

this is my tentative list of baking I am going to do..

Pfeffernus

One Bowl Brownie cookies

Graham Cracker Cookies

Pie Bites

Cake Balls

Whipped Shortbread

Snickerdoodles

Teddy S'more bark

Oreo Truffles

Cranberry Hermits

Lemon Drops

White Chip Orange Cookies

[Malrothien 6]

Cake balls? Pie bites? Recipes are required!

My list is:

Banana pudding (with the vanilla wafers/bananas in it)

Pumpkin muffins

Peanut butter blossom cookies

Pumpkin spice bars

Chocolate chip

White chocolate chip

Soft molasses cookies

Snickerdoodles (done)

Thumbprint

Shortbread

Sugar cookies (done)

Gingerbread cookies

Chocolate-mint chip cookies

[Marilyn. 340]

so I have a question.. I am going to try out this new recipe this year called cake balls.. you bake a cake like normal and let it cool all the way and then you crumble it and add cream cheese frosting, roll into balls and then you dunk them in chocolate..

I was just wondering if you think these combos would work... I bought a carrot cake mix that I thought I would dunk in white chocolate and I bought a strawberry cake mix that I thought I would dunk in milk chocolate... do those sound ok?

[Malrothien 6]

Those sound delicious.

[Rhiannercakes 14]

I wish I had you guys for mothers

My mother never baked at Christmas, she said everything was bad for me.

[Marilyn. 340]

Cake ball recipe.. http://www.bakerella.com/red-velvet-cake-balls/

Pie Bites recipe... http://www.bakerella.com/easy-as-pie/

they are actaully called pie pops but I am going to make them without the sticks so I changed the name to pie bites ..lol I am probably going to do them with cherry pie filling..

Edited December 3, 2009 by Marilyn.

[Malrothien 6]

Rhi, my mother didn't cook at all - let alone bake at Christmas. I was lucky to have two grandmothers that loved to cook/bake.

[Marilyn. 340]

I wish I had you guys for mothers

My mother never baked at Christmas, she said everything was bad for me.

awww...

my mom would always make these cookies called Soft White Cookies.. they were a roll-out cookies and we would make all different shapes.. the whole dining room table would be full of them and we got to help decorate them and eat them...

[Marilyn. 340]

last Christmas I searched high and low for dipping wafers.. I couldn't find them anywhere I finally found them at Micheal's but they cost 3 bucks for a little bag..

back in Chilliwack I went to Save-On or Superstore and they had them there in bulk for a lot cheaper ....

Edited December 3, 2009 by Marilyn.