Christmas Cookie Recipes

[glynndah]

It's getting to be that time again. For those of us who like to bake during the holidays, here's a great website:

Christmas Cookie Recipes

Fudge and Candy Recipes

Oh! Here's all of them in one place. Pay no attention to the recipes behind the curtain.

Good Things for Christmas Recipes

A from the good little witch.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

MMMMMMMMMMMMM!

I think I love you!

 

[JPMMURPHY]

Both great sites. Good stuff there.

 

[neonlyte]

I'm a little dubious about some of these recipes

for example:

1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup cream
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup pecan halves

Mix first four ingredients and stir until sugar is dissolved. Cook over medium heat to soften ball state (240 degrees F.). Set pan in ice water 3 minutes. Beat until mixture becomes slightly cloudy. Add nuts. While mixture is still shiny, drop by spoonfuls onto greased surface or waxed paper. Let set.

This is not the way to make pralines.

Pralines are made with hazlenuts roughly chopped, set in a hard syrup and then pulverized. You add the the pulverized mix to a chocolate made with dark chocolate and heavy cream, and butter... then form the praline balls.

Delia Smith has the best Christmas recipes, though for a UK rather than a USA market. http://www.deliaonline.com/search/recipes/?qr=christmas

Most of the recipes are delicious, rich and beautiful to look upon - all the essential Christmas ingredients.

 

[sweetness6280]

Thanks, glynndah!! I love finding new recipes. Since I have almost all of my children back home now, I will have a lot of incentive to bake.

Mmmmm, may need a muzzle to prevent me from eating it all!

 

[Saucy_Sage]

Did somebody say cookies?

http://i450.photobucket.com/albums/qq230/Saucy_sage/GingerbreadLady.jpg

 

[tickledkitty]

I like this site: http://www.joyofbaking.com/ChristmasCookies.html

I love their banana bread recipe. I've also made the Nanaimo bars, and everyone loved them.

 

[lisa123414]

I'm a little dubious about some of these recipes

for example:

1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup cream
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup pecan halves

Mix first four ingredients and stir until sugar is dissolved. Cook over medium heat to soften ball state (240 degrees F.). Set pan in ice water 3 minutes. Beat until mixture becomes slightly cloudy. Add nuts. While mixture is still shiny, drop by spoonfuls onto greased surface or waxed paper. Let set.

This is not the way to make pralines.

Pralines are made with hazlenuts roughly chopped, set in a hard syrup and then pulverized. You add the the pulverized mix to a chocolate made with dark chocolate and heavy cream, and butter... then form the praline balls.

Delia Smith has the best Christmas recipes, though for a UK rather than a USA market. http://www.deliaonline.com/search/recipes/?qr=christmas

Most of the recipes are delicious, rich and beautiful to look upon - all the essential Christmas ingredients.

well, there are pralines and there are pralines....I never heard of hazelnuts in pralines, but I have not traveled much. In the US it is pecans, in Europe it is almonds or hazelnuts (y'all need to plant a few pecan trees)

 

[cloudy]

well, there are pralines and there are pralines....I never heard of hazelnuts in pralines, but I have not traveled much. In the US it is pecans, in Europe it is almonds or hazelnuts (y'all need to plant a few pecan trees)

Yep, you're right.

Southern pralines are made with pecans, and without chocolate, and the yummiest are from New Orleans.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Yep, you're right.

Southern pralines are made with pecans, and without chocolate, and the yummiest are from New Orleans.

Oooooowww . . . that just sets me droolin', darlin'. And then you crumble them over vanilla bean ice cream. THUD!

*lyin' on the floor listenin' to my arteries harden*

 

[Guest]

My favorite holiday cookie recipe - AND you can make these as cookies in a jar and give them away as a gifts! Delicious cookies - oh my!

Cranberry Hootycreeks

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Cranberry-Hootycreeks/Detail.aspx

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b318/sweetsubsarahh/cranberryhootycreeks.jpg

INGREDIENTS (Nutrition)

* 5/8 cup all-purpose flour
* 1/2 cup rolled oats
* 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
* 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
* 1/3 cup white sugar
* 1/2 cup dried cranberries
* 1/2 cup white chocolate chips
* 1/2 cup chopped pecans

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DIRECTIONS

1. Layer the ingredients in a 1 quart or 1 liter jar, in the order listed.
2. Attach a tag with the following instructions: Cranberry Hootycreeks 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a cookie sheet or line with parchment paper. 2. In a medium bowl, beat together 1/2 cup softened butter, 1 egg and 1 teaspoon of vanilla until fluffy. Add the entire jar of ingredients, and mix together by hand until well blended. Drop by heaping spoonfuls onto the prepared baking sheets. 3. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, or until edges start to brown. Cool on baking sheets, or remove to cool on wire racks.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Gosh it's good to see topics being posted that don't set people at each others' throats, for a change. Happy Winter, everyone! Or at least mid-autumn.

 

[cloudy]

I'll have to dig up my great-granny's gingersnap recipe - they're THE best I've ever had, and make your kitchen smell wonderful.

 

[Guest]

Gosh it's good to see topics being posted that don't set people at each others' throats, for a change. Happy Winter, everyone! Or at least mid-autumn.

It is nice.

I may make some of these cookies and bring them to Chicago.

Problem is, they're so damn good I don't know if I can get them out of the house and past my family.

 

[glynndah]

Yep, you're right.

Southern pralines are made with pecans, and without chocolate, and the yummiest are from New Orleans.

And they're sold from a card table in front of a little old black lady on the streets of the French Quarter.

 

[SensualCealy]

It's getting to be that time again. For those of us who like to bake during the holidays, here's a great website:

Christmas Cookie Recipes

Fudge and Candy Recipes

Oh! Here's all of them in one place. Pay no attention to the recipes behind the curtain.

Good Things for Christmas Recipes

A from the good little witch.

Glynndah, I love the northpole site, I used it to make treats for my daugher to give to her boyfriend's parents last year at Christmas, will likely do the same this year with the new boyfriend's too!

I have to tell you the comment the 'dad' made when the boyfriend carried the basket to the car.

Dad: What the hell is that?
Boyfriend: Your Christmas gift basket from ...
Dad: that is not a gift basket, that is a year of rations for the whole of Ethiopia!

They loved everthing from what I was told.

 

[Misty_Morning]

Well it just wouldn't be Christmas without Schwetty Balls:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne_LCcMkqaI

 

[Guest]

Well it just wouldn't be Christmas without Schwetty Balls:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne_LCcMkqaI

I love it!