Decadent Xmas sweets

[NotWise]

My wife is knee deep in cookies and brownies and wafers and things, all to be sent off to various relatives for Christmas. We haven't even finished the Halloween candy.

Meanwhile, friends are bringing us artery-clogging candies and cookies. My favorite has to be what we call "Christmas Crack," which is a layer of brittle, covered in chocolate and layered with something. The version in the house right now is layered with shaved almonds over the chocolate.

What are your favorites?

 

[LadyGreyFortress]

Sounds odd but is very delicious, white chocolate covered Ritz crackers filled with crunchy peanut butter.

 

[SamScribble]

I have not been blessed with a sweet tooth, so I tend to steer a wide berth. However, I can sometimes be tempted by an old-fashioned Christmas mince pie, especially if the pastry is short and the fruit well laced with booze.

 

[holliday1960]

My wife is knee deep in cookies and brownies and wafers and things, all to be sent off to various relatives for Christmas. We haven't even finished the Halloween candy.

Meanwhile, friends are bringing us artery-clogging candies and cookies. My favorite has to be what we call "Christmas Crack," which is a layer of brittle, covered in chocolate and layered with something. The version in the house right now is layered with shaved almonds over the chocolate.

What are your favorites?

I miss anything my grandmother used to make! (cakes, pecan pies, divinity, pralines, fudge...) I miss my grandmother even more than the sweets.

 

[NotWise]

Sounds odd but is very delicious, white chocolate covered Ritz crackers filled with crunchy peanut butter.

Wait while I wipe the drool of my chin...

That sounds really good.

 

[Jay321]

I miss anything my grandmother used to make! (cakes, pecan pies, divinity, pralines, fudge...)I miss my grandmother even more than the sweets.

I feel this too, every word.

 

[LadyGreyFortress]

I miss anything my grandmother used to make! (cakes, pecan pies, divinity, pralines, fudge...) I miss my grandmother even more than the sweets.

THIS is why I never try anything new when it comes to holiday baking, everyone always wants "Granny's pumpkin pie" or "Aunt Mini's nut cake". No one in the family interested in trying a gluten free quinoa pudding...come to think of it I am not interested either.

 

[Jay321]

still don't know what kin-wa is, nor do I really care.

The thing I remember most about grandma's cooking is her biscuits. and she would bake them with hoop cheese.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Christmas Crack went viral a few years ago. Very popular. It's made with crackers. I tried to make it and it was a disaster.

I like chocolate and mint in any combination. Just made peppermint brownies. Yuummmmm

My wife is knee deep in cookies and brownies and wafers and things, all to be sent off to various relatives for Christmas. We haven't even finished the Halloween candy.

Meanwhile, friends are bringing us artery-clogging candies and cookies. My favorite has to be what we call "Christmas Crack," which is a layer of brittle, covered in chocolate and layered with something. The version in the house right now is layered with shaved almonds over the chocolate.

What are your favorites?

 

[TxRad]

Old fashioned homemade icebox fruitcake.

 

[holliday1960]

still don't know what kin-wa is, nor do I really care.

The thing I remember most about grandma's cooking is her biscuits. and she would bake them with hoop cheese.

Hoop Cheese!!! I love hoop cheese! And, in biscuits??? Granny's biscuits??? Shame on you, Jay! Now, I won't quit thinking about this for days!

Grandma used to make the most delicious cakes ever! Coca-cola, Mayonaise, German Chocolate, 7-up, Fruit-cocktail...you name it! All from scratch and light as air. My mom is in her eighties now and she is trying her first real fruitcake this year. (I don't care much for fruitcake myself.) But, something tells me it won't be as good as anything Grandma made. Nobody cooks like Grandma.

 

[Handley_Page]

I can sometimes be tempted by an old-fashioned Christmas mince pie, especially if the pastry is short and the fruit well laced with booze.

Oh, Very Yes.
<drool>

 

[J_R_Ashunwhy]

Favorite? Gingerbread cookies. I'm the only one in the family to still roll out the cookie dough, and press out gingerbread men--and women--so family members have given me an assortment of random cookie cutters; some of my gingerbread men were made into super heroes and ninjas yesterday because of that.

I also really enjoy date crumbles, which have been made already as well. The fruitcake was made ages ago, but I still have a list of goodies to make.

Old fashioned homemade icebox fruitcake.

icebox fruitcake?

 

[HandsInTheDark]

My mom made snickerdoodle cookies every year. It's not even favorite but it became the taste of Christmas to me. And a well made fruit cake can be a glorious thing.

A friend does something with fruit rinds and sugar and spices that I'm honor bound not to describe, but after three Christmas's I broke down and begged the recipe out of her. I practically had to declare allegiance to sweden to get it. They also serve small chilled glasses of something fermented and clear and ruthless. Ounce for ounce it hits harder than vodka. If you want to learn how to deal with December, befriend a Swede, it seems.

By the way, minor nit to pick with the OP - to a small but still existent segment of the population, Xmas is actually moderately offensive. We're not short on typography space here. It's Christmas, and I promise that your keyboard will not explode in flames if you type it out. Well, most of you anyway. If you can't quite see the reason for the offense, imagine calling a member of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered community a fag because it's easier to type and who cares anyway, and you'll begin to get it. No one pulls this crap on Yom Kippur or 'Id Al-Adha, so don't do it here either.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

https://www.google.com/url?q=http:/...xRdPaA&usg=AFQjCNEygDfV6GRU9BdPChsFRcpoU2GpmA

"X has been an acceptable representation for Christ for hundreds of years."

Merry Crackmas to all the Snowflakes

My mom made snickerdoodle cookies every year. It's not even favorite but it became the taste of Christmas to me. And a well made fruit cake can be a glorious thing.

A friend does something with fruit rinds and sugar and spices that I'm honor bound not to describe, but after three Christmas's I broke down and begged the recipe out of her. I practically had to declare allegiance to sweden to get it. They also serve small chilled glasses of something fermented and clear and ruthless. Ounce for ounce it hits harder than vodka. If you want to learn how to deal with December, befriend a Swede, it seems.

By the way, minor nit to pick with the OP - to a small but still existent segment of the population, Xmas is actually moderately offensive. We're not short on typography space here. It's Christmas, and I promise that your keyboard will not explode in flames if you type it out. Well, most of you anyway. If you can't quite see the reason for the offense, imagine calling a member of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered community a fag because it's easier to type and who cares anyway, and you'll begin to get it. No one pulls this crap on Yom Kippur or 'Id Al-Adha, so don't do it here either.

 

[karaline]

I have a yearly christmas party, the main reason for the event is because I can make Devils on Horseback -prunes wrapped in bacon.

They are one of my favourite things about christmas but eat too many and you're on a one way road to heart attack central!

 

[TxRad]

icebox fruitcake?

I had my grandmother's recipe at one time. It was non-bake made with crushed Graham Crackers, pecans, all sorts of candied fruit, condensed milk, and other stuff. She always made two different one. One for the kids and one for the adults. The adults were soaked in brandy or some other alcohol. It was always stored in the door of the icebox wrapped in cheese cloth.

 

[HandsInTheDark]

https://www.google.com/url?q=http:/...xRdPaA&usg=AFQjCNEygDfV6GRU9BdPChsFRcpoU2GpmA

"X has been an acceptable representation for Christ for hundreds of years."

Merry Crackmas to all the Snowflakes

a) I know the history better than you do, and there's a better article on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmas

b) As stated, there are people who find it offensive. That's true regardless of how it was used 400+ years ago. If I called you some of the traditional names for Jews from that era you'd be none too pleased; what flew back then, good or bad, does not fly now.

c) We aren't writing letters by hand these days with quill pens. I've used a quill pen and I see the appeal of drawing an X with one instead of spelling out Christ. (A good C is hard with a split tip until you get the hang of it; I sure never did.) And if I were writing a fellow intellectual in England in the 1600s, who was steeped in both Greek and Christianity, I'm certain I would have written X'temmas without a second thought. If I'd been writing a fellow Christian 80 AD under roman persecution I'd probably have draw fish symbols on my letters, too. But we all have keyboards now, and no one thinks Chi is a clever abbreviation at this point; most people have no idea where it comes from. The only people who "should" be using it are marketers who would rather you spent money on their products than contemplated charity. In short it's time to lose an archaic usage that does no earthly good anymore.

d) Snowflake? Didn't you tell me you were going to work on being LESS offensive and prone to flying off the handle?

e) Someone explain to me how political correctness is all well and good until you ask someone to be politically correct to a group they actually aren't down with. Wasn't tolerance going to be the point? Nah, don't bother. I know the answer and it's depressing.

Anyway, Merry Christmas from this special Snowflake to all those who care, happy Hanukah to you dreidel-spinners and worshippers of the same God, and to the rest of you, whatever, have fun out there, or at least try not to be assholes to those who know joy when they see it.
Peace to all you and yours, regardless.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

It's Lit.

What would anyone who COULD be offended be doing here?

We revel in Porn. Extra-marital sex. Fornication. Lust. Incest. Homosexuality. Lots and lots of cheating.

I have zero issue being irreverant, even insulting, to groups who would love to shut this place down if they could.


B][/B]

a) I know the history better than you do, and there's a better article on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmas

b) As stated, there are people who find it offensive. That's true regardless of how it was used 400+ years ago. If I called you some of the traditional names for Jews from that era you'd be none too pleased; what flew back then, good or bad, does not fly now.

c) We aren't writing letters by hand these days with quill pens. I've used a quill pen and I see the appeal of drawing an X with one instead of spelling out Christ. (A good C is hard with a split tip until you get the hang of it; I sure never did.) And if I were writing a fellow intellectual in England in the 1600s, who was steeped in both Greek and Christianity, I'm certain I would have written X'temmas without a second thought. If I'd been writing a fellow Christian 80 AD under roman persecution I'd probably have draw fish symbols on my letters, too. But we all have keyboards now, and no one thinks Chi is a clever abbreviation at this point; most people have no idea where it comes from. The only people who "should" be using it are marketers who would rather you spent money on their products than contemplated charity. In short it's time to lose an archaic usage that does no earthly good anymore.

d) Snowflake? Didn't you tell me you were going to work on being LESS offensive and prone to flying off the handle?

e) Someone explain to me how political correctness is all well and good until you ask someone to be politically correct to a group they actually aren't down with. Wasn't tolerance going to be the point? Nah, don't bother. I know the answer and it's depressing.

Anyway, Merry Christmas from this special Snowflake to all those who care, happy Hanukah to you dreidel-spinners and worshippers of the same God, and to the rest of you, whatever, have fun out there, or at least try not to be assholes to those who know joy when they see it.
Peace to all you and yours, regardless.

 

[NotWise]

My grandmother wasn't much of a cook--at least not the one who spent Christmas with us. Maybe it was to make up for that, but when she came to town she would stop at a particular bakery on her way and buy several kinds of pastries--especially French pastries--by the dozens.

My uncle would have fruit delivered. It was usually citrus, but one year he had pears shipped from Spain. I'll never forget those pears. They were huge and so ripe and juicy that you couldn't hold them to eat them; we put them in bowls and ate them with spoons.

 

[Hypoxia]

Some people are offended by history or sanity. Piss-on-em.

Meanwhile, about the only "decadent sweet" we can handle now is Eggnog Lite with a stiff dose of Korbel brandy.

Although there may be some No-Pudge Fudge in our future.

 

[FavoriteAunt]

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/rum-balls-recipe3.html

You're welcome.

 

[J_R_Ashunwhy]

I had my grandmother's recipe at one time. It was non-bake made with crushed Graham Crackers, pecans, all sorts of candied fruit, condensed milk, and other stuff. She always made two different one. One for the kids and one for the adults. The adults were soaked in brandy or some other alcohol. It was always stored in the door of the icebox wrapped in cheese cloth.

Interesting. Never have I thought to make either a no-bake fruit cake, or a non-alcoholic one.
In mine, the candied fruit and raisins are left to soak in copious amounts of brandy and rum of various flavors, and any extra liquor not soaked up still goes into the batter so that the end result actually resembles a cake-like consistency.

 

[49greg]

chocolate, any time of the year.

But for Christmas I like the same thing as Thanksgiving - Pumpkin Pie made with the recipe from the Libby can of pumpkin pie stuff.

With Ice cream on top. - a la mode.

 

[legerdemer]

I have not been blessed with a sweet tooth, so I tend to steer a wide berth. However, I can sometimes be tempted by an old-fashioned Christmas mince pie, especially if the pastry is short and the fruit well laced with booze.

A sweet tooth is more of a curse than a blessing these days... but anything is better laced in booze than not.

(even fruitcake...)