It wouldn’t feel like the holidays without cookies—lots and lots of cookies. My daughter helped with the baking this year. She has her own pizzelle iron now, so she took that over. Hers are better than mine anyway. She also made the Love Knots, which we argued about because I wanted them to have green and red sprinkles, but she insisted on the traditional multicolor. And she’s going to try her hand at Pignoli. I made gingersnaps, brown sugar cookies, shortbread, brownies, and maple fudge. I’m making Italian Rainbow cookies later this week. Then I have to package everything up and deliver them to friends.
Tell us about your favorite celebration cookies, DeadSplinters. But please save the recipes for FYCE.
This hits the ole emotional sore spot for me… (Not anyone’s fault)
Mom used to make several months worth of cookies including my favorites lemon squares and short bread cookies at this time of year for about 40 years.
It is going to be one of the things I will definitely miss. She stopped baking a couple of years earlier but still. I don’t/can’t bake, one sister has gluten issues and the other might be diabetic so holiday cookies aren’t going to happen.
It is hard. I miss the specialt Italian cookies and pastries that my Nonna, mom, and aunts made. Maybe you can find a bakery that has a few of your favorites. It might be too soon for that though. 😞
Also like even if I want to make some of the recipes, I don’t need to end up with all those cookies!
Most of mine are gifted to friend. And I still end up with too many cookies.
Who says you have to. . . ?
I love baking Christmas cookies, and my childhood faves were windowpanes, which in retrospect, what was I doing … but I’ll still eat them!
Apparently they’re better known as “church window” cookies: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/10063/church-windows-i/
They’re so pretty. I haven’t had them in years.
I have a batch of these in the freezer waiting for a good time to bake:
https://doriegreenspan.com/recipe/world-peace-cookies-the-newest-version-from-dories-cookies-sneak-peek/
I just use chocolate chips and regular salt, though.
That looks really good. I don’t have enough freezer space to do too many cookies in advance. It makes for a busy holiday season.
I like any cookie that doesn’t have anise in it and is small enough to dip in milk.
You don’t like anise? I’m gonna have to revoke your Italian card.
I know. It’s been a source of shame in my family that I don’t like anise (or fennel).
Oh my god how did they not disown you?
Signed,
My lunch was chicken roasted with fennel.
my lunch was dinner…my breakfast was dinner too
well..i guess i had the traditional continental breakfast…which is coffee and a smoke
but far as breakfast lunch dinner goes…roast salmon and veggies was pretty damn good
Yum!
There’s one in every family!
Friend dropped off holiday chocolate-chip cookies. We have surveillance video:
That’s me on Christmas Day.
Haven’t been given any cookies yet this season but one of my wife’s patients gives us peanut brittle every year. I love it but getting it stuck in my teeth is a little annoying. I really need to find out how to get on this lady’s list!
My one sister and I used to bake all the cookies for our extended family once our aunts got too old to do the baking. I made at least 1,000 cookies and hauled them to Pittsburgh every year. Then my sister and I would pack them up to deliver to the relatives. I may miss them but I do not miss that amount of work.
I can’t imagine how much money she spends on butter.
cant say i particularly associate this time of year with cookies….
but well…im british….theres always cookies
now the big ass tin of celebrations or whatever….thats seasonal
Do you still get those fantastic holiday baskets from work?
havent for the last 2 years….find out tomorow tho
after rona the goodie box got replaced with a $100 grocery voucher….which is admittedly much more useful than the goodie box…… but the goodie box was so much more fun
ive been shipping out goodie boxes to the sister corps tho….so…50/50 i guess
(but tbh….probably a voucher again…its very popular amongst my coworkers..)
Booo, I’d rather have the goodie box.
samesies….its just fun unboxing and finding all the thingers
you know…its a pressie! O.o
i love it
but i guess not everyone shares my love of whats in the box!
Brad Pitt definitely doesn’t.