Christmas cookies

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I love square plates!

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I had The NY Times “Best Christmas Cookies” recipes in my email today. So many nice recipes to try. I love cardamon so the “Cardamon Walnut Crescent” cookies look interesting. So do the rugelach.

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My family loves these, and I HATE to make them, but I do it for them, every single year

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I have this old cookbook…and it has great recipes in it.

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I’ve attended a cookie exchange and I’ve also hosted one both with co-workers. Both times, as far as I could tell, everyone brought homemade cookies. It was a lot of fun to attend and host, but I was always kind of tired of cookies for a while afterwards…

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I have written many of these down. I made @JustaMom5465 's gingerbread cookies with maple glaze. They turned out lovely. I used extra maple syrup but still could have used more. Several of those mentioned were brought by others- sugar cookies, spritz cookies and the Mexican Christmas cookies. It was a nice gathering to start the season. This forum is the best. I have pages that I printed off years ago of slow cooker recipes and soup recipes that were on this forum. Thank you all and happy baking!

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It’s very cold here this weekend and I’ll be out of town next weekend so I am thinking of possibly baking some cookies now to frost later. Any advice on the best way to store the cookies for a few weeks?

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Most cookies freeze very well.

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I just made this today, it’s simple and delicious, my husband and daughter both like the cookies.

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I always freeze the frosted cut out cookies. I just store them in Tupperware with parchment between layers of cookies.

If I didn’t, H would eat them all and quickly. Honestly he often eats them even when frozen! (Frosted sugar cookies are actually excellent eaten frozen!!)

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Just made 145 peanut butter balls today with D2. We usually make them on Thanksgiving, but GD2 was sick and the Thanksgiving weekend was canceled.

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My H usually does more baking at Christmas than I do. His favorites–Russian Tea Cakes, shortbread cookies, and buckeyes (which seem more like candies than cookies). He uses his mother’s recipes. The one sweet thing I make for Christmas is Croatian fritule–it’s a small donut with lots of alcohol in it. This is the recipe I use:

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Finished the black and whites. Into the freezer they go.

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The recipe says to use either cinnamon or lemon zest. Which do you prefer?

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Googling Monster Cookies: " * Scoop 2-to 3-tablespoon mounds of the dough onto the prepared baking sheets, spacing the mounds at least 2 inches apart."

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I prefer lemon zest because I have lots of lemons from my garden.

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Linzer torte (which is the pie version of the cookie) uses cinnamon and a pinch of cloves and lemon zest. It also uses red current jelly. It also uses ground hazelnuts which I love.

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This recipe from pioneer woman says to use both cinnamon and lemon zest. I like your suggestion, I will add cloves to my recipe. But I use mostly almond flour because I can’t find hazelnut flour easily.

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Agreed, I’ve never seen hazelnut flour. Not sure if you can grind nuts small enough in a food processor.

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Do you have a recipe for the black and whites that you’re willing to share?