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Oatmeal raisin, Double Chocolate Chip, Snickerdoodles...There are countless varieties, but most people have their very favorite. What is yours? Who makes it the best? Are you known for a particular cookie that you make yourself?
I found a recipe for Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies (It's got it all!) that I love and make often. I also love a cakey Pumpkin Spice cookie, especially at this time of year!
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19 Comments:
I make a lot of cookies. For christmas over 30 kinds.
For thanksgiving I made about 8.
My favorite is an old family recipe it is an italian biscuit with an anise icing. Firm but soft. The anise oil used in the icing and not the cookie.
It is made and then sits someplace cool to "cure".
JerzeeTomato at 11:52AM on 11/13/07
Chocolate Oatmeal No-Bakes ... about a dozen, with a quart of chilled 2% milk. Ah yea, dat's a good breakfast dere, eh? ;-)
LunaPierCook at 11:52AM on 11/13/07
Traditionalist here. Chocolate chip, all the way. They can be burnt or undercooked, lumpy or flat, chewy or crisp. I'll eat 'em all.
Kerosena at 11:57AM on 11/13/07
I LOVE snickerdoodles, PB cookies, and chocolate chip cookies. They've all gotta be soft, best warm. Good stuff! Shortbread is another favorite of mine.
stumbler02 at 12:20PM on 11/13/07
I like to do an array at Christmas but my favorite are Gingerbread people and shapes. In 2005, I made 455 decorated gingerbread cookies for my associates. We had 2 buildings, 3 floors each. I wanted to make enough to give at least one to each person. At the time there were 300 employees so some people got more than one. I used Nick Malgieri's recipe Decorated Gingerbread Cookies from How To Bake. Even gingerbread haters love it.
I also do Berliner Kranser - very delicate, a very adult cooky. Russian Tea Cakes (because you need a no brainer you can whip through quickly...LOL). Italian Fig Cookies are another fave.
Just to kick back with milk on any given day = Oatmeal Craisin.
chiff0nade at 2:29PM on 11/13/07
For the holidays I would be turned away at my families door if I didn't come with some shortbread cookies in hand. The key to shortbread cookies-use really good butter, the more expensive the better. And chill as often as necessary, especially after cutting into shapes before you put them in the oven. It'll stop them from melting as soon as the heat of the oven hits.
A recent cookie concoction: enhancing roasted walnuts with some dried mint then baking them into a double chocolate batter. The recipe is on my blog if anyone's interested: http://blogcheyanne.blogspot.com/
cheyanne
Cheyanne at 2:57PM on 11/13/07
For Christmas, I always make . . .
1) Buttermilk sugar cookies
2) Russian tea cakes
3) Chocolate chip cookies
This year, I also want to make gingerbread and shortbread cookies. I might also attempt an heirloom molassas cookie recipe from great grandma. My grandmother used to make them all the time until she lost access to a dairy farm - you need to sour raw milk, which we can't find anywhere nearby. :( So I'm going to experiment. I'll probably whip up cranberry biscotti for Christmas snacks, too.
KarynMC at 4:14PM on 11/13/07
I'm a big cookie fan, and I don't really discriminate. But the recipes that I'm often asked for or asked to make are my Cowboy Cookies and Apricot Almond biscotti. Technically, the Cowboy Cookie recipe comes from Laura Bush - it's got everything but the kitchen sink in there: oatmeal, coconut, nuts, chocolate chips, cinnamon...mmm! And I always use moist mediterranean apricots, which really makes the difference in the biscotti.
LizNYC at 4:22PM on 11/13/07
Christmas cookies are always a big deal at my house as well. We usually make the following:
"sand tarts", made with pecans (a.k.a.: russian tea cakes)
buttery spritz cookies made with ground almonds
coconut pecan balls (buttery dough wrapped around a pecan, then coated in coconut)
toffee bars (brown sugar-butter base topped with melted chocolate and chopped toasted almonds or walnuts)
apricot bars (shortbread base topped with a mixture of dried apricots and pecans)
(clearly, i'm a fan of nuts!)
last year i added anise-lemon cookies and cinnamon-sugar dipped butter cookies to the repertoire.
when i was young, i also used to make peppermint-flavored pink and white "candy cane" cookies - kitschy and not terribly tasty but still fun.
emmab at 5:13PM on 11/13/07
I love cookies, they are my favorite thing to bake. I like Italian fig cookies (cuccidati) , snickerdoodles, buttery spritz cookies with little dots of raspberry jam, soft oatmeal raisin, soft molasses cookies rolled in sugar before they are baked, buttery cookie dough wrapped around a candied cherry and then half-dipped in chocolate after baking, those crescent cookies made with ground almonds, dark chocolate cookie dough, wrapped around a peanut butter filling, rolled in sugar and then baked. I also like cherry spirals, a vanilla bean dough spread with a dried cherry filling, rolled up and cut thinly. I make 10-15 different kinds of cookies for Christmas!
elderberry44 at 6:48PM on 11/13/07
OMG Peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, yummy!!!!!!
But if I am not eating that then I would have to say chewy oatmeal cookies, I can eat them any time.
Sarahrm at 7:12PM on 11/13/07
Peanut butter. Most any chewy, soft warm homemade cookies. However, there's times when nothing will do except an original Oreo with a glass of cold milk :)
JEP at 6:48AM on 11/14/07
lemon squares, especially during meyer lemon season.
cybercita at 12:03PM on 11/14/07
sour cream rolled out cookies with icing.
slightly puffy, not too sweet offset by icing.
Yum!
Need to know more about the chocolate oatmeal no-bakes.... do these also have peanut butter in them? A college roommate's mom would send them to us, and I could have licked the box they came in.
Elizabelle at 12:52PM on 11/14/07
I can't say that I've ever met a cookie I didn't love... One of my favorite recipes is in one of the Magnolia cookbooks -- it's for peanut butter cookies with chopped salted peanuts and chopped-up peanut butter cups in them -- YUM. The recipe also calls for peanut butter chips, but I leave those out -- why clutter up such a delicious cookie with the fake stuff?
I also love to make these rich chocolate cookies with dried cherries and white chocolate chips. A friend of mine makes the same cookies but uses mint chips instead of the cherries/white chocolate, and they're just as good.
Also looooove my mom's Mexican wedding cookies (she's a little Jewish lady from New York, go figure). Gingersnaps are also a favorite.
But hey, offer me a good old-fashioned chocolate chip or oatmeal raisin, and I'm there! Yay cookies!
CookiePie at 2:40PM on 11/14/07
I've been thinking about cereal cookies lately because a family friend used to make them for a lot of people in town several years ago. It's got Capt. Crunch, Cheerios, colored mini marshmallows, chopped walnuts -- and to put it together, a mixture of white chocolate bark melted with peanut butter. Good stuff, and addictive too!
My mom and I used to make tons of cookies for Christmas, but now with diabetes and gluten intolerance in the family, cookie gifts have gone by the wayside.
We used to make chocolate crinkle cookies, snickerdoodles, Russian tea cakes, thumbprints (love, love, love thumbprints! Roll cookie dough in chopped walnuts or pecans, press down in the middle and put a spoonful of your favorite jam), toffee bars, etc. We did sugar cookies when my brother and I were young and liked using cookie cutters and colored sugars and sprinkles, but that became too labor-intensive!
I also like pumpkin cookies.
misseditor at 2:50PM on 11/14/07
Chocolate chip is at the top of my list, though I do make a very popular Rolo Cookie - a chocolate cookie with a rolo cookie baked in the middle. I do have to admit that an Oreo is sometimes better than anything else!
mrsmoosie at 3:21PM on 11/14/07
It's like picking friends...I just can't do it.
sawyerriley at 3:36PM on 11/14/07
I'm a plain old chocolate chip cookie lover myself! Sometimes I like thumbprint jelly cookies but other than that, I'm plain Jane, er Hillary.
Hillary
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Chew on That at 7:35PM on 11/15/07