Holiday Baking - what are you making?
Now that Thanksgiving is over - on to holiday baking!
My plans include gingerbread, rugelach, ginger cookies, lemon sables, peppermint cookies, pistachio biscotti, and stollen.
What are you planning to bake this holiday season?
Do you give baked goods as gifts? Bring to the office? Parties?
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14 Comments:
I give them as gifts and bring them to the office. It's the only time of year I bake! This year, I'll do similar to lat year I think, and make:
Molasses cookies
Sugar cookies
Homemade peppermint patties
Double chocolate mint cookies
Milk Chocolate Fudge
Peanut Butter Fudge
Turtles (Pecan and Almond)
....and probably one or two more.
lo82070 at 4:43PM on 11/27/07
I too am a once a year baker (for the most part). I started baking one year because I couldn't afford to give my friends gifts, but now they've come to expect a package of my baking in the mail, despite the fact I no longer live on a grad student's "salary".
This year so far I have made my nana's whipped shortbread, almond florentines and a nutty mocha biscotti. I'll probably do up some sugar cookies too, it just doesn't seem like Christmas without them! I love making fudge, but since I have to mail these packages, I don't like to do anything that may need refridgeration.
psychsarah at 6:01PM on 11/27/07
I love this time of year. I make
Iced Oatmeal Raisin Spice Cookies
Fudge
Cherry Nut Divinity
Chin Chi's (Bows)
Struffoli (small balls with honey and jimmies)
Almond Cookies
Fudge Ecstasies
White Chocolate Raspberry cookies
And Im still thinking about making lemon bars and rugelach.
jennywren at 6:07PM on 11/27/07
I love the holidays, any excuse to bake! I love to make
cupcakes
mini meyer lemon tarts with creme fraiche,
white and dark chocolate chip cookies with macadamia nuts
zucchini bread
this year i think i will do shortbread...any great recipes?
foodie1 at 6:32PM on 11/27/07
I am still assembling my cookie list. I usually make a lot and box them up and send them off to people I care about. Rule #1 if I love you I feed you. If you don't get any, you know.
JerzeeTomato at 6:51PM on 11/27/07
my holiday food thing is standing at the stove frying latkes for my friend's five children until they holler uncle or until the batter runs out... some years it can take several hours. big fun, but i smell like the alley behind a cheap diner afterwards!
cybercita at 10:16PM on 11/27/07
cookies:
Coconut butter cookies (epicurious)
Pistachio butter cookies
Various forms of Spritz (CooksIllustrated recipe), some with a dab of raspberry preserves, some with a maraschino cherry pressed in the middle, ect.
Homemade Milano cookies (the above spritz cookie made with the flat ribbon disk on the cookie press, sandwiched together with melted chocolate....my most requested cookie!)
chocolate dipped and plain hazelnut biscotti
Cuccidati
Cherry/Raspberry Swirl cookies
cakes:
Rum cake
Kahlua cake
Bourbon Pecan cake
fudge (plain and rocky road)
iced mincemeat tarts
Ohhh...it's my most favorite time of year! I'm a baking maniac. :o)
elderberry44 at 12:17AM on 11/28/07
foodie1-my nana's whipped shortbread is my personal fave, but may not be what you're looking for if you want traditional shortbread. Regardless, here's the recipe (it's pretty easy) and it does yield a ton of cookies.
Whipped Short Bread
> 1 lb. butter
> 1/2 c corn starch
> 1 c icing sugar
> 3 c flour
> Do the rest with your electric beaters
> Cream butter add icing sugar. Add corn starch and beat
> Beat as you add flour.
> Drop by teaspoon onto greased cookie sheet. Bake at 325 about 20 min.
> Watch
> carefully. You just want a very slight tinge on bottom, not brown.
> These melt in your mouth and make lots.
> I put a little piece of cherry on top before baking to decorate. YUMMY!
psychsarah at 9:15AM on 11/28/07
Assorted cookies- I haven't figured out exactly which kinds yet. There are some standards that HAVE to be made every year but I try to mix it up. Still haven't mastered one of the husband's faves so it is at the top of my list.
Fudge!
Mini loaves of pumpkin bread
Truffles or some other chocolate coated confection
I could spend the entire month of December baking. If only I could get paid to do it!
AuntJone at 11:36AM on 11/28/07
My fabulous fruitcake because it's truly good and people who swear that don't like fruitcake like mine!
TIGirl at 1:47PM on 11/28/07
I am making
Chocolate Brownie Crisps
German Christmas Bread
Cranberry Orange Biscotti
Pecan Shortbread Crescents
Jude
jude03 at 8:35PM on 11/28/07
I'll be making:
Sugar Cookies
Gingerbread
Birds Nest Cookies
Pistachio & Chocolate Chip Biscotti
Double Chocolate Biscotti
Pistachio & Cranberry Biscotti
Pecan Tartlets
Mexican Wedding Cookies
Peppermint Candy Canes
Truffles
chrissyd7 at 10:09AM on 11/29/07
I'll be making...
mexican wedding cakes
ginger-molasses cookies
world peace cookies
rugelach pinwheels
and maybe some lemon sables (although, the pistachio & cranberry biscotti above sound good too!)
mainegirl at 3:46PM on 11/29/07
I always think biscotti is the best home baked present for the holidays, but if you need more ideas, there's an article here.
Hillary
Chew on That
Chew on That at 6:45PM on 11/30/07