viva la cookie.
 

normally, we bust out the old Betty Crocker Cooky Cookbook, and make some of the standards -- Russian Tea Cakes/Mexican Wedding Cakes, Chocolate Crinkles, Raspberry Thimble Cookies, plus Pecan tarts, and maybe a peanut brittle, or creme de menthe bars. then we give a ton of them out to folks. trying to have a "healthy" holiday, so we may skip the whole cookie train this year.

[smiley face beginning to weep]

I am weeping with you. This afternoon I made two kinds of biscotti, epresso chocolate shortbread dough, cherry/orange icebox shortbread and about to make punitons (the cookies you get at polaine).

After that, I'm done.

Until tomorrow.

:D

I am starting my holiday baking right now (cookies in the oven while I post) :) I use the Martha Stewars magazines and the tried and true spritz cookies.

Ditto the spritz cookies. Also the peanut butter cookies with the hershey kiss on top. Been thinking about trying some krumkake this year.....

For the last several years I haven't made Christmas cookies. But reading this thread got me all stirred up so I went to Williams Sonoma yesterday to buy a cookie press and I'll be making Spritz cookies later today. I think I'm going to try the recipe for garlic cheese crackers that came in the pamphlet too.

Just finished making sour cream lemon pound cakes, double crackle (chocolage) cookies, chocolate chip cookies with mini white chocolate peppermint chips, lemon icebox cookies, and am now making cupcakes with Santas on top of them.

The house smells YUMMY I must say!!!

I don't know if they are a Christmas cookie but I like the peanut butter with a hersheys kiss on top. In my Family they only seem to be made at Xmas

I'm thinking about making a batch of almond macaroons tonight, which I'll dip in in dark chocolate tommorow night. :D

Christmas always seems to require some lemon bar cookie (maybe lime this year, since the lime tree is raining them down) and peanut butter chocolate chip haystacks made from all the take-home chinese noodles that seem to accumulate in the pantry...

Update: My co-workers are loving me today :) The cake went within 2 minutes; cookies are down to 1. I think I need to plug in the mixmaster again tonight!

Family favorite: snowball cookies.
Sugar cookies (recipe from Beyond Paradise cookbook--the BEST recipe!)
Peanut brittle--not a cookie but all my friends fav

I forgot shortbread cookies! I love shortbread (probably because the #2 ingredient is butter!!!) cookies over the holidays....

three hugs today at work due to my fudgy nutty brownies and plain cake yummy brownies (my names :)).

Just finished baking spritz cookies with decorations which will be served on day 3 of the week bake-a-rama :)

I say next year Seattle Cookie exchange do!

oooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh - I am soooooooo in!!! What a FABULOUS idea!!!

I'm in!