Friday Fun…Name Your Cookie!!!

The baking skills skipped my generation but lucking my mother and daughters partake.  Last night, we were treated to "snow balls"...  historically known as rum balls but somewhere along the way the rum disappeared (hmmm.... I need to go find that!). 

Good morning Kathy,

I use to make Mexican wedding cakes but it's not my kids favorites so I've dropped making those. Growing up we did the Spritz cookies which I loved but the kids just can't get into them. We always do sugar cookies and let the kids decorate them!

Hello Kathy - as for baking cookies, not so much (as in not at all, for me) but when it comes to choosing a favorite.  I say "yes, please" or "more".   Why choose a favorite.  I ask again.  Why indeed???

Kathy, I rarely make Christmas cookies, but now you have me thinking about them.

Every year my friends would have a Christmas Cookie Party and it could not be store bought. The one person that did bring something from the grocery store brought chocolate chip!

Hi Kathy I like spritz cookies.  We are a little behind on things this year.  Phyllis would participate in these every year.

I love the Christmas snickerdoodle for my home state of MD. Pretty and delicious... and I'm thinking maybe you circled your birthday hoping Santa would make a return visit that day lol! 

I do not love baking, but I will put myself in the category of those who love eating...lol

Yum, yummy. Kathy Streib. I can taste your cookies right now. I love eating them this time of year, but I don't need to put on any more weight. I used to bake years ago when our daughter was growing up. My favorite are oatmeal cookies with raisins. 

Hello Kathy and you and Larry did a great job with the cookies.  I am down to the last 30 cookie tines for my past clients to bake tomorrow and deliver on Sunday!

Kathy mine are rum ball cookies.  My wife makes fudge for Christmas and gives it to family and friends.  The list of who she gives it to keeps on getting longer and longer, because more people ask for it, and the kids of families she gives it to, ask for their own when they get to be older and go away to college.

Don't know if I will do any baking this year.  Dietary restrictions in my family have made it difficult.  I used to buy a box from my favorite bakery, but they closed down too.  Maybe I'll make some tea cakes, they don't have too much sugar in them.

Hi Kathy,

I looked at the link for Mexican Wedding Cookies, which is my family's favorite.  My mother-in-law made them at Xmas.  She called them Italian Christmas cookies.  But I think it was a similar recipe.  I lost the recipe, so I might check this one out!  

We love giving out cookies every year but this year we're not making any.  Bakery all the way so pics from me today.  But ohhhhh man they are good.  I typically don't like cookies much but there is one with coconut and a hint of dark chocolate....OMG that is too good.  Coconut is good for  you, right Kathy!!

I LOVE a good cookie just like the next guy, and I LOVE a beautifully presented, colorful plate of Christmas cookies. However, baking cookies at Christmas time just isn't a tradition in my family. 

One year I remember making an assortment of cookies for a Christmas Eve I was hosting and I tried several new recipes...all turned out delicious and I've saved the recipes. But I have yet to ever make any of them again. HaHa.

I think all the work and expense and the fact they just aren't good for you (especially when you have a large quantity for so few people that gather in my family) it just isn't a priority.

I have never refused any type of chocolate chip cookie and if none are available just try the rest to find one I don't like

Those cookies look scrumptious, Kathy.  I like most any kind of cookie.  I haven't met one I didn't like.

CONGRATULATIONS Kathy, on having this blog FEATURED in the Old Farts Club group!  

Thank so much for sharing this post, I learned a lot Kathy 🎅

Kathy:

What a tasty post for the holidays!

It seems the Classic Peanut Butter Blossom cookies are a favorite of a number of states, including CA and FL!

My favorite are the German Honey Lebkuchen we make every year at Thanksgiving as a family - we still have part of a canister of them at our house - saving them for Christmas weekend!

Jeff