From an article at Yummly. I’m going with Kentucky on this one. Runners up are Louisiana, Florida, Minnesota, and New Jersey, the state that came closest to knocking Kentucky out of my favorite position.
I am verklempt at Tennessee not having a Jack Daniel’s cookie. I’ll console myself with Gentleman Jack and a slice of Jack Daniel’s cake.
And really, Nebraska and Alaska, sad. You guys need some help.
Sigh. No political comments, and for goodness sakes, why make an even slightly off color comment on a cookie thread? Use some sense, please. If the fun of this thread escapes you then go comment on the other threads. Please.
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Peanut butter chocolate chunk cookies.
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“These are impossible to stop eating”
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https://www.food.com/recipe/peanut-butter-chocolate-chunk-cookies-48532
Grandkids love my wifes spritz cookies and prefer the Christmas Tree shape, other shapes just don’t taste as good,lol. Personally I like the pecan tasty’s, like a bite size pecan pie.
Polish holiday or festive cookies called Chrusciki is also a favorite, especially with strong coffee.
aha – so that’s the Polish spelling for angel wings cookies. i was going to look it up – thanks
My hubby is an Italian baker in MA, so we are familiar with anise cookies; but, similar in shape and texture, he makes lemon cookies (same cookie as anise, just without anise) and they are so delicious.
I grew up making snickerdoodles at Christmas time (and Swedish apple pie) and they hold a special place in my heart.
Any suggestions on best place to buy Pandoro cake? Italian treats and cookies are our weak spot!
(sorry for the topic hijack)
Can’t decide on the cookie; as I don’t discriminate, I’ll happily take them all.
Looks good!
Wow, that’d have me working out with no breaks in between!
That looks like a huge slice of Heaven!
Thanks for making my day, I’m speechless!
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Florida: Linzer(???)Must be a RV circuit thing in Mt. Dora.
Salted Chocolate Caramel. 4 inches thick. 20 additional units of Basaglar the night before.
If it does not contain CITRUS as a primary ingredient, it cannot be called Florida’s Christmas Cookie. Key Lime should top the list.
Well Hello there cousin. 🙂
My favorite Cookie is the Insurrection cookie. It’s iced very nicely with liberal tears and shaped like the Liberty Bell.
Why would you be a jerk on my cookie thread? Go elsewhere.
Kinda harsh considering it’s the Christmas season. I meant no disrespect..
Merry Christmas.
Your being a jerk
No, I am hosting a cookie thread, not an azzhat competition. Anyone who does not enjoy this sort of thing should just pass by.
I respect Sporty for his reply.
I love you?
Tennessee should be Tennessee Tea Cakes.
I like ginger cookies this time of year. They are holiday-like and serve to mitigate the effects of my other eating adventures. This is a simple and very good recipe: big-soft-ginger-cookies.
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Mama was raised down South in a family with maids, but when she married a Kansas farmer she learned to cook. At Christmas time she made divinity, pecan pralines, Mexican wedding cookies, gooey dark fruitcake, and superb chocolate fudge. On New Years eve she made bunuelos loaded with cinnamon.
And Papa used to melt down the lead-foil “icicles” from the Christmas tree and pour the lead into a bullet mold.
I remember those childhood days of lead tinsel. We saved that and use year after year.
What a pain in the butt. They had to be carefully laid out in the box for storage and then carefully removed to be hung. UGH! And don’t forget the lead poisoning.
I remember lead tinsel. If you squeezed it in your hand too hard before throwing it on the tree, it would clump and just be a wad of tinsel. Somehow we all survived without getting lead poisoning.
Mexican wedding cakes are Russian Tea cakes also called snowballs in Wisconsin
also Sandys if rolled oval instead of round — had walnut crumbs in the cooky dough if I remember right . .
and all of them would drift powdered sugar onto the front your go-visiting clothes 🙂
As I am reading this there are 9 different types of Christmas cookies layed out on the table. We have been baking fools this season. My favorites are a simple shortbread cookie made with orange zest and a dark chocolate chip on top.
Shortbread cookies (your version sounds great) and pecan sandies are my two favorites — it’s a tie.
I use a hint of lemon in my shortbread.
Last year I made a lemon, cardamon shortbread that was pretty good. If I’m not all cookied out in the next few days I’ll make some of those.
Greetings! My favorite isn’t exactly a cookie: Buckeyes.
Next, I love spritz and pinwheels. I need to get baking!
I am about to start making Trillbies this afternoon. Date-filled oatmeal.
Although I’ve been in California for 30 years, I’m originally an Ohioan and still consider myself so. Though delicious, Buckeyes are actually a candy, not a cookie. Basically they are a ball shaped peanut butter cup.
For those who don’t know what a Buckeye is, it’s a tree nut which resembles the eyeball of a deer. Hence buck’s eye, or Buckeye.
Favorite Cookie: My great grandmother’s Butterscotch, or her Molasis Cookies which recipe has been lost and can only now be approximated. She was State fair baking judge back in her time and would occasionally snag a winning recipe here and there to add to her own.
forgot the space between paragraphs, dang. An edit feature whould be so cool for someday….
Rant On:
I’m going to tell everyone right now that this article is NONSENSE!!! There is no way PIZZELLES are Pennsylvania cookies… not even close. Molasses, Oatmeal Raisin… maybe… but Pizzelles? NO FREAKIN’ WAY!… Rant off.
Pizzelles are Italian in origin but found throughout many countries in Europe. My Spanish (from Espagne) wife makes a mean pizzelle, flavored primarily with vanilla and lemon (sometimes orange) but often with anise.
The key is thinness but not too fragile. Very tricky to make “Perfect” – requires a well seasoned (with Crisco oil) and properly heated pizzelle iron. The first batch off the iron is never perfect. The second batch on is good but depends on just the right batter and just the right amount ladled onto the iron. It’s as much an art as it is a science
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Your comment on your Spanish wife reminded me of Inez Rosales olive oil cookie crisps we sampled in Sevilla. There are 2 varieties: one with anise seed, the other with orange zest. Both dropped me to my knees!
They are expensive to purchase (even in Spain), but there is an online recipe I’ve been wanting to try and may do so soon. These are super, super, super thin, extremely crispy, a touch sweet (not savory) and you won’t know they are made with olive oil. When you buy them, they are individually wrapped in a transparent parchment like paper. To die for!
There are several recipes on the internet, here is one of them. Or if you want to drop a little bit of money, you can buy them and have them shipped. If your wife has a recipe, please share.
https://londoneats.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/tortas-de-aciete/
Thank you for that, Misfit. My wife recognizes the Aceites and recalled that one of her aunts made them infrequently, but my wife has never attempted to make them. Looks like she’s curious, though…. 😉
Mom used to make a molasses oatmeal cookie, with everything but the kitchen sink added (walnuts, raisins, dates, spices, pieces of orange candy, anything she had on hand good in a molasses oatmeal cookie). What made it the greatest of all time was the inability I had to determine if coffee or milk best accompanied this cookie. It was equally great with both!
I have been craving them. I think you had me at molasses.
My great grandmother made molasses cookies from a family recipe I have never seen anywhere else. Molasses and sugar is heated until boiling. Remove from heat and add baking soda, dissolved in hot water. It will bubble up . Then add flour and chopped nuts. When cool enough to handle roll out, cut in diamond shapes and bake. The longer you bake them the harder they get. I always liked them soft. They make great dunkers and lasted forever. Old German recipe I think…
Mincemeat cookies. Preferably with rum and brandy added. In a very dry, pie crust like shell.
An annual labor of love from a wonderful wife every Christmas.
The truth is that I really don’t like bourbon balls. I like bourbon just fine. Nor do I consider them to be a cookie.
The best cookie is always a thick chocolate chip walnut or a thick oatmeal raisin nut….Christmas, Easter, Halloween, opening day, Tuesday, etc.
Gotta be shortbread. Melt in your mouth… mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Agree!❤️
If you’ve never had Gooey Butter Cake and/or cookies in Missouri, you MUST! Excessively sweet and, yes, gooey good.
Recipie link?❤️
On behalf of the Norwegians amongst us, I offer krumkake and kransekake. Krumkake are similar to pizzelles but thinner and flavored with cardamom. From the Sons of Norway: https://www.sofn.com/norwegian_culture/recipe_box/baked_goods_breads_ and_desserts/krumkaker/)
The Kransekake (almond wreath) is a tower of rings made from almond paste. it is decorated with icing and small paper Norwegian flags. Also from Sons of Norway: https://www.sofn.com/norwegian_culture/recipe_box/baked_goods_breads_. and_desserts/kransekake)
Another poster mentioned the tree-shaped Spritz cookie. My favorite is the wreath shape with the tree a close second. Made with fresh butter, these are so tasty. But then I enjoy many different types of Christmas cookies, even the staple – Sugar cookie Christmas cutouts with almond- or anise-flavored icing.
My grandparents belonged to the Sons of Norway. (Clearwater, FL back in the ‘60s and early ‘70s). I remember the Krumkake from Lodge meetings. Thank you stirring the memories, Austine.
Velbekommen, min venn!
Walnut chocolate chip.
Love, love, love your designated consolation prize, Menagerie. I make a pretty mean Kentucky Bourbon Fruitcake, myself.
A number of years ago we had to pry a fistful of said fruitcake out of the custody of my two year old granddaughter before she count launch into a second bite. No harm done. But in the process she pronounced, loudly enough so everyone in the house could hear, “This is r-e-a-l-l-y GOOD BREAD, Nonni!
Thank you for the uplifting Christmas fun engagement for body, mind, and spirit.
!Ay caramba! I forgot to manage the paragraph break again.
I have a one-year-old who eats everything under the sun (moves? He’ll eat it. Doesn’t move? He’ll eat it. Not nailed down? He’ll eat it. Nailed down? Oh cool, extra iron as he eats it.) I’m sitting here giggling like mad envisioning him (or his almost-three-year-old brother) doing the exact same thing.
Heath Bar Cookies
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Russian tea cookies are the absolute best melt in your mouth “Snowballs” ( also a name) they are a tradition in my family
Those are my daughter’s favorite.
Just have to chime in from PA! My wifes PIZZELLES are Absolutely the Best! Instead of anise she uses Lemon and Orange extract and they don’t last long! Blessings to All!
I am disappointed in TN as well! Thanks for the reminder of bourbon balls! They are on my list to make next year! I’d like to know who those folks talked to because as a native Tennessean, I have never heard of Caramel Cheesecake cookies! They sound good though! I make goodies every year and the 2 things I get raves about are homemade egg nog and candied pecans. I’m also making Cherry Garcia cookies and white chocolate covered graham crackers with candy cane sprinkles this year. ?
Kinda not easy to read the cookie names on the map but I’ll go with Oklahoma chocolate fudge. Sounds good with coffee.
Not easy to narrow down to just one favorite.
Michigan for the win with frosted sugar cookies. ??
Anise for Ma. Not good, i will also go with Kentucky bourbon ball cookies
For Christmas – my number one is Russian Tea Cakes (because they look like little snowballs), and Thumbprint cookies filled with raspberry jam – very festive looking. And lastly Scotch shortbread, because hey………butter 🙂
For every other time of the year, my husband makes the absolute best Toll House cookie. I don’t even try anymore – he has a magic touch!
While still warm, Toll House cookies …
Oh I was hooked at Alabama! I love fruitcake! But the absolute winner for me is Gingerbread from DC. My runners-up in state-alphabetical order:
Fun article, thank you! Gave me some great ideas to get away from the same old thing every year.
Snickerdoodles are tasty! ?
We make those every Christmas!!! My daughter loves them.
My favorite cookie is a chocolate buttersweet. It has a buttery sugar cookie base, creamed cheese mixed with powdered sugar and pecans, then topped with a hard chocolate shell which I prefer to be dark chocolate.
Whoa! Any chance you could post or direct us to a link with the recipe… ?
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Menagerie, since you weren’t thrilled with Tennessee’s cookie, I can recommend as a possible substitute The Hamery’s Old Fashioned Molasses cookies – still no Jack Daniel’s, though. They’re just plain good and make a nice present and they also pack well. You can add a few other fancier cookies for a ‘cookie platter’. I saw this recipe in a ‘Relish’ magazine when they did an article on The Hamery years ago. Here’s a link to the recipe, which is the last one on the page (also has some other delicious looking recipes at the same link): https://www.thehamery.com/recipes.html#ofcookies
Many years ago I saw the most beautiful hand painted Christmas cookie on the cover of some magazine. It was called a New Zealand Holly Cookie. It is a cinnamon spiced rolled dough that is sandwiched together with raspberry jam and frosted with a confectioners glaze. Then you hand paint on the glaze with food color any design you wish. Very good.
“I am verklempt at Tennessee not having a Jack Daniel’s cookie.”
Menagerie, that’s what we dunk our cookies in.
Old Tennessee Christmas Eve cookie dunking tradition: When you can no longer say “snickerdoodle” without embarrassing your mama… it’s time for you to go to bed.
Burp.
This Tennesseean want nothing in my Jack. Okay, maybe an ice cube might be allowed, that’s all. No need even for a little branch water! ?
I have a simple sugar cookie recipe that was my gggrandmothers, I got it from my mom. It is a unique cookie, not overly sweet and very tender but not chewy (almost like a shortbread). I make them every Christmas. It makes 6 dozen and I give them to neighbor and friends.
Everyone wants the recipe but I don’t give it out. It is my family secret recipe ?
Experimenting one day I made oatmeal cookies with whole wheat flour, Sugar in the Raw, no eggs but egg replacer. I added chopped walnuts, pecans, raisins & dates. These turned out like “Cookie Bars”.
Relatives and friends loved them, by way of watching them disappear.
Yes, Oatmeal cookies with everything thrown in them.
I make these when I plan on a weekend backpacking trip. A cup of coffee and a few of these cookies is a great way to start off the day and to end it.
I like to make these everything ( sliced almonds, pecans, chia seed, whey powder, crasins, sesame seeds. rasins, coaco chips etc.. steel cut oats)….oatmeal cookies too. I especially like to make them with lots of butter and NO baking soda or baking powder so they turn out thin and crispy. So good.
My mom made corn flake kisses this week. Hadn’t had those in years! Mom’s rock! 😉
Our family loves Sands (like a Mexican Wedding Cookie)..and family recipe Oatmeal Pecan cookies.
I don’t have a favorite. I like sampling them ALL. 🙂
Where’s the Moon Pies?
Shhh…don’t tell anyone but I put a Moon Pie in my husband’s stocking.
Bless your heart…You have not really lived until you taste crushed Oreos formed into balls & dipped in dark chocolate!
I have a recipe for Mrs Field’s Chocolate chip cookies. Plus the oatmeal raisin recipe from the back of the quaker oatmeal box from years ago. Im from Tennessee. I don’t know where they got that other cookie LOL
Menagerie, thank you so much for the article. Very interesting! I do remember peanut brittle, here in Texas as a child. My mother and her friends made it. No microwave was used as the recipe listed on line, says to use.
The Russian Tea Cookies looked just like the 4 batches of cookies I made this morning. I made Mexican Wedding Cookies because I live in El Paso, but they are the same recipe as the Sand Tarts made in East Texas. We use pecans but Minnesota uses walnuts.
This article could easily develop into a book of recipes, history and traditions.
Merry Christmas!
My favorite cookie? The one on my plate as I sip my evening tea. Tonight it will be Dutch windmill cookies my sister sent me.
chocolate….anything chocolate…
in fact just chocolate, with some chocolate in the side
washed down with some chocolate.
did someone say chocolate.?
yes please
well known fact. chocolate cures cancer and will improve any disposition.
the question isn’t how much chocolate can you eat, but why someone would even think of such a question.
chocolate. in large amounts.
then work it all off with 14 hours of heavy duty work outside…
then more chocolate.
I call it a balanced diet
I’m with you. 🙂
Since you seem to be a chocolate fanatic…what is your favorite liquid chocolate? I have spent a lifetime trying to find a hot cocoa recipe that delivers enough of a chocolate flavor.
a HUGE fan of german and swiss chocolate.
there is the fantastic chocolate bar called Toblerone. It’s not “pure” chocolate, has almonds and honey, but it’s as close to perfection as chocolate comes in a convenient bar.What I do is break off a few chunks, melt in butter and then add a bit of half and half. About a cup. You add this to ANY coffee and you have the best cup you ever had. Or add ice cream and blend. same thing. Drizzle over pecan pie…..imagination runs wild with chocolate
If someone breaks into my truck, they can take everything in it, except for the locked glove compartment, filled with toblerone. I even have a note on the stash. If you steal this, I WILL find you and beat the chocolate out of your system. Leave the chocolate alone. I leave a simple hershey bar with another note: you can take this one!
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You might like Milk Boy brand swiss chocolate. Check it out. It’s my new favorite since Trader Joes stopped carrying their pink box swiss milk chocolate.
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Mmmm Toblerone, so good…never sold that many in our French club fundraisers…bought the boxes for myself lol
Make your favorite oatmeal cookie recipe, then drop in a couple handfuls of chocolate chips. Best served warm and gooey.
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Hubby hated coconut until after we moved out of CA and to Utah.
Now he says we have to keep flaked coconut around so I can add it to whatever cookie I was making.
Oatmeal, choc chip, fudge, even peanut butter cookies all get some added in. Or on the frosting.
We love jam thumbprint cookies with coconut. The receipt from Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa is our favorite. It’s fun for the whole family to make, bake and eat. The cookie is Pretty and delicious.
We also make divinity cookies, some plain, some with tiny chocolate chips and some with nuts. Easy, Peasy.
Wide flaked coconut can be tossed in warm honey water and then slow-roasted on a cookie tin until golden brown . it’s very healthy and easy. (Just add enough hot water to the honey to make a thin syrup.) If you do fine shredded coconut that way, it makes a good garnish too.
They are called Tennessee Truffles
I’m in NY and I’m Italian-American but would not ever say that those cookies are Xmas cookies….I can get them year round all over the place, even at 7-11 . For a NY Xmas cookie, my choice would be Pfeffernusse–not easy to find, but when you do, you can truly say that “it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.”