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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Russian Teacakes and eggnog/brandy outstanding!
Hello everyone! today I am frying good ol’ Virginia Peanuts and making Peanut Brittle. Tomorrow I coat them with chocolate. THEN, I will be making peanut butter cookies and chocolate chip cookies. Then I finish up with a chocolate and lemon meringue pie. Waiting around for 40 pounds of bootleg whole hog sausage to come in from Franklin County. The weather finally turned cold enough to kill! Good stuff.
Mmmmm.
” Drooling like Homer Simpson “.
Peanut Butter Cookies.
PBC’s dipped in black currant jelly…
Can I come to your house? Lol
Oatmeal raisin /gingersnaps/shortbread. ❤
Good day fellow Treepers! Here in MN our family is feasting on our favorite: Chocolate Crinkles and Monster cookies; both recipe’s are full of butter, natural sugar, eggs, chocolate, and peanut butter in the monsters!!
LOVE YOU ALL and have a very Merry Christmas!!!
Chocolate black pepper cookies (recipe, Martha Stewart); very easy: roll prepared dough into cylinders, coat cylinders with Demerara type sugar, wrap, refrigerate, slice, bake. The dough/cookies freeze well. Always a big hit in our home. ?Merry Christmas!?
My mom’s. Especially her pinwheel cookies and the short bread cookies. May she RIP.
A) Pralines are candy, not cookies, can be a bit tricky, but delicious and always benefit from the addition of bourbon. B) Now that I’m in Georgia, I specialize in cheese straws, a savory cookie is a nice change. C) Matzo crack, toffee poured over matzo crackers, sooooo buttery, addictive and easy, became a new favorite at a party last year. Look it up.
Crack is also good made with plain old salted soda crackers…
Still love chocolate chip cookies. And the candy cane cookies that first appeared decades ago on the Betty Crocker recipe circulars in Gold Medal flour sacks. And Seven Layer Stuff (known by other names): graham cracker crumb/melted butter base with layers of semisweet chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, chopped walnuts, shredded coconut, and then condensed milk drizzled over and baked. Scrumptious. Mexican wedding cakes are also v. good.
Macaroon…I just wished I knew how to bake them, my dad would bring them home from the dredge boat when he got off his shift as a surprise for me…so that made them even more special.
dang the pic didnt show but here is link to all things cookie:
https://www.best-ever-cookie-collection.com
O good one’s are science. I cheat and use a cornflake method. Tacky but yummy.
Somebody cheated in Wisconsin. Nobody eats those. Typically there is a variety of about a dozen different kinds, Cuz who can settle on just one.
for the first 40 or so years of my wayward path … my mom(until she hung up her wooden spoon) made Polish KOLACHKI. (Kolaczki) -kol-latch-key-(pronunciation)…cookies…. they’re traditionally filled with cream cheese or as my mom preferred to blended her mom’s desire to use all the various fruit jams-jellies&preserves … that was a full day of mixing.. folding.. rolling the dough… folding…rolling & folding to get just the lightest pastry dough possible before filling&baking… & of course taste testing (my dad’s official traditional duty)
NO PERSON has been able to duplicate my mom’s gift… many have tried… all have fallen short…. until we meet again… only memories survive….
SEMPER FI
Sounds similar to my mom’s Kalach (Hungarian version)- made them for a thanksgiving this year…filled with Apricot preserves.
Mid state NH here. For cookies, we usually have chocolate chip (nestlie’s off the back of the box) and sugar cookies. What we do with the first snow is snow pancakes — add one cup of new snow from the first real snow fall to a family pancake recipe. We have the first real snowfall, at least two feet of light, fluffy stuff, so snow pancakes with the kids tomorrow morning.
Merry Christmas!!
Peanut Butter cookies with the fork impressions…
Cream Cheese spritzes…wonderful!
Oatmeal raisin with dried Cranberry substituted for the Raisins
We made these today once I realized we were out of raisins. They turned out good. Can’t believe I never thought of them before. I currently have Chocolate Crinkles in the oven. Tomorrow is orange cranberry bread and Chocolate Almond Biscotti.
I’m with you, Elizabeth! Tomorrow is cranberry orange biscotti and Mocha Almond Biscotti. Then the Scotcheroos for the husband. Chocolate peanut clusters and rum balls to round out the day.
Sounds delicious. Happy Baking and Have a Merry Christmas!
Thank you. And Merry Christmas to you and yours.
The big gourmet chocolate chip cookies from Costco ……
combined with …..
A three pound large-diameter cheese cake from Costco.
I love gingerbread cookies and traditions!! I bake a batch every Christmas and my family decorates on Christmas Eve. Everyone is so clever and we enjoy a few laughs.
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Drogers…I am with you!
I am a lousy cookie maker.
I am the person who visits and absolutely appreciates a good cookie…I compare it to art..can’t draw a circle with a glass and a pencil..but appreciate a beautiful painting!
Same with cookies.
The cookie that looks the most delicious to me is the snickers caramel cheesecake cookies from Tennessee. I’ve never seen the linzer cookie from my home state and doubt that i would ever eat one.
Ahhhh Menagerie a great thread — since I WAS the Cookie Monster of the family.
So BW (before wife)
My moms cookies would be:
1. Thumbprints
2. Oatmeal (real shortening)
3. Sugar — iced with sprinkles!
4. Ginger
Mom made 12 different types of Christmas cookies — for 8 kids.
So OM (once married)
1. Snicker doodles
2. Oatmeal
3. Almond Christmas Wreaths
Now to blend the list
1. Thumbprints
2. Snickerdoodles
3. Oatmeal
4. Sugar — iced with sprinkles
….hope you are well and
have a blessed Christmas
There are many that look excellent , but I love homemade peanut brittle, second place molasses cookies.
I think those chocolate fudge pomegranate look interesting, but still, I could easily go cross country at the cookie buffet.
One of my favorite cookies throughout the year is Strawberry Chocolate Chip. I dice fresh strawberries the same size as the chips, and have equal portions of chips/strawberries. The cookie dough is unchanged.
Send all of your cookie samples to me and I will decide which are the best. Do it now or I will use off color language! Ecrue!
I have never heard of Cookie Truffles. However our family favorites are Trudy’s Ginger Snaps, Aunt Florence’s Peanut Butter, Russian Teacakes, and Nana’s Sugar Cookies.
Chocolate chip cookies
Can’t choose! Too many that I like equally well. Now I’m going to go eat a couple Christmas cookies. My dad loves Pecan cookies dipped in Schuler’s bar cheese.
Menagerie, you pinged Nebraska and Alaska but let Alabama slide??? Really???
Fruitcake cookies……….{{shudder}}
Oh my
My aunt used to have a recipe for fruitcake cookies. Nothing at all like a typical fruitcake, they were, for a long time, my second favorite cookie. Somewhere I may still have it, and I do think it might have had some kind of booze in it.
In the early 1980s, a department store I worked for had something they called Festa Europa; they had a display of the British Crown jewels, and artisans from many European countries for demonstrations of various arts and crafts. The one I remember best was a lady from Austria, who’s family were beekeepers and gingerbread bakers. Their gingerbread was made with the honey they produced, and were rolled out with molds that also decorated their beeswax candles. I lost the recipe somewhere along the line, and after a search, found it! The best gingerbread, with orange and lemon zest, and a light icing. Here is that recipe: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/25810/lebkuchen-v/
Seven Layer cookies
Buckeyes are the ?
Many many yrs ago my husband went to the garage freezer and threw em out without telling me because they were so addictive, he didn’t want to be temped anymore! I said what happened to the Buckeyes? He told me. I said “WHHHAAAT!!?
He had no idea how much work they were to make and hand dip etc. he felt bad lol
My fave is also oatmeal scotchies
If you’ve ever spent any time in or near Baltimore, you might be familiar with Berger’s Cookies. They’re a legend around here. Simple but sinful. Great with milk, or vanilla ice cream, or coffee or tea.
Warning: they are addictive…especially if you’re a chocolate lover
https://www.bergercookies.com/
Just inhaled several home-baked Snowball Walnut Cookies aka (Mexican Wedding Cookies)…licking the powdered sugar from my fingertips to type.
Cranberry Orange bread and custard pie tonight, chocolate chip cookies tomorrow night and Monday, peanut butter cookies on Tuesday, spice cake on Wednesday. New Years week, Russian teacakes, lace cookies, and my grandmother’s soft sugar cookies. Tamales are in there somewhere and maybe empanadas with refried beans, jalapeños, & cheddar (otherwise known as the Viva Zapata empanada.
I have one of those rosette things I got last Christmas and have never used. But I’m afraid to set up the grease because that always leads to sopapillas and puffy tacos.
I have to go. “Or else”.
Idk who made this map because brittle isn’t a big thing in Texas, and it’s not even a cookie. It’s candy.
My favorites: snickerdoodles and tollhouse.
We tried something new this year… pfeffernusse cookies. I had never even heard of them till about 30 years ago. We were at some local carnival event and people had tables set up where they were selling stuff. One had lots of various cookies and candy, and decided to try these things we’d never heard of. My first bite was like Oh my God!… and not in a good way. 😀 My wife reacted the same way. But after a minute I thought, hmm, lemme try this again. And then after a few more bites I was like, Hey wait a minute, these are actually GOOD. (Once you get past some of the weird spices, especially anise, it’s… well… different.)
So ever since then, whenever we find them in the store (which is rare) we get a pack… it’s the Archway brand that’s really good. So this year we decided to actually try making them ourselves. After reading through several recipes, we decided on one that sounded about right. And believe it not, they actually turned out really good. Maybe not 100% like the originals, but 90% or so.
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/155182/pfeffernusse-cookies/
Are they called peppernuts in English ? My mom used roll out long fat strings of the spicy dough, and snip those off with scissors onto the cookie tins. Baked, they were crunchy and about peanut sized.
Not sure what they’re called in English, but here’s a picture of the ones we first tried (Archway). And the picture in my first comment is from the recipe we used, which we put more powdered sugar on than shown in that pic, so they look a little more like Archway. Inside they both look about the same. (They’re maybe about 1 1/2″ diameter)
And just thought about it… that’s a great idea how your mom did it. I mean making a long roll and then cutting off pieces. Sounds MUCH easier to get consistent sizes that way, rather than grabbing some dough and rolling them into little balls, trying to keep each of them the same size (like we did). 😉
I found that recipe, too – in case i get brave enough to try. Didn’t know about the Archer cookies – will to see if local stores have them. the flavor does sneak up on you
Those are yummy, no matter what they’re called! Especially so with Texas pecans!
Oh, and divinity… with orange and pistachio.
But unlike the few other times we’ve made it, this time something went wrong. I know it’s not normally a “cookie”, but this time it was! 🙂 We obviously measured slightly wrong, boiled the sugar the wrong time, or whatever… because when we put the spoonfuls on the sheet, they only held their shape for a few minutes. But then, oh my brothers*, they began to collapse, until after a couple hours they had formed into beautiful, round, thin COOKIES. 😀 They’re still pretty soft, and not at all shaped or texture-wise like divinity is supposed to be, but… they still taste really good.
(* My Clockwork Orange reference of the day! 🙂 )
Menagerie, thank you for this warm and cheerful thread. I can never make Christmas cookies without music playing in the background. I will sing a song for you in appreciation. You might hear me faintly….
O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!
Thy leaves are so unchanging….
O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!
Thy leaves are so unchanging;
Not only green when summer’s here,
But also when ’tis cold and drear.
O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree!
Thy leaves are so unchanging!
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/oh-christmas-tree-lyrics.html
Biscochitos. Traditional NM Christmas cookies. My Grandmother used to always have plenty for the holidays. Next are butterscotch haystacks with a few pecans tossed in the butterscotch before mixing with the shoestring potatoes.
Shameless plug—for hundreds of traditional cookies visit Mrs. Claus’ Cookbook at Northpole.com.
Our go-to cookie is oatmeal-chocolate chip, but for Christmas I like to make ginger cookies. Molasses make them soft, not hard like a gingersnap, and the candied ginger (it’s a lot, but you can easily make it yourself) gives them a nice kick.
Recipe: https://www.eater.com/2017/12/14/16421114/zingermans-bakehouse-cookbook-ginger-molasses-jump-up-cookies
Peanut butter cookies.
If I do not have peanut butter cookies in the house I take peanut butter and put it on a chocolate chip cookie.
Any cookies ? That I don’t make!
Going joke with family for years—you go prison …I will make you chocolate chip cookies..!
Which is probably a fate WORSE than going to prison!
Now THAT was a threat that got everyone’s attention! And a good laugh!
I’m not a great cook by any means, but I used to be downright dangerous. Back when we first got married, I tried to make some cookies without using a recipe… just threw in whatever sounded good. Nope. They smelled good, but were totally inedible. Luckily I never needed to throw one at anyone, or I would have been charged with assault with a deadly weapon!
Shortbread dipped in chocolate…..mint chocolate❤ this is heartening. I baked cookies with my 5 kids yesterday. Whew…..double batch….GONE in a day! LOL. Guess I need to bake more! Blessings….and yes we e been listening to Bluegrass Christmas and it is so joyful!!!!
My favorite holiday cookies are Cranberry Hootycreeks.
Yay, Buckeyes! Homemade or Marsha’s, they’re dee-lish!
What!?
No chewy Chocolate chip cookies as state favorites anywhere?
Barbarians!
All right, there is an abundance of uncivilized cookie eaters in the USA. I’ll look to see if any state has my second and third favorite cookies.
2nd favorite cookie) Almond macaroons (Shades of the Christmas Market in Brussels drinking Glühwein and eating almond cookies)
3rd favorite cookie) Chocolate almond macaroons with ganache centers
Nope. Not listed at any state.
Oatmeal raisin! Has to be crispy and chewy.
Chocolate Bliss Cookies (from Baker’s Chocolate), Molasses Ginger Cookies, and Russian Teacakes. A little something for every taste. Also like my Chocolate-Dipped Macaroons, but only occasionally manage to get those made.
My favorite – pecan pie cookies.
For my kids –
Kid 1 – Christmas fudge (2 layers, chocolate on bottom, cherry on top)
Kid 2 – chocolate mint cookies
Kid 3 – Elf cookies – basically sugar cookies with chocolate chips and crushed peppermint candies
For my really big kid aka husband – he’s already haranguing us for peanut butter Hershey kiss cookies. And sugar cookies. He keeps telling my daughters that they need to learn to make this stuff. They already know how. He’s just insistent they have to make cookies for him so they’ll be prepared when they have their own families.
He even brought out the cookie cutters today. Subtle hint.
Born and raised in New Mexico. I have never heard of Royal Icing Cookie. The real answer is Biscochitos. Lard, anise, sugar, flower and cinnamon sugar on top.
I’m a native Californian and persimmon cookies are my and my daughter’s favorite- this was spot on!!
Also a native Californian gone now for much longer than I lived there… From the Sierra Nevada foothills and persimmon cookies were always a holiday favorite. We can only get store bought never tree ripened persimmons here in Washington, not the same.