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I have spent the majority of this afternoon weeding thru the hundreds of cookie & candy & bars recipes I have to make a list of what ones I want to make this year.
So I got to thinking it would be fun to see what other cachers like to make or must make for the holidays.Paul Bunyan sugar cookies ( cut out using my great grandmother’s metal cookie cutters made in her homeland of Germany)
Butter pecan fudge
Peanut butter snowballs
peanut butter krispy bark
chocolate dipped maple logs
maple kitkat barsThese are just some of the ones I have to make every year otherwise it wont seem like the holidays without them.
Jerrys Mom, her mother and her sisters all baked yesterday. My favorites are;
1) chocolate covered chocolate chip cookie dough balls
2) almond cookies
3) peanut brittle
4) pistachio pudding pie1. Fried oysters
2. Fudge balls – prefer strong cinnamon flavor
3. Caramels
4. Mint meltawaysI love Angel Food candy, but I’m liking the sound of those chocolate covered chocolate chip cookie dough balls. Each year we make white chocolate covered pretzles.
My wife is a (retired) professional pastry chef. My personal favorite from among her many wonderful creations is a pistaccio nugat, made from a recipie she got while attending the French Pastry School in Chicago. It give new meaning for the term “to die for”.
@jstajlr wrote:
I love Angel Food candy, but I’m liking the sound of those chocolate covered chocolate chip cookie dough balls. Each year we make white chocolate covered pretzles.
My sister-in-law makes them. It is the only thing I ever ask her to make! When I was first dating Jerrys Mom, she was not a very good cook, she was still a teenager. It is still our running joke, but those chocolate covered chocolate chip cookie dough balls are to die for!
@jstajlr wrote:
I love Angel Food candy, but I’m liking the sound of those chocolate covered chocolate chip cookie dough balls. Each year we make white chocolate covered pretzles.
I love it also! Generally buy Eileen’s dark in the stores.
My one attempt at making it did not turn out too well. One batch we were using a plastic spoon to stir the mix. Hmm…. where is the spoon?
I used to make tiny gingerbread men, maybe 170 of them. And they all had to be decorated. Haven’t done that in the past few years, but maybe some day I’ll resurrect them. Same with the mini star cut-outs with frosting and little balls on them.
Always have to have cathedral windows at Christmas, though–the only time I make them. Cakey base with small colored marshmallows in a chocolate mix spread on top. When cut, the edges of the top are supposed to resemble stained glass windows. Also have to do fudge, even after the year I overcooked it and it ended up rock hard.
My mom would make soft caramels, and we would help wrap the individual pieces in saran wrap. Sticky candy, sticky wrap.
@sandlanders wrote:
I used to make tiny gingerbread men, maybe 170 of them. And they all had to be decorated.
When we make gingerbread cookies we do teddy bears & cows. The cows are all hand painted….yes painted. White base with black spots; then pink udders & noses; black hoofs & eyelashes; red lips. Then the decorating tips in bags do the green wreaths with red dots for holly; then red bows on the tails.
As for the bears we outline lederholseins (spelling) or bikinis……..lol
Peanut butter cookies with a Hershey’s Kiss on top are #1 around our house.
Not sure what they’re called, as they are my wifes recipie, but I can describe them.
She makes toll house cookie dough or something very similar, without the chocolate chips. Then wraps the dough arround either a mini Snickers, Mounds or Pepermint Patty. Then drizzles melted Dove dark chocolate on them and sprinkles them with powdered sugar. AWESOME!!!!
Being part of Jerry’s Dad’s family, yes pistacio torte LOVE IT its my favorite
My cousins fudge
homemade carmel popcorn (i can never seem to get it right)
Northern Lightz wrote:Being part of Jerry’s Dad’s family, yes pistacio torte LOVE IT its my favoritequote]For the life of me I could not remember what it was called or it would have been #1
My absolute favorite is Cranberry Torte. A recipe that has been handed down for many generations. Definitely not something for those counting calories though….as the torte is drowned in a sauce made of butter (the real kind not the fake stuff), sugar, and milk.
My second favorite is cut out cookies – another handed down recipe from many generations. I like using the foot cookie cutter and decorating it with “Feet Navidiad”! Or cutting out and decorating all 30 NFL team helmets… No conventional Christmas shaped cookies here.
I generally like to have an Ice cold beer around the holidays. Not to sweet but it sure is a nice treat.
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