I'm super excited to be a blog challenge host this year! Have you signed up to be part of the 2025 Ho-Ho-Ho Readathon? If not, here is the link: https://caffeinatedbookreviewer.com/2025/10/13th-annual-ho-ho-ho-readathon-sign-up.html
I have a stack of Christmas-themed reads I'll be reading during the readathon.
And when you're taking a little break from your reading, share a cookie recipe you love below, and you will be entered to win a $10 gift card!
I've got my family's buy-in for a day of cookie baking this December, and I'd love to try some new cookie recipes. Please share a favorite below--and if you don't bake, just search for your favorite cookies to eat and then share that recipe!
Happy reading! I'm going to go make some cocoa now so I'll be ready for some cookies!
A picture of Christmas past cookies!
8 comments:
I love cookies. I will post my recipe for snowballs tonight. Thanks for hosting!
When I was vegan I bookmarked this recipe and still use it every year. They are yummy and soft:https://www.purelykaylie.com/vegan-sugar-cookies/
That would be Snickerdoodles. I don't want to retype out my recipe card so I've cut and pasted on with similar directions credit to: https://lilluna.com/snickerdoodles/
Ingredients
Snickerdoodle Dough
▢ 2¾ cups all-purpose flour
▢ 2 teaspoon cream of tartar
▢ 1 teaspoon baking soda
▢ ½ teaspoon salt
▢ 1 cup unsalted butter, just softened
▢ 1½ cups sugar
▢ 2 eggs
▢ 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Cinnamon Sugar Coating
▢ ⅓ cup sugar
▢ 2 tablespoons cinnamon
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350°F.
In a large bowl, mix flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
In a stand mixer, cream together butter (barely softened) and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla and blend well.
Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix well.
In a small bowl, combine ⅓ cup sugar and 2 tablespoons cinnamon.
Use a small cookie scoop to scoop out dough and roll it into a ball. Roll each ball in the cinnamon sugar mixture – twice.
Place 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake for 8-10 minutes. Let sit on the cookie sheet for a few additional minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool.
I will definitely be back to see what other cookie recipes you score so I can add them to my baking collection.
My husband's family is Norwegian. He and I often make fattigmands, a Norwegian Christmas cookie. Here is a post I wrote in 2012 about making fattigmands: https://readerbuzz.blogspot.com/2012/12/virtual-advent-uff-da-norwegian.html.
My husband's family is Scandinavian, and they love to make fattigmands at Christmas. I posted about making fattigmands back in 2012. Here's the link: https://readerbuzz.blogspot.com/2012/12/virtual-advent-uff-da-norwegian.html
Snowball Cookies or Crescent Cookies
Ingredients:
8 ounces (2 cups) pecans
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup Land O Lakes® Butter, softened
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup powdered sugar
STEP 1
Heat oven to 325°F.
STEP 2
Process pecans in food processor until finely chopped. Transfer chopped pecans to bowl; stir in flour and salt. Set aside.
STEP 3
Cream butter and granulated sugar in medium bowl 2 minutes or until fluffy. Beat in vanilla. Reduce speed to low; add nut mixture. Beat just until dough is combined.
STEP 4
Working with 1 tablespoon dough, shape dough into 1-inch balls. Place, 1 inch apart, onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake 16-18 minutes or until very lightly browned. Let cookies cool on cookie sheet 5 minutes; transfer to cooling rack to cool completely. Now my Mom always made them into crescent shapes.
STEP 5
Place powdered sugar into shallow bowl; roll cooled cookies in sugar to coat. Store in airtight container. If necessary, re-roll cookies in powdered sugar before serving.
One of my family's favourite are Coconut Date Balls, or as we call them, Little Round Cookies
2 Tbsp. butter or margarine
1 cup chopped dates
1/2 cup chopped nuts
1 cup white sugar
2 beaten eggs
2 cups rice krispies
shredded coconut (I use sweetened)
Melt butter/margarine in a large frying pan. Remove from heat.
Add dates, nuts, sugar and beaten eggs,
Return to heat and cook slowly on medium heat for 5 or 6 minutes.
Remove from heat and add rice krispies, mixing well.
Drop by spoonsful into coconut and roll into balls (do not let this cool first or the coconut will not stick)
Store in an airtight container in refrigerator.
Makes 18 - 24 cookies depending on the size.
Oh gosh! My favorite cookies to make are classics that I get recipes off the packages (oatmeal scotchies, or nestle tollhouse chocolate chip cookies!), but I unearthed my grandma's recipe for stained glass window cookies a while back: 1 12 oz pkg semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 C butter
1 10 1/2 oz pkg fruit flavored mini marshmallows
Melt chocolate and butter over low heat; cool. Add marshmallows. Shape into two rolls 1 1/2 - 2 inches in diameter; wrap in waxed paper and chill. When thoroughly chilled, slice into 1/2" slices. Yields about 3 dozen.
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