make christmas cookies

I have to find a recipe I want to start with… it’s a very small oven so I may have to get a second oven tray!

But I still got a couple of batches made. It’s probably for the best. Most years I make so many (about 500) that a lot get thrown away. I usually put a huge effort into cultivating my cookie goddess persona. But this year the kids got involved a lot, so oh well.

I wanted to make that I didn’t get around to. I’ll have to remember them for next year!

Yum.

which are a Dutch cookie with cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon. Oh, how I love cinnamon.

mmmmm

which are delicious! I think I got that recipe from someone on here last year, but I can’t remember who. I managed to put aside some in the freezer for Audrey’s Girl Scout Troop’s cookie exchange later this week.

A few weeks ago I made some sort of chocolate ones, but they got eaten before I could freeze any for Xmas, so I don’t know if I could call them Xmas cookies.

It got to the point where I had to start collecting my recipes on my blog so I could keep track of which recipes I was going to use on a particular year.

Now, I try to scale back and only make a few (like three or four recipes) at a time rather than ten or so. It makes life much easier.

If you set a goal of only one or two recipes (and definitely not chocolate chip cookies), then it makes it much easier to meet that goal.

If it helps, here is my collection of Christmas cookie recipes:

Kattitudes christmas cookie recipes

Good luck and have fun!
Kat

Well, I didn’t wind up making all the cookies I was plotting, but I did alright. First up were the buckeyes, which I made with my boyfriend’s little nieces. They turned out pretty unattractive, but delicious! Then I started making the macaroons with coconut cream filling, but once I got the macaroons themselves done, they were so tasty I decided not to risk screwing them up with the filling. Martha Stewart’s surprise cookies were the standouts of the bunch: chocolaty, cakey, delicious, and pretty darn easy. Then I tried to make some coconut bars that seemed easy, just coconut, evaporated milk, condensed milk, and sugar… but they stayed gooey instead of ever solidifying, so I wound up rolling it into little balls and dipping them in chocolate. Disaster averted!

Never got around to sugar cookies or snickerdoodles, which is sort of sacrilegious for me, but oh well. I’d made a Key lime cheeseball that I serve with graham crackers, and a yummy ginger spice cake with sauteed apples, so I felt like I had enough sweets to send everybody into diabetic shock!

A bunch of our friends came over yesterday, and we had a great time decorating (as you can see). There was a massive number of cookies… now we need to find people to give them to! I think we’d die of hyperglycemic shock if we were to try to eat them all ourselves. ;)

In any case, I’ve been wanting to do this for years, but we’ve not been home for Christmas in years. So, yay! I did it!