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12 Books of Christmas-Lots of Fun!

12/17/2012

I've joined another hop for readers to have fun and win some excellent books. I'm offering an eBook of Secret Love, the first of my spy novels.
After you read my post, you need to leave a comment then visit all of the other authors below and leave comments on all of them. The winner will get 12 books! Easy, huh?
Good luck!

Okay, my question is:

What is your favorite Christmas cookie?
Here's the recipe for mine.

Chocolate Raspberry Shortbread Sandwich Cookies

1 1/4 cups sifted powdered sugar + 3/4 cup butter + 1 tsp. vanilla
--Beat above ingredients together until creamy
1 cup flour --Blend into mixture
1 cup chocolate chips, melted (in nuke or pot on stove)
--Add melted chocolate to mixture
1 cup finely chopped walnuts --blend into mixture
--Using a level tsp. of dough, shape into tiny balls.
--Place onto 2 ungreased cookie sheets (Note: they don't spread much so you can usually get at least 36 cookies per sheet)
--Bake at 250 degrees for 30 minutes, both sheets in oven, reversing their positions at the 15-minute mark.
--Remove from sheets and cool.
1 jar Polaner seedless raspberry fruit spread
--Spread 1/4 tsp. fruit spread on flat side of a cookie, sandwich with another. You should get at least 36 cookies.
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Comments

Belinda G

12/17/2012 14:23

The best all time Christmas cookie on the planet is a lemon tart bar. It's so yummy it'll make you slap your mama! Seriously! The first time I tasted it, I swooned...well...I groaned and my eyes rolled back in my head and I ate 10 of them. So sad...but so good. I begged for the recipes and make them each year. I don't make them any other time only during the holidays. They are just like sweet potato pie. I would eat until I was sick! :-)

Over the years, I have added various ingredients to the recipe which makes them good but the original tart is still the best.

Thanks for the cookie recipe. I will try your cookies, hoping to perhaps find another great keeper.

Thanks for the opportunity to share. Best wishes to you and your family during the holidays!

Belinda G
belgre AT comcast DOT net

Rhonda D

12/17/2012 14:33

I loved plain old iced sugar cookies. Gingersnaps are my second favorite! Yours sounds yummy too. I will definitely be adding them to my holiday cooking list. Thanks for sharing and for the awesome giveaway!
Rhonda D
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Brenda Sparks link

12/17/2012 14:45

Thank you for participating in the giveaway. My favorite Christmas cookie is the sugar cookie. Of course, it must have lots of icing and sprinkles.

LorettaLynn

12/17/2012 14:46

double chocolate chip cookies :) hmmm yummy, just thinking about them makes me want t big glass of milk and two two many cookies ;)
Happy Hoildays and thank you for the chance to win :)
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Michelle Levan

12/17/2012 15:29

Too many choices, it depends on my mood. I do love oatmeal (as I can pretend they are healthy!). levanmichelle@yahoo.com

Kathryn Merkel link

12/17/2012 15:46

My favorite Christmas cookie is Snowballs, sometimes known as Mexican Wedding Cookies. They are easy to make & melt in your mouth.

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sue brandes

12/17/2012 16:07

My favorite are a spritz cookie that is made with cream cheese. Thanks for the giveaway.
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Elizabeth Gray

12/17/2012 16:09

Love chocolate chip pies. They are like the cookies only in pie form.

Thanks for the giveaway,

Elizabeth Gray
elizabethgr@sbcglobal.net

Pamk

12/17/2012 16:35

definitely homemade iced sugar cookies.
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cat

12/17/2012 16:55

Mentioned in another blog stop my Mom used to make these little nut rolls made with cream cheese dough...yummmmm!!!!!

fiona mcgier link

12/20/2012 13:43

Were they crescent-shaped, with cinnamon sugar and chopped walnuts? If so, I have the recipe and can send it to you. My Mom used to make those also. She only made 2 kinds of cookies, the same 2 every year. I make at least 6 kinds with 4 standards and new ones tried out each year.

Leni

12/17/2012 17:00

I love the sugar cut out cookies with icing. Decorating them is the best.

lenikaye@yahoo.com

JeanMP

12/17/2012 17:54

Home made gingerbread cookies. Look forward to those every year.
skpetal at hotmail dot com

Renee B

12/17/2012 18:00

Merry Christmas! My favorite holiday cookie is Lump of Coal Cookies. YUMMY! and so easy to make too. Here is the recipe.
Lump of Coal Cookies

One 16oz. package of Oreo Cookies crushed fine
5 cups of large marshmallows
4 tablespoons butter.

Directions:
(This works best on parchment, but a well buttered bottom and sides of an 8x8 baking pan should do the trick too)

1. In the bowl of a food processor fitted with the metal blade, pulse Oreos until ground.
(You can use a ziplock bag, a rolling pin and some frustration to vent if you don’t have a food processor.
2. In a large, microwave safe bowl, melt butter and marshmallows in the microwave until puffy, about 1 ½ to 2 minutes. Watch carefully and don’t let them puff too much.
3. With a buttered spoon, stir in the ground Oreos until combined.
4. Dump into your buttered pan and using a piece of wax paper on top, press mixture flat and even.
5. Let sit for at least 10 minutes.
6. Cut into chunks of “coal” and eat, (I mean serve) :)

Have a wonderful Christmas. Thanks for the chance to win. <^_^>
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laura

12/17/2012 18:03

I love decorated sugar cookies with lots of butter cream icing.
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Sherry

12/17/2012 18:20

My favorite Christmas cookie are nut rolls.

carolyn overholser

12/17/2012 18:47

I love the butter short breads. I used to only see them in the stores around the holiday, but it seems that they are making more of an appearance all year long now.

fiona mcgier link

12/20/2012 13:46

I make shortbread for New Year's Eve. Me faither was from Glesga (Glasgow) and he taught us about Hogmanay, which is actually a bigger celebration there than Christmas (or it was when he was growing up there.) At midnight you toast with Scotch or ginger beer (or whatever you like to drink) and eat a bit of shortbread to guarantee that you'll have food and drink for the new year.

Tammy Sommervold

12/17/2012 19:04

Chocolate Star cookies

Teryn Zech

12/17/2012 21:22

My favorite is of course sugar cookies cut out in Christmas shapes and decorated with frosting and sugar sprinkles!

Debra

12/18/2012 07:11

Thank you for all the recipes! My favorite cookie are traditional chocolate chip. I also love snickerdoodles.

Happy Holidays to All,

deb ;0)

deb830(at)hotmail(dot)com

Sherry S.

12/18/2012 08:47

My favorite cookie is sugar cookies.
sstrode at scrtc dot com

flchen1

12/18/2012 12:09

Our easy favorite is a cross between a cookie and candy--Chocolate Graham Toffee Bark... we try to make it only around this time of year because it's a little addictive..

http://homecooking.about.com/od/dessertrecipes/r/blcandy24.htm

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Rhianna link

12/18/2012 13:50

My stepgrama always makes the yummiest Russian Tea Cakes. One of my all time favorites by far. :)

Meg W

12/18/2012 13:53

My favorite cookies are gingerbread but sugar cookies come in a close second.
freakgrly@aol.com

12/18/2012 20:09

I love Mexican Wedding Cakes aka Russian Teacakes. And Monster Cookies.
Z
seawitchreviews at yahoo dot com

Carin W link

12/18/2012 20:47

I love the frosted cut out sugar cookies the best, Carin
mawmom at gmail dot com

Angie Adair

12/18/2012 21:45

My favorite cookie is Pecan Balls rolled in powdered sugar..YUM

Karen H in NC

12/19/2012 09:37

My favorite cookie is Spritz, a butter cookie flavored with finely grated almonds. So good.

kareninnc at gmail dot com

AJ Nuest link

12/19/2012 11:59

Hands down the peanut butter buttons with a chocolate kiss on top. I eat the outside first and save the kiss for last!

Tori

12/19/2012 21:34

As I answer your question I am waiting for my favorite cookies to come out of the oven. They are 7 Layers or Rainbow cookies. 3 layers of colored cake with 2 layers of raspberry jam sandwiched in between a top and bottom layer of chocolate.

torialainn@gmail.com

fiona mcgier link

12/20/2012 13:48

Wow! Simply...wow! Sounds labor-intensive, but yummy!

fiona mcgier link

12/20/2012 13:52

Seems like sugar cookies and tiny butter cookies made with finely-chopped nuts and rolled in powdered sugar are the 2 top favorites. I make my tiny balls from a recipe from the Fannie Farmer cookbook, called "Viennese pecan crescents", but I make them in 1 tsp. ball shapes because the crescents always broke getting them off the cookie sheets. They are the same as Mexican Wedding Cakes and Russian Tea cakes...I guess all cultures love butter, sugar, nuts and powdered sugar all mixed up in tiny buttery cookies!

I also have the recipes for butter cookies and snickerdoodles, so if anyone wants those recipes, just e-mail me and I'll send them to you. fiona (dot) mcgier (at) gmail.com

Shannon Bereza

12/20/2012 18:42

My favorite are my moms sugar cookies. They can't be just anyone's, they have to be my moms. I think it's the heaping spoonful of love she adds to all her baked goods. My hips thank her after the holidays and I thank her for sending me to workout extra hard for a month after the holiday.
sbereza22@yahoo.com

Shannon Bereza

12/20/2012 18:42

Oops, I didn't type my email right. It is sbereza22@gmail.com

Johanne

12/20/2012 18:58

I have two favorite even if they are traditional! chocolate chips and peanut butter cookies!! love them!!!

Allyson Brann

12/20/2012 22:03

I love butterscotch cookies...yummy:) Merry Christmas!
allysonbrann06@yahoo.com

Joder

12/21/2012 16:54

I love plain old sugar cookies decorated prettily. I could eat them for weeks. Thanks for the great giveaway and Happy Holidays!

joderjo402 AT gmail DOT com

kimberly holgate

12/21/2012 17:23

sugar cookies are my fave
kaholgate at ymail dot com

April Holgate

12/21/2012 18:53

I love Russian Teacake Cookies!!! I would give you the recipe but I don't bake!!

grapeapril75(AT)gmail.com

Julianne

12/21/2012 19:16

Rum balls!!! I just started making these about 6 years ago. I found a great and easy recipe. No baking in the oven. They are delicious.

luvfuzzzeeefaces at yahoo dot com

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