How many different types of Christmas Cookies or treats do you bake this time of year?

[FSogol]

Here's my list of what I have made so far:

Chocolate Chip
Butterscotch Chip
Molasses Cookies
Pecan Cookies
Cookie Candy (a no bake recipe that some people call Rocky Robbins)
Oatmeal
Two Tone Fudge (Chocolate & butterscotch)

Friday, I plan on baking gingerbread and making some divinity. I usually make a pecan pie too.

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[democratisphere]

1. None. I eat everyone else's hard work.

[irisblue]

5. this. I might get a tube of slice & bake cookies. nt

[pnwest]

2. 6-9, making one each between Thanksgiving and New Year

[get the red out]

3. I said one

But it is often none. My husband is a diabetic so I don't make a big batch of my Dad's fudge like I would want to do, but I often bake something to take to his family's Christmas Eve celebration. Someone at work brought in "Christmas Crack", I think I will try making some of that this weekend!

My Dad's fudge recipe, chocolate version as well as peanut butter, is my favorite ever though and when I make that I think about him at holiday time, I miss him.

[irisblue]

6. What is Christmas Crack? nt

[get the red out]

7. Christmas Crack recipe

[link:https://www.littlesweetbaker.com/2016/12/02/christmas-crack-saltine-cracker-toffee/|]

Crackers, brown sugar, butter, and chocolate.

[irisblue]

8. looks well named

[Runningdawg]

4. This years line up

Chocolate Fudge
No-bake Date Cookies
Cherry Divinity
My grandma's Molasses Candy - The recipe is over 100 years old. Start with 1/2 cup of Molasses and a teaspoon of vanilla, then add enough powdered milk to form a dough. Roll into 1" rope-like segments then cut into 1" pieces. Allow to cure overnight before storing in an airtight container with paper between the layers. If you want more, it's best made in small batches.

[FSogol]

9. So that molasses candy isn't baked? It's just mixed, rolled, and sliced? n/t

[Runningdawg]

14. No baking. n/t

[Hortensis]

12. Thanks for the old family molasses candy recipe, Runningdawg.

I always have those ingredients around. Nostalgia's a special ingredient, of course.

Both my mom and aunt never liked to cook, and my grandmother was gone before I got old enough to wonder what old family recipes she would have passed on, never saw any written down. She was born around 1880 or so, and her mother, that greatgrandmother, before the civil war era. Different worlds, both of them, and yet only two and three generations back for that line.

[Hortensis]

10. I wish I were in the 6-9 group, for a while I did maybe 5 or so.

Deciding's a lot of fun in itself, even before trotting them out.

We're going to one of our kids' houses for Christmas, so I plan to take a couple of cookies, and if I can find the recipe a cake I barely remember that our son surprised me by saying he wished I still made. Still waiting for the spirit to hit this year, though.

Russian Tea Cakes are a Christmas tradition our DIL grew up with, so they're one. Last year our rotten little grandson blew off what had been a favorite since he was a toddler, though, Swedish Ginger Cookies, so I'm still wondering about a replacement. Our little step-granddaughter and my husband love all sweets and will fall happily on anything I produce, which I'm really appreciating in them both about now.

[FSogol]

11. It is a matter of time for me. I'd make 12 or more if I had more time. We make plates of cookies

for friendly neighbors and our friends. Saturday night, I'll drop cookies off at friends houses and have a drink or two.

[Hortensis]

13. That's wonderful. Here, expectations and traditions

just kind of dispersed, family moved, eschewed sugar or flour, friends moved, we moved, etc. They could be rebuilt, of course, and you'd be a wonderfully inspiring neighbor. Enjoy the lovely tradition you're an important part of.

As for me, I'm now planning to ask our neighbor Barbara what went wrong with her and why she doesn't give us cookies when we go last-minute shopping Friday

[locks]

15. three

sugar cookies with sprinkles, pecan tassies (little pies), and snowballs (russian tea cakes)

[dem in texas]

16. Going to wrap up my cookie baking today.

Baked so far:

sugar cookie cut-outs
oatmeal chocolate chip
lemon bars
gumdrop cookies
peanut butter cookies
little gingerbread boys
orange chocolate chippers

today - easy ones
Angel slices
mincemeat shortbread
more little gingerbread boys -

I ran out of the gingerbread boys, kids love these, I use a small gingerbread boy cookie cutter, so cute.

I buy a bunch of cookie tins from the thrift store in early Nov. before they are gone. In Dec. I fill the tins with cookies and give away to family, friends and neighbors. I have already mailed tins of cookies to far away family. Took some to a family affair last Saturday. After my baking today, will give to neighbors and have enough for family on Christmas day. Will save some oatmeal chocolate chip and peanut butter cookies for my old boy.