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Post by dyzzispell on Nov 13, 2010 20:23:05 GMT -6
So, it's getting to be the time of year when I start making lots of cookies again, and it got me thinking. What's your favorite foods from this time of year? Especially, desserts? My mom makes these great chocolate chocolate chip cookies with mocha frosting that I just loooooove. She also makes these great little chocolate drop cookies, cut sugar cookies, chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, and sometimes a couple of others. Although I've made several of her recipes, the one I'm known in my family for is gingerbread cut cookies. I was never a big fan of gingerbread, but one year I got a craving for it. My mom had given me a little recipe book for all different types of gingerbread/spice cookies, and I chose one of them. It turned out to be an awesome recipe! However, I ended up getting myself stuck having to make several batches of them every year, because everyone always wants them. Even people who don't like gingerbread love these, because the flavor is more cinnamon and cloves than ginger and molasses. (And personally I don't think that's arrogant to say or anything, because it isn't my recipe - I just follow someone else's directions, that's all.) ;D So what do you like? And is there anything you guys make every year?
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Post by Kyashi on Nov 13, 2010 23:58:44 GMT -6
I'll have what you're having, dyzz! I don't make anything for the holidays, usually. I don't have my own kitchen, so it's hard for me to get into cooking and baking. My dad hogs the kitchen like a kid in a candy store, so I don't go in there unless he's not home. I'd do more things like this if I had my own kitchen, especially during the holidays. But, from what others make, I've always liked cranberry bread, or banana-nut bread, things like that. Iced sugar cookies are total win for me, as is holiday fudge, although I think it usually has milk in it, so I can't eat it. See's candy is my dream gift, or something comparable to it, but no one ever gets me any candy for X-mas! I think they think I can't eat anything, so they never buy me what I really want! Although, I'd love to get a Kindle this year. I'd sacrifice the candy for that... ;D Sorry, went off-topic a bit about X-Mas presents instead of goodies...
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Post by Plumeriasmoon on Nov 14, 2010 1:14:06 GMT -6
Every year,the kids and I get together and we bake 3 types of cookies that they pick out.It's a lot of fun and makes Amber and Angel so proud when they can help in the kitchen.The cookies are usually 2 types of chocolate chip cookies and sugar cookies because Cody isn't much of a chocolate fan.But I have to say my favorite thing to make is my red velvet cupcakes.They're so popular that end up making them for Christmas and Angel's birthday which is December 4th.I love banana bread,cranberry bread,and the smell of a pumkin pie is heavenly.
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Post by AllyKatt on Nov 14, 2010 2:53:13 GMT -6
we are big pie people here, but we also love our cookies. when we have a bigger family Christmas, we make my grandma's sugar cookie recipe {they're a little puffier/breadier than most people's sugar cookies, and perfect with granulated sugar and/or frosting} and texas ranger cookies {old family recipe of my mom's}. the ranger cookies are my favorite cookies EVAR, but they're very unusual.
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Post by Kyashi on Nov 14, 2010 20:52:58 GMT -6
we are big pie people here, but we also love our cookies. when we have a bigger family Christmas, we make my grandma's sugar cookie recipe {they're a little puffier/breadier than most people's sugar cookies, and perfect with granulated sugar and/or frosting} and texas ranger cookies {old family recipe of my mom's}. the ranger cookies are my favorite cookies EVAR, but they're very unusual. In what way are the Texas Ranger cookies unusual? I've never heard of these cookies before!
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Post by AllyKatt on Nov 14, 2010 21:03:24 GMT -6
we are big pie people here, but we also love our cookies. when we have a bigger family Christmas, we make my grandma's sugar cookie recipe {they're a little puffier/breadier than most people's sugar cookies, and perfect with granulated sugar and/or frosting} and texas ranger cookies {old family recipe of my mom's}. the ranger cookies are my favorite cookies EVAR, but they're very unusual. In what way are the Texas Ranger cookies unusual? I've never heard of these cookies before! the main ingredients of the cookies include: post toasties cereal, oatmeal and chocolate chips. they come out a very crumbly texture, but the flavor is AMAZING! i've seen several recipes over the years, but few that are exactly the same as the ones we got from my mom's family. most of them include coconut in the recipe, but we never put it in our cookies.
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Post by Unger69 on Nov 14, 2010 21:22:38 GMT -6
I love to cook. So the holidays are heaven to me. I help out whenever I can in the kitchen. One thing I wish I could make every year, but due to my mom banning it I can't. What could she ban? Peppermint Pinwheel cookies. We made them once and they didn't go well. Needless to say, my mom was pretty mad and wouldn't stop cursing so she refuses to let anyone make them around her.
But I like to make any form of cookies, brownies, and other yummy treats. I've already started cooking like crazy when I'm home and Thanksgiving isn't even here yet. ^^'
I think I will be popular if I keep bringing treats back from home everytime I leave the dorms...
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Post by dyzzispell on Nov 14, 2010 21:50:22 GMT -6
So then...
Would anyone be interested in a cookie swap of some sort?
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Post by Unger69 on Nov 14, 2010 21:57:14 GMT -6
That would be fun!
If anything, another excuse to make more cookies!
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Post by AllyKatt on Nov 15, 2010 6:59:46 GMT -6
i'm a swap-a-holic!
i already want to buy tins this year and make some cookies for the boys teachers, teaching assistants and bus drivers. i can just get some extra tins! XD
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Post by avyquinn on Nov 16, 2010 20:11:11 GMT -6
So then... Would anyone be interested in a cookie swap of some sort? Yes.
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Post by avyquinn on Nov 16, 2010 20:12:43 GMT -6
Peppermint Pinwheel cookies. I LOVE PINWHEEL COOKIES. OF ALL KINDS. Mine never LOOK pretty, but they taste damn fine.
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Post by dyzzispell on Nov 16, 2010 21:15:49 GMT -6
Sounds like we're going to have to work on putting something together then. ;D
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Post by avyquinn on Nov 16, 2010 23:32:31 GMT -6
Sounds like we're going to have to work on putting something together then. ;D I figure that if they're made one day, ziplocked and mailed the next they should get to their destination within a couple days and still be pretty fresh? >.>;;;
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Post by Kyashi on Nov 17, 2010 1:02:22 GMT -6
Aww... If only I were a baker....(Lol, that sounds extra funny in a forum like this one... ) Alas, I have nothing to swap that would even remotely shape up to what designates a "cookie." The only ones I make are flourless peanut-chocolate chip cookies that take about 5 minutes to mix together. They're good, but I figure I'm just weird in even thinking they are. No one else has ever eaten them before, and they're not holiday cookies, either. I am not much of the cooking kind...
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