Mr. Dorkness What would I have to do to get some of those delightful sounding orange brownies?
Slobber!
Man, right now I’m wishing I lived in Ashville. Caffeine cookies, ideed!
I very rarely make cookies, and don’t have any specific Christmas cookie memories. But for some reason I have a hankering to bake this year. I’m either going to go for some shortbread, or make some concoction that has peanut butter chips in it, just 'cause that sounds yummy to me right now.
Coincidentally, I found out just this week that the local hoity-toity grocery store (as opposed to the others all us normal schlubs frequent) is carrying both this year. Things that make you go hmmm…
vunderbob, I think two pain IN the ass Scandahoovian cookies are quite enough. The rest of our normal repetoire consists of five or six pain IN the ass cookies from other places. By the end of the day we’re normally ready to kill each other. . .
I’m of German descent, so the cookies I grew up with, and hence, crave, are:
Springerle
Lebkuchen
Pfefferneusse
Sugar cookies, spritz and such are just meh.
Moravian spice cookies.
Pfeffernuesse. And pepparkakor. Oh yeah.
As far as the cut-out-and-decorate category goes, I’ve never really liked sugar cookies, they’re usually kind of squishy and bland. Homemade gingerbread men, though, with cinnamon imperials…
Christmas just wouldn’t be the same without my Grammie Rand’s Scotch Cakes which are an iced shortbread-type cookie.
As for the rest of the Christmas cooking, it runs more toward candy (chocolate dipped coconut balls which taste like Mounds, homemade peanut butter cups, homemade caramels). Mmmm…my mouth waters.
I make shortbread and dip one end in dark chocolate every year. My father complained so much the one year that I didn’t, I make them every year.
I am the offical cookie baker in my family, but I go do it at Mom’s house since she has the nice kitchen and the big island for cooling the cookies.
Every year, I am contractually obligated to make:
Chocolate chip
Almie’s Peanut Butter Cookies
Uncle Bob’s Sugar Cookies
Shortbread with melted Hershey bar and peanuts
Skor™ Bar Cookies (OMG! The recipe is on the back of the Skor chips bag in the baking section. Wow!)
I also have made:
Lemon Bars (regular and sugar free)
Press Cookies (never again)
Cut-out cookies
Candy Cane Cookies
Mary-Pat’s 7 Layer Cookies
The best thing isn’t even a cookie. I make a Kuchen dough (from Gramma’s 1934 Settlement Cookbook recipe) and turn it into sticky buns, coffee cake and/or struesel.
I also like to make gingerbread but no one else in my family likes it so I haven’t made it in a while. BTW anyone else notice how the best recipes have someone’s name attached (or at least you know whose recipe it is)? Yay Christmas.
:eek: Next you’ll be telling me you buy your Christmas tree.
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No Peppernøtter?
LifeOnWry Are you my wife? 
This is exactly what my wife does every year, I carry a huge baker’s tray of cookies into the offie every year. People stand around like vultures waiting…
Sit down and put your head between your knees, Barkie. We have an artificial tree, owing to the fact that the little flodnaks and I enjoy breathing.
Nobody ever eats them at Casaflodnak. I suppose we could sort of have them as garnish on the plate or something, but they take up valuable space that could be put to better use holding more krumkaker and chocky chips…