:eek: NEVER!!!
To answer the OP. Yes. Snickerdoodles. Well-made snickerdoodles. I have not yet had a commercial snickerdoodle I enjoyed. To me, this is cookie nirvana. Mind you, I’m not much of a cookies and sweets person, but I love these damned things.
I made peanut butter cookies and put chocolate chips in them for Xmas gifts for my clients one Xmas and they loved the cookies. I would rather have chocolate chips cookies , I made really good ones too. I made some for my SIL one Xmas and I was told by my daughter the cookies were gone the next day ! I was thinking of trying to made some this year if I can find the energy to do it.
I have it on good authority that nobody beats The Wiz.
I disapprove of this plan. It prevents gooeyness.
If you want the chocolate chip cookie without chocolate chips, you might be craving butterscotch flavor. These butterscotch cookies are the bomb, sweet and salty and nutty-without-nuts.
How about chocolate chip cookies in fun holiday shapes? Not too sure how well that would work since traditional chocolate chip cookies tend to flatten and spread.
I like oatmeal in mine, but you know me.
Chocolate chip cookies just don’t scream "Christmas’ to me. For that, you need some sort of spice in your cookie (and either cheesy Christmas shapes or stamped relief):
Your basic gingerbread shapes
Speculaas
Lebkuchen
Springerle.
Recipewise, only the gingerbreadand lebkuchenwould be relatively easy to do, the other two need special moulds, really. Also hartshorn for springerle.
According to a news story I read, when David’s Cookies had a branch in Harvard Square*, they used to break up dark chocolate Lindt bars to make the chocolate chunks for their chocolate chunk cookies.
*David’s cookies are still around as a brand, but they seem to have shut down all their stores but one.
A big plate of nothing but chocolate chip cookies certainly doesn’t seem Christmassy to me. For that, you need a big plate of a whole bunch of different cookies, both ones you made yourself, and ones that friends, family, and neighbors have given you. But there’s no reason that chocolate chip can’t be one of the many varieties on that plate. Along, of course, with peanut butter buckeyes, those ones with the Hershey’s kiss pressed down in the middle, kolaczki, ginger snaps, gobs, rice krispy treats, cutout cookies, pecan sandies…
Chocolate chip cookies only got made at Christmas in our house. Also, the rest of the cookie lineup only came out at Christmas too.
Chocolate chip
Chocolate cookies with PB chips
Coconut macaroons
butter pecan turtle cookies
peanut butter crackles
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Christmas biscuits - these were good in and of themselves but were the boring stepchildren of the above, the ones we turned to when the others were gone. They were a plain cutout cookie, good dipped in milk.
you forgot the “russian tea cakes” (or whatever name your particular family uses). They’re the ones covered in powdered sugar with some finely chopped (aka shredded or slivered) nuts on the inside.
We never made chocolate chip cookies at Christmas. We made iced sugar cookies, pfefferneusse, springerle, sugared walnuts, schnitzbrot, and gingerbread. With my grandmother.
Now I make nothing for Christmas. Sigh.
**Does anything really beat chocolate chip cookies?
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Only one thing - double chocolate chip cookies!
These look fairly achievable. Thanks!
I just wanted to chime in to say I agree with this. Chocolate chip cookies may still be the best all around, but properly made fresh Snickerdoodles are fierce competition, and do seem more Christmassy.