christmas baking

pumpkinpumpkin

This is a bit of a post and run, I have an appointment in a few minutes. BUT. I want to know what you guys do for Xmas baking. I'm doing some this weekend.

In my house:

Lemon Bars
Nanaimo Bars
Meringue Cookies

WildRumpus

We always do springerles, peanut butter kiss cookies, and frosted sugar cookies.

DramaGeek

Fudge.  Lots and lots and lots of fudge.
Sugar cookies, the cut out kind.
Egg white cookies (like a meringue, although slightly different consistency) with pecans and mini chocolate chips.
Chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips
Gingerbread men
Dog biscuits for all our 4 legged friends

mandysmear

Growing up we always had:

Nanaimo bars
Date squares
Butter tarts
Shortbread and my mom put those gross green and red cherries in the middle
Cherry Blossoms (mini cherry cheesecakes)

And I think that's it for what my mom did.  OH and tarte au sucre (sugar pie).  It's kind of like a butter tart.  That kind of sweet and richness, but no raisins or nuts or anything... and shallow filling.  It's not thick like pumpkin pie or anything.  It's a thin pie.  OMG.  Now I want/need one.

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I love doing peanut butter chocolate chip cookies, pizelles (since I have a pizelle maker now), snickerdoodles, crescent cookies.

pumpkinpumpkin

What heck are pizelles?!

Mandy, have you ever had creme du surcre? YUM YUM IN MY BELLY.

mandysmear

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_christmas-baking?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:9Discussion:503ae49a-cdd4-4b40-a141-f368dc8c6f58Post:6c540873-b886-4455-85ad-b1b2dc2af907">Re: christmas baking</a>:
[QUOTE]What heck are pizelles?! Mandy, have you ever had creme du surcre? YUM YUM IN MY BELLY.
Posted by pumpkinpumpkin[/QUOTE]

We call it sucre a creme.  ANd yes, OMG SO GOOD.  It's hard to make apparently.  My aunt gave Mike the recipe.  But if you can't get it to harden then you can use it as a drizzle/glaze on a spice cake or something :) 

I had some for the first time in years back in October.  I told everyone in the room to shut up so I could enjoy it for a minute.

JanoBean75

I usually make
Jimmy cookies (oats/powdered sugar based cookies rolled in chocolate sprinkles)
Mexican Wedding Cakes (no nuts)
Wilton's basic roll-out cookie with confectioner's sugar icing
Peanut Butter Kisses
Soft chocolate mints
Dill Onion Bread
Death By Chocolate cake (it's layered with chocolate buttercream, chocolate ganache, and caramel)

jess9802

Our traditional cookies were:

White chocolate cherry cookies
Lemon bars
Pumpkin bars
Mincemeat bars
Coconut meringue bars (detecting a theme?)

This year, I'll make the white chocolate cherry and coconut meringue bars, plus peanut butter cookies w/a Hershey's kiss (FI's fave), chocolate crinkle cookies, and sugar cookies (my future stepson's fave).