cookie baking for the holidays

[Valerie1979]

I am a supervisor of about 10 staff members.... this year I am going to add a personal touch to their holiday bags from me -- I am baking a mixture of cookies!    I am excited about baking and thankful to have great people to give them away to as well!     (I certainly don't need to be eating all of them myself!)

[Tere2]

I use to bake cookies and make fudge at Christmas time for my friends and people at work. I would spend one day getting my dough all ready then another day baking. Now I buy the dough already made.

[irishlady1970]

I love to bake cookies all year round, its not just the taste, its the smell in the air that I love. I have tried the store bought cookie dough but could never find a really good one, so I bake from scratch. Does anyone know of a really good cookie dough brand that I can buy, so I don't have to work too hard all the time when I want to bake cookies.

[mc1962]

I love cookies and the Holidays are a good reason to eat them.  If you guys want to send me cookies I will try them and report back to you what I have discovered. (LOL)

[walksalone11]

....and then, of course, you will want a 2nd opinion ;0)

[mommagoes]

baking cookies is a HUGE part of my christmas tradition! i spend the first 2 weeks of december baking sugar cookies, peppermint fudge brownies, pumpkin cheesecake bars, cranberry and white chocolate oatmeal cookies, baklava, and cranberry ginger bars with cream cheese frosting. i also make molded candy pops and chocolate covered candy canes and pretzels. these goodies get baked/prepared throughout the beginning of the month (and are stored in my spare fridge in the garage) and then the weekend before christmas i put them into festive baskets or dishes and take them to my family's annual party and give them to my family members, usually with a homemade ornament attached. my family loves it because they're delicious, i love it because its a cheap way to give gifts to my huge family, and my husband loves it because the house smells delicious all month... and because he gets to "test" all the goodies, and eat the leftovers! merry christmas everyone!!!

[mommagoes]

I love to bake cookies all year round, its not just the taste, its the smell in the air that I love. I have tried the store bought cookie dough but could never find a really good one, so I bake from scratch. Does anyone know of a really good cookie dough brand that I can buy, so I don't have to work too hard all the time when I want to bake cookies.

sorry, but in my opinion, there isn't a store bought cookie dough that comes close to homemade. i've tried every brand available and nothing compares to what i make from scratch.

[mgint]

I love to bake for the holidays cookies espcially sugar cookies, chocolate fudge and christmas dinner.Ham is the main meat this year mashed potatoes sweet potatoes,corn green beans and other vegetables.

[cmdezalia]

 

I love baking Christmas cookies also. This year I made 24 dozen cookies..... took all day long to make the dough, bake and frost. Seriously from 8am to 10 pm lol

[janell07]

One way I make cookies that are sort of from scratch, but not totally is to use cake mixes.  You can use the yellow cake mix and add everything the box says except I think it is the water and if you want choc. chip cookies you add choc. chips, for peanut butter you add peanut butter, for sugar had a little more white sugar.  For all the cookies you can add a little more brown sugar to them and then bake them.  Or if you want really chocolatey cookies you a choc. cake mix.  

It makes it easy, yet you still get the homemade feel.  

[jkhanson]

We used to bake oodles of cutout sugar cookies when the kids were small.  They loved to frost and decorate them.  We gave them as Teacher's Gifts as well as shared them at each family celebration.

[mommagoes]

We used to bake oodles of cutout sugar cookies when the kids were small.  They loved to frost and decorate them.  We gave them as Teacher's Gifts as well as shared them at each family celebration.

i used to love helping my mom with sugar cookies when i was a kid and now my son loves when its time to make them because he loves frosting the cookies... probably because of all the frosting he licks off his fingers during the process. 

[cah5525]

this is where a bit of my holiday spending goes...
the only time of the year when i will bake more than one dessert.
everyone loves chocolate chip cookies!? - if you haven't used the butter flavored crisco recipe yet - you have to try it (and follow the directions - use the beaters when it says to mix and a spoon when it says to stir - the best!
my new favorite recipe, so easy and unbelievably awesome, oreo truffles!

[Radicalpraiser]

I am going to try some gingerbread cookies with my kids, they will love it.

[Valerie1979]

i want to try the cookies with cake mix recipe this year

also we are going to try a gingerbread house for the first time (with a 2 yr old)