When do you start Christmas baking?
12-08-2023, 11:48 AM
#21
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Pacific NW
Posts: 9,413
If you're asking me, my cookie list is:
Chocolate chip
Oatmeal raisin
White chocolate gingerbread
Snickerdoodles
Cranberry orange
Roll the cookies that require rolling in sugar before freezing.
I recommend test-baking a cookie before freezing the dough, sometimes if the cookies spread too much I have to add flour to make them soft and chewy. Once you get the finished product you want, then freeze the dough.
Interesting trends from feedback I've received the past couple of years - women love the cranberry orange cookies, and men prefer the white chocolate gingerbread cookies, at least amongst my group of friends.
Chocolate chip
Oatmeal raisin
White chocolate gingerbread
Snickerdoodles
Cranberry orange
Roll the cookies that require rolling in sugar before freezing.
I recommend test-baking a cookie before freezing the dough, sometimes if the cookies spread too much I have to add flour to make them soft and chewy. Once you get the finished product you want, then freeze the dough.
Interesting trends from feedback I've received the past couple of years - women love the cranberry orange cookies, and men prefer the white chocolate gingerbread cookies, at least amongst my group of friends.
12-08-2023, 12:02 PM
#22
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Mendocino Coast, CA
Posts: 4,861
Originally Posted by tropit
I know that my son would love this gift. I'm going to start now, so that I have several kinds of cookies for his box. What kinds of cookies work well?
12-11-2023, 05:20 PM
#24
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Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Dakotas
Posts: 2,978
I was an accountant and December was long days at work. My baking consisted of meat/cheese trays, Chex mix, cheese balls, etc. My family actually prefers this over baked goods. Hershey kisses in red, green and silver foil works for me.
12-11-2023, 07:34 PM
#25
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Join Date: Apr 2021
Location: I live in Vero Beach, Florida but am originally from Massachusetts.
Posts: 149
I keep ready to bake cookies in my freezer all year round, never even thought of sharing 😂! Thanks Peckish, a great idea for gifts in a pinch.
For Christmas I do trays of baklava and kourambeides which are a Greek melt in your mouth butter cookie topped with confectionery sugar. Made usually on the 22-23. Can’t make them sooner; I would eat them 😊
For Christmas I do trays of baklava and kourambeides which are a Greek melt in your mouth butter cookie topped with confectionery sugar. Made usually on the 22-23. Can’t make them sooner; I would eat them 😊
