My Christmas Cookie List

Christmas is less than two weeks away! Let’s make and eat and share all the best Christmas cookies!

Last weekend I was home in Minnesota for an early Christmas celebration with my family. It was absolutely perfect with all of my favorite people and a lot of delicious cookies.

After our little celebration my mom and I were reminiscing over all of our favorite cookies over the years. It’s amazing how cookies can bring back such good memories, like baking dozens and dozens and dozens of cookies every year with close family friends or entering the Star Tribune Holiday Cookie Contest. Our conversation inspired me to make a bunch and share them with co-workers and friends over the next few weeks.

Here is what I am thinking so far.

• Molasses Creams with Ginger Cream Cheese Frosting. These are hands-down my all-time favorite Christmas cookies.
• Oreo Truffles. Also lovingly know as “snowman poop”. These are so easy and so dangerously good. I typically used almond bark instead of the white chocolate chips listed on the recipe in the link.
• Sugar Cookies. Sugar cookies are classic and you need them for Christmas. If you have a sugar cookie recipe that you love, please send it to me! I’d love to do some roll-out frosted ones, but if I’m running low on time and creativity I may just make these sprinkle sugar cookies with some red and green sprinkles.
• Popularity Cookies, AKA Saltine Toffee Bark. I haven’t had these in a while, but it’s time to bring them back. Can you really go wrong with chocolatey, nutty toffee? Nope. My mom always used Club crackers instead of Saltines.
• Mint Chocolate Meltaway Cookies. I used to be obsessed with these cookies! Unfortunately, the ones in my head are not the ones I linked to. The cookies I’m imagining have a similar base to that recipe, but with chocolate ganache and an Andes Mint on top. I did a lot of Googling and this is the best I could find. Mom, if you are reading this can you please try to find and send me this recipe?! Thanks in advance 🙂
• Snickerdoodles. Similar to sugar cookies: 1) you have to have them and 2) if you have a recipe you love, please send it my way!

Those are my musts, but if I have time, which I won’t, I’d love to also make any of these: linzer cookies, Mexican wedding cookies/Russian tea cakes, coconut macaroons, rugelach, shortbread, raspberry thumbprint cookies, chocolate cranberry ginger bites, etc.

Looking at this list I probably should have start baking weeks ago. Oh well.

What are your favorite, must-have cookies?