I thought about making molasses cookies, but the soft ginger cookies I make have quite a bit of molasses in them, so I thought it might be too much overlap.
Christmas Cookies
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OMG. I love soft ginger cookies.
(Have mercy. I would make molasses cookies and my husband and son would eat them before they cooled down. Ha!)
Happy baking, Good Lookin'!
Todash, lemme know if you want any recipes for these. They're the Christmas standards in my family for years, but we don't make them all every single year now.
date bars with lemon icing
carrot cookies
pecan puffs
walnut crescents
Swedish ginger thins
Aleksandr torte (shortbread with raspberry filling and lemon icing)
thumbprint cookies (not sweet; filled with jams)
my bitchin' awesome sugar cookies
baklava à la grecque (with honey and lemon)
suggestions of old standards:
Toll House
oatmeal cookies made with dried cranberries instead of raisins
date bars with lemon icing
carrot cookies
pecan puffs
walnut crescents
Swedish ginger thins
Aleksandr torte (shortbread with raspberry filling and lemon icing)
thumbprint cookies (not sweet; filled with jams)
my bitchin' awesome sugar cookies
baklava à la grecque (with honey and lemon)
suggestions of old standards:
Toll House
oatmeal cookies made with dried cranberries instead of raisins
These chocolate crinkle cookies were my favorite at Christmas.
You are a bad, bad man!
Great praise indeed.
My kids love those! I haven't made them in a while--maybe it's time
I make a coffee cookie with coffee icing that's pretty darned good, too.
Recipe was not attached! (Pwease?)My kids love those! I haven't made them in a while--maybe it's time
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Sure thing--I need to pull out the christmas cookbooks anyway, so maybe later today?
Those all sound really good! (Except oddly, I'm not a baklava fan.) I have a friend who would LOVE the Aleksandr torte. Send me as many as you can tolerate typing up.
RIGHT? The nerve of some people's children. I mean REALLY.
Pleaspleasepleaseplease pretty please - I want this recipe. I l-o-v-e coffee anything, especially ice cream, and would love a great coffee cookie recipe.My kids love those! I haven't made them in a while--maybe it's time
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I dropped in here for a minute, I'm leaving now I think I put on a couple of pounds just reading this 
The chocolate chip cookies with the cake flour are good. They're a little more delicate than a standard chocolate chip cookie, I assume because of the partial use of cake flour. Thankfully, they are not cakey. (If I want cake, I'll bake a friggin cake. I hate cakey cookies.) I'll go ahead and put the recipe here because just in case anyone wants it.
Chocolate Chip Sea Salt Cookies
INGREDIENTS
2 1/4 c. cake flour
1 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
1 1/4 tsp. baking soda
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
2 1/2 sticks (1 1/4 c.) butter, softened
1 1/2 c. light brown sugar
3/4 c. white sugar
2 tsp. vanilla extract
12 oz. semisweet chocolate chips
coarse sea salt
DIRECTIONS
In a medium bowl, sift together flours, baking soda, baking powder and salt. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars together till fluffy, about three to four minutes. Add vanilla and eggs, one at a time. Add dry ingredients and mix until just combined. Stir in chocolate chips. Press plastic wrap against dough and refrigerate for one hour or up to 48 hours.
Preheat the oven to 350°. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or baking mat. Roll the dough by hand into golf ball-sized spheres. Place on cookie sheet and sprinkle with sea salt. Bake 10 to 12 minutes for soft, chewy cookies, or 12 to 15 minutes for crispy cookies. Cool for 10 minutes on cookie sheet before removing.
INGREDIENTS
2 1/4 c. cake flour
1 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
1 1/4 tsp. baking soda
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
2 1/2 sticks (1 1/4 c.) butter, softened
1 1/2 c. light brown sugar
3/4 c. white sugar
2 tsp. vanilla extract
12 oz. semisweet chocolate chips
coarse sea salt
DIRECTIONS
In a medium bowl, sift together flours, baking soda, baking powder and salt. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars together till fluffy, about three to four minutes. Add vanilla and eggs, one at a time. Add dry ingredients and mix until just combined. Stir in chocolate chips. Press plastic wrap against dough and refrigerate for one hour or up to 48 hours.
Preheat the oven to 350°. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or baking mat. Roll the dough by hand into golf ball-sized spheres. Place on cookie sheet and sprinkle with sea salt. Bake 10 to 12 minutes for soft, chewy cookies, or 12 to 15 minutes for crispy cookies. Cool for 10 minutes on cookie sheet before removing.
Word to the wise: aluminum cookie sheets stay hotter much longer than ones not made from aluminum. DO NOT grab them barehanded, even if they have been out of the oven for several minutes. Otherwise, you may just lose an entire dozen chocolate cookies on the kitchen floor, as well as burn your hand.
I've heard.
I've heard.
Ouch... and damn. Sorry to hear that.
Cookies can be re baked. please take care of your hand. Note: keep some salt near you stove/ oven. If you burn your hand- immediately wet it with water and dump salt on it. The sodium will act as a saline solution and help the skin not to blister.
Thanks for the tip! I got my hand under cold water right quick. Thankfully, it is only a first degree burn, very mild, actually.
I'm so used to injuring myself in the kitchen and elsewhere that I have become quite adept at self-administering first aid.
By the way, those chocolate chip cookies were good enough that I am considering making an entire other batch, which will leave me with seven dozen total.