Xmas Cookies!

Fifty-Five Dozen Xmas Cookies

What can you say when you bake Xmas cookies for 15 hours? Your brain is so numb that you really have nothing to say, unless it is something that you can say WITH COOKIES.

Every year for at least the last 12 or so, I have baked a ridiculous amount of cookies to give away for Xmas. I mean truly ridiculous. But I always wish I had MORE because I can think of like TEN more people I would like to give cookies to. Oh well, they are SOL, for this year at least!

My main and basic cookies that I always make are in what my husband calls “The Boring Cookie” category; I think of them more as classics: Sugar Cookies and GInger Cookies. I use recipes that are from my mother’s WW2-era cookbook. (The Woman’s Home Companion Cookbook). I also usually make a recipe of Coconut-Orange Rolled cookies, and Oatmeal Raisin, and Chocolate Chip, and M&M cookies. This year I decided to try a few new recipes as well: Sand Tarts, Lemon Poppyseed Crisps, Chocolate Pistachio Crackletops, and Peanut Butter No-Bake Cookies (Mr. T’s request)

I am so sleepy that I think I have to just post the gorgeous pictures of the cookies, and then REVIEW the new recipes one at a time for you.

Really Good Ginger Cookies, cut in the shape of Maple Leaves

The First Batch: AND SO IT BEGINS... Chocolate Chip Cookies

Oatmeal Raisin

Chocolate Pistachio Crackletops

That’s enough pictures for one post; I will save the rest for the COOKIE RECIPE REVIEWS!