I am actually making my favorite cookies today. Pecan Tassies. They are like mini pecan pies. Santa, on the other hand, has always enjoyed my peanut butter fudge though. Here's my recipe for pecan tassies
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Yummy! This is a real possibility. I need to go to the store RIGHT NOW![]()
Strangely enough, as much as I like to play around with food, for Christmas, I like the traditional chocolate chip cookie. And for Santa? That recipe comes straight off the back of the chocolate chip bag. They're delicious, the recipe is simple, and it's part of our tradition of making them together with the kids, so nothing fancy.
My grandmother's lebkuchen were a favorite partly because it was my job to harvest and husk the black walnuts. She would bake the cookies Thanksgiving weekend and store them in a crock. They were brought out Christmas Eve and she frosted them with white icing.
Right up there would be kalochkies (help with spelling Barb) which at our house were usually made with apricot or raspberry filling.
I made themMama, I think I didn't make the indentation deep enough. I had a lot of the filling left over. But they were so good that I only had about 3/4 of them left to take a picture. For sure I will make them again!
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My favorite Christmas cookies are Russian tea cakes, aka Mexican wedding cookies. My mom made them every year when I was growing up. You can use various kinds of nuts, but I like them best with pecans: Russian tea cakes
At the risk of being labeled a heretic and kicked off this cooking board, my favorite Christmas cookies are actually the cheap little shortbread/butter cookies you get at the store (Usually in a plastic tub). I don't know why, they just are.![]()