Holiday Bakebition

[i_m_pk]

Aka, when I get too ambitious with cookies. I tried turning two different icebox cookie doughs into drop cookies, one which turned out fantastically, and the other which would not cooperate - wayyyyyy too dry (I think my butter melted on me). Anyway, here's the kind that worked out well. Base "vanilla icebox cookie" recipe taken from the ever

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[gfial95]

The ingredients sound slightly different, but the procedure is the same as peanut blossoms. Have you ever had those? They're one of my Christmas cookie staples.

[gfial95]

also, I substitute red and green sugar for regular sugar in the shallow bowl. It makes them that much more festive I think.

[i_m_pk]

I ~love~ peanut butter blossoms, which is where I got the idea. I'm a purist though, I love the classic white cookie look.

[gfial95]

The white coookie is what I had for about 30 years. Then a couple years ago I started adding in the red and green with the white.

[winkingstar]

I tried gingerbread a couple years ago. It was a sad day. :/ Hopefully you will have better success!