cookies

[vonnielee]

What's your favorite holiday cookie? What one cookie must you have, or feel like you got cheated during the holiday season? What are your memories of the special cookies?

I wish I could answer my own question with a simple answer, but of course I can't. Special cookies range from the kinds my mom fixed when I was a kid, to the special cookies I

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[panivazka]

My grandmother always made rosettes, which are so light and delicious. You need a special iron for those, too.

Sierra's grandmother usually makes lebkuchen, which are yummy, too.

My favorite, though, are Russian tea cakes.

[vonnielee]

Tea cakes!! I forgot about those. Oh man, I can put a hurting on the russian tea cakes. I might have to make those this year, too. I need more nuts. Ha!

[vonnielee]

The rosettes, are they fried? Pizzelles are cooked like waffles, in that type of iron. The rosettes look so pretty and delicious!
I don't think I've ever had lebkuchen...but if it's gingerbread it's got to be good!

[panivazka]

Yea, rosettes are deep fried. You stick the iron into the batter and then quickly into the hot oil and they eventually come off in the oil and cook a bit longer. They take hardly any time at all to make. Then you sprinkle powdered sugar on them. They're so pretty and there are lots of different designs; they always reminded me of snowflakes.

Lebkuchen is pretty much iced gingerbread. It's awesome.

[neveragoodone]

cardamom butter cookies. My friend Sarah turned me on to them a few years ago and now we have to make them for Yule or it's just not right!

[vonnielee]

Oh, would you share the recipe? I don't know if I can try them this year, but I'd love to consider it.

[neveragoodone]

sure, do you still use your alltel address?

[vonnielee]

no, it's vonnielee@windstream.net you could post it here if you'd like ;)

[dumbxchick]

You know, I've never been a big cookie person and we never had them in the house over the holidays unless someone gave them to us as a gift. Chris loves chocolate covered pretzels, though, so I guess those are what remind me of the holidays now.

[vonnielee]

Do you make your own chocolate covered pretzels? I did that one year, chocolate and white chocolate. They didn't last to give away!

[dumbxchick]

I have, yes! And they were sooooooo good.

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