While I don't have any photos of them unfortunately, some I can clearly remember. Mostly she made cookie cutter cookies - carefully assembling holly leaves with green icing and little red balls, wreaths with silver balls and little red bows, She also made angels and I think her favorites were the stained glass cookies. Mom also made miniature pecan tarts that were absolutely wonderful. Itty-bitty crusts filled with yummy sticky goodness! One of my favorite cookies that she made was her cranberry cookies which were always a staple this time of year.
With my own children we've made many different things over the years. Our favorites are Russian Tea Cakes, and little decorated spritz butter cookies made from a cookie press (pictured above) - how did I ever live without that? While they're not an intricate cookie-cutter cookie, they're yummy, easy to decorate, easy to make and come in large batches so you can make multiple designs in one batch. We also enjoy making fudge, mint bark candy, little minty snowmen (pictured here), peanut butter buck-eyes, peanut butter cookies, and lots of different breads (banana, cranberry and pumpkin). We make lots and lots of this stuff and then pack up tins or plates to share with neighbors, friends, teachers, bus drivers and the milk man.
I'm sure that all of these holiday goodies will be remembered by my own kids, but most of all the memories of cold days spent in the kitchen together making them.
The snowmen are the cutest things ever! I've never seen anything like them.
ReplyDeleteYou are so right! It is the memory of those cold winter nights, hudled together making and decorating the cookies with the Christmas lights and scents surrounding us.....may have happened the same year after year, but we never tire of those special moments.
ReplyDeleteI haven't thought of Russian tea cakes in ages! I'll have to get out my old recipe. The butter cookies in the picture look like the ones my husband's relatives make and send us - they're delicious. We've tried to "be good" by making fewer desserts over the years, but your cookie stories and pictures make me want to go back to the old days of making lots of different kinds of cookies.
ReplyDeleteGreat post. Thanx for sharing Your snowmen are as cute as buttons.
ReplyDeleteThose little snowmen are adorable. Would love the cranberry cookie recipe.
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