Some Wife was rather inspired this year and made Christmas cookies. Lots of them. A lot of types of them. So, for your viewing pleasure, here they are. Unfortunately for you, they are not for your eating pleasure. Unless you’re family or a neighbor.
These are in alphabetical order by what we call them.
Carmelitas
These have a plain dough base, with carmel and chocolate in the middle, and a crumble topping.
Chocolate Crackle
These are chocolate dough, with chocolate chips in them, and a powder-sugar dusting.
Chocolate Mint
These are chocolate cookies, but with an Andes mint in the middle.
Circle Pretzels
These are just circle pretzels with a Hershey’s kiss melted into it and then a couple M&Ms dropped on top. They’re small, so it’s easy to eat too many.
Coconut Macaroons
These are coconut and chocolate, not unlike an Almond Joy, but without the almond. I would say Mounds, but Almond Joy is better known. And the chocolate is only on the bottom.
Frosted Cookies
These are the easiest to make, because they are ready to bake. GFS has a box of frozen cookie dough already cut into Christmas shapes, all we do is bake them and then frost (and sprinkle) them.
Fudge Puddles
These were new this year. Plain cookie base in a mini muffin tin, then fill with fudge and top with a pecan. Very good.
Graham Brittle
This has a variety of names. It’s a brittle, made with a base of graham crackers and topped with chocolate and toffee. Always very popular.
Lemon Crackle
The lemon version of the chocolate crackles above.
Lime Glaze
These are a plain cookie base, with a lime glaze on top.
Marshmallows
These are marshmallows, dipped in chocolate, then rolled/coated with something while the chocolate is still wet. Half of them got sprinkles (to look Christmas-y) and half of them got crushed graham crackers (to imitate a S’more).
Peanut Brittle
It is just what it says – peanut brittle. This is the microwave recipe, which tastes just as good as the stovetop method, but is waaaaaay easier.
Raspberry Bars
A perennial favorite. Vanilla cake mix for the base (but really dense, don’t follow the cake directions) and raspberry jam and chocolate chips.
Rice Krispie Treats
I have written about these before (see A Christmas Snack). In general, we like the wreath cookies made with corn flakes, marshmallows, and green food coloring, then topped with red hots. But the recipe has not cooperated the last couple years and we end up with a sickly-looking sticky blob of corn flakes. So it lieu of those, Some Wife made these. They still have cereal and melted marshmallows, so it’s close.
Thumbprints
I think everyone knows about this one – make a plain cookie, press a divot into it with your thumb, then fill with jelly. Ours are overachievers and have some icing on top too.
White Chocolate Thingies
One of my favorites, and not everyone likes white chocolate so there’s more for me. Melt white chocolate and mix it in with Cheerioes, Chex, pretzel sticks, and M&Ms.
Not pictured, because it hasn’t been made yet: Chocolate-covered caramel corn. This one can’t be made yet, because if she did make it now, it wouldn’t last until it is needed at the Christmas gathering.
Then you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake.
Leviticus 24:5
This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
