Thursday, December 15, 2011

What’s Christmas Without Cookies?

I love Christmas. Gathering with my family, watching my child’s eyes light up when she sees the present from “Santa”, watching football, and cookies. Growing up, my favorite memory of the holidays was waking up each morning to the smells of nutmeg, cinnamon, and all things sugary sweet as my mama did her holiday baking. Baklava, kiflis, chocolate covered pretzels, snicker doodles, and more covered every available surface as my mama rolled, mixed, sprinkled, and packages all before Christmas Day. She always made twice as much because I and my brother managed to sneak more then a few bites of each tempting treat.

I was scouring the internet looking for some Christmas cookie recipes to share with my family and came across a few that are begging me to make them.

Christmas Mice Cookies

Christmas Mice Cookies-recipe

 

Nutty Orange Snowballs

Snowballs-recipe

 

Chocolate Reindeer Cookies

Chocolate Reindeer Cookies-recipe

 

Peppermint Puff Pastry Sticks

Peppermint Puff Pastry Sticks-recipe

 

Triple-Chocolate Peppermint Treats

Triple-Chocolate Peppermint Treats-recipe

 

And here are my all time favorite cookies in the world…

Kifli-recipe

5 comments:

Mandi said...

I need to make the mice cookies! So cute!!

Unknown said...

The snowballs are my favorite holiday cookie. You have to tell me where you found the recipe. Also the reindeer cookies look like something that would be fun for me and Puddin to make.

Tori said...

Mandi-Aren't they cute? I'm making some too.

Jay-If you click on 'recipe' under the picture it'll take you to the recipe. :)

MamaKitty said...

Omg the mice!! I could die of the cute!! I MUST make them!

Tori said...

MamaKitty-Aren't they adorable?? Im making some this weekend.