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Classic Christmas Cookies-need Recipes!

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Katester
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I'm looking for classic christmas cookie recipes. Easy, recipes with less than 5 flours?

In particular:

Gingerbread

The peanut butter cookies with Hershey kisses in them

Potato Chip Cookies

Cookie Press Cookies

Fudge

Does anyone have any other Christmas cookie recipes that are simple to make and simply delicious? Anything can help!!!

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happygirl Collaborator
happygirl
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We use this recipe for peanut butter blossoms. Substitute your regular flour mix (I've used BRM or BB)

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Wonka Apprentice
Wonka
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I'm looking for classic christmas cookie recipes. Easy, recipes with less than 5 flours?

In particular:

Gingerbread

The peanut butter cookies with Hershey kisses in them

Potato Chip Cookies

Cookie Press Cookies

Fudge

Does anyone have any other Christmas cookie recipes that are simple to make and simply delicious? Anything can help!!!

Just made these the other day:

Spritz Cookies TNT from Karen in NewYork

1 cup butter or margarine

3/4 cup sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 1/4 cups gluten-free flour mix (I use Hagman's gluten-free blend)

2 teaspoons xanthan gum

1/4 teaspoon baking powder

Cream shortening and sugar well. Beat in egg and vanilla. Sift dry ingredients and add. Fill cookie press and form cookies on ungreased cookie sheets. Sprinkle with coarse colored sugar or sprinkles if desired. Bake at 375 degrees for 10-12 minutes (at 9 minutes, mine were perfect).

*Note from Mireille: doubled it, but I made a mistake, I added 2 lb of butter instead of 2 cups, so, I had to re-double the rest of the ingredients to end up with a quadruple recipe.

But it works and they are very very good at least.

I have made about the half of my batter and put the rest in my cold solarium, as I was to tired and fed up with cookies.

I'll warm the batter in the microwave at defrost and continue this morning.

My battery cookie press is working fine. I had to warm the dough a little in the microwave for it to come out, but it's working pretty well.

I haven't tested these out yet but heres the recipe anyways (it looks good to me):

Gingerbread Cut-Out Cookies

From "Nearly Normal Cooking for Gluten-Free Eating" by Jules E.D. Shepard

Ingredients

3/4 cup Earth Balance vegan shortening (alternatively, unsalted butter or margarine)

1/4 cup molasses

1 cup brown sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups Nearly Normal Gluten-Free Flour Mix ™ (recipe below)

1 cup rice flour

1/2 cup buckwheat or brown rice flour

pinch salt

2 teaspoons ground cinnamon (I reduced it to one teaspoon)

2 teaspoons ground ginger

1 teaspoon cloves (I reduced to ½ teaspoon)

3 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 cup water

cornstarch for rolling out dough

Method

In a large mixing bowl, beat shortening, molasses, brown sugar and vanilla with an electric mixer until well combined and creamy.

In another bowl, combine flours, salt, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and baking powder. Gradually fold in dry ingredients into shortening mixture, adding water as necessary. The objective is a moist dough ball. Divide dough in half, wrap in plastic and chill for at least one hour. Dough should be very cold before rolling out.

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

Liberally dust work surface and rolling pin with cornstarch. Roll out one half of dough into a rectangle shape about 1/2 inch thick. The thinner the dough, the crispier the cookie.

Cut out into shapes and place onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. You may need a pie server or thin flipping spatula to help lift dough off work surface onto baking sheets.

Sprinkle with coarse sugar or decorate with dried fruit, jimmies or whatever strikes your fancy.

Bake for 25 minutes, or until lightly browned. Allow to cool on baking sheet for five minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.

Makes about 2 dozen 2-inch cut-out cookies, or 1 dozen 4 inch gingerbread people.

Dough may be frozen for later use.

Nearly Normal Gluten-Free Flour Mix

Ingredients

1 cup white rice flour

1 cup potato starch (not potato flour)

1 cup cornstarch

1/2 cup corn flour (may also be sold/labelled as whole grain cornmeal; Bob's Red Mill is one brand)

1/2 cup tapioca flour or tapioca starch

4 teaspoons xanthan gum

Method

celiac-mommy Collaborator
celiac-mommy
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Peanut Butter cookies-super easy

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instead of adding the chocolate chips, flatten a bit and use a Kiss

Fudge, base recipe, lots of variations possible-nuts, marshmallows, candies, cookies, etc...

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Gingerbread-more than 5 ingredients, but yummy

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Katester Enthusiast
Katester
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We use this recipe for peanut butter blossoms. Substitute your regular flour mix (I've used BRM or BB)

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This recipe looks great!!! What is BRM or BB though?

JNBunnie1 Community Regular
JNBunnie1
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This recipe looks great!!! What is BRM or BB though?

'Bob's Red Mill' and 'Better Batter' are two brnds of flours available. Be careful with BRM mixes, they tend to have bean flour which a number of people find distasteful unless it's covered by a very strong flavor. For example, the BRM chocolate cake mix has bean flour but is delicious, you totally can't taste it. Whereas the BRM choc chip cookie mix you CAN taste it, for me, not so yummy.......

Sientara Newbie
Sientara
Posted

So many different ways to make the peanut butter chocolate cookies . . . and they all looked different than the one I have used so here's one more:

12oz peanut butter chips

1 can sweetened condensed milk

chopped nuts

chocolate kisses

Melt peanut butter kisses and sweetened condensed milk until smooth. Pour into greased square pan and cool until it can be handled. Roll into one inch balls (it will be sticky) and then in the nuts. Press unwrapped chocolate kiss into middle of ball.

These always disappear fast in my family.

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AMQmom Explorer
AMQmom
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The current "Living Without" magazine also has lots of yummy looking Christmas cookie recipes in it! I'm giving a bunch of them a try later this week!

Katester Enthusiast
Katester
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Just made these the other day:

Spritz Cookies TNT from Karen in NewYork

1 cup butter or margarine

3/4 cup sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 1/4 cups gluten-free flour mix (I use Hagman's gluten-free blend)

2 teaspoons xanthan gum

1/4 teaspoon baking powder

Cream shortening and sugar well. Beat in egg and vanilla. Sift dry ingredients and add. Fill cookie press and form cookies on ungreased cookie sheets. Sprinkle with coarse colored sugar or sprinkles if desired. Bake at 375 degrees for 10-12 minutes (at 9 minutes, mine were perfect).

*Note from Mireille: doubled it, but I made a mistake, I added 2 lb of butter instead of 2 cups, so, I had to re-double the rest of the ingredients to end up with a quadruple recipe.

But it works and they are very very good at least.

I have made about the half of my batter and put the rest in my cold solarium, as I was to tired and fed up with cookies.

I'll warm the batter in the microwave at defrost and continue this morning.

My battery cookie press is working fine. I had to warm the dough a little in the microwave for it to come out, but it's working pretty well.

I tried these the other day and they came out very, VERY crumbly. I'm not sure why but most of them fell apart when I tried to take them off the cookie sheet. The ones that did survive fell apart as soon as I took a bite. Does anyone have an idea as to why this happens?

Wonka Apprentice
Wonka
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I tried these the other day and they came out very, VERY crumbly. I'm not sure why but most of them fell apart when I tried to take them off the cookie sheet. The ones that did survive fell apart as soon as I took a bite. Does anyone have an idea as to why this happens?

Did you leave out the xanthan gum by accident? How did you measure your flour? I always fluff up my flour and spoon it into the measuring cup. If you use the measuring cup to scoop up the flour, you can get way more than the recipe calls for , making the mix too dry and crumbly. I'm not sure what the answer is, mine stayed intact and none were crumbly.

Katester Enthusiast
Katester
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Did you leave out the xanthan gum by accident? How did you measure your flour? I always fluff up my flour and spoon it into the measuring cup. If you use the measuring cup to scoop up the flour, you can get way more than the recipe calls for , making the mix too dry and crumbly. I'm not sure what the answer is, mine stayed intact and none were crumbly.

I did add the xanthan gum. I used the measuring cup to scoop the flour. I've never heard of that being a problem but I can definitely see how that would change the measurements! Thanks for the tip!!! The taste was great with the cookies. =)

Katester Enthusiast
Katester
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Fudge, base recipe, lots of variations possible-nuts, marshmallows, candies, cookies, etc...

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I tried the fudge recipe yesterday. Turned out delicious!!! Very rich and decadent. Perfect recipe, easy and extremely yummy!!!

celiac-mommy Collaborator
celiac-mommy
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I tried the fudge recipe yesterday. Turned out delicious!!! Very rich and decadent. Perfect recipe, easy and extremely yummy!!!

I'm glad you liked it. It's one of my favorites and it's fun to add a bunch of different stuff to it--my kids love almonds and mini marshmallows! We had a Christmas party last night and I made chocolate fondue with a bunch of dippers-fruit and cookies-anyway, I made a large pan of brownies and apparently didn't let them cook long enough, because when I tried to cut them, every piece from the middle was a big gooey mess, but tasted GREAT, so I rolled them all into truffle sized balls and dipped them into Wilton peanut butter melts. They were a bigger hit than the fondue! So, i guess if you end up making something that tastes good, but falls apart or looks inedible, save it because there's always another use for it ;)

Wonka Apprentice
Wonka
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I'm glad you liked it. It's one of my favorites and it's fun to add a bunch of different stuff to it--my kids love almonds and mini marshmallows! We had a Christmas party last night and I made chocolate fondue with a bunch of dippers-fruit and cookies-anyway, I made a large pan of brownies and apparently didn't let them cook long enough, because when I tried to cut them, every piece from the middle was a big gooey mess, but tasted GREAT, so I rolled them all into truffle sized balls and dipped them into Wilton peanut butter melts. They were a bigger hit than the fondue! So, i guess if you end up making something that tastes good, but falls apart or looks inedible, save it because there's always another use for it ;)

What a great save, very ingenious.

Wonka Apprentice
Wonka
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I did add the xanthan gum. I used the measuring cup to scoop the flour. I've never heard of that being a problem but I can definitely see how that would change the measurements! Thanks for the tip!!! The taste was great with the cookies. =)

Baking really is science. Exact measuring will give you the best results. I really like a recipe that gives me weight measures. I use my scale and have never had a failure with that type of recipe. Failing that I always spoon in my flours so that I don't end up with too much.

JNBunnie1 Community Regular
JNBunnie1
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Baking really is science. Exact measuring will give you the best results. I really like a recipe that gives me weight measures. I use my scale and have never had a failure with that type of recipe. Failing that I always spoon in my flours so that I don't end up with too much.

Crap! Warning to everyone: I scoop my flours, so if you use one of my recipes, do that.

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