friday food files with molly watson: christmas cookies.
Can I just say that I’m really proud of myself? I’ve been meaning to put together a Christmas cookie collection for ages, and I finally at least started it! Cheers!
If I could have just one Christmas cookie it would be a delicate, lacy rosette dusted with powdered sugar that someone else fried up for me. Someday I’ll make them again, but probably not this year, at least not in time to benefit anyone here. If no one is going to make me rosettes, and I don’t think anyone is, I’ll turn to what I grew up calling Swedish Tea Cakes. You may know them as Mexican Wedding Cookies or Russian Tea Cakes or Snowballs. If you have yet another name for these cookies of a nut-flour-butter dough rolled into balls, baked, and rolled in powdered sugar, please let me know – it seems everyone wants to claim these beauties.
A few other delights I baked up recently — Bizcochitos – traditional New Mexican anise and cinnamon sugar cookies:
Chocolate Ginger Cookies – two great things now even better together:
Classic Gingerbread People (to hang on the tree or eat with coffee):
If I were someplace where Christmas shopping didn’t take place in the rain, I’d make these Forgotten Cookies, too, but I’ll have to wait until things dry out around here:
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These are looks tasty–here is Molly’s link to the chocolate ginger cookies (the link in the post links to the Mexican bizcochitos):
http://localfoods.about.com/od/desserts/r/Chocolate-Ginger-Cookies.htm
-i’m going try these!
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Molly -
You asked about other names for the “Mexican wedding cookies”. My Texan grandmother made them at Christmas every year, except she called them “Angel Turds”. And so did my parents, and now, so do I. :-)
thanks janice! the link is fixed! :)
Mmmmm. I’m making bakers baskets this year so I appreciate all of these.
We call those Vanilla Horns, I don’t know why. But I’m just this moment preheating my oven to bake those very cookies!
I feel like having some christmas cookies right now. Ones where icing sugar could duplicate as snow… or some sort.
yum yum…I will add her to my blog list, thx for tis Victoria
http://bodieandfou.blogspot.com/2010/12/chocolate-pecan-brownies-recipe.html
In Greece we call them: κουραμπιεδες (sounds a bit like: Ghorabiye)!!!
I was just going to write what Skatoprama said: As Greeks we claim them (of course) and call them Kourambiedes. I just made some last week, and I like to add chopped toasted almonds for a crunch. Delish!
Angel turds! That’s hilarious! I’ll add that and Kourambiedes to my list – thanks!
Oh I’m so jealous of all your fantastic baking. As a kid, we always had half a dozen types of cookies in tins waiting for friends to drop by. This year I’ve been too busy to bake, but you inspired me to make at least one.
Wow, this is really delicious, I just wish I’d seen this before the holidays. I love it.
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