Christmas cookies no one else likes...

[teachermom2834]

My dc have pretty specific cookie preferences. Peanut butter blossoms, snickerdoodles, molasses crinkles, and my regular standby cowboy cookies just with the addition of red and green m&ms to make them Christmasy. My dd will make sugar cookies just to decorate.

But I like variety. I used to make so many different kinds only to have just the regulars eaten. Three I really like but don't make anymore are shortbread, cranberry white chocolate oatmeal, and the andes mint chocolate cookies I got a recipe for on here. 

I just threw together some chocolate chip shortbread because I had all the ingredients on hand. YUM. I thought maybe the dc would have changed their minds now that they have had time to mature. Nope. None of them like it. So here I am again with a whole pan of shortbread just for me. Which is why I stopped making it. 

Anyone else have favorites that no one else likes? 

[Spryte]

I’ve never met a cookie I didn’t like, I’ll come help you eat the shortbread!  🤣

Can you give some as gifts, and save some just for yourself?

I have a few things that I like, that make it feel like the holidays to me, that no one else here likes.  Some years I make them, just for myself and possibly guests.  So I say, “Make all the cookies!”

[Pickle Dust]

My  DD and I are the only two in our family who like Russian tea cakes (aka Mexican wedding cookies) and date nut cookies. She has her own place, and today I am wondering if she will arrive in time to get even the crumbs.

 

[Kareni]

Feel free to send any unwanted cookies my way; I will sacrifice myself on your behalf! Better yet, deliver them in person and I will provide some hot chocolate.

Regards,

Kareni

[Bensmom2]

I am with Spryte on this one. I too have never met a cookie I didn’t like. Shortbread is probably my favorite and since no one else in my family will eat it, we never have it.  I also have absolutely no self control where shortbread is concerned and since no one will help me eat it, I set myself up to over indulge if it enters our house. Sigh

Edited December 22, 2019 by Bensmom2

[Carol in Cal.]

I would love to find a cookie that I like but no one else does, but alas, I have failed in that endeavor despite many attempts.

[scholastica]

2 hours ago, teachermom2834 said:

My dc have pretty specific cookie preferences. Peanut butter blossoms, snickerdoodles, molasses crinkles, and my regular standby cowboy cookies just with the addition of red and green m&ms to make them Christmasy. My dd will make sugar cookies just to decorate.

But I like variety. I used to make so many different kinds only to have just the regulars eaten. Three I really like but don't make anymore are shortbread, cranberry white chocolate oatmeal, and the andes mint chocolate cookies I got a recipe for on here. 

I just threw together some chocolate chip shortbread because I had all the ingredients on hand. YUM. I thought maybe the dc would have changed their minds now that they have had time to mature. Nope. None of them like it. So here I am again with a whole pan of shortbread just for me. Which is why I stopped making it. 

Anyone else have favorites that no one else likes? 

I’m not sure I see the problem with an entire pan of chocolate chip shortbread to one’s self. 😉 Our problem is that some of my dc are allergic to the ingredients of some of my favorite cookies. So those are gone from the repertoire.

[LMD]

Any kind of cookie is like crack to me. Cannot resist. Dh sometimes buys the really dry/no flavour ones to help me be moderate (the idea is, just one or two with a cup of tea.) It doesn't work.

I love these Russian milk shortbread cookies, dh's grandmother used to make them for me! I tried to get the recipe from her before she passed but she was not good at explaining recipes 😄 I about cried when I found this and it worked perfectly! No one else really likes these as much as I do. They're like, eh, one with a cuppa is fine but otherwise they wouldn't choose it. I'll eat a box by myself without thinking...

https://pin.it/54w7idrv3tzgqj

[LMD]

Another thing I like at Christmas is coconut ice and trifle. Everyone else is pretty meh about both of those. This year I'm only making (fancy) trifle. It kinda doesn't feel like Christmas without coconut ice but I really don't have time and I really don't need to eat it all...

[May]

Not a cookie but how about homemade peanut brittle? I love it but I seem to be in the minority🧐

[May]

28 minutes ago, Arctic Mama said:

NO!  Grab me some coffee and a chair, I shall devour it with you until my mouth is cut up and my fingers are coated in a fine sheen of peanut butter grease.  HUZZAH!

You are my new best friend🎄

[KungFuPanda]

As long as a cookie doesn't have coffee in it, I'm all for it.  My kids appreciate wide range of cookies.  I make a pecan/candied cherry cookie for DD, an oatmeal raisin for DS, and biscotti for DH.  For myself I make a fruitcake cookie recipe that I modified to use rum and my favorite dried fruits. 

[lynn]

I like to try different cookies.  However, this year I kept it simple.  Navy kid is home so I made his favorite, forgotten cookies and tollhouse cookies and not a cookie but also monkey munch.  I also made molasses cookies and that's about it for this year.  Now if neighbors gift us cookies I will try them all.

[Pen]

I will enjoy vicarious virtual cookies 🍪 with you and thus enjoy as best I can while still gluten and sugar free!😇

[MercyA]

4 hours ago, May said:

Not a cookie but how about homemade peanut brittle? I love it but I seem to be in the minority🧐

We always, always got saran-wrapped peanut brittle in our Christmas stockings when I was growing up. YUM.

[MercyA]

I like all the cookies. If they are in my house, I must eat them. Which is why I've gained 4 pounds *this week* and need to stop!

Okay, there is one kind I don't care for. Rum balls. Ick, ick, yuck. My mom made them every year, mostly for herself, I suspect. 🙂 I like alcohol just fine. Just don't ruin a perfectly good chocolate cookie with it. 

[SamanthaCarter]

I can’t think of any cookies I’ve made that my family as didn’t enjoy. There might have been some along the way.

Their weird thing is their distrust of cookie swap cookies. They will never let me forget the swap when I brought home some salted (caramel?) cookie of some kind, and to their horror, there was actual sea salt sprinkled all over the tops. They do not trust other bakers judgement on these things ANY MORE. I was lamenting there not being a cookie swap with church this year and they were acting relieved that we weren’t trading away our cookies. 🙄 Bunch of party poopers. 

[cjzimmer1]

2 hours ago, SamanthaCarter said:

I can’t think of any cookies I’ve made that my family as didn’t enjoy. There might have been some along the way.

Their weird thing is their distrust of cookie swap cookies. They will never let me forget the swap when I brought home some salted (caramel?) cookie of some kind, and to their horror, there was actual sea salt sprinkled all over the tops. They do not trust other bakers judgement on these things ANY MORE. I was lamenting there not being a cookie swap with church this year and they were acting relieved that we weren’t trading away our cookies. 🙄 Bunch of party poopers. 

I can't blame them, I loathe salted caramel anything and of course it's the "in" flavor so everything is salted caramel.  But salt and sweet just don't go together (I don't like chocolate covered pretzels either cause the salt just ruins the chocolate).  But I bake a lot (as in thousands of cookies a year that we sell as fundraisers for the kids activities) and am constantly creating new recipes/variations.  Most of my kids won't even eat cookies not made by me because they like mine so much better.  

[LMD]

9 hours ago, Arctic Mama said:

These sound wonderful!  Like homemade nilla wafers!  Mmmmmm....

😊

We cook them by pressing the dough into a waffle iron! Mmmmmm

[Pippen]

Here it's a German spice cookie that I grew up with called Pfeffernusse.  They aren't super sweet and have a hint of anise and weren't my favorite growing up, but now I enjoy them with tea. 

I think perhaps it's the nostalgia as much as the cookie itself. Some months after my mom passed away, I was visiting with our life long German friends and they pulled out a plate Pfeffernusse and I just burst into tears. They remind me of childhood, of the people and the culture I was surrounded by every Christmas, of home.

[Pippen]

7 hours ago, MercyA said:

I like all the cookies. If they are in my house, I must eat them. Which is why I've gained 4 pounds *this week* and need to stop!

Okay, there is one kind I don't care for. Rum balls. Ick, ick, yuck. My mom made them every year, mostly for herself, I suspect. 🙂 I like alcohol just fine. Just don't ruin a perfectly good chocolate cookie with it. 

LOL. I grew up with rum balls and two of my kids are as big of fans as I am.  We make a triple batch and it's always great fun getting the balance of flavors just right.

[Bensmom2]

I am the only one seriously craving cookies after reading this thread?  We have no cookies in the house right now. I must remedy this problem IMMEDIATELY.  This is worse than when I had to rush out and buy a stream mop and InstantPot after reading WTM. I MUST HAVE COOKIES!  🍪🍪🍪

[Tina]

Due to Dad's diabetes and everyone else becoming health conscious, I no longer make Oreo truffles, pecan crescents, and fudge.  Not many cookies at my place either.

A wonderful shortbread is espresso shortbread!  But mom and dad are decaf people. 

I started getting into the biscotti baking, but dil is gf, df, so will try to bake a cookie or two that she can eat this year.   How things change through the years!