The best cookie in this book is Mary's sugar cookies and the thumbprint in this book are excellent. Molasses crinkle cookies are great. Those are some of the best in the book. Because I have a original book.
Since it's just my husband and me, we keep cookie dough in the freezer year round. It goes straight from the freezer into our breville oven for 10 minutes, 4-6 at a time, so that we can have that delicious treat, without the temptation of eating an entire batch.
I freeze chocolate chip.cookie balls and give them to my kids. I write the baking time and degrees on the container in marker. Then they can bake them for their families whenever they want.
I remember decorating Christmas cookies with my siblings in the late 1960s-70s with silver balls. Apparently, they were not supposed to be eaten, the fine print said "For decorative purposes only." We used to eat them like candy. I guess they contained mercury! We all survived. I know this is a typical Gen X/Boomer Survival Story. 😅
@@dianaarmitage512 My dad used to say, "You kids have it easy. I used to walk five miles to school in the snow!" Little did we know we could've answered back, "Yeah? Did you eat poison mercury balls disguised as candy and survive?"
We used this cookbook in my childhood. My Mom then gave it to me when I got married, 45 years ago. I baked cookies from this book while raising our 3 boys. Now I have gifted my Daughter-in- laws with the cookbook to bake for my grandchildren. It’s a treasure!
My mother always made most of our Christmas cookies from this cookbook. Russian tea cakes, thumbprints, etc. I loved looking at the pictures and was intrigued by the water color type painted sugar cookies, but she never tackled those.
I always wanted to make those too, but we never did. As a child that seemed to be the best idea ever! As a parent now, I think I know why my mom never tackled them!
i have used this cooky book for more years than I can remember. I absolutely love the recipes and my family loves them too. I have worn out a couple copies of this book. I have got many compliments for them when taking them to gettogethers or serve them in my home. I know everyone has a delicious chocolate chip cooky recipe bu I always get asked for the recipe of mine from this book. People have said that they like their cooky recipe but this one is better than theirs. I treasure this book so much. So many cookies--so many memories.
I can barely make a decent drop cookie, so I have always been to intimidated to try a cookie press or rolling dough and using cookie cutters, but your obvious joy in making these cookies was infectious and a delight to watch-as usual. 💕
I grew up baking from that book! I'm sure Mom's copy is an original version. Besides chocolate crinkles, snickerdoodles, and thumb prints, my favorites are the molasses crinkles and the peppermint candy canes.
Re: Lemon Snowdrops. Try rolling the halves in the sugar while they are still warm so the sugar glazes them a bit. Then assemble them with the filling. You'll definitely see that they are a sandwich cookie but they will be less messy.
I wonder too if the humidity from the rainy day was messing with the rolling in powdered sugar part. I think they do roll best when they're still warm.
I wonder too if the humidity from the rainy day was messing with the rolling in powdered sugar part. I think they do roll best when they're still warm.
The lemon cookies are similar to something I make. I flatten the balls of dough with the bottom of a glass before baking so they're easier to fill and store.
Oh, I love the Betty Crocker Cooky Book! My mom has a copy from the 1970s, when she got married. I haven't made anything from that book in a long time; I think I need to make some snickerdoodles this season!
My cookbook club is using this book for our cookie swap this month! We each chose 2 cookies from this book to make! My 2 choices, and holiday favorites, lemon squares and gingerbread boys!❤️
My grandma's pfefferneusse were different--she rolled out the dough in a thin rope and cut it into small pieces, maybe 1/2" long. So you'd have all these tiny spicy tidbits to scoop up and munch. I think that may be a Mennonite variation. I have Grandma's recipe and keep thinking I need to just try to make some.
Peppermint extract would be a great substitute for vanilla in the chocolate spritz, or in addition to vanilla, if you're a big fan of chocolate and mint together like me, lol. And for a big batch of cookies like that, you can freeze them after they're cooked too so you've got a supply on hand for when you have a snack attack and don't feel like cooking right then.
My favorite cookies are springerle. There is a recipe in this book, but it's a little different from mine. Mine uses anise extract and baker's ammonia as a rising agent. My mom made these every Christmas. Her parents were from Germany and my mom learned from her mom. Now my daughter and I both make them. Love spritz too.
I ran across the McCormick finishing sugar in early November, I bought 3 flavors, White Frosting, Hot Cocoa, and English Toffee. They were in a large display at Walmart, we went back the next day for some other things and the display was empty. Literally wiped out in less tha 24 hours! I'm so glad I bougt them when I saw them. They were pricey..but, I'm excited to try them. I made some bluebarry scones last weekend and used the white frosting flavor on top instead of a glaze. Beautiful and delicious.
For the lemon cookies I would lightly flatten the ball before baking. And to make the powdered sugar part go easier put the sugar in a ziplock and gently tumble the cookies in the bag.
For me it was the Better Homes and Gardens Cookie Cookbook. It love it so much that when I found another copy at a rummage sale I bought it as a back up if my mom's copy dies. There is a recipe in there for Santa's Whiskers that is so yummy and I need to make them again
I’ve had that cookbook for over 40 years, and it’s still my favorite! And that’s my go-to snickerdoodle recipe! That’s my favorite cookie ever, and my grandmother always made them for me when we’d go to visit when I was growing up. Sweet memories!!
Ahhhhh the classic! This year, I think I'll be taking a day off from work to make my cookie & brownie boxes early (I distribute them to the local businesses I frequent throughout the year, to my neighbors, and to my mail carrier), and it's just been too stressful to do it all, like, the day before I leave to visit family for a week. This video is definitely getting me into the holiday spirit!
@jmmbarkovich8734 I love cooking and I love giving. Unfortunately, I don't have close neighbors. I have one wonderful friend but, we are both diabetic so I try to not give her sweets or things high in carbs. I do cook, for myself, 3 meals a day. I love good food and I'm an excellent cook. My friend eats meat but no seafood or anything with much seasoning other than salt. I am on a low sodium diet so she always adds salt to anything I make for her. We are an odd pair. I love spices and herbs. Plus, I love hot foods. Ketchup is even too spicy for my friend. And, don't even think about adding any heat! She also doesn't enjoy cooking so she just buys things she can throw in the microwave. Now that I have told you my life story, I guess we are friends now.😀 You wouldn't happen to live near Marshall Texas, would you? I could make things for you.
For the lemon snowballs, I’m thinking thumbprint and dust with powdered sugar when they’re warm, then add the curd when they’re cool. I also wonder it the orbs could be submerged/dunked in a thin lemon-flavored icing made from powdered sugar.
My mom always made the Russian Teacake and Canadian Oatmeal Shortbread cookies during the holidays. They were my dad's favorites; and my sister and I would make them for him after our mom died. Mom made the shortbread cookies as drop cookies. I have both my mom and grandma's copy of the cooky book and bought my sister the re-issue.
I think this video is going to one of your most watched videos over time. I needed your video tonight. I was having a horrible, accident filled, trying to get my tree up and dinner made, evening. It seemed nothing was going right. Needing a break, I sat down with my (mostly horrible) dinner to watch your video. Your energy, excitement to use your favorite cookbook , and cheerful Christmas apron, made your cookie making even more joyful. It brought memories back for me about my mom making cookies, and me making the same cookies for my children. Now they make them for their children. You are a good teacher, clear instructions, and helpful with the little details. You helped me bring some cheer back into my evening, and have motivated me to try some new cookie recipes. Now that my own normally cheerful self is back, I am going to try to make the lemon snowdrops. Something new (old) to add to my repertoire. Thanks so much for a great video. I look forward to other Christmas videos. It would be awesome to see you make the cookie house. I wish you and family a wonderful, joyful holiday season!
I was given an electric Super Shooter 45 years ago as a wedding gift. It has the discs, but it is a spritz maker on steroids! You really have to be ready and develop a rhythm for getting those cookies on the pan because it is really fast. I also have the manual spritz makers that have ratcheting action--that's more my speed. If I take spritz cookies to a party, they think they were store-bought instead of homemade, which is a bummer.
I watched my mom struggle to make spritz cookies as a kid so I was hesitant to try them. I have a Wilton cookie press and I found out that if your dough is soft enough (that was Mom's issue; her dough was too stiff), making cookies this way is awesome! I drizzled mine with Wilton candy melts in red and green and my then-boss, who didn't allow herself many sweets, was a big fan.
I was waiting for you to show the cookie house 😀 I received this Cookie book as a wedding present back in 1971 and my kids loved looking through it but the favorite picture was the cookie house. I still have this book and look through it now and then but it’s somewhat fragile. When my daughter grew up I bought her the “replica” version.
My favourite holiday cookie is my grandmother's Scottish shortbread recipe. Very basic: butter, mostly icing sugar with a TBSP of brown sugar, and flour. When we were kids our family had a big gathering on Christmas Eve and my mom was in charge of baking the shortbread. She used a drinking glass to cut out many thick round cookies and had coloured sprinkles on the top. I know that sprinkles are NOT traditional and as an adult I asked her why we had sprinkles on the shortbread. She said that there were lots of little children at these parties, and she thought that they would love cookies with sprinkles. ❤
I noticed you had a Saugatuck sign on your fridge. I grew up in Michigan. The first time I saw it was when my parents were moving from Maryland in the Summer of 1980. I left Michigan for California, where I was born and currently live, in 1998. Saugatuck was one of the first places I missed.
I’ve never made the chocolate Spritz before… always wanted to. I make the green Christmas tree and red daisy (poinsettia) Spritz every Christmas! 🎄 🌺 The BC Cooky Book is my all time favorite book!
I bought a Pampered Chef cookie press close to 20 years ago and never used it successfully. I can’t get the dough to “cut off” and leave a cookie on the baking sheet.
I grew up with this Cooky Book and loved to look at the pictures. My favorite cookie is the pineapple filled cookies. My mom would make them every Christmas. I looked for years for this book and now I have a copy of my own. The other day I saw it at Barnes and Noble amongst the holiday items. It brings back such wonderful memories. Every cookie I've made in this cookbook has been tasty.
I found a copy of this book on the bookshelf in our finished basement! I don’t know if it was my Mom’s or her elder sisters. Auntie made many trays of cookies each year as gifts and would spend the early Autumn planning all the varieties she would make. An anecdote: after Mom died earlier this year, I couldn’t find her Will. Mid-Summer I was looking on THAT shelf and low & behold what was in the Cookybook?! Yes, her Will! She wasn’t supposed to go down flights of stairs since her Bypass in 2012 but she must have gone there when I was not home and I can’t think why.
Our poodle is named Snickerdoodle 😊 so I may have to try in her honor. Love all your videos; this one is perfect for getting into the Christmas spirit! Thank you!
My childhood best friend bought me this softcover recipe book for Christmas in the late 1970s when we were twelve years old. I bought her a glossy poster of kittens. She passed away at age 44. I miss her and her talented festive cookie making skills ❤
My Norwegian friends love Snickerdoodles-they call them “those cinnamon cookies.” They are not popular in France, but a friend’s daughter said she saw them on TikTok and wanted to try them. She came over to make them with me. She loved them too!
I used to make a butter cookie recipe for the cookie press. Mine was power. Then instead of vanilla I used fresh ground cardamom. My family is Norwegian and loved them.
My mom had the original book, my sister has it now. The only cookies we got were sugar cookies that she cut with HRM cutters which are still available to buy. Then we sprinkled colored sugar on them. I prefer icing in sugar cookies but sugar is nice too. I don’t remember us getting any other type of cookie though my mom loved baking, I was born in 1959.
I have my "Trig-O-Matic Cookie Gun by Cookie Chef" in its original box from about 1967. It has the price on it in pen - $6.95. It's aluminum and shaped like a gun, similar to yours but with another part to the handle so you can use one hand to force the dough out. It was made in Cleveland Ohio. I use it every year. Will have to make the chocolate ones!
I was born in 1963 and still have my Mom's original Wear-ever Cookie Gun. My grandkids will be here tomorrow to help bake this year's Christmas Spritz cookies!
It’s Sunday night and I always look forward to seeing your video. You have inspired me me to make Christmas cookies. I’m already looking up sanding sugars and cookie presses. Thanks so much!
This makes me want to bake cookies! I really don’t bake. My family doesn’t bake… I am an excellent cook and come from a long line of excellent cooks but baking terrifies me. It’s so precise and takes patience.
I have a first edition that has handwritten notes by my grandmother. Priceless to me. Use it year round as I bake for a homeless shelter. Love this book.
I love my Cinderella bowls. Got my first set at a garage sale for not much money, since then they have become a collector item and they are expensive at antique stores.
I've been making Cherry Dot cookies , formerly called Cherry Winks, for over 50 Christmas plates. The dough has chopped pecans, chopped dates, and maraschino cherries. Rolled in crushed corn flakes and topped with a piece of cherry. Soft inside and crunchy. Recipe is on Kellogg's website.
Your thrill in making spritz prompts me to also make them this year. Haven’t made them in a couple years but I have my mom’s vintage 1950s Mirro spritz maker which works as well as the Oxo. Fun video - thanks so much!
I loved the little story about your grandma! My mother is 91 years old. She keeps a giant candy dish full of of starlight peppermints in her little entryway in her assisted living apartment for nurses, aides, and other visitors. I buy pretty huge bags from Walmart & have them delivered to her. She goes through on average 4 lbs of them a month! She just loves doing it because people drop by all day long for a mint, and I'm happy to supply them. Also, I've commented about this before but I love the Betty Crocker Cooky Book. My mother has her original and I have one she gave me as a gift. I've also given my daughter one. Now my little granddaughter loves looking through it with her dad and choosing a cookie for the family to bake.
My absolute favorite cookbook, given to me by my cousin our senior year Christmas over 50 years ago. Many of the cookies are Christmas favorites in our family. Snickerdoodlrs, Russian tea cakes, chocolate crinkles, sugar cookies, molasses crinkles, gingerbread men, candy cane cookies, filled date cookies etc My youngest son made snickerdoodles, his favorite, for his 3rd grade birthday party at school 30 years ago. So many precious memories baking cookies from this book with my loved ones through the years.🎄
My mother and grandmother use to bake dozens and dozens of cookies and many different kinds of candy at Christmas time. They made spritz cookies but they called them cookie press cookies. Theirs had a screw crank to push the cookies out. They were always so dainty, buttery and delicious!
My mom had this original cookie book. We use to look at it like it was the wish book. One year for Christmas, I copied all the pages and put them in protective sleeves and put them in a binder so both of my sisters could have a copy since the original fell apart. Would still love to get a new copy or find an original for a good price.😊
My kids looked through it like the “wish book”, too. Brings back good memories to me. Those were good times when kids would entertain themselves with a cookie book rather than a tablet.
Meijer has the finishing sugars on sale this week! They were no where you would expect them to be. A stocker had to take me to them. At our store they were on the side of an endcap mixed with small boxes of K-cups! Down towards the chip aisle! Not near baking, spices, kitchen or Christmas. Who plans these store layouts? Check online to see if the stores near you have them in stock before you make the trip. One store had none, but the other had every flavor! Good luck and thank you for sharing them with us!!
A few days after watching this episode I found a Cooky Book at a library sale. Sixth printing with the spiral edge so some pages are not perfect but I am so happy to have found it. Only one dollar! Thank you for sharing your love of this book. I’m sure that it will be one of my favorites also.
I love snickerdoodles!! I use a mixture of butter and shortening for my recipe too because shortening has less water in it, so you get a chewier cookie than one with butter alone.
This reminds me that I bought a cookie press 2 years ago, I'm going to have to drag it out and make some cookies! Thank you for the tips! I did struggle with it at first.
I’m so glad I saw this video, I’ve been wanting to try my cookie press and you make it look so easy. Will be making some this week out of the same cookbook.
Update on the McCormick Finishing Sugars - I was able to find them again at my local Meijer the day before Thanksgiving! 🎉
Brave soul you going to Meijer Wednesday before turkey day!
I went down a deep internet rabbit hole exploring finishing sugars
The best cookie in this book is Mary's sugar cookies and the thumbprint in this book are excellent. Molasses crinkle cookies are great.
Those are some of the best in the book. Because I have a original book.
Since it's just my husband and me, we keep cookie dough in the freezer year round. It goes straight from the freezer into our breville oven for 10 minutes, 4-6 at a time, so that we can have that delicious treat, without the temptation of eating an entire batch.
I bake and freeze the cookies all at once, then pull out a few at a time. But that’s a great alternative.
I've done this for years. I love frozen cookie dough balls, so easy to thaw and bake.
What temp do you use @AmyMLevy
@@gloriawilliams7541 Don't laugh, but my husband programmed the smart oven's cookies setting, so I don't have to remember!
I freeze chocolate chip.cookie balls and give them to my kids. I write the baking time and degrees on the container in marker. Then they can bake them for their families whenever they want.
I remember decorating Christmas cookies with my siblings in the late 1960s-70s with silver balls. Apparently, they were not supposed to be eaten, the fine print said "For decorative purposes only." We used to eat them like candy. I guess they contained mercury! We all survived. I know this is a typical Gen X/Boomer Survival Story. 😅
Living on the edge!!!
Love it!!
😂😂😂
@@dianaarmitage512 My dad used to say, "You kids have it easy. I used to walk five miles to school in the snow!" Little did we know we could've answered back, "Yeah? Did you eat poison mercury balls disguised as candy and survive?"
Lol! I think I ingested my fair share of those silver balls on cutouts as a kid in the early 80’s. Honestly, I had no idea I was dining on silver! 😄
@@beelinesouth I think by the 80s they might have removed the mercury, but who knows?
They are called Silver Dragees. Easy to break a tooth on those!
Do a series where you make every cookie in the Cooky Book- just like the woman that did the Julia Child cookbook- that would be fun
We used this cookbook in my childhood. My Mom then gave it to me when I got married, 45 years ago. I baked cookies from this book while raising our 3 boys. Now I have gifted my Daughter-in- laws with the cookbook to bake for my grandchildren. It’s a treasure!
I enter snickerdoodles in the state fair. Honorable mention 3 yrs in a row. Snickerdoodles are a family favorite
My mother was so happy when she got a cookie press. They were the best cookies. She made some kind of cookie every week. I was a lucky kid ❤
OMY GOSH!!!! I got this as a bridal shower back in Feb 1978…and I still have it!!!
I got married in Feb '78 and still have mine too.
I got married in 1973 and received this at my wedding shower and I also still have it and use it.😊
My mother always made most of our Christmas cookies from this cookbook. Russian tea cakes, thumbprints, etc. I loved looking at the pictures and was intrigued by the water color type painted sugar cookies, but she never tackled those.
I always wanted to make those too, but we never did. As a child that seemed to be the best idea ever! As a parent now, I think I know why my mom never tackled them!
Present the lemon cookies in cupcake papers. Pretty.
@@sunflowermarcia7277 I do the same thing with my Russian Tea Cakes. GREAT suggestion!
i have used this cooky book for more years than I can remember. I absolutely love the recipes and my family loves them too. I have worn out a couple copies of this book. I have got many compliments for them when taking them to gettogethers or serve them in my home. I know everyone has a delicious chocolate chip cooky recipe bu I always get asked for the recipe of mine from this book. People have said that they like their cooky recipe but this one is better than theirs. I treasure this book so much. So many cookies--so many memories.
My favorite holiday cookie is gingerbread! Also funny how you said people listen to you during long tasks. I'm watching your videos while knitting:)
My favorite cooky from this cookbook is Russian Teacakes. We call them Norwegian Butterbals cos that's our ancestry. 😊
You are my kind of people as I just posted that these are my favorite as well.
@@realestateconnectionproper4097 hmmm...I'm part Norwegian, but my mom never made those. I'm going to look them up
Because of you, I have my copy of the book beside me as I watch this video. ^_^
I can barely make a decent drop cookie, so I have always been to intimidated to try a cookie press or rolling dough and using cookie cutters, but your obvious joy in making these cookies was infectious and a delight to watch-as usual. 💕
I grew up baking from that book! I'm sure Mom's copy is an original version. Besides chocolate crinkles, snickerdoodles, and thumb prints, my favorites are the molasses crinkles and the peppermint candy canes.
Yes! Those candy cane are a delicious (and fragile!) Treasure!!!!
Re: Lemon Snowdrops. Try rolling the halves in the sugar while they are still warm so the sugar glazes them a bit. Then assemble them with the filling. You'll definitely see that they are a sandwich cookie but they will be less messy.
I wonder too if the humidity from the rainy day was messing with the rolling in powdered sugar part. I think they do roll best when they're still warm.
I wonder too if the humidity from the rainy day was messing with the rolling in powdered sugar part. I think they do roll best when they're still warm.
The lemon cookies are similar to something I make. I flatten the balls of dough with the bottom of a glass before baking so they're easier to fill and store.
I would eat them in one go... to avoid a mess.. yeah, that's why😊
@@redrooster1908 this is why I don't make them often. And the lemon curd filling is too tempting.
I also have this book and use all the time. Mine is almost 50 years old. I’m married almost 50:years. Thanks.
My mom used to make two flavors of icebox cookies: spice and chocolate. I've never had anything as good since.
I had this book when I was a child. Yes I'm old lol
I make baklava every year. It is a family favorite.
I love baklava, hands down my favorite dessert! Do you make your filo dough or buy it from the store?
@@LilyLightOnesadly no, I loose patience with making it. So I buy the dough.
@reahalea1 I've seen it made a few times on Great British Baking Show and the Canadian show, but it looks super frustrating.
@LilyLightOne Not really, organisation is the key to making it. Once everything is ready, it's a breeze.
Oh, I love the Betty Crocker Cooky Book! My mom has a copy from the 1970s, when she got married. I haven't made anything from that book in a long time; I think I need to make some snickerdoodles this season!
My cookbook club is using this book for our cookie swap this month! We each chose 2 cookies from this book to make! My 2 choices, and holiday favorites, lemon squares and gingerbread boys!❤️
Favorite cookie is pfefferneuse. Archway is my savior on these.
Me too! Some have a kind of crusty coating & others have powdered sugar on top. Which do you prefer?
I haven't had pfefferneuse since I was a kid and my mom made them, from this book of course! She always coated them with the powdered sugar.
My grandma's pfefferneusse were different--she rolled out the dough in a thin rope and cut it into small pieces, maybe 1/2" long. So you'd have all these tiny spicy tidbits to scoop up and munch. I think that may be a Mennonite variation. I have Grandma's recipe and keep thinking I need to just try to make some.
Peppermint extract would be a great substitute for vanilla in the chocolate spritz, or in addition to vanilla, if you're a big fan of chocolate and mint together like me, lol. And for a big batch of cookies like that, you can freeze them after they're cooked too so you've got a supply on hand for when you have a snack attack and don't feel like cooking right then.
Hershey kiss peanut butter blossoms are my all time favorite!!! Next are iced sugar cookies and the orange glazed.
Totally love that hand mixer . Love your channel 🎉👍
I have this cookie book. My mom was given this book at 16. She is 68 now. THE BEST COOKIE BOOK I HAVE EVER USED
My favorite cookies are springerle. There is a recipe in this book, but it's a little different from mine. Mine uses anise extract and baker's ammonia as a rising agent. My mom made these every Christmas. Her parents were from Germany and my mom learned from her mom. Now my daughter and I both make them. Love spritz too.
I ran across the McCormick finishing sugar in early November, I bought 3 flavors, White Frosting, Hot Cocoa, and English Toffee. They were in a large display at Walmart, we went back the next day for some other things and the display was empty. Literally wiped out in less tha 24 hours! I'm so glad I bougt them when I saw them. They were pricey..but, I'm excited to try them. I made some bluebarry scones last weekend and used the white frosting flavor on top instead of a glaze. Beautiful and delicious.
I was able to find them again at Meijer the day before Thanksgiving! Those blueberry scones sound divine. 😋
@@cooking_the_books they were! 😊
For the lemon cookies I would lightly flatten the ball before baking. And to make the powdered sugar part go easier put the sugar in a ziplock and gently tumble the cookies in the bag.
For me it was the Better Homes and Gardens Cookie Cookbook. It love it so much that when I found another copy at a rummage sale I bought it as a back up if my mom's copy dies. There is a recipe in there for Santa's Whiskers that is so yummy and I need to make them again
I’ve had that cookbook for over 40 years, and it’s still my favorite! And that’s my go-to snickerdoodle recipe! That’s my favorite cookie ever, and my grandmother always made them for me when we’d go to visit when I was growing up. Sweet memories!!
Ahhhhh the classic! This year, I think I'll be taking a day off from work to make my cookie & brownie boxes early (I distribute them to the local businesses I frequent throughout the year, to my neighbors, and to my mail carrier), and it's just been too stressful to do it all, like, the day before I leave to visit family for a week. This video is definitely getting me into the holiday spirit!
I make/ buy food to businesses I frequent, too!!!! ❤🎉
@@loriloristuff I'm so glad I'm not the only dork who does this. 😆
I'm not making cookies this year. I will be alone for the holiday. But, I really enjoyed watching you make them. I love your enthusiasm!❤
You should make your favorite cookies, then on the holiday, have them with coffee or tea to celebrate yourself. 🥰
@robylove9190 I live alone, but have kind neighbors and colleagues. Baking for others is my way of appreciating those people that bring joy to my life
@jmmbarkovich8734 I love cooking and I love giving. Unfortunately, I don't have close neighbors. I have one wonderful friend but, we are both diabetic so I try to not give her sweets or things high in carbs. I do cook, for myself, 3 meals a day. I love good food and I'm an excellent cook. My friend eats meat but no seafood or anything with much seasoning other than salt. I am on a low sodium diet so she always adds salt to anything I make for her. We are an odd pair. I love spices and herbs. Plus, I love hot foods. Ketchup is even too spicy for my friend. And, don't even think about adding any heat! She also doesn't enjoy cooking so she just buys things she can throw in the microwave. Now that I have told you my life story, I guess we are friends now.😀 You wouldn't happen to live near Marshall Texas, would you? I could make things for you.
@@robylove9190I hope you have a wonderful Christmas 😊
@@LilyLightOne Thanks! You too 😊
For the lemon snowballs, I’m thinking thumbprint and dust with powdered sugar when they’re warm, then add the curd when they’re cool. I also wonder it the orbs could be submerged/dunked in a thin lemon-flavored icing made from powdered sugar.
Sitting pretties are my favorite. Cookie rolled in nuts topped with icing and on top of that a single M&M
My mom always made the Russian Teacake and Canadian Oatmeal Shortbread cookies during the holidays. They were my dad's favorites; and my sister and I would make them for him after our mom died. Mom made the shortbread cookies as drop cookies. I have both my mom and grandma's copy of the cooky book and bought my sister the re-issue.
Dream come true. Can we do this every day in December?❤❤❤
I like this idea 👍
I think this video is going to one of your most watched videos over time. I needed your video tonight. I was having a horrible, accident filled, trying to get my tree up and dinner made, evening. It seemed nothing was going right. Needing a break, I sat down with my (mostly horrible) dinner to watch your video. Your energy, excitement to use your favorite cookbook , and cheerful Christmas apron, made your cookie making even more joyful. It brought memories back for me about my mom making cookies, and me making the same cookies for my children. Now they make them for their children.
You are a good teacher, clear instructions, and helpful with the little details. You helped me bring some cheer back into my evening, and have motivated me to try some new cookie recipes.
Now that my own normally cheerful self is back, I am going to try to make the lemon snowdrops. Something new (old) to add to my repertoire. Thanks so much for a great video. I look forward to other Christmas videos. It would be awesome to see you make the cookie house. I wish you and family a wonderful, joyful holiday season!
I was given an electric Super Shooter 45 years ago as a wedding gift. It has the discs, but it is a spritz maker on steroids! You really have to be ready and develop a rhythm for getting those cookies on the pan because it is really fast. I also have the manual spritz makers that have ratcheting action--that's more my speed. If I take spritz cookies to a party, they think they were store-bought instead of homemade, which is a bummer.
I watched my mom struggle to make spritz cookies as a kid so I was hesitant to try them. I have a Wilton cookie press and I found out that if your dough is soft enough (that was Mom's issue; her dough was too stiff), making cookies this way is awesome! I drizzled mine with Wilton candy melts in red and green and my then-boss, who didn't allow herself many sweets, was a big fan.
I was waiting for you to show the cookie house 😀 I received this Cookie book as a wedding present back in 1971 and my kids loved looking through it but the favorite picture was the cookie house.
I still have this book and look through it now and then but it’s somewhat fragile. When my daughter grew up I bought her the “replica” version.
Always a favorite every year. My Cooky book cookies are Mexican wedding cakes!
My favourite holiday cookie is my grandmother's Scottish shortbread recipe. Very basic: butter, mostly icing sugar with a TBSP of brown sugar, and flour. When we were kids our family had a big gathering on Christmas Eve and my mom was in charge of baking the shortbread. She used a drinking glass to cut out many thick round cookies and had coloured sprinkles on the top. I know that sprinkles are NOT traditional and as an adult I asked her why we had sprinkles on the shortbread. She said that there were lots of little children at these parties, and she thought that they would love cookies with sprinkles. ❤
Lovely holiday apron once again, Anna.
Thank you! 😊
I want to make a patchwork Christmas apron
snickerdoodles are one of my favorites!
I noticed you had a Saugatuck sign on your fridge. I grew up in Michigan. The first time I saw it was when my parents were moving from Maryland in the Summer of 1980. I left Michigan for California, where I was born and currently live, in 1998. Saugatuck was one of the first places I missed.
I’ve never made the chocolate Spritz before… always wanted to. I make the green Christmas tree and red daisy (poinsettia) Spritz every Christmas! 🎄 🌺 The BC Cooky Book is my all time favorite book!
I bought a Pampered Chef cookie press close to 20 years ago and never used it successfully. I can’t get the dough to “cut off” and leave a cookie on the baking sheet.
I love Haystacks and Hershey's Blossoms
Love the chocolate crinkles.
That apron is beautiful!
Thank you!! 😊
I grew up with this Cooky Book and loved to look at the pictures. My favorite cookie is the pineapple filled cookies. My mom would make them every Christmas. I looked for years for this book and now I have a copy of my own. The other day I saw it at Barnes and Noble amongst the holiday items. It brings back such wonderful memories. Every cookie I've made in this cookbook has been tasty.
My cookie press is from my grandmother.
Mine was my mother's
I found a copy of this book on the bookshelf in our finished basement! I don’t know if it was my Mom’s or her elder sisters. Auntie made many trays of cookies each year as gifts and would spend the early Autumn planning all the varieties she would make. An anecdote: after Mom died earlier this year, I couldn’t find her Will. Mid-Summer I was looking on THAT shelf and low & behold what was in the Cookybook?! Yes, her Will! She wasn’t supposed to go down flights of stairs since her Bypass in 2012 but she must have gone there when I was not home and I can’t think why.
"Melted and cool", ah. My nickname in high school.
Our poodle is named Snickerdoodle 😊 so I may have to try in her honor. Love all your videos; this one is perfect for getting into the Christmas spirit! Thank you!
My childhood best friend bought me this softcover recipe book for Christmas in the late 1970s when we were twelve years old. I bought her a glossy poster of kittens. She passed away at age 44.
I miss her and her talented festive cookie making skills ❤
My Norwegian friends love Snickerdoodles-they call them “those cinnamon cookies.” They are not popular in France, but a friend’s daughter said she saw them on TikTok and wanted to try them. She came over to make them with me. She loved them too!
I used to make a butter cookie recipe for the cookie press. Mine was power. Then instead of vanilla I used fresh ground cardamom. My family is Norwegian and loved them.
Will be making spritz cookies with the grandkids this Christmas. Such fun. ❤
My mom had the original book, my sister has it now. The only cookies we got were sugar cookies that she cut with HRM cutters which are still available to buy. Then we sprinkled colored sugar on them. I prefer icing in sugar cookies but sugar is nice too. I don’t remember us getting any other type of cookie though my mom loved baking, I was born in 1959.
When I was teaching I gave out many, many gifts. Mostly I gave 13 different kinds of cookies. Made cookie plates for everyone.
I remember this cook book from my childhood, going to see if any of my older sisters still have it, thanks for the memories.
A perfect way to celebrate #NationalCookieDay today!!! 🍪♥💚💚♥
I make biscochitos every year. With lard. So good :)
Yay! Cookies!
I have my "Trig-O-Matic Cookie Gun by Cookie Chef" in its original box from about 1967. It has the price on it in pen - $6.95. It's aluminum and shaped like a gun, similar to yours but with another part to the handle so you can use one hand to force the dough out. It was made in Cleveland Ohio. I use it every year. Will have to make the chocolate ones!
I was born in 1963 and still have my Mom's original Wear-ever Cookie Gun. My grandkids will be here tomorrow to help bake this year's Christmas Spritz cookies!
It’s Sunday night and I always look forward to seeing your video. You have inspired me me to make Christmas cookies. I’m already looking up sanding sugars and cookie presses. Thanks so much!
I love your laugh when you checked out the lemon cookies 😂. They look great!
Thank you! 😊
This makes me want to bake cookies! I really don’t bake. My family doesn’t bake…
I am an excellent cook and come from a long line of excellent cooks but baking terrifies me. It’s so precise and takes patience.
Start with the chocolate chip recipe on the Nestle Tollhouse chocolate chips bag. It is a science, but cookies can have variations and still be great.
Anna is making the magic happen ✨️
You have Cecilia's book! I love your channel!
I always make wedding cake cookies! Yummy!
I have a first edition that has handwritten notes by my grandmother. Priceless to me. Use it year round as I bake for a homeless shelter. Love this book.
I love my Cinderella bowls. Got my first set at a garage sale for not much money, since then they have become a collector item and they are expensive at antique stores.
😊 Enjoyed reading your garage sale story. Do you know why they are called Cinderella bowls?
I love your festive fridge decorations!
Thank you!! 😊
Betty Crocker and cookies go together ! Great share !
Thank you for sharing! Cookies are such a joy for any age!
I've been making Cherry Dot cookies , formerly called Cherry Winks, for over 50 Christmas plates. The dough has chopped pecans, chopped dates, and maraschino cherries. Rolled in crushed corn flakes and topped with a piece of cherry. Soft inside and crunchy. Recipe is on Kellogg's website.
Your thrill in making spritz prompts me to also make them this year. Haven’t made them in a couple years but I have my mom’s vintage 1950s Mirro spritz maker which works as well as the Oxo. Fun video - thanks so much!
My family alway made Hungarian walnut crescent cookies. My husband is Holiday fruit drop. Similar to chocolate chip, but with dried fruits.
I loved the little story about your grandma! My mother is 91 years old. She keeps a giant candy dish full of of starlight peppermints in her little entryway in her assisted living apartment for nurses, aides, and other visitors. I buy pretty huge bags from Walmart & have them delivered to her. She goes through on average 4 lbs of them a month! She just loves doing it because people drop by all day long for a mint, and I'm happy to supply them. Also, I've commented about this before but I love the Betty Crocker Cooky Book. My mother has her original and I have one she gave me as a gift. I've also given my daughter one. Now my little granddaughter loves looking through it with her dad and choosing a cookie for the family to bake.
Russian tea cakes and peanut blossoms are my favorites 😊
My absolute favorite cookbook, given to me by my cousin our senior year Christmas over 50 years ago. Many of the cookies are Christmas favorites in our family. Snickerdoodlrs, Russian tea cakes, chocolate crinkles, sugar cookies, molasses crinkles, gingerbread men, candy cane cookies, filled date cookies etc My youngest son made snickerdoodles, his favorite, for his 3rd grade birthday party at school 30 years ago. So many precious memories baking cookies from this book with my loved ones through the years.🎄
I think my mom has that Cooky book too. I love Snickerdoodles. That's the only time I've ever used Cream of Tartar.
My mother and grandmother use to bake dozens and dozens of cookies and many different kinds of candy at Christmas time. They made spritz cookies but they called them cookie press cookies. Theirs had a screw crank to push the cookies out. They were always so dainty, buttery and delicious!
My mom had this original cookie book. We use to look at it like it was the wish book. One year for Christmas, I copied all the pages and put them in protective sleeves and put them in a binder so both of my sisters could have a copy since the original fell apart. Would still love to get a new copy or find an original for a good price.😊
My kids looked through it like the “wish book”, too. Brings back good memories to me. Those were good times when kids would entertain themselves with a cookie book rather than a tablet.
Meijer has the finishing sugars on sale this week! They were no where you would expect them to be. A stocker had to take me to them. At our store they were on the side of an endcap mixed with small boxes of K-cups! Down towards the chip aisle! Not near baking, spices, kitchen or Christmas. Who plans these store layouts? Check online to see if the stores near you have them in stock before you make the trip. One store had none, but the other had every flavor! Good luck and thank you for sharing them with us!!
A few days after watching this episode I found a Cooky Book at a library sale. Sixth printing with the spiral edge so some pages are not perfect but I am so happy to have found it. Only one dollar! Thank you for sharing your love of this book. I’m sure that it will be one of my favorites also.
I love snickerdoodles!! I use a mixture of butter and shortening for my recipe too because shortening has less water in it, so you get a chewier cookie than one with butter alone.
I was given this cookbook at age 12 sixty-two years ago! Ty Barb.!
This reminds me that I bought a cookie press 2 years ago, I'm going to have to drag it out and make some cookies! Thank you for the tips! I did struggle with it at first.
I look forward to cinnamon stars. ⭐️
I love rosettes at Christmas !
I have some lemon curd I made for a cheesecake in the freezer I’m making those cookies! Thank you! They all look delicious
I’m so glad I saw this video, I’ve been wanting to try my cookie press and you make it look so easy. Will be making some this week out of the same cookbook.
It’s so fun to use!
Love your friendship cindies.
Thank you! 😊
I bought that book when I first saw you do a video on this book. Love this book
I made cookies for the first time this year, I’m for sure going to follow some of these recipes and hope for best! 🤣