Bake Some Love

What's the best holiday cookie?

Is it the sugar cookie?  Decorated or not?

Or something else?

I send cookies to DH's work every year and I'm all out of ideas.  What should I bake this year?  Is there anything new out there?

TIA!

I like to take a recipe and fix it in several different ways. For example, I'll make shortbread two or three different Christmas shapes, then use some of the same dough but add lots of walnuts and roll in powdered sugar after baking (these are called "russian tea cakes) and for another batch I'll make ovals that I will dip in melted chocolate when they are cool.

Another time I've made variants of my hermits dough-- one the regular hermit another the chocolate chip version and the last one a fruitcake version. (Adjust the spices and so forth, of course, but the dough stays the same.)

Lastly, with sugar cookies, I will sometimes sprinkle crushed up peppermint on some, cinnamon sugar on others, and colored sugar on the others.

For what it's worth, no matter what I make, the chocolate chip cookies always go fastest.

The sugar cookie is a great symbol of the holiday.  I love all cookies, well all sweets really so its hard to pick a favorite, but I dont think you can go wrong with this simple, beautiful cookie.   LOL

sometimes I think people make all these complicated cookies but when they think back to memories of christmas, its the shortbread or the sugar cookie that is most often the "christmas cookie."   They appeal to everyone, as so many people avoid nuts or chocolate anymore.  Its hard to please a whole office full of people on special diets and likes/dislikes.    If you want to jazz it up, try decorating them in a unique way or with extra care if you want to make a stunning presentation. as in, they are too pretty to eat!   If you want them to just gobble them up, do a simple decoration.