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 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 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 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 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.
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.
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. 💕
Snickerdoodles are listed as an "everyday" cookie in the BC Picture Cook Book from the 1950s. "Everyday" cookies were considered suitable for the family cookie jar, for an after-school snack, etc. You have certainly popped Snickerdoodles up a couple of notches! Sets of McCormick Finishing Sugar are being offered on Amazon- for between $69 and $89 a set, six containers weighing 3.81 ounces each. 😂 I'd just buy some fine sugar/ caster sugar, add peppermints that have gone through the Ninja or a couple drops of various extracts or spices. The Lemon Drops might be my "new" cookie this Christmas! My "use" for extra filling would be a snack, so as not to waste it, eaten with a spatula. 😋 I would just get a tea strainer, fill it with powdered sugar, sift it over the cookies, and call it a day. SPRITZ COOKIES!!!! 🎉 Growing up, my family lived above a bakery!!! My mother could make Spritz, but it was actually more cost effective to get some downstairs. 😋 Yes, it was like being the Mighty B. I bet you could add about 1/2 to a full teaspoon of Nescafé or espresso powder to the Spritz, and it would compliment the vanilla and chocolate, adding a depth of flavor. But don't mix peppermint with coffee flavor. My favorite Christmas cookie is my own pepparkakor recipe, that I developed off an old Swedish recipe, and a Moravian molasses cookie recipe. They are thin and crisp! I cut them into stars or scalloped circles. They are FULL of spices, and I adore spice cookies. People ask for those and kolackie cookies (cream cheese and butter delicate dough, filled with preserves). I won't start baking this year until the week of the 15th. There's an important happening in our family, and I have to attend to that, first. Enjoy your week, and thank you, Anna, for another great video.🎉
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.
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!❤️
If you want to try some different spice blends to use in or on cookies, have you ever bought King Arthur's "Holiday Spice Gift" set -- six cinnamon-y blends in one box? I have it, but instead of making molasses cookie batches to test them out, I just keep sprinkling them on rice pudding. Other things to try, with different amounts of daring, are cardamom, white pepper, ground coriander, Chinese five spice, and mulling spice -- all of which I have used in basic shortbread recipes, and some of which I've combined with powdered sugar to either top cookies with or roll them in. In the case of the mulling spice, if I can buy it in tea bag form it's already chopped down to a pretty good size, so I just cut the tea bags open and dump the contents into the mixing bowl. 34:45 -- My favorite "glue" for those little cream wafers is Nutella. I'd like to add ground toasted hazelnuts to the cookie dough, but I'm afraid it would mess with the texture. I guess a test batch wouldn't hurt, though, would it? Worst case scenario: I have to eat them all myself. P.S. I started eating unsweetened Baker's Chocolate bars when I was in elementary school. It's not easy to fit them into the food budget these days, but I still buy one every once in a while to snack on. No problem here -- more bitter, more better!
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.
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!
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’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!!
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 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 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 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 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.
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.
I have that book, but I will admit, I haven't made many recipes from it. I'm thrilled to see some of them in action. Going to need to pull it out for this holiday season.
For years, the youth group I mentored raised funds by baking Christmas cookies. Any given year ten thousand cookies or more were baked and treated for the fundraiser. Love this video. Never cutting in half. Always doubling or tripling recipes. Colored cinnamon sugar snickerdoodles for certain! Roll any powdered sugar cookies when still warm. Reroll in powdered sugar when completely cool. Then, Store in ziplock with extra powdered sugar. That way when you go to serve the powdered sugar is there.
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.
Ok, so first of all, snickerdoodles are my absolute favorite. But the lemon snowdrops! I was just looking through a vintage Christmas cookbook of my mom's yesterday, and I marked the recipe for lemon snowdrops to try. It looks like the same recipe as Betty's. Then to see you made them, what are the odds?! 😂
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!
Oh my, what nostalgia for me! Got that cookie book in 1963 (Mom got it, but it became mine). The last time I made those Spritz cookies was 1971. They were easy and so pretty. Used to cut up maraschino cherries to decorate the tops. The Snickerdoodles were my brother’s favorite cookie, so naturally made them a lot. Interesting to learn about the gingerbread sugars, always learn something from your videos. This was fun to watch, thanks, Anna!
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
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.
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. ❤
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.
Your mixing bowls are so nostalgic. A wonderful core childhood memory of mine was baking Christmas cookies on an early release school day in December with my Mom and brothers. My Mom would have the dough ready by the time we got home and she’d play Christmas music on the record player. I miss my Mom who has passed but I’m so grateful for this happy memory. 🎄🔔🎄
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.
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.
For years, the youth group I mentored raised funds by baking Christmas cookies. Any given year ten thousand cookies or more were baked and treated for the fundraiser. Love this video. Never cutting in half. Always doubling or tripling recipes. Colored cinnamon sugar snickerdoodles for certain!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 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 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?"
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.
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 peanut butter blossoms are my favorite cookie! I do also love a white chocolate cranberry cookie; I use the recipe from Sally's Baking Addiction blog.
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!
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 enter snickerdoodles in the state fair. Honorable mention 3 yrs in a row. Snickerdoodles are a family favorite
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 also have this book and use all the time. Mine is almost 50 years old. I’m married almost 50:years. Thanks.
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 ❤
I had this book when I was a child. Yes I'm old lol
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.
Present the lemon cookies in cupcake papers. Pretty.
@@sunflowermarcia7277 I do the same thing with my Russian Tea Cakes. GREAT suggestion!
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:)
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 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.
Totally love that hand mixer . Love your channel 🎉👍
I love Haystacks and Hershey's Blossoms
Betty Crocker and cookies go together ! Great share !
Always a favorite every year. My Cooky book cookies are Mexican wedding cakes!
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.
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.
My family alway made Hungarian walnut crescent cookies. My husband is Holiday fruit drop. Similar to chocolate chip, but with dried fruits.
Hershey kiss peanut butter blossoms are my all time favorite!!! Next are iced sugar cookies and the orange glazed.
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. 💕
Love the chocolate crinkles.
Snickerdoodles are listed as an "everyday" cookie in the BC Picture Cook Book from the 1950s. "Everyday" cookies were considered suitable for the family cookie jar, for an after-school snack, etc. You have certainly popped Snickerdoodles up a couple of notches!
Sets of McCormick Finishing Sugar are being offered on Amazon- for between $69 and $89 a set, six containers weighing 3.81 ounces each. 😂 I'd just buy some fine sugar/ caster sugar, add peppermints that have gone through the Ninja or a couple drops of various extracts or spices.
The Lemon Drops might be my "new" cookie this Christmas! My "use" for extra filling would be a snack, so as not to waste it, eaten with a spatula. 😋 I would just get a tea strainer, fill it with powdered sugar, sift it over the cookies, and call it a day.
SPRITZ COOKIES!!!! 🎉 Growing up, my family lived above a bakery!!! My mother could make Spritz, but it was actually more cost effective to get some downstairs. 😋 Yes, it was like being the Mighty B.
I bet you could add about 1/2 to a full teaspoon of Nescafé or espresso powder to the Spritz, and it would compliment the vanilla and chocolate, adding a depth of flavor. But don't mix peppermint with coffee flavor.
My favorite Christmas cookie is my own pepparkakor recipe, that I developed off an old Swedish recipe, and a Moravian molasses cookie recipe. They are thin and crisp! I cut them into stars or scalloped circles. They are FULL of spices, and I adore spice cookies. People ask for those and kolackie cookies (cream cheese and butter delicate dough, filled with preserves).
I won't start baking this year until the week of the 15th. There's an important happening in our family, and I have to attend to that, first.
Enjoy your week, and thank you, Anna, for another great video.🎉
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.
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!❤️
If you want to try some different spice blends to use in or on cookies, have you ever bought King Arthur's "Holiday Spice Gift" set -- six cinnamon-y blends in one box? I have it, but instead of making molasses cookie batches to test them out, I just keep sprinkling them on rice pudding.
Other things to try, with different amounts of daring, are cardamom, white pepper, ground coriander, Chinese five spice, and mulling spice -- all of which I have used in basic shortbread recipes, and some of which I've combined with powdered sugar to either top cookies with or roll them in. In the case of the mulling spice, if I can buy it in tea bag form it's already chopped down to a pretty good size, so I just cut the tea bags open and dump the contents into the mixing bowl.
34:45 -- My favorite "glue" for those little cream wafers is Nutella. I'd like to add ground toasted hazelnuts to the cookie dough, but I'm afraid it would mess with the texture. I guess a test batch wouldn't hurt, though, would it? Worst case scenario: I have to eat them all myself.
P.S. I started eating unsweetened Baker's Chocolate bars when I was in elementary school. It's not easy to fit them into the food budget these days, but I still buy one every once in a while to snack on. No problem here -- more bitter, more better!
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 always make wedding cake cookies! Yummy!
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.
"Melted and cool", ah. My nickname in high school.
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
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! 😊
Because of you, I have my copy of the book beside me as I watch this video. ^_^
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!
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 make biscochitos every year. With lard. So good :)
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!!
Lovely holiday apron once again, Anna.
Thank you! 😊
I want to make a patchwork Christmas apron
Will be making spritz cookies with the grandkids this Christmas. Such fun. ❤
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 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 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!
A perfect way to celebrate #NationalCookieDay today!!! 🍪♥💚💚♥
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.
Dream come true. Can we do this every day in December?❤❤❤
I like this idea 👍
That apron is beautiful!
Thank you!! 😊
Thank you for sharing! Cookies are such a joy for any age!
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.
I look forward to cinnamon stars. ⭐️
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.
My mom always used the same book for Christmas cookies. I loved the candy cane ones and the spitz. I still have her book.
Russian tea cakes and peanut blossoms are my favorites 😊
Anna you are the one who taught me that my pyrex Cinderella bowls have a pouring spout! 😄 My grandma always ate peppermint candies too!
I have that book, but I will admit, I haven't made many recipes from it. I'm thrilled to see some of them in action. Going to need to pull it out for this holiday season.
For years, the youth group I mentored raised funds by baking Christmas cookies. Any given year ten thousand cookies or more were baked and treated for the fundraiser. Love this video. Never cutting in half. Always doubling or tripling recipes.
Colored cinnamon sugar snickerdoodles for certain!
Roll any powdered sugar cookies when still warm. Reroll in powdered sugar when completely cool. Then, Store in ziplock with extra powdered sugar. That way when you go to serve the powdered sugar is there.
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 the joy you have from making cookies! Who wouldn't with a cookie press! Thank you for a wonderful video
Thank you! It's so fun to use 😊
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
Ok, so first of all, snickerdoodles are my absolute favorite. But the lemon snowdrops! I was just looking through a vintage Christmas cookbook of my mom's yesterday, and I marked the recipe for lemon snowdrops to try. It looks like the same recipe as Betty's. Then to see you made them, what are the odds?! 😂
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. 😆
Oh my, what nostalgia for me! Got that cookie book in 1963 (Mom got it, but it became mine). The last time I made those Spritz cookies was 1971. They were easy and so pretty. Used to cut up maraschino cherries to decorate the tops. The Snickerdoodles were my brother’s favorite cookie, so naturally made them a lot.
Interesting to learn about the gingerbread sugars, always learn something from your videos. This was fun to watch, thanks, Anna!
First cookie book my aunt gave me when I moved away from home. Use it all year around. 😊
Page 148. Bonbons. Easy, yummy. Mom would send them to us in Germany.
I have the "cookie book" in a couple of my DOLLHOUSES.
Big fan of Cecilia Blomdahl and noticed her book in the background, Life on Svalbard.❤
I love rosettes at Christmas !
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
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.
My cookie press is from my grandmother.
Mine was my mother's
This is my all time favorite book. It is well loved and the cover has come off but I have been baking my Christmas cookies with it since 1968.
We made peanut butter cookies with kisses! It was a simple recipe my mom and I would make together.
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. ❤
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.
The Cream Wafers are one of my favorites from Betty!
SO good! 😋
Yay! Cookies!
Your mixing bowls are so nostalgic. A wonderful core childhood memory of mine was baking Christmas cookies on an early release school day in December with my Mom and brothers. My Mom would have the dough ready by the time we got home and she’d play Christmas music on the record player. I miss my Mom who has passed but I’m so grateful for this happy memory. 🎄🔔🎄
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.
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.
For years, the youth group I mentored raised funds by baking Christmas cookies. Any given year ten thousand cookies or more were baked and treated for the fundraiser. Love this video. Never cutting in half. Always doubling or tripling recipes. Colored cinnamon sugar snickerdoodles for certain!
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.
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!
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.
You have motivated me to get my Cooky Book out and think about cookie baking.
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.
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 love your laugh when you checked out the lemon cookies 😂. They look great!
Thank you! 😊
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.
Sitting pretties are my favorite. Cookie rolled in nuts topped with icing and on top of that a single M&M
I remember this cook book from my childhood, going to see if any of my older sisters still have it, thanks for the memories.
I love your festive fridge decorations!
Thank you!! 😊
LOVE THE TINKLY 🎶 TONES leading into this episode!
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!
I have some lemon curd I made for a cheesecake in the freezer I’m making those cookies! Thank you! They all look delicious
These 3 cookies looked incredible!! I definitely want to make the lemon balls.
I think my mom has that Cooky book too. I love Snickerdoodles. That's the only time I've ever used Cream of Tartar.
I bought that book when I first saw you do a video on this book. Love this book
My mom used to make two flavors of icebox cookies: spice and chocolate. I've never had anything as good since.
I enjoy your videos so much and how excited you get whenever you make cookies from the Cooky Book.❤
I get so excited about those recipes too! 😊
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.
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 peanut butter blossoms are my favorite cookie! I do also love a white chocolate cranberry cookie; I use the recipe from Sally's Baking Addiction blog.