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Happy Monday! I don’t know about you, but I’ve already got a list a mile long of new ideas and old favorites for my holiday baking…and I expect it will only be more difficult to narrow this list down as November wanes on and holiday recipes explode all over the Interwebs. Now truthfully, I may not be able to help you narrow down your list but how about a little help with the ever-expanding expense of holiday baking?
King Arthur Flour has long been one of my favorite resources for baking supplies and every time I’ve stepped foot in the Baker’s Store in Norwich, VT, I’ve been transported to a baker’s heaven. So….to kick-off my “Favorite Things Holiday Giveaway” series that you may or may not have seen on Facebook, I feel like you need to know about the greatness that is KAF via a few of my favorite King Arthur products, especially if you give away food gifts at the holidays and a few possibly unknown facts…
- Did you know that the KAF website supports a 2000+ recipe collection with recipes that are tested in their own test-kitchens. I’ve made and blogged a few of these recipes…and have a ton more on my t0-make list…and you will too so go there now. 🙂
- Ever need a baking question answered while you’re in the middle of making a recipe with no one around to ask it to? Well, how about using KAF’s free Baking Hotline?
- Have you been trying to bake gluten-free? I’m definitely no expert in this field, but I’ve heard awesome things from gluten-free bakers about KAF’s gluten-free line of flours, mixes, and recipes!
- For more information, recipes, and sales/promotions, be sure to sign up for KAF’s emails (I get these emails and I promise they don’t bombard you with emails!) or follow them on Facebook and/or Twitter.
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So…here’s what you can win in this giveaway:
(1) Set of Holiday Gift Tags and Ribbons (no more rooting around for pretty food-related gift tags!)
(1) 24oz bag of Baker’s Cinnamon Filling (for cinnamon buns or cinnamon swirl bread)
(1) 16oz bag of Malted Milk Powder (just ’cause you’ll love it as much as I do)
(1) 5lb bag of the famous King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour, AND…
(1) $50 Gift Card (oh yeah baby!!) — This is an e-card so you won’t have to wait for it to be shipped!
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To enter this giveaway here are The Rules:
- Answer this question in the comment section of this post (and only this post): What is your favorite holiday cookie?
- Only one entry per person will be accepted and you MUST include a valid email address with your comment.
- If you don’t see your comment post right away, please don’t post another comment. The delay happens because I moderate all comments.
- You have until Thursday November 17, 2011 at 11:59pm Eastern to enter this giveaway.
- One winner will be chosen by that handy-dandy random number generator we’re all familiar with.
- The winner will notified on Friday November 18, 2011. If you do not respond to my email within 48 hours, another winner will be chosen (also at random).
- Giveaway is open to entries with U.S. addresses only.
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Disclosure: King Arthur Flour is helping to sponsor this giveaway by graciously donating the 5lb bag of flour and the shipping costs associated with sending the flour. All of the other products and the gift card are given by yours truly.
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Hi, Tara!
I love your blog and recipies!
My favourite holiday cookie is ALWAYS almond shortbread cookie… yum!
I really love sugar cookies because I love to decorate them. My mother-in-law makes really tasty sugar cookies!
OOh! I love peanut butter blossoms!
My favorite holiday cookies are Italian Rainbow Cookies! I make them every year and they bring me right back to my childhood!
Hello Dollies are my favorite. I know they technically aren’t cookies, but my mom makes them every year for Christmas and they are always the first ones to leave the cookie tray!
I love the hocolate bar cookies my mom.mKes! So good!!
My favorite Christmas cookie is a chocolate cookie with Andes peppermint chips glazed with a thin layer of ganache.
My favorite holiday cookies are gingerbread cookies!! Yum! What a fantastic giveaway!
my favorite holiday cookies is the cheap shortbread ones that have the red and green sprinkles. i know i know i’m cheap and easy to please apparently lol
My favorite Christmas cookies are Chocolate Krinkles. A warm chocolate cookie coated in powdered sugar. Yummy.
M&M cookies, using the recipe on the bag
I love rainbow cookies! This giveaway is amazing!!
I like gingersnaps, but my favorite holiday treat is actually fruitcake. I know; I think I am the only one.
My favorite cookie is a chocolate cookie packed with peanut butter chips.
My favorite cookie (and holiday cookie) is chocolate chip-the chewy kind!!! I also don’t mind shortbread cookies around this time of year.
Jubilee Jumbles, but to be real honest, I haven’t met too many cookies that weren’t my favorites!
My favorite cookie is a simple sugar cookie with frosting. The recipes, though, are from my grandma. We always have a cookie-bake day every year with family and make over 500 cookies to be sent home with the participating members (and also donate some to nursing homes). My grandma also freezes some and pulls them out for the 4th of July. There is nothing that beats the memories of making this particular cookie and frosting! I hope I win!
Gingerbread cookies!
My grandmother’s gingersnaps….I mean to get the recipe every year!
My favorite holiday cookie is Cranberry, Orange and Pistachio Biscotti.
Awesome Giveaway Tara!
My favorite holiday cookie is a frosted sugar cookie!
My favorite are monster cookies – yum! Would love to win this!!
Decorated sugar cookies, YUM!!
My favorite holiday cookie is a drop ginger molasses cookie. Mmm.
Lime ice box cookies are so fresh tasting!
My favorite Christmas cookie is Pecan balls. Such melt in your mouth goodness. Nice giveaway by the way.
I always go for any kind of shortbread cookie first.
I love soft frosted sugar cookies! Classic Christmas to me.
My favorite cookies are chocolate almond butter cookies. I only make them at Christmas time and my whole family loves them. The combination of chocolate and almond is amazing!
My favorite cookie I make for Christmas are gingernaps dipped in white chocolate. They make a HUGE batch and everyone loves them.
My favorite Christmas cookie has always been a pistachio pudding cookie that my Mom has made for years and years. After looking around online for the recipe, I just realized that King Arthur Flour has a very similar one! I’ll have to try it this year!!
The holidays bring memories of my childhood, when I would spend time making my teachers their Christmas gifts of Russian Tea Cookies. It took alot of effort as a child but I would be so proud with the end result!
I love sugar cookies. I love cut outs and love decorate them.
Peanut butter blossoms are my favorite Christmas cookie!
monster cookies!
My family used to make my great-great aunt’s gingerbread men recipe every year…I’m not even that crazy about the cookies themselves (I prefer ones with chocolate), but the whole process involved in making them still means they’re my favorite.
My favorite holiday cookie is my Aunts oatmeal cookies!!
Mmmmm, my favorite holiday cookies are these cranberry orange white chocolate cookies my Mom always makes, I finally got the recipe from her last year and I am VERY excited to make them soon. Love KAF and your blog, thanks for the chance to enter!!
My favorite holiday cookies are Oatmeal-Craisins with White Chocolate Drizzle.
Spritz are my favorite holiday cookies! I love making them and I love eating them:)
I love sugar cookies! They are so much fun to decorate with family and everyone is always so impressed with the results!
I love all cookies, especially chocolate chips!
First off, I miss you! Second of all HOW CAN I CHOOSE?
Well, Peppermint Pinwheels or Pecan Tassies, I really cannot choose!
I love gingerbread cookies. Not so much because I love eating them, but because of how happy they make my children (27-9). That’s what baking’s all about for me, the joy it brings those I love.
My all time favorite is Walnut Snowballs!! They’re super easy to make, taste FANTASTIC and ALWAYS the first to disappear from the cookie tray!
I love peanut butter blossoms!
My favorite cookie is the “Molasses Crinkle” it’s like a gingersnap, but it has molasses and has a bit of chew in the middle. Can’t wait!
I love thumbprint cookies that I roll in chopped pecans and fill with red plum jam. Yum. *mouth watering*
My favorite holiday cookie is still a warm chocolate chip cookie, fresh from the oven and with a big glass of cold milk.
I love shortbread. This is always a family favorite during the holidays.
My favorite holiday cookies are Ginger Crinkle Cookies!
I love to make cut-out cookies! I spend hours on decorating them and plating them, I love giving them away- they are a tasty and beautiful treat!
My favorite Christmas cookie is the Magic 7 layer bar. Love love love love them!
oh yum!!! My husband is a total cinnamon freak. Snickerdoodles, gingerbread men, cinnamon rolls and the list goes on.
My favorite cookies are pecan tassies. My Mom has always loved them and we bake them every Christmas. Thanks for the giveaway. Have a great day!
My favorite holiday cookies are magic bar cookies! They are always Santa’s favorite treat!
My favorite cookie at Christmas time is the Peanut Blossom. We only make them during the holidays so I look forward to them every year.
It’s a toss up between spritz and thumbprint cookies. They both have loads of butter, haha! Thank you for making your giveaway simple. Not the like this and follow that kind;)
I love chocolate chip cookies…can’t go wrong with an original:-)
thanks for hosting an awesome giveaway. King Arthur has been getting a lot of my paycheck these past few months!
Every Christmas , my mother would take our tangerines and put zest in the sugar cookie mix and some juice in the glaze. Tangerines were only available at Christmas time then and we didn’t call it zest , we called it Tangerine Rind Cookies. I can still remember the smell. Heavenly!!
I don’t think it’s a traditional holiday cookie, but I love homemade oatmeal raisin cookies. When I first started getting into baking and cooking these are the cookies I made as gifts for people at Christmas….straight from the Quaker Oats box!
My favorite Christmas cookies are pizzelles. I am reminded of my mom who passed away 11 years ago adn the love she put into making those for us every year.
My favorite cookie is spritz cookies, even though sometimes i struggle with my cookie press!
Hands down, my favorite is peanut butter blossoms. Which is kind of funny because nothing about them screams CHRISTMAS at all… but I never seem to make them any other time of year.
Hard gingerbread, all the way.
My favorite holiday cookie is chocolate chip–but with a twist, they should be dipped in dark chocolate.
I love my mom’s pumpkin spice cookies.
My favorite is a jam thumbprint with toast almonds on it. Yum!
Hi Tara, this is my first food blog post! I’m hooked on food blogs and yours is delicious!
My favorite cookie any time of year is chocolate chip, it’s a classic that never fails to hit the spot, and so around thanksgiving I like to add a little holiday cheer to them by making pumpkin chocolate chip cookies…num num.
Sugar cookies remind me of the holidays. And I love my mom’s secret recipe 🙂
My favorite holiday cookie are jam thumbprint cookies. I just love them!
Natchez cookies! Caramel, chocolate, graham cracker and pecans…oh yea!
Melting Moments are my favorite at the holidays – reminds me of my childhood 🙂 Great giveaway!
King Arthur Flour is the only one I’ll use! My favorite holiday cookies are lace cookies (especially the ones with drizzled chocolate!). I don’t know why I don’t make them outside of Christmas but they are so delicate and tasty!
snickerdoodles!
Hi – At 71 years young my favorite holiday cookie are Molasses Crinkles! A sweet childhood memory. I still make them. These days, many of the younger folks have not been exposed to them. Our church has a fund raiser cookie walk and when I make these cookies they disappear once they try them. Molasses Cookie Crinkles are a blast from the Christmases past. This inexpensive cookie could easily be made during World War II when the economy went down and baking supplies were short. I too am a King Arthur flour fan! Never thought about checking out their web site. Nice blog!
My favorite is definitely peanut butter balls. Yum! I’m a huge KA fan too and can’t do without their white whole wheat flour. Great giveaway!
frosted sugar cookies!
“Snowballs” that my mom makes! (Also known as pecan balls I think… or powdered sugar covered amazingness and I like to call them 🙂
My favorite holiday cookie is a plain sugar cookie. Lots of great memories making these with my kiddos.
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Gingerbread cookies for sure. My mom’s recipe is my favorite – more spice than sweet.
The holidays are the best!!! Great food, including my favorite cookies which are eggnog cookies!!! They sound a little funny but sure are good!
My favorite holiday cookie are the simple, and yet always delicious peanut butter blossom! I can never get enough of the peanut butter, Hershey kiss combo!
My favorite is just a basic sugar cookie with royal icing!
I make the best ginger spice cookies…….not crispy like a gingersnap but chewy with crispy edges, ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Sooooo good!!
Without a doubt, my favortie cookie (which my grandmother generally makes around the holidays) is the snickerdoodle. 🙂
Gotta love King Arthur! My favorite cookie for the holidays is shortbread made with really good Humbolt County butter. Yeah, I love all the chocolate and spice and peppermint stuff, too, but the shortbread is just so …forbiddenly decadent.
A decorated sugar cookie!
One of my friends makes a killer molasses cookie that’s magically chewy all over with a slight crunch at the edges. It never lives longer then an hour or two once it comes out of the oven and we literally fight over who gets the next one. Great giveaway, I LOVE KAF 😀
My favorite cookie is sugar cookies!
My favorite holiday cookie is probably a gingerbread cookie. With frosting 🙂
I woud have to say that my favorite cookie to make is sugar cookies (cut outs). My mom tought me to make these when I was younger. Every year for christmas she and I made these together. She passed away when I was 15 y/o and I have been making ever since. Now me, my brother and his children get together every year making the cookies using my moms tool. Even though she is gone her traditions will live on in her grandkids. Thank you mom. we love and miss you.
My mom’s snickerdoodles are the best, and they go great with hot cocoa. What an awesome giveaway!
Chocolate Chip cookies…a classic!
My favorite holiday cookie is peanut butter blossoms. Great giveaway!
i just discovered your blog and i can’t wait to go through all your recipes 🙂 as for christmas cookies, man, i do no discriminate i love them all, BUT there’s just something that screams “christmas” when you eat a spicy, soft molasses gingerbread cookie as big as your face.
Spritz!
Sugar cookies! I find them to be an essential part of my holiday celebrations!
My favorite holiday cookies are soft ginger-molasses cookies. I saw the recipe on King Arthur’s blog a couple of years ago and have been making them ever since. They are wonderful!
My fave would have to be the fun and yummy gingerbread men that my kids and I have fun decorating!
Gingerbread cookies! It just screams “Christmas” to me!
I love whoopie pies! Last year we had mint chocolate ones and they were great!
I love making white chocolate cranberry pistachio biscotti. It’s a great flavor combination that also sort of ends up being Christmas colors. 🙂
I LOVE snickerdoodles. Ever since I was a kid, my mom would bake them for Christmas. Now she does it for the grandkids. Makes the house smell awesome!! 🙂
Nothing says Christmas like the traditional iced sugar cookies.
They are so fun to make with the entire family!
a simple sugar cookie!
I do love a good old-fashioned peanut blossom. Also, pistachio cranberry biscotti!
I love chocolate chip cookies.
I’m a big fan of ginger molasses cookies (I love anything with ginger in it)!
Peanut Butter Blossoms. Yum!
I love sugar cookies or thumb print cookies. My grandma makes thumb prints every year.
My childhood friend’s mom makes the BEST frosted sugar cookies. They are to die for, and try as I might I just can’t replicate them!
Every year when I was a kid, my grandma always had that blue tin of Danish butter cookies. My grandma died years ago and every time I see that tin, I have to get them because they remind me of her. I haven’t tried to make butter cookies, but I think I might this year.
I gotta go with the classic iced sugar cookie.
I have to say my favorite cookie has to be America’s Test Kitchens Chocolate chip cookie. Thanks to Annie’s Eats I would still be trying to find the perfect chocolate chip cookie.
have to go with cookie dough balls.
My Grandmother’s butter cookies or my Mom’s cherry cookies dipped in chocolate. Hard to say which is my favorite. My Grandmothers are the most missed since she passed away and I don’t do well with making rolled cookies.
I love the peanut butter cookies with the chocolate kiss inside! I have to stop myself from eating the whole batch!
my grandma’s nutmeg logs
My MIL and I make “the worlds best cookie”, which is similar to a pecan sandy, and they are amazing!
My favorite holiday cookie is oatmeal raisin with white frosting on top. As a kid I would wait all year to get those fresh baked iced oatmeal raisin cookies.
I love gingersnaps!
Soft, under baked gingersnaps!!!!
Oatmeal Craisin White Chocolate Chip Cookie
I LOVE Peanut Blossoms
I love the peanut butter cookies with the hershey’s kiss in the middle — my mom still makes them for me every year!
Pumpkin chocolate chip cookies!
My favorite holiday cookie? That’s impossible to pick, but I really enjoy the chocolate cookies with the melted mint wafers on top.
My favorite holiday cookies are O’Henry’s. They are actually bars: the bottom layer is corn flakes, peanut butter, and kayro. The top is melted hershey bars.
My mom’s pecan crispies – quite simply the best cookie in the universe.
Sand Dobbs. Does anyone else call them that? They’re pecan shortbread balls rolled in powdered sugar. I make them for Christmas sometimes and call them “Snowballs” instead!
Last year, I made Raspberry Walnut Shortbread for a 12-person cookie exchange. The feedback afterwards was that they were the best of all.
Sugar cookies — my Grandma Jeanne’s recipe. They are the best sugar cookies I’ve ever had! 🙂
chocolate and vanilla checkerboard cookies
I love this time of year and all of the goodies that go along with it! If I had to choose it would be between gingersnaps (fresh from the oven) or peanut butter balls!
my absolute favorite christmas cookies are buckeye balls. mmm. peanut butter + chocolate = delicious.
Frosted sugar cookies. 🙂
White chocolate macadamia nut !!!!
gingersnaps for sure!
I would have to say sugar cookies are my favorite during the holidays. Probably because of the memories that are associated with making them during the holidays. And, thanks for offering this giveaway!
Gingerbread cookies! I don’t know what I like more–the taste, or the memories of decorating our own gingerbread man/woman to look like us!
Molasses cookies….mmm…divine.
There is just one “Christmas cookie” in our house and it’s the one I grew up with: my mother’s hand-rolled Spritz cookies. Whenever I smell butter, vanilla and almond, it’s Christmas.
Nutella Stuffed Peanut Butter Cookies are to die for!
Ever since I was little, the Christmas “cookie” of choice at our house has been a dark chocolate pistachio bitcotti – yum!
I love love love peanut butter blossoms!
I love gingerbread cookies – for both the taste and smell during baking!
My favorite holiday cookie is a frosted sugar cookie. Thanks for the chance to win 🙂
Ever since meeting my husband’s paternal grandmother, Date Pinwheels have been my Christmas cookie favorite! After she passed, I carried on the tradition whenever there was a gathering. I dare NOT bake these goodies and have no where to take them! I’m helpless against them!
My favorite would probably be a Mexican Wedding Cake cookie. Although, traditional sugar cookies are a close second.
Thats a hard one! I’d have to say my grandmothers spritz cookies! They are always amazing and i have never tasted another spritz that tastes like it!
Williams-Sonoma Spiced Molasses
Soft, Warm, Sugar Cookies
There are so many wonderful Christmas cookies and a time to indulge using all my favorite ingredients. But my favorite cookie is the one that provides me with so many memories to savor of the years, because decorating them becomes a family event. The sugar cookie will always be the family’s favorite with each family members decoration creations.
Thank you for the opportunity to share and be a part of this awesome contest
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My favorite cookies year round are M&M, so I love using green and red for holiday baking 🙂 I have a huge list of cookies I can’t wait to try baking up this year. Thanks for the KAF information and for hosting the giveaway!
Gingerbread-I make them every year! It wouldn’t be the holidays without them!
My favorite holiday cookie is probably just plain short bread rolled out and cut into holiday shapes and then topped with red and green sprinkles. that being said, I found a recipe for peppermint chocolate marshmallow cookies recently that looks amazing. So, that might be the new winner this year. 🙂
my favorite holiday cookie would be Russian tea cakes. I received the recipe from my sister in law in the 1950’s
My best friend and her mother always make holiday treats as Christmas gifts. My favorite goodie has always been Martha Washingtons (coconut pecans balls covered in chocolate). Yummy!
My favorite cookie at the holidays are seven layer cookies. They are the first batch I make for myself, so I can enjoy them early. I also know my mom will have them for Chritmas Day at her house.
My favorite holiday cookie is definitely gingerbread! Nothing says its holiday time like fresh gingerbread!!
My favorite cookie of all time — holiday or not — are oatmeal raisin.
At this time of year, I love gingersnaps or gingerbread. That smell makes me want to snuggle up near a fire, eat cookies and hot chocolate.
It’s not Christmas time without Gingerbread and sugar cookies! Yum!
My favorite holiday cookie is not a true holiday cookie but we always made them around Christmas. They are the peanut butter kiss cookies. My sister now brings them to our good friend’s holiday cookie exchange every year.
I love chocolate crinkles! We make several types of cookies to share with friends and neighbors every year, but those are the ones I look forward to most.
My favorite holiday cookie is a simple sugar cookie with butter cream frosting. My mom and I used to make dozens and decorate them together when I was little. Thanks for the chance at such a great giveaway!
Oatmeal raisin 🙂
I’m going to have to say Pfeffernüsse!! My mom makes a big tin of them and they longer they sit, the better they taste. YUM!!
I’m going to have to say my Mom’s shortbread cookies. Yum yum yum!!!
My favorite holiday cookie is either chocolate chip pretzel cookies or thumbprints with raspberry jam.
Candy Cane Cookies! King Arthur rocks btw… I use their recipes all the time and I drool everytime the catalog arrives in the mail. *sigh*
I love frosted sugar cookies! The process is just as much fun as the eating 🙂
My favorite holiday cookies are almond crescent cookies (notice I keep it plural – can’t eat just one!)
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I love cutouts with almond icing. Mmmmmmmmm I could eat my weight in them! Awesome giveaway!
I don’t know that these are strictly a “holiday” cookie, but I loooove pizzelles. I can’t have just one, I eat the whole bunch:).
These tiny little buttery sugar cookies my mom makes that are filled with red and green icing. They are even better out of the freezer.
Cookie gun cookies! I could eat all of them.
Definitely red velvet chocolate chip cookies!! So yummy!!
Chewy chocolate cookies with dried cherries – yum! I don’t know what makes them holidayish really, but they were in a Holiday Cookie issue of a magazine years ago so now I just associate them with Christmas!
I’m hooked on Chocolate Gooey Butter Cookies after making them a few years ago! So rich and decadent, and they come together so quickly.
I love Spritz cookies. so buttery so yummy!
Frosted sugar cookies are my fave 😉
My favorite Christmas cookies are Italian Venetians or Rainbow cookies. Love almond paste!
I love making cookies for holidays!!!! I especially love Butter Rum Triangle Cookies! Oh so good. They have become a major hit among my family. A very close second is Oatmeal Toffee Cookies.
Oreo fudge cookie balls. Yum!!
Shortbread snowballs, also known as Mexican Wedding Cookies!
Orange walnut biscotti. I only make it for the holidays. It has become one of our favorites. Thanks for hosting this fabulous giveaway!
My favorite are cut out sugar cookies with buttercream icing and sprinkles!
Mexican Wedding cakes, or Russian tea cakes yum , I make mine with pecans,
Dad grows has 12 trees, so i always have plenty, they are simple to make
and so good. I also make some with lemon zest, for those with nut allergies.
I love to roll and decorate Christmas sugar cookies. They have been a tradition in our famiy for many years.
Jewel cookies – pecan thumbprints with raspberry jam. It wouldn’t be Christmas without them!
My favorite is the old old old family recipe called Norwegian cookies that my Grandmother makes every year. They are so delicious!
Last year I found my all new favorite. It is caramel and chocolate drizzled over a pecan cookie. MMMMMMM
Holiday Nuggets or Chocolate Crinkles, depending on my mood.
Mexican Wedding Cookies! I have such awesome memories of baking these with my grandma when I was a little girl.
My mother in laws sugar cookie. It is wonderful!
Magic peanut butter middles!! What’s not to love about a chocolate cookie with peanut butter filling?! We decorate them with little Christmas trees to make them festive. I can’t wait to make them this year!
Oatmeal with dried cranberries and white chocolate chunks
It’s hard to choose, but I’d have to say thumbprint cookies filled with a little red or green icing.
Warm, soft sour cream cookies with icing. Made by my grandmother, of course!
My grandmother’s tea cookies!
Peanut butter kisses, hands down!
My favorite holiday cookie are peanut butter blossoms.
Date pinwheel cookies, Yumminess.
Peanut butter blossoms, without a doubt!
This is tough, but it is always difficult for me to pass up the Russian tea cakes when they are on a cookie tray.
white macadamia nut cookies. Yum.
Oatmeal with chocolate chips. Yum.
I love snickerdoodles! Something about that warm cinnamon smell always reminds me of winter!
Hmm, this is a difficult question! I think I would have to go with molasses or gingersnap cookies =]
My favorite is sugar cookies with buttercream frosting…out of the freezer. They are so time intensive I only get them during the holidays!!
So hard to pick my favorite! How about top 5 favorites!!?? I guess to pick the ultimate favorite, it would be Spritz Cookies in all their buttery goodness!
Such a terribly hard question … I’ve got to say it’s a tie between butter crescents and molasses crackles!
Last year, at a cookie exchange, a friend brought these lemon cookies. I know lemon doesn’t sound very holiday-ish, but they were SUCH a lovely change from the heavier cookies of Christmas.
Pfeffernusse!! Years and years ago I found a great recipe for them, and promptly lost it. I’ve made them almost every year since trying to get close to the original which was the most perfect spice cookie dipped in a honey glaze that dries to a shiny coating. They are even better months later.
my favorite holiday cookie? tough, but probably hershey kiss cookies. only get them once a year 🙂
Chewy Chocolate Ginger Cookies from joythebaker. yum
That would definitely be the sugar cookie. I have fond memories making these with my mom when I was a child! My brother and I would always pick a christmas tree or angel since we could only have one and they were bigger than the stars and ornaments! Now we can eat as many as we want!
By they way, what a fabulous giveaway! I love all things King Arthur.
I love basic sugar cookies prettied up with some delicious frosting.
When I was a kid, my favorite holiday cookie was the sugar cookies made by “the girls”, my grandfather’s 3 widowed sisters who lived together and every year churned out huge tins full of these amazing, thin, crispy, perfect cookies, which no one has matched in the 20 years since they all passed on.
Now, my favorite holiday cookie is the Mexican Hot Chocolate cookies my husband and I invented together. (Yeah, I know there are recipes out there for this, but we hadn’t seen any of them yet when we came up with it.)
I love decorating gingerbread cookies with my family 🙂
Butter and jam thumbprints
Awesome giveaway! My favorite holiday cookie is definitely my mom’s cut-out sugar cookies!
Brown sugar cookies with a little pumpkin pie spice in the mix 🙂
Peanut butter blossoms. 🙂
I love butter cookies! My mom has a press handed down from her grandmother and we make them every year.
My favorites are probably the sweet roll cookies I’ve made with my dad since I was a kid. We still make them every year.
Mine is a Mint Double Chocolate Chip. Yummy
My grandfather was Norwegian so we always had Krumcake and Guro.
My favorite holiday cookie is a cranberry-lemon sandwich cookie. Thanks!
Great giveaway! Christmas is my favorite time to bake. I love gingersnaps, linzers and chocolate chip candy cane cookies.
My favorite Christmas cookies are Apricot Ambrosia Bars. I can’t get enough of them. They are delicious!! I miss my grandmother’s entire dining room table covered in bowls of amazing Christmas cookies.
My favorite holiday cookies are ladyfingers!
Peanut Butter Kisses (ok.. and those slice and bake sugar cookies with the holiday designs in them!)
My grandmother’s cut-out sugar cookies. They are simple, but are addictive and my absolute favorite cookie. She made them for me every Christmas when she could and now I carry on the tradition. They are like my form of crack and have seen a room full of people devour them in literally minutes. They are that good.
i always enjoy fruitcake around the holidays, but i do love my grandmas peanutbutter balls!
i love M&M cookies
Gingerbread men of course!
My favorite holiday cookie is mint chocolate chip. There’s something about that combination of mint and chocolate that just screams Christmas to me.
I really like no bake cookies the way my wife makes them.
My grandmother’s 100+ year-old recipe for old-fashioned sugar cookies, made with buttermilk, “a knob of butter”, and nutmeg, is my must-make recipe every year at Christmas. 🙂
We make lots of Christmas cookies, but our favorite is called “Mint Dreams.” Mini chocolate chips, powdered sugar, and mint frosting make these the first to disappear every year! And they’re pretty!
Rugelach. sans the raisins though! Just cinnamon sugar and nuts for the filling. YUM.
Gingersnaps are the best
Spritz butter cookies. My mom makes them almost everyday during the Holiday because they never last long!!
My favorite holiday cookie has got to be Thumbprints with homemade almond buttercream. SO good. Thanks!
my favorite holiday cookie is the simple “Pecan Sandies” – aka Mexican Wedding Cookies and a host of other names – flour, butter, sugar, water, vanilla extract, and chopped pecans – rolled into “fingers” or balls and dredged in powdered sugar after baking
That is tough! If I had to pick just one, I think it would the classic sugar cookies. I can’t wait for holiday baking!
Pinwheels! It’s a vanilla cookie batter rolled flat with chocolate spread on it — you roll it up and slice the cookies and bake. So yum — these never last long!
Gingerbread cookies are the best for the holidays!
It has to be the Hershey Kiss Peanut Blossoms, always reminds me of the holidays!
I like minty chocolate cookies.
Swedish wedding cookies!!! Soo yummy plus they look so cute and fitting on any holiday spread.
My favorite holiday cookies are: Swedish Tea Cakes.
They remind me of my mother-in-law, who went all out baking cookies for Christmas. It was all right if you took the last one, because there was always an enormous tin of them. She wanted to make sure that everyone got as many as they wanted in her family of six children, plus grandchildren, plus in-laws. She was a very generous woman, in many ways beyond baking, all the rest of the year as well.
NOTHING BETTER THAN A GOOD FROSTED SUGAR COOKIE!
Peppermint biscotti are the best. I make them every year for all our co-workers. I’ve been told they change people’s lives!
I love Russian Tea Cakes (cookies) thanks for the giveaway Happy Thanksgiving
Pecan nut tassies
So hard to pick just one! Because of my memories/associations, I’d have to say the 7-layer bars with coconut & chocolate chips. Yum!
Plain old sugar cookies
My favorite Christmas cookies are pecan snowballs!
Gingerbread cookies are my favorite for flavor, yet a Christmas without anise cookies is sad indeed.
Ohhh! I have so many favorites but with a cup of tea, I dream of raspberry shortbread thumbprints.
Cookies are my 2nd favorite dessert (after ice cream cake!) but by far my favorite are snickerdoodles!
Tough qestion: snickerdoodle
My favorite Christmas cookie is my husband’s g’mother’s molasses cookie. They are so Christmasy to me.
Gingerbread always, soft and chewy and spicy
my holiday cookie choice includes toffee and lots of butter! 🙂 Toffee Crackle Cookies
I made chocolate gingersnap cookies last year. Those were pretty yummy!
I love making chocolate cookies with mint candies. They’re festive and tasty.
My favorite cooking has to be butter balls with walnuts!
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My all-time favorite cookie ever since I was a little girl is Chocolate Crinkles. The best cookie ever!!
My great grandmother’s molasses cookies!
I’m not sure what kind of cookie it is, but my mom calls them Moldy Mice… my favorite!
I love to make no-bake preacher cookies (oatmeal chocolate peanut butter). They melt in your mouth and remind me of college.
I love love sugar cookies with a light sugar glaze.
I love Russian tea cookies/snowballs at Christmas!
Spritz cookies are my all time favorite! And I could easily eat the entire batch when I make them…
My favorite holiday cookie is gingerbread cookie. Sooo warm and delicious! 🙂
Peanut Blossoms! I make them every year 🙂
Raspberry almond thumbrints, so good!
My mother-in-law makes these fantastic frosted cookies we call “bridges” since that’s what they look like. They’re the only ones my husband and I fight over!
I love sugar cookies around the holidays! I love making them into Christmas shapes. yummy
My favorite holiday cookie is snickerdoodle! 🙂
Hmm … tough question. I think I’d have to say chocolate dipped shortbreads!
I’m going to have to go with my grandmother’s tea cakes! Not too sweet and perfectly buttery!
I love traditional sugar cookies with frosting.
My favorite holiday cookie is definitely the Snickerdoodle. It just calls out holiday to me! A close second would be gingerbread men. My grandpa and I used to make them every Christmas with cinnamon candy for decoration.
My favorite are the 3-color (also called rainbow or 7-layer) cookies that I make every year. They’re a family tradition, and I don’t think I’d make it through the holidays without them!
It’s a really toss up between gingersnaps and spumoni cookies 🙂
It’s a toss between the three layer ribbon cookie or chocolate chip.
My favorite holiday cookies are almond cookies with caramel dipping sauce!
I’d have to go with still warm pumpkin snickerdoodles!
My favorite holiday cookies are Gooey Butter Cookies. Can’t wait to make a batch!
Buck-eyes
Ina Garten’s fruitcake cookies!
My favorite holiday cookies are sugar cookies!
My moms frosted sugar cookies. We only make them at Christmas time and they are sooo good!
My nanny’s ginger snaps. Candied, fresh, and ground ginger with molasses alwas remind me of the holidays.
My recent favorite holiday cookie would be a coconut biscotti. It’s perfect either as dessert or an early morning treat (with a big mug of coffee) to get you started on all the Christmas cooking ahead.
My fave cookie is a star-shaped cookie from my childhood that my bff’s family always made. LOVED those cookies, aw they bring back memories. They had this amazing frosting and nuts sprinkled on top too. They were always so soft too. I need that recipe!
I love pumpkin chocolate chip cookies!
My favorite cookie is a thumbprint cookie and the indentation is filled with a cream cheese/coconut/pecan combination, then you drip a thin line of chocolate back and forth across the cookie. I’ve made it for about 15 years and still love it. I also like the same cookie but with thinned apricot jam in the middle and vanilla frosting drip across the cookie. I hope I win because I do love KAF!!
This is a tough one! I guess I’d say my great-grandmother’s chocolate gobs (or whoopie pies)! Absolutely LOVE them! 🙂
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A favorite holiday cookie is little raindeer faces: scoop a ball of cookie dough (your favorite one-color dough, like peanutbutter, vanilla, snickerdoodle, chocolate….) and add broken pretzels for the antlers, a red m&m for the nose, and two small cholocate chips for the eyes. They are cute and sculptural! OMG I just did an image search for these and there are so many cute variations!!!
Ginger molasses! I always associate ginger with the holidays.
Snickerdoodles they are my humbled fave
Jam filled cookies rock! Thumb prints and linzers are the best.
I am a HUGE fan of 7-Layer Cookie Bars that my mom makes. Butterscotch & white chocolate morsels, toasted coconut, graham crackers, etc. They are amazing, and I look forward to them all year long!
I recently found a recipe for hermit cookies and can’t wait to
make them. I love hermits!!
You can’t go wrong with a simple sugar cookie!
Holidays always mean sugar cookies to me. I made them with my grandparents who always had a big spread set up- egg washes, sugars of all colors, edible silver, red, green balls, sprinkles etc. And more cookie cutters than you could ever imagine… I always went straight for the cookie cutter lips because they were so silly. Now my mom has all the cookie cutters and it’s just not Christmas until we get to make some sugar cookies.
My favorite Christmas cookie isn’t a cookie at all! My family makes a ton of sweets around that time of year, but not many of them are cookies. I have however, always looked forward to what my family calls “peanut-butter candy” which is pretty much just peanut butter wrapped lovingly in a powdered sugary mixture into a little pinwheel. It is the best stuff ever!
Oh, this is easy as pie….gingerbread cookies are my favorite to bake, decorate and give over the holidays. Fragrant gingerbread also makes the house smell yummy! KAF has a great recipe for both the cookies and the icing.
My grandma’s molasses cookies!
great giveaway! My favorite cookies are generally either oatmeal scotchies or something of the double chocolate variety. My sister always makes a huge variety of new cookies every year, so it’s hard to pick a favorite! I definitely go for anything dipped in chocolate…
I think my favorite holiday cookie is a russian tea cake, but only because it is the ONE time a year I eat them! There is just something about the powdered sugar on the outside that gets me, love them!
I love molasses cookies!
I love the eggnog version of sugar cookies (which means there is nutmeg & cinnamon in the sugar cookie dough and then the icing is made with eggnog as the liquid instead of plain milk). In the past few years, my friends and I have very much enjoyed making these into Disgruntled Cookies (look here for examples of disgruntled cookies: http://wintersnowgypsy.blogspot.com/2009/12/disgruntled-holiday-cookies.html). Since I”m unsure whether your blog successfully collects email addresses and these prizes sound awesome, you can reach me at: winterrific (at) gmail (dot) com.
My favorite holiday cookie is anything chocolate and mint!
My favorite holiday cookie would have to be oatmeal butterscotch cookies!
My favorite holiday cookie has to be the sugar cookie. Simple and so good and so much fun to decorate with friends and family.
My favorite holiday cookie is sugar cookies. I love the time I spend with my children making them and I absolutely love King Arthur anything
Mmm, fluffy sugar cookies with a thin layer of frosting on top.
I love to make–and eat–butter cookies garnished with candied cherries!!
I love chewy chai-spiced sugar cookies during the holidays! They just taste like Christmas….which is why I bake them all year round 🙂
I loooooooove a good gingersnap on Christmas Eve! Yummm!
I honestly can’t remember the last time I baked a cookie (Gasp!) but I’ve been meaning to bake peanut butter ones. They are my favorite.
BTW, thanks for doing this giveaway! It’s so generous of you. I love KAF, too.
I love pumpkin choco chip cookies and any kind of peanut butter cookie!! I always used KAF too 🙂 Therefore, this giveaway ROCKS!
Favorite cookie!! Just one? Hungarian Butter Horn Cookies…yum!!
My favorite are snickerdoodles!!! But I’ve never turned down a cookie before no matter what kind!
Gotta be Sour Cream Cookies from my Grandma.
My favorite holiday cookie are my mom’s apricot horns. A sweet cream cheese dough stuffed with apricot preserves. Delicious!
My favorite holiday cookie is the dark chocolate-dipped shortbread logs. Something about the crunch of the shortbread and the richness of the chocolate.
Shortbread cookies from my mom. Tried to duplicate them for years… simply can’t do it!
Peppermint Candy Canes! They are sort of a pain to make, and I always end up dying my hands red for a week, but I love them so much! It is just not Christmas without them.
My favorite holiday cookie is the sugar cookie all decorated up.
My favorite cookie is the Momofuku Cornflake-chocolate-chip-marshmallow cookie. It is awesome. Thanks for the opportunity to win!
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A homemade gingerbread cookie is so perfectly Christmas, but my favorite cookie of the moment is the perfect chocolate chip recipe that was published by the New York Times. Excellent! I would eat the entire batch…
I love all jam-filled cookies. Especially raspberry jam!
My favorite holiday cookie is a sand tart. My mom makes them the best!
My favorite holiday is one my mom has made for years. It is called a chocolate crescent. It is chocolate melted with marshmellows and whipped cream the made into a crescent moon shape and rolled in crushed nilla wafers. I am excited to try new cookies this year though!!
My fav holiday cookie is Gingerbread – I love to decorate them, share them and eat them 🙂
My grandma’s SUGAR COOKIES!
I just love iced sugar cookies!
Chocolate peppermint cookies of any sort are my favorite. The flavor combination just tastes like Christmas to me:)
My favorite are springerly cookies! Light delicate and so intricately and beautifully decorated. 😀
Peanut butter kiss cookies… You can’t beat the peanut butter chocolate combination!
Gingersnaps – I always buy fresh spices at Penzeys before I make them. Yum!
a simple sugar cookie all dressed up and decked out for the holidays!
Mint chocolate crinkle cookies!
My favorite are pineapple iced cookies that my grandma makes!
Gotta love the classic red & green M&M cookies 🙂
Seven Layer Rainbow Cookies!!
At the holidays I love a classic decorated sugar cookie!
Gingerbread! I hoard gingerbread cookies at holiday time, because they just don’t seem right any other time of the year. 🙂
I’m sorry that I’m so boring but spritz is my favorite. ( The 5 lb of flour is what I’m interested in, if I’m allowed to say that.)
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My favorite holiday cookies are chocolate chip cookies with candy canes in them.
My favorite holiday cookie is shortbread! Mmm, buttery goodness. 🙂
My favorite holiday cookie is definitely cut-out sugar cookies. I love sugar cookies and don’t eat them often but it is so fun to make and decorate them. Yum!
My favorite holiday cookie are gingerbread cookies! It is so much fun to make them and decorate them with my little ones!
My favorite holiday cookie is candy cane biscotti! Love the creaminess of Andes peppermint chips with the crunch of the boscotti!!
I recently have fallen in love with coconut chocolate chip cookies. So delicious!
I love a good old fashioned sugar cookie. Oh and snickerdoodles too!
Chocolate with peanut butter chips. They’re not necessarily holiday cookies, but they’re the only cookies I like!
My favorite Christmas cookies are almond flavored cookies shaped like candy canes.
I don’t have a favorite cookie. All cookies are loved equally!
I love all cookies! Almond Crescents, 7-layer bars, Ginger cookies, Thumbprint cookies, Shortbread cookies and Potato Chip cookies are at the top of the holiday list.
My favorite is one my grandma makes every year (only at Christmas) and includes in my Christmas gift (my grandma is 88 this Christmas and still making these special cookies)…they’re originally a recipe from my great grandma. They’re filled with nuts and candied fruit (which I normally DO NOT LIKE, but for some reason LOVE in these cookies), and brandy.
I don’t share my Christmas stash with ANYONE! 🙂
Chocolate chip shortbread, it’s a simple way to keep my grandmothers traditions alive.
I love my mom’s Cathedral Cookies, delicious!
My Favorite Holiday Cookie — Chocolate Chip Meringues
Best cookie — ever! 🙂
The recipe is here: http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/chocolate-chip-meringues
My fave cookies are Polish kolocky cookies that my gram always made. 🙂
Well, I was stuck between snickerdoodle and gingerbread for a second, but gingerbread wins.
I’d have to say Spritz cookies. Love how simple yet fancy they are, not to mention yummy!
Frosted sugar cookies!! Yum!!
My favorite holiday cookie would have to be lemon butter cookies. I could eat them anytime of the year, but the holidays seem like a great time to double the recipe and share the yummy lemony goodness!
Favorite cookie to make? Royal icing decorated sugar cookies… Favorite cookie to eat? Peanut Blossoms.
Hmm…to eat would be chocolate with peanut butter chips. I know that’s not just a holiday cookie but my mom always made them at Christmas time.
To make would be Almond Bears – a rich almond dough that is firm enough to be shaped. We made them into bears and decorated with silver balls and made red bow ties. I used this recipe to win my first cooking contest…in middle school!
My favorite holiday cookies are spritz- I can’t wait to make them this year!
My mom’s orange and chocolate biscotti.
It is a toss-up but the one cookie I always look forward to is the frosted sugar cookie! Yummy!
Spritz cookies are my fav. I use the BHG recipe and I have this very old cookie press that I got with green stamps a long time ago. The handle broke off and I had it repaired by a local welder. It still works and I wouldnt give it up for anything.
My favorite holiday cookie is melamacarona. It’s a Greek cookie that my best friend’s mother made. I make these every Christmas.
I love the frosted/decorated butter cookies!
Have to go w/ the classic – Sugar cookies!
Decorated sugar cookies — the more decoration the better!
Raspberry Linzer Cookies!
snickerdoodles. they always remind me of my dear mother and father-in-law
The peanut butter cookie with the Hershey’s kiss on top. Can’t think of their name but I can totally eat an entire batch by myself (and I have!).
My favorite Christmas cookie is Wishing Cookies.
I guess I’m stuck in my childhood because you can’t beat a good chocolate chip cookie in my eyes 🙂
Decorated sugar cookies 🙂
Pignoli nut cookies…special treat too expensive to have on a regular basis 🙂
I love iced butter cookies!
My favorite cookies, although not particularly holiday-like, are chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin and peanut butter chocolate chip.
The classic decorated holiday themed sugar cookie is my favorite!! I love to make them and give them away ALMOST as much as I love to eat them myself.
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My favorite holiday cookie is my raspberry thumbprint cookie recipe that I make every year. It’s super easy, looks pretty, and the result is delicious. I can’t wait to start my holiday baking this year!
I actually love the basics- there are some chocolate chip cookies and peanut butter chocolate chip cookies that we get in my office every year for the holidays and I am obsessed with them!
Shortbread cookies!
krumkake – It’s a Norwegian waffle cookie!
Wow…one cookie! Cookies are my favorite dessert so to pick one is very hard but if I had to pick just one than I would have to pick good old fashioned chocolate chipe cookies – good in every season!
Checkerboards!!! yum~
Great giveaway! love King Arthur flour. My favorite holiday cookie is chocolate gingerbread from Martha Stewart. so good
Ginger cookies are my favorite…made with my great grandmother’s recipe!!!
Iced sugar cookie cutouts!!
I love sugar cookies, especially during the holidays!
Love extra-gingery gingerbread cookies!
Pumpkin Snickerdoodles are my all time holiday favorite.
I love rugelach for Hanukkah, and Martha’s chocolate ginger cookies for Christmas! And I would LOVE me some malted milk powder!
Sugar cookies with lots of icing!
I love peanut butter cookies!
I think they have to be the frosted sugar cookies or maybe my mom’s butterballs. Its’ a toss up!
Gingersnaps – the soft, chewy kind.
Pecan Dreams…the More powdered sugar the better!
Big fat, soft sugar cookies!!!
Spritz cookies, peanut butter cookies, I love baking cookies.
My favorite holiday cookie is the sugar cookie…all shapes and sizes decorated with meringue icing and dragees…some to eat and some for the tree…especially like the ones my grandsugars decorate. 🙂
Jam thumbprints, rolled in coconut.
Chocolate chocolate chip with dried cherries.
My favorite cookie hands down are lace cookies…dipped in chocolate, of course!
Peanut Butter Blossoms! Memories of my mom and I making these for Christmas when I was little and then putting them on the back porch in the snow to cool 🙂
cherry cookies with a chocolate kiss on top…delicious!