What cookie/candy do you make each year?

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Do you have a requested recipe for cookies or candy that you make each year? Would you be willing to share the recipe with us?

People request my Irish Fudge each year. I actually do not eat it, but it is always a hit and SUPER easy. :))

36 oz white chocolate chips, Ghirardelli brand
1 14 oz can sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup Irish cream liquor, more if you like
1/2 cup raw pistachios, chopped
Directions:

Line a square pan, I used an 8x8 square baking pan, with foil paper and lightly grease it.

In a sauce pan, at low heat, pour all of the ingredients except pistachios. Stir constantly until chocolate has almost melted.

Turn off heat and continue stirring until chocolate is completely melted. Add pistachios and pour evenly onto prepared pan. Let cool until set. Remove fudge from pan and take off the foil paper. Cut fudge into small squares.
 
Christmas is one of the few items that I actually take the time to make candies and bake. The most requested item I make is my homemade fudge. I don't take shortcuts on it - this is the original recipe from Hershey's Cocoa.
Ingredients:
  • 3 cups sugar
  • 2/3 cup Hershey's Cocoa Powder
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 1-1/2 cups whole milk
  • 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter (NOT margarine)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1. Line 8-or 9-inch square pan with foil, extending foil over edges of pan. Butter foil.

2. Mix sugar, cocoa and salt in heavy 4-quart saucepan; stir in milk. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture comes to full rolling boil. Boil, without stirring, until mixture reaches 234°F on candy thermometer or until small amount of mixture dropped into very cold water, forms a soft ball which flattens when removed from water. (Bulb of candy thermometer should not rest on bottom of saucepan.)

3. Remove from heat. Add butter and vanilla. DO NOT STIR. Cool at room temperature to 110°F (lukewarm). Beat with wooden spoon until fudge thickens and just begins to lose some of its gloss. Quickly spread in prepared pan; cool completely. Cut into squares. Store in tightly covered container at room temperature.

**Preparing this on a rainy day takes extra time and patience. If something happens and the fudge will not thicken, add two (maybe three) heaping tablespoons of peanut butter to the fudge and it will make a delicious chocolate/peanut butter fudge.
 
ShoeDiva said:
Do you have a requested recipe for cookies or candy that you make each year? Would you be willing to share the recipe with us?

People request my Irish Fudge each year. I actually do not eat it, but it is always a hit and SUPER easy. :))

36 oz white chocolate chips, Ghirardelli brand
1 14 oz can sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup Irish cream liquor, more if you like
1/2 cup raw pistachios, chopped
Directions:

Line a square pan, I used an 8x8 square baking pan, with foil paper and lightly grease it.

In a sauce pan, at low heat, pour all of the ingredients except pistachios. Stir constantly until chocolate has almost melted.

Turn off heat and continue stirring until chocolate is completely melted. Add pistachios and pour evenly onto prepared pan. Let cool until set. Remove fudge from pan and take off the foil paper. Cut fudge into small squares.
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This sounds like it would be a hit. Since it has pistachios in it, I may try to get the hubby to make some for the baskets for me.
 
Me - smoked salmon, smoked turkey, baked ham.

I know those don't fit the cake/cookie/candy category ... but you asked ... lol

We are going to make the Neiman Marcus cookies, Mrs. Mac will knock out her popular mint brownies and at least two more baked goodies.
 
MacDaddy said:
Me - smoked salmon, smoked turkey, baked ham.

I know those don't fit the cake/cookie/candy category ... but you asked ... lol

We are going to make the Neiman Marcus cookies, Mrs. Mac will knock out her popular mint brownies and at least two more baked goodies.
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I made the Neiman Marcus cookies one year and wasn't impressed, but it may have just been clouded by the bad memory of grating the chocolate bar by hand.
 
Our neighbors always look forward to my cookies and Hubby's famous peanut butter balls.

This year's cookies will be :


http://www.publix.com/recipes-planning/aprons-recipes/peppermint-melt-away-cookies?print=1

http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/butter_pecan_cookies/print/


And something with dark chocolate... I have not decided yet.



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LisaC said:
MacDaddy said:
We are going to make the Neiman Marcus cookies, Mrs. Mac will knock out her popular mint brownies and at least two more baked goodies.
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I made the Neiman Marcus cookies one year and wasn't impressed, but it may have just been clouded by the bad memory of grating the chocolate bar by hand.
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I've found it's important to pull them out of the oven a bit early, otherwise they become rock hard. Besides, I like 'em chewy!

I hear you on grating the chocolate. I have had some success with getting the food processor to help out.
 
Here's what I like to make at Christmas, and everyone always requests more. Always a big hit!

Hello Dolly Bars, also called 7 layer Bars

Ingredients:
4 tablespoons butter or 4 tablespoons margarine
1 cup graham cracker crumbs
1 cup coconut, grated
1 cup chocolate chips
1 cup nuts, chopped (I like to use chopped walnuts IF I use nuts at all)
1 cup butterscotch chips (optional)
1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk

Directions:
1- Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.
2- Melt the butter in an 11 x 7 inch baking pan, making sure the sides of the pan are coated. (Or you can simply line pan in parchment paper, instead, which is what I do)
3- Layer cracker crumbs, chocolate chips, chopped nuts, butterscotch chips, then coconut, in that order.
4- Pour sweetened condensed milk over everything.
5- Bake for 30 minutes or until light golden brown. (I watch mine starting at the 20-25 minute mark)
6- Loosen from the pan; cool and cut into squares.
 
I switch it up. I don't make the same thing every year. I'm considering making my friend's English Toffee this year. My kids love it. You've all inspired me to make some fudge.
 
Old-fashion Christmas cookies ... not very sweet so that when you add decorations they don't become too much
Molasses Spice cookies ... great grandmother's recipe
Yummy old-fashioned shortbread cookies
To die for meringue cookies
Peppermint white chocolate bark
 
honeybunny said:
Our neighbors always look forward to my cookies and Hubby's famous peanut butter balls.

This year's cookies will be :


http://www.publix.com/recipes-planning/aprons-recipes/peppermint-melt-away-cookies?print=1

http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/butter_pecan_cookies/print/


And something with dark chocolate... I have not decided yet.



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Those sound really good.
 
deewee said:
Here's what I like to make at Christmas, and everyone always requests more. Always a big hit!

Hello Dolly Bars, also called 7 layer Bars

Ingredients:
4 tablespoons butter or 4 tablespoons margarine
1 cup graham cracker crumbs
1 cup coconut, grated
1 cup chocolate chips
1 cup nuts, chopped (I like to use chopped walnuts IF I use nuts at all)
1 cup butterscotch chips (optional)
1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk

Directions:
1- Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.
2- Melt the butter in an 11 x 7 inch baking pan, making sure the sides of the pan are coated. (Or you can simply line pan in parchment paper, instead, which is what I do)
3- Layer cracker crumbs, chocolate chips, chopped nuts, butterscotch chips, then coconut, in that order.
4- Pour sweetened condensed milk over everything.
5- Bake for 30 minutes or until light golden brown. (I watch mine starting at the 20-25 minute mark)
6- Loosen from the pan; cool and cut into squares.
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Son would like this, I might try it!
 
unionmom said:
Old-fashion Christmas cookies ... not very sweet so that when you add decorations they don't become too much
Molasses Spice cookies ... great grandmother's recipe
Yummy old-fashioned shortbread cookies
Too die for meringue cookies
Peppermint white chocolate bark
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I would love that recipe. :hug
 
MacDaddy said:
Me - smoked salmon, smoked turkey, baked ham.

I know those don't fit the cake/cookie/candy category ... but you asked ... lol

We are going to make the Neiman Marcus cookies, Mrs. Mac will knock out her popular mint brownies and at least two more baked goodies.
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I love smoked salmon!
 
We will be at the beach for Christmas and we don't have an oven.

I really just want a Hostess Christmas Tree cake. You know, those little waxy, sweet but salty Hostess cakes pressed into the shape of a tree. I know, I know, don't even say it :girlsaysno
 
justgettingby said:
We will be at the beach for Christmas and we don't have an oven.

I really just want a Hostess Christmas Tree cake. You know, those little waxy, sweet but salty Hostess cakes pressed into the shape of a tree. I know, I know, don't even say it :girlsaysno
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:)) I have never had one. :))
 
ShoeDiva said:
justgettingby said:
We will be at the beach for Christmas and we don't have an oven.

I really just want a Hostess Christmas Tree cake. You know, those little waxy, sweet but salty Hostess cakes pressed into the shape of a tree. I know, I know, don't even say it :girlsaysno
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:)) I have never had one. :))
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Absolutely shocking.
 
ShoeDiva said:
honeybunny said:
Our neighbors always look forward to my cookies and Hubby's famous peanut butter balls.

This year's cookies will be :


http://www.publix.com/recipes-planning/aprons-recipes/peppermint-melt-away-cookies?print=1

http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/butter_pecan_cookies/print/


And something with dark chocolate... I have not decided yet.



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Those sound really good.
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I think I may have to try a batch of the peppermint meltaways, they sound yummy!
 
I just realized that I left bourbon balls - one of my bosses absolute favorites and they're always a hit at the hubby's office!
 
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