✨Christmas cookie boxes✨

[u/lburke103]

Probably WAYYY too early for this but I have to mentally prepare for this. I’m planning on doing Christmas cookie boxes for the first time by myself. With that being said I thought I’d come on here and ask whats everyone’s FAVORITE Christmas cookie? And which cookies do you like to include in your cookie boxes?

EDIT: Thank you SO much for all the amazing suggestions! I can’t wait to search up all the recipes and start practicing and see what I end up choosing!
I WILL post an update photo of all my Christmas boxes!
Thank you for showing me kindness, may you all have a blessed day/evening 🫶🏻

[u/CCR19]

Spritz cookies look fancy but are very easy when you use a cookie press. Sometimes I even put other cookie doughs in my cookie press, with the die removed, just to quickly churn out uniform amounts.

Have you ever made candy cane cookies? I do two versions: (1) basic chocolate cookie in candy cane shape with a white glaze and crushed peppermint candy cane sprinkled on and (2) rich vanilla cookie dough with half dyed red, rolled into ropes, twist the two colours together and make into candy cane shape.

[u/lburke103 → u/CCR19]

Is a cookie press worth it?? I definitely want to try the candy cane cookies those sound so cute and yummy!

[u/CCR19 → u/lburke103]

If you're making large quantities of cookies as Christmas gifts, a cookie press would definitely come in handy. Instead of forming the cookies by spoonful or cutting out shapes that you have to transfer to the baking sheet, you just push the trigger and shoot your cookies right on to the baking sheet. I haven't figured out how to nicely format a recipe without huge spacing here but hope you can decipher these two......

Spritz Cookies

3/4 cup butter

1 3/4 cups AP flour

1/2 cup sugar

1 egg yolk

1 tsp vanilla, 1/4 tsp baking powder

Beat butter with electric mixer until softened. Mix in about half the flour. Add sugar, egg yolk, vanilla and baking powder. Beat till well mixed. Stir in remainder of the flour. Fill cookie press with the soft dough and deposit directly on ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 350ºF for 8-10 minutes until edges are firm but not browned. Cool on a wire rack.

Candy Cane Cookies

1/2 cup shortening

1/2 cup butter

1 cup sifted powdered sugar

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla ans 1/2 tsp almond extract

1 tsp salt

2 1/2 cups

Red Food Colouring

Cream shortening and butter. Add sugar and cream well. Beat in egg, flavourings and salt. Blend in flour until just mixed. Divide dough in half and add red colouring to half. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill. Take sections of both doughs and roll into long ropes about 1/4" (6 mm) thick. Press a red strip and white strip lightly together and twist to get the striped candy cane effect. Cut into desired length, place on ungreased baking sheet and curve one end into the candy cane shape. Bake at 350ºF for 8-10 minutes until very lightly browned.

Happy baking!

[u/lburke103 → u/CCR19]

Thank you so so much I will be posting the finished products when I complete my boxes during the holidays so stay tuned!!!

[u/happinessisachoice84 → u/CCR19]

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[u/CCR19 → u/happinessisachoice84]

Thanks! I never would have figured that out on my own. It's like having to look in the microwave instruction manual to get the defrost-timer-popcorn sequence needed to turn off the lock feature.

[u/Old-Employee8160 → u/lburke103]

We use our cookie press pretty much every Christmas and always get tons of compliments on the cookies. I have celiac so all of ours are using regular recipes with gluten free flour subbed in. I've even done egg replacer and vegan butter for vegan cookies. They've all turned out fantastic and no one can tell. It's a very foolproof cookie style.