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SleeplessinSoCal
(9,739 posts)I like cinnamon rolls best.
debm55
(38,457 posts)Hotler
(12,388 posts)Take frozen cinnamon rolls (I like Rhodes) let them rise. Before putting in the oven make up some brown sugar and melted butter and pour, smear on top, them pour in heavy cream all around the rolls about 1/3 the way up and bake per direction for rolls. yum, yum, yum, yum.
10 Turtle Day
(511 posts)One of my biggest weaknesses are cinnamon rolls. Im going to have to try this. Thanks!
Basso8vb
(458 posts)I'd give my left arm for one more.
Diamond_Dog
(35,175 posts)debm55
(38,457 posts)Hotler
(12,388 posts)Back in the 1960's-70's there was a regional chain grocery store with a bakery in my neighborhood that had the best kolachi's, mom called the company and asked for the recipe. They mailed it to her, it was 50lbs of this, 25lbs of that and so on, everything was in pound and ounces. No cups, no tsp measurements at all. It must of made 50-dozen kolachi.
Diamond_Dog
(35,175 posts)Hotler
(12,388 posts)Hotler
(12,388 posts)debm55
(38,457 posts)Big Blue Marble
(5,487 posts)Not the kind that comes in the box from the store.
debm55
(38,457 posts)rsdsharp
(10,290 posts)debm55
(38,457 posts)japple
(10,388 posts)wedding cookies. Mom died in 2001 and our niece makes the pecan tassies, SIL makes the cheese straws, and they are good, but Mom's were the BEST!
debm55
(38,457 posts)wnylib
(24,787 posts)white mint-flavored icing on top, with red and green sprinkles. Or, with crushed peppermint candy sprinkled on the icing.
debm55
(38,457 posts)wnylib
(24,787 posts)Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.
So I used to take a tray full of home made Christmas cookies to work on those days for everyone to have while we worked. There were brownies, cutout sugar cookies, a puffy chocolate cookie with raisins and nuts, and butterball cookies on the tray.
The brownies always were the first to run out. They were everyone's favorite.
debm55
(38,457 posts)wnylib
(24,787 posts)Couldn't eat in front of coworkers without bringing some for everyone.
Irish_Dem
(59,727 posts)I never heard of them before.
I was thinking maybe something like a little turkey, like a butterball turkey.
When I looked it up, looks like a Russian teacake cookie.
Yes everyone loves them on the holidays.
But I think you put a walnut in yours?
The teacakes I have had do not have a walnut half in it.
wnylib
(24,787 posts)One was butterballs for anyone to eat, mostly the kids.
The other batch was strictly for adults and was called rum balls, soaked in rum. You could have gotten drunk on just 2 of those cookies.
There were crushed walnuts rolled up in the dough.
Irish_Dem
(59,727 posts)Yes the rum balls were something weren't they?!
Definitely high alcohol content!
Oh yes I have had the crushed walnut version as well.
All of them very good.
JoseBalow
(5,652 posts)debm55
(38,457 posts)justaprogressive
(2,574 posts)after the brandy's lit
Traditional Christmas Pudding is more like a heavy cake than what you might think of as a pudding. It is made with raisins and other dried fruit and flavoured with brandy or stout (a very dark beer). Sometimes it contains nuts as well. My husbands family recipe does not contain nuts and woe betide anyone who tries to add them. Believe me, I know! People get very passionate about their family recipes for Christmas pud.
At the end of Christmas lunch or dinner, the pudding is garnished with holly and doused in brandy or other alcohol which is then lit. Not only does this create a spectacle, it may also flavour the pudding. That said, I favour vodka for flaming as it seems to light better, flame for longer and leaves the flavour of the pudding unaffected.
https://apriljharris.com/old-fashioned-christmas-pudding-recipe/
debm55
(38,457 posts)Mike 03
(17,378 posts)You really love cinnamon!
My sisters love (or at least used to) cinnamon with butter on toast. It's a fond memory from my childhood.
Although I've only had it twice, one of the greatest things I've ever eaten was pumpkin cheesecake. My then-wife and I tried it the same year Christmas Vacation came out. We purchased it at a restaurant across from the theater. Then the following year we got another.
It was out of this world. I don't know if pumpkin cheesecake is a real common thing, or whether that was something local and special. But I have to tell you, it was really incredible.
debm55
(38,457 posts)cinnamon.
Mike 03
(17,378 posts)and you are so good at this. You have the magic touch and seem like a delightful human being. It is such a refreshing break from the scary news.
Thank you so much. I hope you have a wonderful holiday season (and everyone here too)!
debm55
(38,457 posts)Happy Holidays to you also.
nuxvomica
(13,015 posts)I usually make a batch this time of year if I can find Nonesuch mincemeat. My mother usually topped them with chocolate frosting but I prefer them unfrosted. They are moist and flavorful and not overly sweet.
debm55
(38,457 posts)displacedvermoter
(3,233 posts)like my grandmother made when I was a kid.
And chocolate chip cookies for Santa
debm55
(38,457 posts)Sneederbunk
(15,392 posts)Clouds Passing
(2,716 posts)Not supposed to have sweets but just one little bite, please. 🙏🏽
debm55
(38,457 posts)chocolate cake does sound delicious.
happybird
(5,192 posts)I'll never forget my brother in law, in his 20's and still just the boyfriend, on his first big holiday trip to Grandma and Grandpa's with the fam. He took a bite and said, "Oh, wow! It's like a big Ho-Ho!" We all gasped, lol. Grandma made meringue mushrooms and the whole nine yards. Her Yule Log was always gorgeous and took hours to make.
It really is like the World's Best Ho-Ho.
Clouds Passing
(2,716 posts)LoisB
(9,025 posts)debm55
(38,457 posts)LoisB
(9,025 posts)pansypoo53219
(21,790 posts)debm55
(38,457 posts)malthaussen
(17,788 posts)debm55
(38,457 posts)Wicked Blue
(6,785 posts)electric_blue68
(18,724 posts)Different Drummer
(8,784 posts)Love it for Christmas dinner!
La Coliniere
(1,069 posts)aka Giuggiulena. Very simple to make cookies but oh so good with coffee. Mmmm. My Italian Aunt Mary taught me and my wife how to make them years ago.
Homemade blackberry cobbler. Homemade sweet breads (pear, zucchini, jam), Homemade Chex mix. We will also make jerky. My house smells amazing this time of year. My fresh milk hot chocolate is awesome
debm55
(38,457 posts)debm55
(38,457 posts)Eugene
(62,775 posts)especially strawberry jam
debm55
(38,457 posts)happybird
(5,192 posts)And I like to help when she allows it. Her Christmas Cookies are serious business!
It used to be about 12 different types and we'd give them to teachers, neighbors, friends, coworkers. As we've all gotten older she's cut it down to about 6 different types. I noticed a few years ago the ones that go great with a cup of hot tea or coffee are the ones that have stuck around.
My favorites are:
Cherry Crowns
Nutroll Cookies (don't know the official name but that's what we call them). It's a rolled pasty dough which is cut into squares. Each square gets a precise, smallish spoonful of homemade nutroll filling and then two of the corners folded towards each other to meet in the center. They are fussy as hell to make, and also Dad's favorite, so creatively hiding small batches of them in the freezers is a Christmas tradition.
Ricotta cookies.
A recent addition, fantastic with coffee. They aren't really a Christmas cookie, we make them festive with red and green sprinkles.
debm55
(38,457 posts)electric_blue68
(18,724 posts)Chip cookies in her teens for when they often hosted Christmas extended family get together. And she's often still does it like for 3 decades or so! So that's a treat!
Otoh if we occasionally had New Year's Eve with our extended family my mom, and I would do the dips! ?Hormel's chicken something into cream cheese, their (yum) deviled ham in cream cheese (eventually mom mixed half cream cheese and yogurt), ?Knorr's Onion Soup mix into cream cheese (more yum), we had crackers, a cousin brought a big pan of cut veggies for the dips, posdibly store bought, or home made Greek cookies, and maybe a few more things. 🥰
debm55
(38,457 posts)cranberry nut bread. And real cinnamon rolls. Babkas are yummy too.