Virtual Christmas Cookie Exchange Blog Hop

Christmas cookie baking in my family is tradition.

I want to thank Carol from Just Let Me Quilt for hosting.

We have several recipes that we have been using for as long as I can remember. It was hard to choose which one to showcase.

So rather than pick just one, I have included 2 of the recipes we make each year. Each one of them will include a PDF for easy printing.

I have also included a list of all the cookies we make. If one sounds good to you that I have not included a recipe for, comment and I will send it to you! I love to share!

Hidden-Treasures-RecipeDownload
Nut-Horns-RecipeDownload

Our family’s Christmas cookie favorites:

  1. Nut Horns (Recipe Included)
  2. Hidden Treasures (Recipe Included)
  3. Soft Cut Out Sugar Cookies with Shiny Royal Icing
  4. Magic Cookie Bars (The recipe from Eagle Brand Sweetened Condense Milk)
  5. Buckeyes–Have to make these when you live in OHIO! (With Rice Krispies!)
  6. Spritz (pictured below)
  7. Chocolate Cut Out Sugar Cookies with Shiny Royal Icing (Yes CHOCOLATE sugar cookies!)
  8. Cream Cheese Candy Cane Cookies (A cake mix cookie with no peppermint-it just looks like a candy cane)
  9. Jewel Cookies (butter cookies with jam center)
  10. Imperial Cream Cheese Cookies (A-maz-ing! –but you have to use Imperial margarine or it isn’t the same)

The photos below were from Christmas cookie baking 2020. We usually begin baking cookies in the 2nd to 3rd week of December. We usually spend a day at my parents house to make the majority of cookies.

My mom makes me bake the sugar cookies and the cream cheese candy cane cookies because I just “know” when to take them out of the oven. The cookies we make are used as gifts, Christmas Day dessert and of course just for eating!

Myself and my daughter Dahlia
My youngest, Melody and my Mom decorating Spritz cookies
Had to include Dad! He doesn’t bake or cook. He just eats the end results. He also never complains about the taste of something. He says I don’t cook so I eat what is given to me and I can’t complain about that!

I’m excited to see all the recipes that get shared this week. Perhaps one will be added to our families list of annual Christmas cookies!

Since this is my first year participating in the Virtual Cookie Exchange, I am going to post some of my past Christmas quilt makes. This year, I didn’t make/finish anything. I participated in another “Tell Me a Story Block Swap” but I have not put together my quilt yet. Enjoy some of my past makes below!

  • I made these almost 13 years ago when I had no experience!
  • My Advent Calendar. It took me years to finish this. I started it before I had kids and finished it the Christmas before my eldest daughter was born.
  • My winter village I made last year.
  • Moda “Winter Frost” quilt along from December 2020.

Check out the other bloggers who are featured today!

Creatin’ in the Sticks

Schmilt

Sew Many Yarns

Pumpkin Patch Patterns & Quilting

Just Because Quilts

Treasured Nest

Cathie’s Craftworks

Scrapdash

Find all the other bloggers here!

Happy Baking!

Starting to bloom by choosing JOY ~ Julia

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29 thoughts on “Virtual Christmas Cookie Exchange Blog Hop”

  3. I love that you included a list of Christmas favorite cookies, and thank you for sharing your recipes. My husband will love both of those. He loves chocolate covered cherries and to have one in cookie form would be heaven, and those Nut Horns sound fantastic with that pecan filling. Your Christmas kitchen photos are so sweet, and your projects are keepsakes. I especially love your Winter Village and Winter Frost quilts.

  4. Some of my best memories of Christmas are the times I was baking with my family. I love your dad’s sentiment about not complaining about what is given him. My husband does most of the cooking now and I tell him that very thing. Your recipes all look delicious and I think I’ll be giving those “Hidden Treasures” a try. Thank you for sharing your Christmas traditions, recipes, and beautiful quilts!

  5. thank you for sharing your recipes. I love your past makes. I loved having our two kiddos in the kitchen.

  6. Nut horns are my favorite cookie! Thank you so much for the recipes. It was so much fun seeing the photos of three generations in the kitchen making cookies. That’s what Christmas is all about. You past projects were a delight to see. Love your stocking advent calendar.

  8. I love the fun of baking with the family and then there is the eating of the cookies to look forward to. Love the cookie recipes and your quilts are gorgeous.

  11. Your cookies look delicious and your quilts are lovely! I would love to have your imperial cream cheese cookie recipe. Thanks for sharing!

    1. Imperial Cream Cheese Cookies

      1 cup Imperial margarine (this is very important. Not sure why but it doesn’t taste the same with any other)
      1 8oz cream cheese softened
      2 cups sugar
      1 egg
      1 tsp vanilla
      1/4 tsp almond extract
      3 1/2 cup flour
      1 tsp baking soda

      Cream margarine, cream cheese, sugar, egg, vanilla, and almond extract together. Mix in flour and baking soda. Chill dough for 2 hours then roll into balls and bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.

      ICING: 2/3 cup margarine, 1 tsp vanilla, 1 lb of powdered sugar (3 3/4 cups), milk as needed to make spreadable. Tint with green or red food coloring.

  12. What a lovely post filled with inspiration and so many photos of happy family times. Your recipes and list are almost identical to the lists I used to make when my kids were young. I’m hoping lots of people ask for you to share your candy cane cookie and chocolate spritz cookies because my copies seem to have gotten lost. I love your advent calendar and think I might need to make ones similar to it for the grands and great grands NEXT year! 😉

  16. Those recipes look delicious. I love the spritz cookies you have in the photos. So many different colors. Your various Christmas quilt projects are so pretty. I truly believe that the Advent Calendar was quite the project, but it is wonderful.

  17. your photos of your very happy family cookie backing event are right out of a Hallmark Christmas movie. Looks like a wonderful memory in the making.

  19. What a perfect way to prepare for the holidays. I love that it’s a family affair. Dad is a smart man! LOL!!

  21. Hi Julia! Welcome to the Virtual Cookie Exchange! You’ll find it quite addicting and will have to join in again next year. What’s not to like?! Cookies, quilting, and good friends. I just ADORE the photos from last year’s bake-a-thon. Be sure to get some similar ones this year so you can see how your daughter has grown over the year! Looks like lots of fun and your projects are fab. {{Hugs}} ~smile~ Roseanne

  26. I just love those cookies. They are classy and look perfect for storing and even mailing as gifts. I love all your photos of holiday projects. You’ve got quite the collection of beauties and I am in awe. Thanks so much for sharing your wonderful talents.

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