Anyone have a great recipe for cookies that will "keep" a bit and are good teacher presents?

Force of Five,

Your post was very similar to what i wanted to ask today:

What are your *favorite* cookies ofr your cookie gifts. I need to mix it up a bit this year, and am looking for the one cookie you must make every year. I promise to post my recipe (Buckeyes) later today or tomorrow--once I dig out the recipes from under the post-thanksgiving mess :)

Also, how far in advance do you make your cookies and what steps do you take to preserve them?. I am really wanting to start sooner rather than later this year.

Thanks so much--I held off on asking this because i knew there was a Christmas cookie LTC being arranged, and didn't want to step on toes.

How about this:

Cinnamon Ornaments

3/4 cup applesauce
1 cup cinnamon
1 tbsp. ground cloves
1 tbsp. nutmeg

You will need 2 tablespoons Elmer's glue and ribbons to decorate.

Combine all ingredients. If dough is too stiff, add applesause. If too loose, add cinnamon. Roll out like cookie dough to about 1/4 inch thick. Use cookie cutters to shape and lay on flat surface to dry 2 or 3 days. Make sure to put hole on top, a straw works great!

(this recipe will be sent to Romana for the Letterboxer's cookbook)
Camp Fire Lady

Am I crazy, or does this recipe seem to be missing something to make it stick together? Or is that the purpose of the Elmer's Glue, is it mixed in with the other ingredients? Didn't see any flour, so that is what am thinking. Maybe its the cinnamon that takes the place of the flour. Always with the questions, sorry.
OD

Also, how far in advance do you make your cookies and what steps do you take to preserve them?

I've gotten out of the habit lately, but here's what I've done in the past:

Bake cookies all Thanksgiving weekend.
Place in large Tupperware-like (probably Rubbermaid) containers.
Place in large freezer in garage.

If we were limited to the little freezer above our refrigerator, I don't know what we'd do.

Hope this helps!

Oh, and when I'm mailing Christmas cookies... I just pack them frozen -- they're most definitely thawed-out by the time they arrive. They do need some protection between layers of cookies, though, or else your giftee receives a canister of crumbs.

Blessings, and happy baking!

Hansenclan

I have a great recipe for molasses cookies at home.......it makes a ton of cookies too!
I'm at work now......I'll try my best to remember to get it to you this afternoon!

You will need 2 tablespoons Elmer's glue

What food group is that in? 8)

Shiloh

This is not exactly a Christmas/Holiday cookie recipe, but I did try this over the Thanksgiving holiday and Oh My.....

If anyone likes the Pepperidge Farm Tahoe Cookies (macadamia nuts and white chocolate bits), well hang onto your seats gang...

Using the standard Tollhouse Cookie recipe for the regular chocolate chips, substitute Tollhouse White Chips and add macadamia nuts and bake as usual.

No more P.F. cookies for me, I will be making my own from now on! Wonderful!

Wendy

Oops! Sorry. The Elmer's glue is considered one of the ingredients.

CFL

You will need 2 tablespoons Elmer's glue

What food group is that in?

That would be a sugar... you know... glue-cose.

Oh no! Wassa reads this board too??? Terrio who now knows that even food isnt sacred any more

Defiantly you need to make Amish Sugar Cookies...the BEST cookie ever. Good for gifting...cheap to make to boot!

Amish Cookies

1C sugar
1C powdered sugar
1C butter
1C oil
2 beaten eggs
1tsp vanilla
4 1/2 C flour
1 1/2tsp cream of tartar
1tsp baking soda
1tsp salt
Blend liquids. Add dry ingredients. Mix well. Scoop in tsp size to cookie sheet. Flatten with sugared glass bottom.(I use green and red at Christmas) Bake at 375* for 12 mins.

These are great cookies! Do not overbake!

1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
1/2 cup molasses
4 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ground ginger
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp ground cloves
1 tsp salt
2 tsp cinnamon

Blend together above ingredients, then add
4 cups flour. (Dough will be stiff)
Refrigerate overnight
Form dough into 1" balls, roll in granulated sugar.
Bake at 375 deg 8-10 minutes in ungreased cookie sheet.
Cool on wire rack

You will need 2 tablespoons Elmer's glue

What food group is that in?

That would be a sugar... you know... glue-cose.

I thought it was in the grains category with wheat -- you know -- glue-ten...

Webfoot

Do you leave them as balls or do you flatten them before baking?

SFF

Do you leave them as balls or do you flatten them before baking?

Must... resist... commenting...

I know. I tried to think of other wording, but alas we will just have to behave ourselves and resist.

SFF

When I make molasses cookies I flatten them slightly with a sugared glass. Terrio

you leave them in balls, they will flatten on their own...........
not too much though, kinda like a ginger snap.....and they will have cracks in them, but that's how they're supposed to be.

you leave the... balls, they will flatten on their own...........

oh myyyyy....

and they will have cracks in them

um...

but that's how they're supposed to be.

We SO need to change the subject.

We SO need to change the subject

Cheeeeese.

Shiloh

We SO need to change the subject

cheeeeese

Shiloh don't say cheeeeese say chucky cheeeeese.