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Christmas Cookies

December 10, 2014 by Jeanne

Christmas cookies

Everyone has her favorite Christmas cookies. My favorite Christmas cookies have changed over the years. When I was a kid, most of the cookies that my mother made included walnuts, but walnuts have become so expensive over the years that I’ve tried and kept other recipes.

The picture above shows one of my new favorite recipes. It’s found on the Restless Chipotle blog and website run by my friend, Marye Audet White. Her recipe for Peanut Butter Rolo Cookies is to die for! Each cookie is warm, gooey with chocolate and caramel, and crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside.

Christmas Cookie Making and Baking Tips

  • Although her instructions say they take 6 minutes to prepare, give yourself a good hour to make the cookies. The dough itself for these Christmas cookies takes only a short while to make. The time-consuming part is unwrapping the Rolo candies and forming the balls for the cookies.
  • Each dough ball must be rolled in sugar crystals. I use red and green for Christmas cookies, but you can use plain white ones, too. Just use Turbinado sugar or another sugar with big, chunky, sparkly crystals. If you use plain table sugar, it doesn’t give them the crunch they need to be complete.
  • Marye’s recipe calls for silpat mats. Silpat mats are non stick baking mats. These reusable mats are great for protecting your bakeware. They prevent cookies from sticking to the tray so you don’t need to use cooking spray or shortening to grease the pans. Cookies also tend to bake evenly without burning. I don’t have silpat mats, so I use baking parchment paper instead. It worked fine as a substitute for the mats in this recipe.
  • Rolo Cookies can be frozen after baking, or the dough can be frozen to use anytime. If you make the recipe as indicated, there’s exactly enough dough to cover all the Rolo candies. However, if you eat a candy or two…and I’m not saying you will…but it’s likely…then you may have a little bit of dough leftover. You can just bake the cookie dough as you would a peanut butter cookie. It will be a little soft, but delicious.

I hope you give Marye’s recipe a try. On Friday, I will share my favorite Christmas cookie recipe with you, as well as a fun little online Christmas cookie recipe swap that I’m participating in.

For cookies that ship exceptionally well, try my Butterscotch Biscotti Recipe.

Rolo cookies
Rolo cookies waiting for the oven.
Jeanne
Jeanne

Jeanne Grunert is a certified Virginia Master Gardener and the author of several gardening books. Her garden articles, photographs, and interviews have been featured in The Herb Companion, Virginia Gardener, and Cultivate, the magazine of the National Farm Bureau. She is the founder of The Christian Herbalists group and a popular local lecturer on culinary herbs and herbs for health, raised bed gardening, and horticulture therapy.

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  1. Dagmara-GlamistaHome

    December 11, 2014 at

    OMG these sound delicious. I love the idea of biting into something warm to find out there is a delicious gooey chocolate-filled yumminess inside. The inner child comes out immediately. Thank you for sharing!
    This would be a perfect post for our Lavish Lemon link party, feel free to join!

    • Jeanne

      December 11, 2014 at

      Thank you, Dagmar! These cookies are amazing….

  2. Amber

    December 11, 2014 at

    I love rolos! These look fantastic. Thanks for stopping by the Lavish Lemon Link Up!

    • Jeanne

      December 12, 2014 at

      Thank you, Amber! I appreciate your visit.

  3. Rabia @TheLiebers

    December 12, 2014 at

    Those sound delicious!!

    • Jeanne

      December 12, 2014 at

      Thanks Rabia! The are delicious….too delicious…time to mail some out to family and friends!

  4. Lydia

    December 13, 2014 at

    These look Amazing and your blog is adorable!

  5. Destiny

    December 14, 2014 at

    So cute! Perfect for my upcoming sweater party! Thanks for sharing! 🙂

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