Virtual Cookie Swap and Giveaway
Julie of Booking Mama and I enjoyed bringing you The Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies and hope you enjoyed it too. Now that they’re over, we’re hoping you’ll share one of your tried and true recipes on your blog. (If you don’t have a blog, leave your recipe in the comments or send me an email.)
After you post your recipe, please leave a link, using Mr. Linky, for your traditional cookie recipes here and for your candy and chocolate cookie recipes on Julie’s blog. To encourage (and reward) participation we’re both offering prizes. We both have a prize pack for one lucky reader and a copy of The Christmas Cookie Club by Ann Pearlman for another. (Copies of The Christmas Cookie Club have been provided by Simon & Schuster.) Because of the cost of postage, only those in the US and Canada are eligible to win the prize pack, but international readers can enter to win the book. Winners will be chosen at random and you’re welcome to enter on both blogs! You have until December 4 to link your post – prizes will be awarded on December 5.
Items included in the prize pack I’m giving away include:
- The Christmas Cookie Club by Ann Pearlman
- square “Snow Days” cookie plate by St. Nicholas Square
- 2 small cookie cookbooks
- sprinkles
- spatulas
- cookie scoop
- snowman cookie cutter
- 2 oz. Ghiradelli chocolate peppermint coffee
- magnetic snowman notepad
Please join us and share one of your favorite cookie recipes.
Bermudaonion's Weblog 
It would be great to figure out how to make this real life instead of just virtual! :–)
Here’s my blog post about our favorite Christmas cookie.
http://bookendcrossing.blogspot.com/2009/11/peanut-blossoms.html
Even though they have chocolate in them, they are really a traditional cookie to us.
How fun! I like rhapsody’s idea of an IRL cookie exchange … I’ll host, y’all just need to get here! 🙂
I am off to work on my post now…. I am doing my favorite cookie which is really a dangerous one for me to have in the house. 🙂
I’ve really enjoyed your twelve days of cookies. Many have been new to me but are now on the December list. Thank so much for hosting.
I will definitely post a favourite cookie recipe this coming week. Your cookie recipes look great – I’m going to choose one for my RL cookie exchange.
Here is my recipe for traditional cookies:
http://bookjourney.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/4909/
journey through books @ gmail dot com
Got my recipes and links up. What a fun cookie swap!
My offering is Peanut Butter Thumbprints.
I linked up, but here’s the url as well: http://tiny.cc/0wbsZ
This was a great idea that you and Julie had. Thanks for pulling it all together. Can’t wait to look over everyone’s recipes!
This has been so much fun! I posted my recipe on my personal blog because my poor Worducopia has been a tad neglected lately, it would probably be extremely offended if I suddenly popped in to post a recipe. 😉
I will be visiting this post a lot to check out everyone’s recipes..what a great idea this was!
I’ve really enjoyed the last twelve days! 🙂
Thank you for all of the recipes! I’ve bookmarked and printed out so many new recipes to try that I’ll probably never get to them all! Am in Cookie Heaven! *L*
Here’s my new favorite cookie recipe!
Chocolate Heath Cookies w/White Chocolate Chips!
Super yummy!
My cookie recipe:
http://campbele.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/recipe-white-chocolate-chip-cookies/
I offered up an as close as its likely to ever get to a recipe being written down cookie recipe for Oatmeal White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies.
Lexie
Lexie.Cenni@gmail.com
I have loved all the cookie recipes. I linked mine over at Julie’s blog b/c it’s a chocolate cookie recipe. I am going to dig out my hubby’s favorite peanut butter recipe to post later this week and link on your blog.
Where, oh where has Mr. Linky gone? I swear I saw him earlier…
Here’s where my recipe’s posted:
http://westorientbooksblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/christmas-cookie-club-ann-pearlman.html
Fun times! Hope you like mine: http://amusedbybooks.blogspot.com/2009/11/virtual-cookie-swap.html
I will post my cutout cookie recipe, with homemade icing, they are crowd pleasers!
My recipe for a family favorite:
No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars
http://exotichadron.blogspot.com/2009/12/xmas-baking.html#comments
Thank you for hosting this fantastic giveaway, Kathy! The gift for the winner is amazing. But almost better is more cookie recipes! I wait until the second week in December to start my baking & I am really looking forward to it this year. Thanks for so many wonderful & delicious recipes :o)
~ Amy
My favorite cookie, Christmas or not, are Raspberry Almond Linzer Cookies:
http://noemptychairs.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/twelve-days-of-christmas-cookies-raspberry-almond-linzer-cookies/
I hope this is okay. It’s a recipe from Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke and everyone that has ever tried them says they are the best chocolate chip cookies they’ve ever had.
Chocolate Chip Crunch Cookies
Preheat oven to 375#degrees
rack in the middle position
1 cup of butter (2 sticks, melted)
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 beaten eggs (you can beat them up with a fork)
2 ½ cups flour (not sifted)
2 cups crushed corn flakes (just crush them with your hands)
1-2 cup chocolate chips
Melt butter, add the sugars and stir. Add soda, salt, vanilla, and beaten eggs. Mix well. Then add flour and stir it in. Add crushed corn flakes and chocolate chips and mix it all thoroughly.
Form dough into walnut-sized balls with your fingers and place on a greased cookie sheet, 12 to a standard sheet. Press them down with a floured or greased fork in a crisscross pattern (the same method as peanut butter cookies).
Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes. Cool on cookie sheet for 2 minutes, then remove to a wire rack until they’re completely cool. (The rack is important – it makes them crisp.)
I just posted my link. Great recipes you shared Kathy.