It seems like many of you know your classic Christmas sweets, but holiday cookies are another beast altogether. Spritzers, linzers, gingerbread, crinkles — sure you can eat them, but can you identify them just as well? You'll find out when you take our quiz.
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Antik Batik
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Isabella Oliver
Not bad. I'm curious as to what a reindeer droppings cookie looks like.
1oh well - i guess there's still a lot for me to learn about christmas cookies. must come from all those years of not celebrating the holiday.
2i know my holiday cookies!
(probably because of my family. dessert is the biggest part of the holiday feast for us!)
34/5 Stupid Russian tea cakes.
4my aunt makes russian tea cakes every year and they're not good
5These look delicious!
6I went on a linzer cookie binge last weekend and made lots. Now all my friends love me during exam time.
7We call #4 Butter balls because that's the main ingredient. Mostly butter and powdered sugar. Yum!
8I'd never heard of Snickerdoodles before, but they looked so amazing in the picture I just literally stopped reading, found a recipe and baked a batch..!
9I'm waiting for them to cool down to try them, but the entire building smells of lovely cinnamon!
my uncle makes the worst bourbon balls, no one ever eats them and he always makes a TON!
10number 4 got me....
11I was always told a Russian Tea Cake and a Mexican Wedding Cake were the same thing!
12PFFT! Mexican Wedding Cakes and Russian Tea cakes are practically the same darn thing! I called them Mexican because that's how I know them in my family.
My uncle makes all the cookies on this list.... tho I got some of them wrong. Ah well. All I care about if they taste good
13Russian Tea cakes sound and look a lot like Kourabiedes, a Greek shortbread like biscuit (quite often crescent shaped) traditionally made for Christmas.
14I'll never forget the year my grandmother 'dusted' them with baking powder instead of icing sugar and we all had to pretend to love them so as to not hurt her feelings..!
Oh and an update on my attempt at baking (why do I bother?!)
I used this recipe :
http://www.recipe4living.com/Recipe/58840-Snickerdoodles.aspx
They turned out ok, but next time I'd reduce the salt and increase the cooking time and cinnamon/nutmeg ratio..having said that my boyfriend just ate about 7 while I was looking for a pretty plate to put them on so I must've done something right!
15Not Mexican Wedding Cookies? I just made those two nights ago and they look just like that....lol..maybe I inadvertently made Russian tea cakes? Either way, they were good
:)
16I don't really like any of these cookies. Gimme some chocolate!
Rosa, I believe reindeer dropping cookies are the round peanut butter balls dipped in chocolate....mmm now those are yummy!
17Um, yeah, number 4 are definitely Mexican Wedding Cookies...and if not, I'd like to know what the difference between them and Russian Tea Cakes are! Glad to see that I'm not the only one who missed that one...
18Russian Tea Cookies and Mexican Wedding Cookies are almost exactly the same, you couldn't tell my looking at them which is which!
19What no thumbprint cookies?!
20100% i love my junk!
21yum!
22Hmm...We've never used my mom's sugar cookies as ornaments. I don't think they're capable of being hung. They're yummy.
23The Tea cake/mexican wedding one is dumb.
THEY LOOK IDENTICAL!
24oh the only big difference is the type of nuts in them.
boo
254/5 - darn starangel, we missed the same one. :rockon: we'll do better on the next one - we'll get 100%
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