What’s Your Favorite Christmas Cookie

**katzgar** · 12-09-2017, 10:29 AM

rosettes, everything else is a commie plot

**ThatOwlWoman** · 12-09-2017, 10:32 AM

My mom's Christmas sandies cookies:

Ingredients
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup finely chopped pecans or walnuts
• Additional confectioners' sugar
Directions
• 1. In a large bowl, cream butter and confectioners' sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla. Combine flour and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in nuts. Refrigerate until chilled.
• 2. Preheat oven to 350°. Roll into 1-in. balls and place on ungreased baking sheets. Bake 10-12 minutes or until set. Roll warm cookies in additional confectioners' sugar; cool completely on wire racks. Roll cooled cookies again in confectioners' sugar. Yield: 4 dozen.

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This year I'm going to try making them with black walnuts.

**Cypress** · 12-10-2017, 12:03 PM

Originally Posted by Covfefe

Looked up the recipe, those sound yummy, I love cardamon and ginger!

I don't know how my grandmother, aunt, and cousins make them, but this seems pretty authentic. Probably plenty of other recipes for them on the interwebs. My advice - use recipes written by actual East Slavs, or people with an east Slavic heritage!