Wow fantasia_kitty, those look good!

Does anyone have any good recipes for cookies (and frosting as well?)

Hmm I don't know what we will be having for Christmas dinner this year. We might do turkey, but I want roast beef.
I love watching the cooking channel during this time. (Ok well, I like watching the cooking channel all the time, but anyways...) There is nothing like food to get you into the Christmas spirit!

What kind of cookie recipes and frosting recipes are you looking for Valiant? I do have a pretty good Cream Cheese Frosting recipe that I like if you want that.

And yeah, if I'm at my in-laws, I'm watching the Food Network Channel.

^ That sounds pretty good.

Hmm, I'm thinking of either sugar cookies or gingerbread cookies. I've never actually made Christmas cookies before, so I'm a little lost as what to do. Any help would be appreciated.

I don't know how americans eat that type of pumpkin pie that is for desert mainly on thanks giving. we had tio bring american food to school and i tried soem and it was gross.

Hmmm, pumpkin pie? At least it's nutritious.

Usually, my mother and grandmother, together with my aunts, make sorts of food like, fish, rice, hot soup, some fruits, fruit salad, tiramisu, and my favorite, sansrival! Here is a picture of it....

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Here's some description... "Sans Rival a very yummy layered dessert. Each layer is topped with a nice amount of icing like filling and cashews on top. This recipe is definitely for cashew lovers out there!"

Egads! Pumpkin pie is delicious stuff! Especially with a bit of whipped cream on the top. It's more of a Thanksgiving pie for my family though and when it comes close to Christmas we'll usually focus more on apple pie and one of my all time favorites, mince pie. My wife won't touch mince with a 10 foot pole but I'll gobble it up like there's no tomorrow .

Strawberry pie still reigns supreme as my favorite of all time but it's not in season right now. Too bad too, what with all that festive red coloration and stuff in there.

My favorite pie would have to be Blueberry, and the way my Grandma makes it... Ah, you salivitate just thinking about it. Here is the way we make our suger cookies, which btw are really good.

1 1/2 cups of powdered sugar
1 cup butter, softened
1 egg
1 teaspoon of vanilla
1/2 teaspoon almond extrack
2 1/2 cups of whole weat floir
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon tartar
Granulated Sugar

Here you go Valiant! Though I'm pretty pokey getting back to you on this....

Creme Cheese Frosting
Beat 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened, 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened, and 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract in large bowl until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in 1 box (16 ounces) confectioners' sugar until smooth.

I don't know how americans eat that type of pumpkin pie that is for desert mainly on thanks giving. we had tio bring american food to school and i tried soem and it was gross.

Egads! Pumpkin pie is delicious stuff! Especially with a bit of whipped cream on the top.

This horribly un-American person right here is going to have to side with IloveFauns. I cannot stand pumpkin pie. HOWEVER, I have never had a true pumpkin pie made from scratch and would like to try one someday. I've only ever had it made from a can and... yeah... can't eat it.

Usually, my mother and grandmother, together with my aunts, make sorts of food like, fish, rice, hot soup, some fruits, fruit salad, tiramisu, and my favorite, sansrival!

How fun to hear what people from other countries eat for Christmas. That sounds very tasty!

My favorite pie would have to be Blueberry, and the way my Grandma makes it...

When I was little, Blueberry Pie was my absolute favorite. As I've gotten older, my favorite is now my mom's Cherry Pie which is pretty much impossible to replicate because the cherry's in it come off of their cherry tree. It certainly is NOT your typical Cherry Pie Filling Pie. (Which I don't like very much, for the record )

One last note, I stumbled across this recipe for a very simple and easy Christmas dessert and thought I'd share with you all. I made one for Thanksgiving and it was a hit!!
Grasshopper Pie!!
(And for those of you, like my husband, who don't know what Grasshopper Cookies/Cakes/Pies are, Grasshopper = Chocolate and Mint. No, I don't know where that came from.)

fantasia_kitty: Thanks . So, what usually do you eat during Christmas? Do you have any special recipe whenever Christmas comes?? :-/.

My mom is the head honcho when it comes to Christmas dinner. She likes to change up the main course every year, turkey, duck, venison, ribeye steaks... one year we even had pheasant. But I think my very favorite has to be her beef brisket. And then she'll usually do wild rice, stuffing, mashed potatoes in some form or another, creamed corn, green bean casserole, rolls, cranberry sauce (NOT the nasty stuff out of a can ), relish trays, and I think that's about it. And then I usually take care of dessert which includes some kind of fruit pie (usually my Apple Craisin Pie) and a chocolate dessert (usually my Grandmother's Mississippi Mud Pie which her version is chocolate and peanut butter instead of chocolate and vanilla) and something else.

The other thing that's kind of a tradition in my family (and only in my family) is we have a Christmas Eve dinner which is almost always soup in a bread bowl. The soup varies though. Clam chowder and White Chili are the two that I think are made the most often.

Great... now I'm hungry.

This weekend I plan on making homemade gingerbread men with my Grandma and Mom. I love doing Christmas baking so much, but never do too many different things. This year, however, I think I'm going to do a little bit more than my usual (which is gingerbread men, snowballs, cut-outs, and toffee)

Wow.... browsing in this forum makes me hungry!

Fantasia kitty: Clam chowder? Wow, never tasted one. Is it delicious???

DigoryKirke: Toffee reminded me of TCON: Magician's nephew. LOL. So you do bakings? Do you bake other pastries besides gingerbread?

Actually, my recipe for toffee came from the Narnia Cookbook. It's a very old-style recipe for soft gummy toffee (Not the really crunchy stuff that you would get in a heath bar). It's really quite good, and one piece will last you for about half an hour (provided that you don't bite into it. . . which would probably cause your teeth to come out of their sockets )

I actually love to bake, and for a guy, I'm not too shabby at it either. I make better brownies than my Mom or my Grandma, and my pies aren't too shabby either (although, I still do have a little bit of trouble making my own crusts).

I probably won't make any other pastries other than gingerbread, at least not for Christmas. But I do make a very good pan of Fruit-and-nut-bars, which I adore, but which nobody else in my family can stand (MORE FOR ME!!!)

My family always makes these peanut butter cookies. They get rolled in sugar and flattened with a fork like this: X
We also like to make gingerbread men (and gingerbread women) and have a lot of fun decorating them. The women always end up really fat, and since we squeeze the dough through one of those garlic-squeezer things to make hair, we always end up making the 'rock star' gingerbread man with his hair standing straight up.