Five Great Christmas Cookies
Popular Cookie Categories to Help Build your Holiday Platters
When creating a Christmas platter, it's important to incorporate color, texture and flavor variety. Here are the top five types of cookies you should try.
Christmas cookies do not follow any rules, except the rule of variety. Choosing Christmas cookie ideas from each of the following five categories will guarantee you a fun and tasty Christmas cookie platter.
- Sugar Cookies This is the number one most popular kind of cookie you can make for Christmas. Your friends and family will expect to see some frosted sugar cookies in the arrangement you make this year. Whether you choose to roll, cut and decorate your cookies or just to drop and frost them, your colorful sugar cookies will be a top pick. Try to stick to one variety though. Sugar cookies don't typically have a lot of flavor and should be offset by a few other traditional favorites.
- Spice Cookies Sugar and spice certainly do belong together. If you didn't put all of the effort into making cut-out sugar cookies, you may want to roll and cut some gingerbread. Gingerbread men are adorable with sugar faces and candy buttons. Beware, though. If you make them too adorable, they may not get eaten. Drop spice cookies are also a very nice addition to the rest of your Christmas cookies.
- Chocolate Cookies It would be nearly impossible to create a collection of Christmas cookies without including some chocolate. Chocolate chip cookies may or may not be fancy enough for your style, but they are highly prized favorites. If you're looking for something a little dressier, try dipping some shortbread in chocolate and adding some crushed peppermints. Chocolate sandwich cookies filled with a flavored ganache are very classy and pack a suprising flavor burst.
- Fruit Cookies Don't imagine the dreaded fruit cake when you consider fruit accented cookies. Dried cranberries, orange zest and golden raisins are all wonderful fruit additions to add a little tartness and a lot of color to your Christmas cookie collection. Jam thumprints are also a fast way to add color and lip smacking flavor.
- Nut Cookies Make sure that there are no nut allergies in your circles before you fill plates with these cookies. After you know you're safe, go nuts! Wooden spoon cookies are darling. Pecan shortbread adds welcome crunchiness to a Christmas cookie platter. Almond paste offers rich flavor to a sandwich cookie.
The above list should offer you plenty of Christmas cookie ideas. If you are still stumped, start thumbing through your cookbook under the above headings. You're sure to find your own individualized top five Christmas cookies. As long as you vary color, texture and flavor, you're sure to make some fabulously popular Christmas cookies.
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