Favorite Christmas Cookies

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Originally Posted by Prudence

My favorites are M&M cookies, which we traditionally only make at Christmas time. Second favorite are the peanut blossoms. So I'll definitely be making those. My cookie press sucks, so I probably won't make butter cookies. On the other hand, my sugar cookie recipe rocks, so I'm in charge of those. The paper published a few recipes this year that think I'm going to try - including a new thumbprint variant. The ones I usually make are really annoying to make, but I feel compelled to make thumbprints for the holidays. No idea why.

Make triangular sugar cookies, then use two blue, green or brown (or one green one brown if you're a Bowie fan) M&Ms for eyes, and a red one at the bottom of the triangle point for the red nose. Broken pretzels are good antlers. Super easy, and people go all lovey over them.

We made Russian Tea Cakes and lemon bars last night, and chocolate hazelnut cake cookies today.