homemade cookies

Heather says:

These traditional Christmas cookies can be found under many names: Russian tea cakes, Mexican wedding cakes, sand tarts, or butterballs.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1/4 cup confectioners sugar
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract*
• 2/3 cup nuts (your choice: pecans, walnuts, or hazelnuts)
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 tsp salt
• additional confectioners sugar for dusting

Directions after the jump.

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Ivy says:

I know Heather already posted chocolate chip cookies, but a couple of times a year, when I was a kid, my mom would make these cookies and they were fabulous. Not just good, not just great, fabulous. Divine, even. I never understood why Mom only made them every once in awhile, and I resolved to make them all the time when I was a grown-up.

Once I was an adult and Mom finally gave me the recipe, I found out why Mom only made them every once in awhile. They’re a tremendous pain to make. And these are the kind of cookies that if you skip a step or take shortcuts, they’re good, but not fabulous. Also, all the ingredients except the one that is marked optional are imperative that they be added exactly as written. No substituting, no leaving anything out. Like I said, they’ll probably still be good, but they will not be fabulous.

With those disclaimers out of the way, here are the best chocolate chip cookies you will ever eat:

Ingredients:

• 3/4 C unsalted butter*
• 3/4 C white sugar
• 1/3 C brown sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract**
• 1/2 tsp lemon juice
• 1 1/2 C sifted flour***
• 1/3 C old-fashioned oats****
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/8 tsp cinnamon
• 1 1/2 C milk chocolate chocolate chips*****
• 3/4 C walnuts (OPTIONAL)

To read the long, drawn out directions, click to

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