Posts Tagged ‘christmas’

Christmas cookie season has descended and for me, it descended while I was home.  My mom recently broke her finger and cooking for her has been somewhat of a slow process, to say the least. She asked if I would make her cookie exchange cookies for her while I was home, and I happily agreed.

These are one of two “Jones Family Cookies” as we put it, the other being Polish chruscikis (which I will show here eventually, don’t worry). Everyone has their version of this cookie – from ingredients to name to shape, but the base is an almost shortbread-like cookie with finely ground nuts in the dough and then rolled in powdered sugar. And these are no different. My mom uses pecans and other than that, these are some of the easiest cookies ever.  The only messy part is rolling them in powdered sugar, but hey – that’s a fun mess, right?