CLASIC CHRISTMAS COOKIES TOP 5 RECIPES #holiday

Hold up, I am on my way, I'm in motion. Let's go to the ocean. Yeah, let's go outside. We can hang out on the beach without freezing. Yeah, isn't that amazing? In Christmas times, we'll be chilling and having a good, good time. Doesn't matter if the snow is falling or the wind blows and the rain is. Always be Christmas in my heart. But this year, my friends and family, making angels in the sand, you and me. So hey, everybody. It's Mickey. And in today's video, we are making classic Christmas cookies that are simple, delicious, and true family favorites. So if you are new here, I hope you'll take a minute to subscribe. I put out new videos every week about all things home. So this is my pile of goodies that I have gathered together over the last couple weeks and prepped for baking weekend. And yes, I know there is a lot of stuff here. But whatever I don't get to this weekend, I usually bake every night. You know, like after dinner, I'll do a batch or two of cookies the whole week before Christmas. I have always baked a ton of cookies for Christmas. It's something that my mom and her sisters always did. And it's just something that has been passed along, you know, to my generation. And we really do go through a lot of them. Because wherever we go, we always bring a big platter of cookies. And it's just kind of, you know, what we've always done. So let me go through this pile here and show you what I have and what I'm going to do with it. In the back here, I have a big package of the Quaker Oats oatmeal. This is the quick one-minute oats. I use these for oatmeal raisin cookies, oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, and for my monster cookies. Then I have two packages of the Pepperidge Farm Milano cookies. These are a great, simple, no-bake cookie. All I do is I dip them into a little bit of chocolate. And I'll sprinkle either crushed peppermint, chopped nuts, or just, you know, some nonpareils on there. And they are a great addition to your cookie platter, really easy to put together. Then I have a couple packages of caramels. And I'm going to melt these down to make my caramel and chocolate dip pretzels. Been making those things for years. The kids really love them. I have a package of pecan halves. I also have some Hershey Kisses here for peanut butter blossom cookies. Those are Rebecca's and my brother's favorite cookies. I also have some Rolos, which we'll be making the pretzel Rolo pecan cookie. I don't know if they're a cookie or just a snack or a treat, but we make those every year because Rolos are my oldest son's favorite candy. I also have some M&Ms. I like to use colored M&Ms in my oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, just so that you can tell them apart from the oatmeal raisin cookies. Let's see. I have some sprinkles here. I picked these up at Walmart. I thought these were really cute. They have red and green and little snowflakes there. And then I always have something like this in my cabinet. I really like these multiple holiday sprinkle containers. I think they are just great. I have some candy canes here that I'll probably be crushing to add, you know, to sprinkle onto the pretzels and whatever cookie I come up with. I have a package of Twix bars. I have this recipe that I make every year. I call it just candy bar cookies. It's one of those recipes that you can use with any chopped up candy bar that is like your family favorite. So this year we're going to be using the Twix fun size candy bars. Then I have a little jar of Skippy peanut butter. I always have peanut butter in the house, but this jar is the exact measurement for cookies that I make. I have a couple of the dipping chocolate. I have some light brown sugar here. I have some candy coating that I got from Walmart. I'm going to try this. I usually use the melting chocolate from Wilton's that you can get at Michael's. I just didn't feel like going all the way up to Michael's. This will be the first time I'm trying this. I'm really hoping that it's good. Then I have some organic raisins for my oatmeal raisin cookies and also for my monster cookies. That is my pile of goodies that I got for holiday baking. Let me show you my list of cookies that I want to make this week and then we're going to start baking. I have a list of all the cookies and the things that I want to bake here in my planner. This is the Erin Condren Hourly Life Planner, and it's just on that extra page after your monthly layout. I have it divided here for cookie day, for Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day. This is where I like to write down everything that I'm going to make as I think of it so I don't forget about it. This is my list of all the things that I'm going to bake. Now, I'm not going to get to every single one of these this weekend, but I have I think like a week and a half or so before Christmas, so probably by the time Christmas rolls around, most of these will be somewhere in the house, either in the freezer or in the fridge. I like to keep my cookies cold because I think that they last longer or I guess stay fresher longer that way. We are going to be making candy bar cookies. Now, I have made this recipe for years. I usually use leftover Halloween candy. When the kids were young, we just had a bunch of it, and I would stick it in the freezer and pull it out for Christmas cookies. But today, I am just using Twix bars. I have about two cups. The bottom there is chopped up Twix bars, and I have some peanut butter chips and some chocolate chips here on top. In my standing mixer, I have two sticks of softened butter, a cup of brown sugar, and a cup of white sugar. I'm going to get this all mixed up, and then we're going to add some eggs and vanilla. We're going to add a teaspoon of baking powder, a teaspoon of baking soda, and also a teaspoon of salt, but I'm going to reduce that because my butter is salted. I'm just going to put a fourth of a teaspoon in, and then we'll mix all that up, and then we will add our flour. We're going to add three cups of flour, and then you're going to fold in your peanut butter and chocolate chips and candy bars, and then you'll take this by rounded tablespoon and drop it on your cookie sheet and get it in the oven. This is what the candy bar cookies look like. Depending on what candy bar you use really determines what the cookie looks like, but they are really light and crispy and soft in the middle, and they are one of our most favorite Christmas and any time cookies. Whenever I am spending a lot of time in the kitchen, I don't really listen to music. I listen to podcasts. The one that I have been listening to this weekend is called The Mama Mystery True Crime Podcast. I have just come across this one during the Casey Anthony docuseries that was on, and she did a great analysis of that whole docuseries, which was really interesting to me, so I have been listening to her now probably for the last couple weeks. I like her podcasts very much because they are shorter. They are somewhere around like 20 to 30 minutes, and she gets right to it. It's not a lot of fluff and conversation in the beginning. She gets right to the details of the story, so I highly recommend Mama Mystery A True Crime Podcast. Moving on, the next cookie that we are going to make are called, at least I call them Snicker Treasures. They are like a peanut butter dough that is wrapped around a little Snickers mini. I have about 30 unwrapped here, and in my mixer I have a stick of butter, a half a cup of peanut butter, a half a cup of brown sugar, and a half a cup of regular sugar. To this we're going to add a teaspoon of vanilla, one egg, and a half a teaspoon of both baking soda and baking powder. Then we're going to add one and a half cups of flour. Mix that really well, and your dough should start to thicken up. This is the consistency that you're looking for. You can also just pop this dough in the refrigerator if you think that it needs to stiffen up a little bit. All we're going to do now is take a spoonful of dough and wrap it around one of these little Snickers and put it on your cookie sheet. We're going to bake in a 350 degree oven for about 10 to 12 minutes. Tell me in the comments section down below how your holiday prep is going. Are you getting all of the things on your list done? I have to be honest with you, I am in a little bit of a funk this year. It has been so hard to find the motivation I need to get all of my stuff done. I really think it's because this is the first year that I just don't have any kids at all at home. I think I just really miss my people. I have four adult kids that are out of the house now. They're out on their own. To be honest, I think just this year it has taken a little bit of that fun and magic from the season for me. They'll be here starting at the end of the week. We're all going to gather here for the holiday. Whether or not my to-do list is done, I think it'll all be okay and the holiday will be just perfect. This is how the Snicker treasure cookies come out. They are just so good. They're soft and chewy and perfect with a big glass of milk. I'm getting ready to melt some chocolate. I'm going to do some white chocolate and some milk chocolate. I have my sauce pan on the stove. I have a glass bowl in here. I'm going to be putting some water in the bottom there to heat up and start melting the chocolate. This one I'm going to do for chocolate because I'm going to do milk chocolate because it's going to be the most that I'm going to use. This little guy over here is just going to be for the white chocolate. I have my dipping station all set up. I have some Milano cookies. I have some small pretzel rods. I have some crushed peppermint from some candy canes. I have sprinkles here. I always use an empty bowl to add my sprinkles and everything over top so it doesn't get all over. I'm going to go and get my melted chocolate and we're going to get started. The cookies have all been dipped and I'm moving on to the pretzels. I decided I was going to use these little mini pretzels for this part of the dipping so I've added a little pot here of some melted caramel. I have my milk chocolate and my white chocolate here and I'll be using some of these nonpareils the Christmas color ones to sprinkle on our pretzels. Once you melt your caramel you're going to want to let it sit a little bit so that when you scoop it out you can kind of form it to your pretzel. These pretzels make great gifts for teachers. I like to leave a bag of these in the mailbox for the mailman. They're just really simple to add to all of your cookie platters. They're easy to make and everybody seems to love them. Before we get to our last recipe it's time for a bowl of chicken noodle soup and some garlic cheesy bread. Saturdays are soup days in our house and I so look forward to them. I like to make a big pot of soup on Saturdays so that we have something in the refrigerator for the rest of the week. Next up I am making the Rolo pretzel treats. This is such a quick and easy recipe. I'm sure we've probably all made this one from time to time. I'm doing it the traditional way. I have 50 pretzels lined up here on my cookie sheet and I've unwrapped my Rolos. I have also made this recipe with little mini peanut butter cups which was really good. You can top them either with M&Ms or I like to use pecan halves. That's my favorite way to do these. I have my pretzel lined up. I'm going to top them with my Rolos and get them in a 300 degree oven for like 3 minutes I think. Then we just pull them out and top them with the pecans. That's going to do it for me today. I hope that you enjoyed today's cookie video. I wish for each one of you the most wonderful of Christmas holidays. I hope that you are surrounded by the people that you love the most and you share good food, lots of laughs, and lots of love. Join our communities over on Facebook and Instagram at mybashfullife and please don't forget to subscribe. I would love to have you all back in 2023 as part of our YouTube family. Until I see you in that next video I hope that you love the life that you have. Be kind to each other, stay safe, and I will see you again soon. Merry Christmas! Bye Bye! But the difference