I’m excited that this is my 1000th post! I have come a very long way since my first post and I’m looking forward to 1000 more!
I have so many posts to get out for December, but I couldn’t pass up this fun challenge! The Coastie Couple and The Petite Mrs. have come up with an amazing twelve days of blogmas challenge!
So, on the first day of blogmas The Coastie Couple and The Petite Mrs. gave to me…
1 Holiday Tradition
Baking cookies with my grandma was always a favorite tradition from my childhood. We always made cookies and cut them into Santas, stars, reindeer, trees, wreaths, and stockings, My grandma would make icing and I would decorate the cookies and put sprinkles, red hots, colored sugar, and chocolate chips on them. I would always make nine reindeer. One cookie for each of Santa’s reindeer. Wight of them had chocolate chip noses and one had a red hot for a nose. You can’t have Santa’s reindeer without a Rudolph!
This year is my family’s first Christmas without my grandma and I decided that I was going to make three of her cookie recipes to honor her memory. I didn’t make the cut cookies this year, but I will soon. Here’s the first of the three cookies I made to honor my grandma this year.
Grandma’s Peanut Butter Cookies
The first cookie recipe I made was Peanut Butter cookies. When I was little I really liked making these with my grandma. She would always let me make the crisscross pattern on them with the fork.
Here’s what you need:
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar (packed)
1 egg
1 1/4 cup all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
Mix shortening, peanut butter, sugars, and egg thoroughly.
Blend all dry ingredients and stir into shortening mixture.
This is usually the point where I start mixing with my hands. It makes it a lot easier to get all the little bits mixed into the dough.
Chill dough for at least two hours or over night. It really only needs to be chilled for at least two hours.
Roll dough into 1 1/4 inch balls and place 3 inches apart on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Flatten them with a fork dipped in flour in a crisscross pattern.
Bake for 10-12 minutes
Makes about 3 dozen 2 1/2 inch cookies
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How lovely! I used to make holiday cookies and treats with my grandmother too-she passed this last year so I’m making them again in honor of her as well! Thank you so much for linking up and sharing! š
Thanks Nora! My grandma passed in October so it still hurts some. I know she was watching me when I was making my cookies this year!
Yay for your 1000th post!! Congratulations š Those cookies look AMAZING. I think making these cookies is such a great way to honor her. Iām so sorry for your loss, though. I hope making these made you think about all of the good times you cherished with her! <3
Thank you! We were truly blessed to have her in our lives! Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!
I’m sorry your Grandma is no longer with you, but I love that you are holding the tradition and carrying it forward!
I remember my grandmother, mom, and aunts and older cousins baking a lot after Thanksgiving. I was never old enough to help back then (but I was old enough to sneak into the pantry and indulge in the large canister of rum balls they made every year–still my favorite!). I’m sorry for the recent loss of your grandmother but love the way you are honoring her memory with this tradition.
Haha! That’s funny that you would steal rum balls!
These sound SO good! I thought that they looked good in your picture the other day but seeing the recipe makes me want them even more! Thanks for linking up with us. š
These look yummy! I hope to incorporate more baking in my own holiday traditions. It must be nice to have this to connect you to your grandmother — that’s the wonderful thing about tradition. š
I used to always make these cookies as a child. They are so yummy and addicting!!!
Perfect for Christmas
You know, I have never made peanut butter cookies! I have made just about every other type under the sun, but no peanut butter. I think that is a good excuse to try your recipe. I am going to pin it for later. Thanks for sharing.
And, I am very sorry for your loss. My grandma went to Heaven when I was 12, and I have missed her so much, especially around Christmas. Hugs to you.
Thank you Miranda! I live in Atlanta and my family is in Southern Illinois so I’m obviously not able to be there. I know she’s enjoying the Christmas season from Heaven though! You should make these peanut butter cookies! They are incredibly easy! The hardest part is waiting for the dough to chill! Haha!
Your grandma’s cookies remind me of the peanut butter cookies we used to make when I was a child. And congrats on the 1000th post!
Thank you for sharing your grandmother’s recipe and your story! I will try this recipe with my little girls. Have a beautiful holiday season!