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What is your favorite holiday confection?
Asked at Massachusetts Street on December 5, 2007
“I like fudge; plain old fudge without any nuts. The holidays are the only time I get to eat it.”
“Iced sugar cookies. It’s what we always had around our house growing up, and now my wife makes a batch to send out every year.”
“I like the Ferrero Rocher hazelnut chocolates at Christmas time.”
“I’d have to say my mom’s homemade fudge with walnuts.”
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Comments
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 5 years, 5 months ago
Not Sure.
Let me sample some, then I will tell you...
GSWtotheheart 5 years, 5 months ago
sinus
Oh I thought it said infection
ohjayhawk 5 years, 5 months ago
There are too many to pick just one!
Sugar cookies, pumpkin rolls, the little cookies with the Hershey's kiss in the middle, the buckeyes, the hard tack, and the list goes on.
jonas 5 years, 5 months ago
H-Lecter's wonderful briscuit. So tender! So juicy!
Medium rare, please.
canyon_wren 5 years, 5 months ago
Pralines. I got the recipe from a KU Spanish professor, Maude Elliott, 45 years ago, when I worked at KU's College of Liberal Arts and Science after graduation. She had spent some time in Spain, I think, and got it there. I have made it every year since. It has buttermilk in it which gives it a special "tang." My daughter and I make 4 kinds of candy and about 6 kinds of cookies each year to pass around, but that is always the favorite.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 5 years, 5 months ago
ohjayhawk, "the hard tack"? What is your hard tack? I thought hard tack was this thick, hard, dense cracker/biscuit. Only way to eat it was softened in salt pork grease.
geekin_topekan 5 years, 5 months ago
I used to like powerdered suger cookies but the cops would always stop me claiming probably cause because I had sugar on my nose.
snap_pop_no_crackle 5 years, 5 months ago
Divinity or peanut brittle. I could go either way.
trinity 5 years, 5 months ago
peanut butter balls. mmmmmmm mmmmm good.
that's only one in a list of many! :)
consumer1 5 years, 5 months ago
Which "Holiday" is this question referring to? For valentines day I like "Sweet kisses" For Halloween I like Candy Corn For Columbus day I like pumpkin pie For Veterans day I like apple pie For Kwanza I like Sweet Potatoe pie shall I go on? I will asume since this is the season in which CHRISTMAS comes around, this question might be related to CHRISTMAS. So, to answer the question for the CHRISTMAS holiday, I like Oatmeal fudge refridgerator cookies". MERRY CHRISTMAS to those of you who celebrate CHRISTMAS! to those who don't have a happy what ever you call it.
snap_pop_no_crackle 5 years, 5 months ago
TOB, fruitcake and I needed some time apart. We're still friends, tho.
stuckinthemiddle 5 years, 5 months ago
homemade fruit cake...
mom_of_three 5 years, 5 months ago
my grandma's divinity.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 5 years, 5 months ago
It's Saint Nicholas' eve. Tonight Sinterklaas comes!!!!
Remember to put your wellingtons out.
If you were good, in the morn you will find candy. If bad... a bag of salt.
EireishHawk 5 years, 5 months ago
Kourabiedes (Walnut Sugar Cookies) and Rum Balls.
ohjayhawk 5 years, 5 months ago
R_I - Hard tack is a type of candy. Looking at recipes, the main ingredient seems to be Karo syrup, sugar, and flavoring. The flavoring is usually fruit, mint, cinnamon, etc. It is very sticky during the making of it and is cut into pieces using scissors. Once it cools it is usually coated with powdered sugar. I found one website that has a somewhat decent picture of it here
http://www.cobblestoneconfections.com/Summertime-Hard-Tack-Candy_p_22-26.html
I usually get mine at the Christmas Bazaar at the church I attended when I lived "back home".
acg 5 years, 5 months ago
I have two recipes I only make at xmas and they are both freaking awesome. One is my grandma's fudge. It takes longer than traditional fudge but it's worth it. The other is my great grandma's chocolate pecan pie. OMG, everything in the world should taste like that stuff.
Ceallach 5 years, 5 months ago
Iced sugar cookies have been a favorite since my children were young and we made them each year. Good taste and great memories.
mom_of_three 5 years, 5 months ago
My grandma's divinity sometimes has nuts in it, or pieces of hard candy. I also like to make cinnamon candy this time of year, which sound like someone's hard tack, except I pour it in a pan, let it cool, and then break it into pieces.
sunflower_sue 5 years, 5 months ago
My Aunt's divinity with black walnuts! My Mom's Swedish spritz...sans icing My neighbor's peanut brittle My hubby's peanut butter balls...um, that seems like a good place to stop! ;)
blackwalnut 5 years, 5 months ago
No fair, all of you - for not posting the recipes!
JJHawq 5 years, 5 months ago
Pretzels with the almond bark melted over them...
Bourban balls...
Hot buttered rum...
Nugs... ; )
Kathy Getto 5 years, 5 months ago
My Grandma's penuche fudge or my Mother-in-law's painted Swedish cookies.
staff04 5 years, 5 months ago
R_I, thanks for reminding me! Eggenberg Samichlaus gets brewed tomorrow too!
I think I shall celebrate with a bottle of the 2006 vintage...
chapdaddy 5 years, 5 months ago
Salty balls from Schweddy's
Azure_Attitude 5 years, 5 months ago
Aunt Janice's Nut Cups. Ooh-ooh-ooh ooh-oooooh!!! They are like bite sized pecan pies. She lives in Ohio so I have to make them myself if I want them usually, but make them I do 'cuz they're so damn good!!
Don't forget about Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls, Chap?
ohjayhawk 5 years, 5 months ago
A_A - whereabouts in Ohio? I'd be willing to pay for bite sized pecan pies!
juscin3 5 years, 5 months ago
Klondike bars.
xyz 5 years, 5 months ago
My grandfather was the candy chef and his spread included peanut brittle, mints, toffee, fudge, almond bark, and probably a few other things that I have forgotten about. It was all fabulous, but my favorite was the toffee. My brothers were partial to the peanut brittle. It was stored in a big glass jar with a metal lid, so the lid would always rattle when they tried to sneak a piece. My grandmother made a zillion types of cookies, so all confection bases were covered at Christmas when I was growing up!!!!! And then there's the pies and coffee cakes.......
Ceallach 5 years, 5 months ago
Oh, I forgot about Bread Pudding with raisins, pecans and hot buttered rum sauce (JJHawq's post reminded me:)
GretchenJP 5 years, 5 months ago
Renate Rea doesn't like nuts.
janeyb 5 years, 5 months ago
Fudge with black walnuts. -- no nasty inneundo intended.
Confrontation 5 years, 5 months ago
I'd have to go with Orange Bowl Invite cookies. Here's the link:
Mizzou Apology by jhawkman02
GretchenJP 5 years, 5 months ago
iced sugar cookies and peanut butter fudge
Ceallach 5 years, 5 months ago
I could use a holiday confection right about now . . . just finished converting my home computer to a wireless connection. It only took me 1 hour and 50 minutes to complete the process that the product estimated would take 20 - 30 minutes!!!! All that because I'm too cheap to call Geek Squad or Geeks on Wheels. Oh well, seems to work now. Is it Friday yet?
Manana! All y'all have a good night.
yourworstnightmare 5 years, 5 months ago
I would say the flu, followed by salmonella from the lutefisk, and then a bout with MRSA in the paper cuts from wrapping paper.
chapdaddy 5 years, 5 months ago
I prefer oranges over cotton.......candy.
Confrontation 5 years, 5 months ago
chapdaddy: Oranges look better in bowls, too.
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