Favorite Christmas Cookies!!

Today, being the day after Thanksgiving, I was going to make pfeffernusse cookies. The kitchen was cool, not hot so it was a good time to do it.
When I got married I moved halfway across the country. When it came time to make Christmas cookies I didn't have any recipes. Not being like my mom and grandma I couldn't just toss ingredients into a bowl and come up with cookies. I had to go buy a Betty Crocker Cookie Book. I made about every kind of cookie in that book. I wore one out and bought another one. One of my boys rescued the first one. He wanted to know which cookies I had made. I told him to look for the pages with spills. He said that was about all of them.
Pfeffernusse is one that I've made year after year after year and it wouldn't be Christmas without them.
The rule is that you can make them only between Thanksgiving and Christmas and no other time of the year. All of the boys now make them from the same recipe.
So, I got out the book and gathered the ingredients and started mixing them. Just a single batch this year. No need for double or triple recipes with just the two of us now.
But when I got all the wet ingredients mixed and took the box of anise extract and opened it and took out the bottle, it was EMPTY. What to do? I covered the bowl and stuck it in the refrigerator. Tomorrow I will go and buy anise extract. It could just be bad luck not to have pfeffernusse cookies after 49 years of making them.
Do you have a cookie that makes it Christmas at your house? One that you make year after year after year?
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Ooh, Deanna, I love peanut butter balls. Haven't had them for years. Maybe I'll make some this year.... That's very wonderful that you have your grandma's candy kettle and spoon.

I make bars that I think are "officially" called Magic Bars or 7 Layer Bars but my mom and I used to call them "Healthy Bars" just for a joke. You'll see why!! This is the recipe:

Melt a stick of butter in a 9x12 pan.
Layer 1 cup graham cracker crumbs for crust.
Layer about a cup of each: chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, chopped walnuts and shredded coconut.
Top the whole thing with a can of sweetened condensed milk drizzled evenly.
Bake at 350 for about 30 minutes or until the top is just barely starting to brown...

Oh my goodness, they are good. Cut them small because they are rich. But be warned, it's impossible to stop at just one.

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