Hello from TINA KASHIAN! I love cookies and holiday cookie swaps. I also enjoy baking during the holidays and my Armenian family made these cookies every year. I prepared this batch with my youngest teenage daughter, and we had fun rolling the dough. They smell delicious fresh out of the oven and taste flaky and light. The added almond adds flavor and crunch. The recipe calls for rose water which can be found in most international aisles of supermarkets. But if you can’t find it, the cookies taste great without it.
Ingredients:
¾ cup unsalted clarified butter
½ cup vegetable shortening
1 ¼ cups sugar
1 teaspoon rose water (found in Mediterranean or Middle Eastern aisle) Optional
2 ¼ cups flour
Whole almonds
Directions:
Preheat oven to 275 degrees. Mix butter, shortening, sugar and rose water until fluffy in an electric mixer. Add four, mix thoroughly.
Taking about two tablespoons of dough, roll into a smooth rope.
Make a circle with the rope and pinch the seams tighter. Press a whole, shelled almond into the seam. Place on a lined baking sheet.
Bake for 20 -25 minutes or until slightly golden brown on the bottom.
Cool on rack. Enjoy!
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Thank you for the Armenian White Christmas Cookies recipe. I'm always excited to try new recipes and this one sounds yummy. I'm also one who loves to make the old traditional cookies - especially when they evoke sweet memories.
ReplyDeleteMy Mom would make the old fashion cut out sugar cookies by the dozens and then my brother and I would spend hours decorating them. We would switch up icing colors and give each other suggestions about what sort of sprinkles or candy topping that would add to the designs. As an adult, I realize how smart my mother was in finding a way to occupy our long days of holiday break from school, teaching us to share and to utilize our creative sides.
This is one kind of cookie I make every Christmas both for the taste and the wonderful memories they bring back to me. Both my Mom and my brother have gone on to their heavenly home and it's a way to stay close to their memories. I love having a group of little ones over to help me decorate them hoping to instill in them the same sweet memories and traditions to carry forward.
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Hi Kay! Thank you for sharing your holiday cookie memories. I love that you still follow the tradition and have other children help decorate the cookies. Those are the best tasting cookies!
DeleteMy favorite holiday cookie is a peanut butter blossom. Thanks for the chance!
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I enjoy any cookie with peanut butter. Always yummy!
DeleteThis sounds very tasty.
ReplyDeleteIf rose water is not available, do you think vanilla would work? It certainly wouldn't have the same taste.
"Add four, mix thoroughly." I bet that's "flour"
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Yes! Thanks for catching this. It is flour. You could add vanilla for a different taste, too.
DeleteMy favorite cookie is thumbprints made with pecans and decorated with cream cheese colored frosting. lindalou64(@)live(dot)com
ReplyDeleteHi Linda! Cream cheese frosting is delicious. I haven't made this frosting in a while, but you reminded me of it. Thanks!
Deletethank you for the recipe. those look wonderful. i used to love to bake cookies with our two. such a fun cover. happy holidays and merry christmas
ReplyDeleteHi Lori, It is funny banking with the girls. Now that they are a bit older, I'm trying to get them to wash the bowls and pans, too. Wish me luck!
DeleteMy favorite holiday cookie is really ... all of them! If I had to pick just one, I would say a really big, soft, chewy, moist gingerbread cookie with lots of frosting.
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Hi Nancy! My mother-in-law bakes gingerbread cookies and makes a gingerbread house every year for our girls to decorate. It's delicious. I can't make it as good as her so I stick to baking other types of cookies. Happy holidays!
DeleteI like candy cane cookies (for the look) and gingerbread cookies.
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Our version of Mexican Wedding cookies, and I call 'em Pecan Frosties. lola777_22 at hotmail dot com
ReplyDeleteI enjoy cookies with nuts, almonds, pecans, and peanuts. I like the name Pecan Frosties
DeleteSugar cookies. But a little outside the box, I love Cranberry Bliss Bars. journeybound2010 (at) gmail (dot) com
ReplyDeleteHi Jen, I haven't tried cranberry bliss bars. I'm assuming it tastes like a cookie with cranberries. I like cookies with raisins and would probably like the cranberry bars, too
DeleteThank you for sharing the recipe for the Armenian White Christmas Cookies. Each Christmas when my Mom was still with us we would choose recipes from countries other than the U.S. to serve at the family's Christmas Eve dinner. I carry that tradition forward so the Armenian White Christmas Cookies will be perfect this year. Mom & I enjoyed learning about the Christmas traditions of different cultures & we liked sharing those traditions with my two children too. Merry Christmas to everyone! lnchudej@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteHi Linda. How nice! I love all types of cuisine, especially Italian and Chinese. So, I would like this tradition a lot!
DeleteMy favorite holiday cookie is Christmas cut out sugar cookies decorated and with lots of frosting, LOL. Thanks for the chance!
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Any thing with lots of frosting would go fast in my house. I especially like frosting for sugar cookies. Homemade chocolate frosting, too
DeleteMy favorite holiday cookie is the walnut sugar cookies my Mom used to make. We still make them every year.
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That sounds very special to make mom's cookies every year. I like cookies with nuts in them and I would like these, too.
DeleteMy favorite cookie is ginger snaps.
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My favorites are Buckeyes! tWarner419@aol.com
ReplyDeleteI love peanut butter cookies. cherierj(at)yahoo(dot)com
ReplyDeleteRight now my favs are sugar cookies, but these could become my favorites. I absolutely LOVE almonds!! lindaherold999@gmail.com
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