Growing up, Christmas was always filled with amazing smells. My mother and both of my grandmothers would bake and make candies and various treats to share with neighbors and at family parties. My favorite were the spider cookies. They are semi-sweet and butterscotch chips melted then mixed with crunchy Chinese noodles and peanuts. Then you drop them by the spoonful onto wax paper and let them harden (or chill them in the fridge if you don’t have the time). Salty and sweet and crunchy all at the same time. I recently made some for a church party, and when I bit into one (to test and make sure I got it right), I closed my eyes and was instantly in my mom’s kitchen, nine years-old, and hearing my mom and my grandmother talk about everything that still needed to be done before Christmas.
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Thanks for the idea with your spider cookies. I googled for a recipe and after weeding out the obvious Halloween cookies, I think I found something which comes close to what your grandma made. I have to be creative about the butterscotch drops as these are not readily available here (I might as some of my American army/airforce friends if they can bring me some from the commisary) but I’ll give it a try. I know something similar with chocolate and cornflakes but they sound positively boring in comparison.
The recipe is:
Spider Cookies
12 oz. semi-sweet chocolate chips
11 oz. butterscotch chips
8 oz. salted peanuts
12 oz. Chinese noodles
Melt the chips in a glass bowl over a pan of boiling water. Mix in noodles and peanuts. When they are coated, drop them by teaspoon on wax paper.
Don’t you just love it when we are transported in time to magical moments through taste, music, a perfume.. 😉
Yes!
Here’s two Christmas Memories, a childhood one and a recent one:
https://davidmsphotoblog.com/2019/12/20/a-photo-a-week-challenge-christmas-memories/
Thanks for the recipe!
The perfect challenge as we do our Christmas card. Thank you so much.
https://teepee12.com/2019/12/20/christmas-memories-a-photo-a-week-challenge-marilyn-armstrong/
Here’s the Viennese Shortcakes recipe post:
https://davidmsphotoblog.com/2019/12/21/viennese-shortcakes/
Thank you!
Now my kids have their own families, Christmas kis kind of spread out voer the whole week:) https://wp.me/p9EWyp-1y2
Sorry for the typos – meant to say Christmas is kind of spread over the whole week!
Lol, no worries. I have posted so many times with doing a quick spell check. It has caused many funny moments.
Obviously a perfect prompt for this week. Also a challenge to choose. Love those cookies – look delicious 🙂
http://oneletterup.com/2019/12/24/photo-a-week-christmas-memories