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I am your typical housewife living in high maintenance suburbia. I have a handsome husband, 2 kids and a flock of pet chickens. I try and feed my family with $100 a month. With the help of coupons, gardening and bartering I am able to squeeze the most out of our grocery budget and still manage to have a little fun along the way.

A Little Something To Go With Your Morning Cuppa Giveaway

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** This giveaway is now closed**

I was in ALDI a few days ago when I noticed nearly an entire aisle dedicated to Christmas cookies and sweets and knew I just had to share. After all, sharing is caring and everyone knows calories don’t count between the months of November and December, right?

Yep! The calories totally don’t count. 😉 I’m almost positive I read that somewhere.

And c’mon now, if we are going to get technical here, cookies are made with eggs, and sometimes nuts and what could be more healthy than popping a wee bit of egg in your mouth to get your day started?

Or having a bit of chocolate on hand for a little afternoon pick me up? 😉 Am I right, or what!?

So let’s do this!

One lucky winner will receive one package of the following:

  • Zimtsterne cookies
  • Almond Spekulatius cookies
  • Gefüllte Herzon Vollmilch
  • Pfeffernüsse Glasiert
  • Weihnachts Mischung Schokolade
  • Erdnussberge
  • Caramel Waffles

How you can win it:

If you could only have one cookie to eat, or one particular kind of chocolate to treat yourself to for the rest of your life, what would it be? {I would choose fig and hazelnut biscotti and sea salt caramels from Black Dinah Chocolatiers.}

Just answer that one question below in the comment section and you’re entered to win. Life’s pretty complicated sometimes, so I like to keep things simple around here. This particular giveaway is open to residents anywhere on the planet earth.

Rules:

1 entry per person/ip address. If you cheat, you will totally be disqualified.

This giveaway ends Sunday, November 18th, 2018 @9 pm EST and the winner will be announced in the Monday, November 19th edition of Mornings with Mavis. You will be notified via email and have 24 hours to claim your prize. If you do not claim your prize within 24 hours, the prize will be forfeited and I will eat all the cheese! 🙂

Good Luck. I hope you win!

♥ Mavis

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Comments

  6. Mine would be the Daim chocolate toffee candy bars (the little tiny ones) from Sweden) they are delicious and I love how tiny they are (if only I could stop at one!) they sell them at IKEA or Cost Plus World Market or most Nordic specialty shops if you’re lucky enough to live by one 🙂

  7. Fruit cake cookie! My grandma always made them every Nov and Dec. I have the recipe and now make them every year.I ❤

  13. I would probably go with a Reese’s white chocolate peanut butter cup. Over and over and over and over and…. 🙂

  15. My sister in law has me beat with her soft ginger cookies with white chocolate icing, it’s become an all family favorite. (Use to be My chocolate chip pudding cookies but I must admit even I like hers better than mine)

  17. I don’t even need to think about it, it would be our own recipe chocolate chip cookies either as a plain cookie or cookie cake with our own recipe for buttercream icing

  19. I don’t even need to think about it, it would be our own recipe chocolate chip cookies either as a plain cookie or cookie cake with our own recipe for buttercream icing

  20. Ferrero Rocher chocolates. So delicious and delightful to unwrap. They’re packaged like little jewels.

  23. Toffee (Heath) covered in milk or dark chocolate – cookies, I love almost any kind as long as they’re warm!

  24. I have to pick one?? haha, um, probably chocolate chocolate chip.

    Thanks for the giveaway!! Seeing all of these in Aldi makes me nostalgic for the two Christmas seasons I spent in Germany. I mean, these specific treats are all over then and the Christmas markets… thanks for the chance to reflect on (and possibly taste) my memories!

  39. My mother’s Carrot Cake with cream cheese frosting and my Grandmother’s Sesame Cookies, it’s like I’m getting a great big hug from them whenever I make them for my boys 🙂

  41. I love a good chocolate chip cookie. My mom makes the most amazing oatmeal chocolate chip cookies that even with the recipe I haven’t been able to replicate. So yummy!

  42. Passing on the cookie away. However, I appreciate the humor. I saw a sign over someone’s desk years ago. It read something like: “Foods of the same color have the same calories. So, white chocolate has the same calories as mushrooms.” Don’t we wish! Good luck, Y’All!

  46. Sugar Cookies from Cheryl’s….major weakness 🙂

    By the way, Aldi used to have really good peppermint coffee creamer at Christmas too!

  49. Every time I make one of my favorite cookie recipes I think “THIS is my actual favorite!” So I’m not really sure, but I’ll go with peanut butter cup cookies, because I’ve been wanting them for a few weeks..just waiting for my mom to deliver the mini peanut butter cups!
    As for chocolate..Finland’s Fazer, either the one with licorice bits or the salted toffee. We’re planning to tour their factory on Saturday!

  50. Hmm… to pick just one, what a commitment! I think a fresh chocolate chip cookie from Tiff’s Treats would be my choice. I don’t know that I can pick just one chocolate, but I don’t think I’d be upset with only having Justin’s dark chocolate peanut butter cups for the rest of my life.

  51. well I like many many (too many) types of cookies so this is difficult. So if I had to choose it would have to be one I make all the time, good ole back of the bag toll house chocolate chip cookies.

  54. I love a good dark chocolate, that I could eat a pice a day, and not break the bank. Ghiradelli Intense Dark Squares ‘Midnight Reverie’ at 86% fits the bill.

  57. Big chewy sugar cookies get me everytime. When they’re perfect, they’re perfect. Unfortunately there are lots of dry sugar cookies in the world, but I’m willing to try them all to find those perfect ones.

  58. So many cookies… to just choose one. I would have to say Peanut Butter cookies. Definitely a favorite I will never get tired of.

  60. HooBoy, Mavis! This is such a yummy giveaway!!! Aldi’s Christmas collection is sooo delightful. Very nice of you.
    My favorite cookie (I make every year without fail, even after a hip replacement!) is Bourbon Pecan Spritz. I can eat the entire batch. I’ve even risked salmonella poisoning by eating the dough! Lol

  66. I’m such a sucker for anything with a good rich chocolate and marshmallow. So, a good cookie that combines both would be my choice. I make a cookie at Christmas time that combines these and give away about 40 dozen each year. I love that I can make something people wait for every year…. So fun!

  69. I’d choose the Salted Peanut Cookies my grandma had waiting for us every time we visited. I’ve made them for my dad (his favorite too). Mine are good, but not as good as grandma’s! She’s no longer with us and I miss her. I think I’ll make these cookies tonight for my hubby in her honor.

  70. Biscochitos. A cookie from New Mexico that is alot like a shortbread cookie with cinammon and sugar and anise. Fantastic.

  72. Since we’re talking holiday time, I will have to choose my Grandma’s snickerdoodles…oh wait, the coconut balls. Nope, her thumprint cookies with homemade jam…her homemade almond roacka? Can I choose her cookie tin instead??

  74. I would pick springer cookies- I am so thankful my grandma and grandpa taught me the way to make these- a family favorite tradition!

  80. My late mother’s Russian tea cookies. Such a simple recipe: Ground walnuts, flour, vanilla, butter, salt, baked for about an hour, then rolled in powdered sugar. I have her recipe but they never turn out the same.

    All those cookies look divine and would love to sample, however we do NOT have an Aldi’s in Utah!!

  83. Sugar Wafer Cookies !!!! Little Debbie Brand use to make them years ago…oh how I wish they would bring them back & yes I even notify them & ask……Still looking & waiting Patiently …Thanks

  89. My mom always baked dozens of cookies at the holidays, so it’s hard to pick one! I adored it when Mom would mix up things, and some of her Tollhouse right-from-The-bag recipe had a few raisins tossed in as a surprise! Or the rolled up powdered balls (can’t remember the name!)-yum! And I can’t forget Peanut Butter Patties/Tagalongs from the Girl Scouts!

    As for chocolate, I’m old-school, and love Dark Chocolate Goldenberg’s Peanut Chews!

  91. How do u choose one? The first cookie that came to mind is choc chip- I never turn one down and don’t make them enough- but then I remembered my grandma’s oatmeal lace and wish I had one now. Candy wise it’s See’s candies that I also enjoy. We just got a ALDI I’m going to have to check fir this aisle

  92. Although it is like choosing between my children, I would have to say Jam Thumbprint cookies, homemade of course!

  93. Anything made with dark chocolate (!) but my particular favorite is a chocolate crinkle made with seedless raspberry jam in the batter. Bliss…

  96. This one is a tough one for me but I’m going to say my homemade caramel chocolate chip cookies are it.

  97. This is an easy one – my cookie would be the Snickerdoodle. It tastes of my childhood and fills me with comfort and love back when life was much simpler. It is full of buttery goodness and cinnamon – great eaten alone and over the top dunked in icy cold milk!

  101. Dark chocolate Molasses chips from Sees candies or my daughters chocolate chip cookies that taste like love!

  103. Your chocolate chip cookie recipe (best one on the planet) or molasses cookies. Coffee Crisp chocolate. Yummy!

  104. I’d go with monster cookies, some chocolate, some peanut butter, some oatmeal, all the good stuff.

  105. What a fun giveaway! When I gave birth to our youngest daughter on December 26, a wonderful friend visited us in the hospital and brought a tray of homemade cookies, including some delightful candy cane oatmeal cookies. They’re chewy and pepperminty and were just perfect to me then. They’re still pretty darn perfect to me now and I’d eat them by the pan full if left unsupervised!

  107. As far as cookies go, I love homemade cookies of almost any sort. Especially chocolate chip and snickerdoodles. As for chocolate, I love dark chocolate!

  108. My Grammy made the best pfeffernusse cookies every year when I was a kid. She had a way of making the holidays so special and I would give anything for more of her cookies !

  111. If I HAVE to pick one, I would have to say chocolate chip cookies with chunks of chocolate instead of chips.

  112. I Love Ginger Cookies with Candied Ginger added to the Cookie mixture. Great Treat for Thanksgiving with Turkey Decoration and Christmas with Candy Cane or Snowman Decorations.

  113. Too hard to choose between a PB chocolate chip cookie or Norwegian Krumkake. Oh my, your giveaway looks delicious!

  120. My favorite cookie is a homemade jam thumbprint. My favorite candy at Christmas is chocolate covered cherries, because they remind me of my mother. She always had them in the house during the holidays.

  122. My Aunt Carol’s tollhouse chocolate chip cookies. When I asked her why her cookies come out better with the same recipe she told me that she follows the recipe to the letter. I guess I better pay more attention to what I’m doing!

  125. I love the little toll House chocolate chip cookies still warm from the oven with a cold glass of milk! Although my mom used to make a very delicate Spritz cookie in strips from a recipe she got from a German woman she knew. Maybe this year I’ll try my hand at that.

  126. Cranberry pecan cookies with orange icing! Tart and sweet and ohhhh so good. BTW, you may want to edit that last line. I think this time you will eat all the cookies and not the cheese!

  131. Those chocolate-peanut butter-oatmeal no-bake cookies that you just have to refrigerate. THOSE are my favorite, and dang it, I’m going to need to make some, aren’t I??? *drool*

  134. I would choose either the Napoleon’s Hat cookie from the danish bakery in Solvang, CA which is a butter cookie filled with almond marzipan and dipped in chocolate or on the homemade front, my Gran’s molasses cookies.
    As far as candy goes I love See’s candy Bordeaux or California crunch. In a pinch I will gladly eat Almond Roca.

  135. I would like a peanut butter cookie with the chocolate kiss melted on top! The best of both worlds!

  138. cut out cookies with buttercream icing… I especially love to eat them out of the freezer. I also love the lindt truffle chocolates.

  142. If I had to pick one cookie for the rest of my life it would be my chocolate chip cookie bars with crushed oreos….serioulsy soooo good!

  143. Russian tea cookies made with candied pecans! Made them with candied pecans for the first time last year…incredible!

  145. My Mom’s frosted sugar cookie. (She ‘s been gone 20 years now) And my Sweetie’s home made fudge.

  147. I am a simple girl and I would choose warm-from-the-oven chocolate chip cookies. Soft and chewy only, no-no to any not warm and chewy cookie. 🙂

  149. Springerles- a family holiday tradition. We make them the day after Thanksgiving so they are ready by Christmas!

  150. I had some of a Toffee Terry’s Chocolate Orange the other day and I could probably eat that forever!

  151. Monster cookies, but the recipe must be my 98 year old grandma’s that called for about 5 lbs of butter 🙂

  154. I would choose See’s Candies sea salt caramel master chocolates. My aunt used to buy them for us when we moved to Oklahoma from California. It felt like Christmas once our treat box from California arrived.

  157. Kitchen Sink cookies. That way you don’t have to pick a favorite. Pretty much any ingredient goes. But leave out the raisins for me. My new favorite chocolate is a dark chocolate toasted coconut thin chip from Josh Early candy. If that is not possible a Reese’s egg, bat, pumpkin or Christmas tree works. So much more peanut butter in the fun shapes as compared to the regular peanut butter cup!

  158. Favorite cookie…Chocolate Hazelnut Orange Biscotti, yes it is the receipe you had shared. My co-workers loved them when I made them as gifts last year! Received a box of milk and dark chocolate creamy sea salt topped catmels! They came from Maxfield Candy Company of Salt Lake City. The best EVER!!

  164. Idk how I am supposed to choose ONE cookie?!?! Cause I choose based on my mood. I DO really love the perniki cookies my friend made me yrs ago….a thickly rolled sugar cookie….with a touch of anise oil….and frosted. I have a terrible weakness for these cookies. And once, I decided to freeze them, so I would have to go through the bother of thawing a cookie if I wanted it….and I learned that frozen sugar cookies are even better than room temp sugar cookies! eek! (My mom’s mexican wedding cookies are pretty much up there, too! drool!!)

    I like Lindt chocolate….mmmm…those little round truffles they have!!!!

  165. One kind of cookie for the rest of my life? I’d have to choose my mother’s Christmas Walnut Crescents; they are little crescent moons of walnut shortbread rolled in powdered sugar.

  171. Sweet Martha’s chocolate chip cookies they sell fresh and warm by the bucket full at the Minnesota State Fair are the best cookies EVER !!!
    And your basic Reese’s peanut butter cups can’t be beat !

  172. My favourite cookie is shortbread, and if it’s dipped in chocolate I would still accept it! 🙂

  173. Any cookie that was made by Grandma. She died last year at the age of 99. Christmas won’t be the same without her cookies.

  176. Toffee caramel chocolate-coated almonds. Yum, yum! Or maybe it’s Alexandrites. I can’t decide.

  177. I love a simple shortbread cookie that I can change up as I want. I can add chocolate or sprinkles or nuts or chips or flavorings or … you get the picture.

    For candy it would have to be the Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Caramel Squares from Ghiradelli.

  183. FREE!!!! Any cookie or chocolate that’s free is the best. I’m not picky!!
    Cookies + chocolate = heaven!!

  185. So hard to pick just one chocolate treat, but I think I’d roll with the Ghirardelli dark chocolate peppermint squares- yum!!

  189. My very favorite is the hermit cookies with golden raisins my mom made, she passed away when I was only only 33 so they feel like a hug from the past….isnt it crazy the way something so simple can be so comforting!

  191. All of these sound delicious. One cookie? They don’t make anymore but I used to be partial to Nabisco Raisin Biscuit or Cranberry Biscuit. Perfect to eat with tea. If I have to choose one, I’ll go with chocolate-dipped coconut macaroons. I love those little haystacks of coconut! And one chocolate? I’m a See’s afficionado so I will say a See’s honeycomb crisp (also known as “seafoam” candy) — thick chunks of golden honeycomb in light or dark chocolate. SOOOOO good. I wish I knew how to make it.

  197. Dark chocolate anything-Hershey’s dark chocolate minis, Blue Diamond dark chocolate covered almonds, etc….

  207. One cookie? That would have to be my Aunt Gladys lumberjack cookies. (A molasses ginger cookie)

  212. Wow! This is a hard one!!!! I think I would have to go with gingerbread cookies. I don’t think I could live without them!!!

  214. I would have to go with chocolate crinkle cookies. Such a festive cookie for the holidays and a reminder of all that beautiful SNOW to come in the long winter months. They just make me all warm and fuzzy feeling inside.

  219. For a cookie it would be a plain homemade sugar cookie. And for candy it would be a heath bar. I guess my tastes are simple!

  221. only ONE??!! my homemade blueberry pie. OR…the chocolate covered marshmallows that our local Mennonite bulk grocery sells. LynneinWI 🙂

  225. I would have to pick a plain ole Hershey’s chocolate bar for the chocolate. My dad always bought my brother and I Hershey bars. He didn’t make a lot of money even though he worked two jobs, so the treat from him meant more than anything to my brother and I. They still do. Many times when we’re together we eat one just for him. So for me, yes a plain old Hershey’s bar, always, it reminds me of my memories with Daddy

  227. Oatmeal mile chocolate chip with coconut. Love all those German cookies you bought!!! Great with coffee and tea, too!

    Happy Thanksgiving, Mavis. I am thankful for you and your blog.

  229. Iv’e spent the past ten minutes staring at my keyboard with my fingers paused in mid air….I can’t possibly pick just one! Toss up between dark chocolate soft sea salt caramels, Moravian spice cookies (paper thin and so good with a hot cup of anything), and my own lemon zest shortbread rolled in turbinado sugar crystals along the edges.

  233. My favourite cookie is a maple nut shortbread drizzled with dark chocolate, so crispy and buttery/maple/nut good! Chocolate has to be Lindor dark truffles. Love your giveaways Mavis,such insight into all your readers!

  234. Favorite chocolate here has to be Aldi’s Dark chocolate-covered almonds and they are not near as good anywhere else if I can even find them. And I am a ‘cookie monster’ so almost everything is good. There are a few I don’t care for, but not many!
    Reading your blog everyday is a bit of sunshine!

  235. My instinct is to say that oatmeal scotchies would be my choice, but I think my primary attraction to those is not the cookie itself, but the handfuls of butterscotch chips I eat before we make them!!!

  236. The best cookie for me is a double chocolate peppermint sandwich cookie… my oldest found the recipe years ago and it gives perfect use to all the left over broken candy canes… plus it needs strong coffee as it is so rich ☕️

  237. Chocolate chip with walnut cookies and chocolate with a gooey caramel center. Boy that was hard…..LOL

  240. Pumpkin choc chip cookies with brown sugar glaze. I have been waiting to make them because I can’t control myself.

  246. Scottish Shortbread made with my Mother’s recipe ( she emigrated from Scotland)
    Orange Chocolate – that thing you have to whomp on a counter to break into orange sections.

  248. so many (above postes brought back memories of many) but if I can only choose one cookie it is my sister in laws christmas cut out cookies with her special frosting…Just Amazing.

    For candy my home made Buckeye candies…no skimping on the best ingredients….YUM

  250. I love a good peanut butter cookie. A little crispy/crunchy on the outside and a bit soft and chewy inside.

  251. I was introduced to a delicious cookie in Ireland many years ago, you can find them in the US in certain stores, Mcvities Dark Chocolate Digestives, so good! And I agree with you calories just don’t count during November and December!

  254. My favorite is a good old fashion oatmeal dark chocolate cookie right out of the oven.
    Thanks for bringing back memories of the Christmas I spent in Germany when my kids were little.

  255. I would choose the flourless peanut butter/oatmeal/chocolate chip cookies from P.C.C. (a co-op here in Washington) – so chewy and delicious! My favorite chocolate would be Theo’s dark chocolate salted almond bar! Now I’m hungry!

  261. Toll House chocolate chip cookies without the chocolate chips. I love to dunk them in a cup of coffee.

  264. one cookie and one chocolate? my own personal sophie’s choice! Oatmeal raisin, walnut and chocolate chip cookies – kinda combines the 2!

  265. My late mother’s iced and decorated Christmas sugar cookies. I have the recipe and make them now. But, just not the same. My Aldi doesn’t have their Christmas goodies out yet 🙁

  267. Soft traditional gingerbread people, raisins for eyes, mouth, and buttons, icing for details…my sisters got creative and drew out skeletons on the bodies (along with some other anatomical correctness *eyeroll* ) LOL!

  270. My mom’s oatmeal pecan cookies. They’re just the ones on the oatmeal lid bit I wait on her to make them every year.

  271. Wow, that is a very difficult question.
    I would say a salted caramel macaron from the authentic French Bakery , Duchess, in Edmonton Alberta. They are so fabulous fresh, and thankfully they freeze well too!

  276. Oh, Chocolate Chip TEA Cookies…. Like part butter cookies and part chocolate chip cookie! I mean if I was only allowed ONE cookie.

  278. Hmmm…..this is a difficult question. I think it would be fruity pebbles macarons. I love how they look fancy but are so easy to make.

  282. Easy. My own iced sugar cookies. More of a shortbread with my NOT rock hard royal icing. The best.

  284. Homemade frosted sugar cookies but I sure would miss chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies and snickerdoodles

  286. White chocolate macadamia nut cookies are a close second, but my all time fave are Tim Tams! Iconic Australian cookie they they are now selling in the US!

  290. My neighborhood Aldi’s is having their grand re-opening this week, after being closed for (what seems like) forever. Thank goodness, in time for the holidays. Chewy oatmeal cookies. Chocolate covered almonds. Borderline health food!

  297. Mint Milanos forever. During college I lived near the factory and would get 2nds by the bag (5 lbs for $5). I would eat through 5 lbs a week and probably ate my weight in cookies in a year of college. I still love them to this day.

  299. I found a bar recipe years ago that I make every Christmas. It’s Cranberry Cheesecake with an Oatmeal Shortbread Crust. Very rich and delicious!

  308. I know it’s not a cookie but Cinnabon’s Caramel PecanBon, oh lordy!
    But if I must choose a cookie or chocolate it would have to be Sanders Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Caramels. They are candy crack!

  313. Why would anyone want to limit themselves to just one treat??? If I had to pick, it would be Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. *licks lips and drools just a bit*

  319. Pepperidge farm Bordeaux cookies, lovely, crisp and mapley, always in my grandmother’s cabinet from which i would nibble away like a mouse.

  322. Chocolate no bakes with lots of raisins. I’ve been making these cookies since I was 8 years old (with my mom’s help only until I was about 10).

  323. It would have to be the old-fashioned no bake cookies, with cocoa, peanut butter and oatmeal. Heaven!

  328. Molasses cringles are my favorite cookie. My favorite candy changes, but I think I like the stripe soft mints that you buy at Christmas. Get the long ones and you can enjoy them in a cup of hot cocoa as a straw.

  332. Ooooh, that’s tough! For a cookie – probably my Grandma’s Big Soft Sugar Cookies. And chocolate…Toblerone! YUM! Thanks for the chance. 🙂

  333. It is not a cookie unless it has chocolate ! My fav–chocolate chocolate chip with salted pecans.

  334. My favorite is the apricot-filled cookie that my Aunt Barb makes. I could eat those everyday forever!

  338. My daughter is a chocolatier so of course I would choose one of her gorgeous hand painted truffles. My favorite is the peanut butter pretzel chocolate. She attended the CIA in Napa and then started her company A519 Chocolate.

  339. Hi Mabel,

    I posted under the wrong thread earlier today, so I hope me posting here doesn’t cancel my entry. Oatmeal Chocolate Chip all day long!

  342. Mavis, I would definitely eat the cookies I bought at Harrods Food Hall more than 30 years ago. I can still taste them! Chocolate chunks, caramel and some sort of nut. I figured out that I probably spent the equivalent of about $25 on six cookies but believe me, they were worth every penny!

  345. Thank you Mavis! Wow, it sure is hard to narrow down a favorite cookie. If I had to choose one it would be Iced Molasses Cookies with Raisins. When my brothers and I were growing up, my mom would make these on snow days. She would serve them with a mug of Hot Chocolate with a big spoonful of Fluff (marshmallow creme).

  350. If I could only have one cookie from now on, it would have to be homemade Gingersnaps. My grandpa always made them and I use his recipe. They’re crisp and chewy at the same time, and I never get tired of them.

  351. Biscoff cookies are a favorite at our house!! But fresh made shortbread with Yorkshire tea is a winning combo!

  353. This American girl chooses her very own chocolate chip cookies – a tradition already passed down to my granddaughter!

  355. So after reading all those varieties of cookies, it’s hard to pin down my favorite! I will go with a glazed sugar cookie though.

  357. It’s so hard to choose just one……but I am a sucker for white chocolate (in cookies, in my coffee, in my hand….I’ll take it however I can get it).

  358. I was born in Germany some 50 years ago. Any time I get to eat any German related goody, it takes me back to my childhood. Christmas in Germany is magical!
    Lebkuchen is my favorite. A spicy gingerbread cookie coated with chocolate.

  359. Spritz cookies! They are so delicious, but I only make them for Christmas. Otherwise I’d pack on the pounds. Lol!

  360. My 10yr old niece’s snicker doodles. Her great grandma, “grandma cookie” (no joke that’s what they called her) was German and passed down her recipe and my niece learned from her great aunt and now she bakes them with my sister in law. I never had a snicker doodle before! But one Christmas my niece, my son and I spent a day watching cheesy Christmas movies snacking on snicker doodles. Im not normally a sweet eater so I kept saying, ok, no more. It’s too much. But I couldn’t stop. Could. Not. Stop. Eventually, I gave in and enjoyed every cookie until we polished off the entire tin!! I don’t know how I lived so long without that cookie!! Never again!
    2nd choice are my mother in law’s homemade Scottish shortbread.

  367. Cadbury Carmellos chocolate bars or salted chocolate caramel cookies. Mouth is watering now. Haha

  368. Lunchpepparkakor- a soft, highly spiced Swedish soft ginger cookie. Yum! (Especially with ice cream)

  372. Cotes d’Or chocolate with ginger and lemon bits anytime. I can only find them when I visit my relatives in France. Soooooo gooood…. a few pounds of this treat does not last long enough in my house though.

  373. Too hard to come up with just one! I am a cookie fiend but always come back to my childhood recipe for soft and chewy peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. For a chocolate it would have to be a combo of toffee or caramel filled with almonds, coated in chocolate (homemade almond toffee crunch mmm) or maybe I would go with homemade super fudgy chocolate filled brownies – does narrowing it down to three count as an answer? 😉

  374. We have an emotional attachment to Milka chocolate after decades of living in Europe. My current favorite is the one with Daim bits.

  375. Triple Ginger Cookies from Flying Star here in Albuquerque. And I hope I win, because we don’t have Aldi in NM, and I miss it so after living in St. Louis. Pick me, pick me, pick me!

  378. Cuccidati, also called Sicilian Fig Cookies. My mom was a immigrant and always made them for Christmas. I make them now.

  381. My Grandma’s homemade peanut butter thumbprint Hershey kiss cookies. We made those and decorated plates of sugar cookies every year.

  382. Snickerdoodles. I love the smell of the cinnamon while it’s baking. I really don’t think there is a cookie out there that I would pass on. I love a treat with my tea.

  389. I could eat white chocolate cranberry cookies for the eat of my life and not get tired of them! I MacGuyvered a recipe for them after buying similar cookie dough through a school fundraiser. Mine are way better and a family favorite!

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