Many of you know that my Monday post is almost always a martini or a cocktail of some sort. Martini Mondays make me actually look forward to Monday, and not dread the inevitable craziness that the beginning of the week brings. Today, not only do I have a great martini to share, but I also have something fabulous to give away.
But first off, let’s talk martinis! I was recently thinking back to the cake batter martini that my mom and I created about a year ago, and was inspired to create a sugar cookie martini for the holiday season. Like the cake batter martini, it’s definitely a dessert in itself. I splurged on a bottle of Godiva white chocolate liqueur last week and it is amazing. I have big plans for this bottle this season, including a Candy Cane Martini and a White Blizzard Martini. So go get yourself a bottle, I promise I’ll help you put it to good use.
Sugar Cookie Martini
2 oz. Godiva White Chocolate Liqueur
2 oz. Bailey’s Irish Cream
2 oz. Butterscotch Schnapps
2 oz. whipping cream
2 oz. milk
Combine ingredients in a martini shaker with ice. Shake and pour.
Now onto something equally great, this cookie decorating give away. The people at Storey publishing have been generous enough to give me an extra copy of one of my favorite cookie books, Cookie Craft, so that I can share it with one lucky reader. Not only is It is filled with a ton of beautiful cookie photographs, but the authors provide detailed directions on many decorating techniques, including piping techniques, covering cookies with fondant, and making three-dimensional cookie creations. This book will inspire the beginner or the pro this holiday season. You are going to love this!! Okay, so who wants it?
Okay, so now your part… All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post telling me what your favorite kind of cookie is to bake during the holiday season. I’ll post the winner after 5PM this Sunday, November 15th. The winner will be selected by random.org. Can’t wait to see who the lucky winner is, and can’t wait to hear all of the fabulous cookies you’re baking for the holiday season!
Cheers to a lucky week ahead!
I have to say cutout sugar cookies are my favorite at Christmas time. It’s so fun to cut out all the shapes and decorate each one differently!
Oh my goodness…what a great giveaway!!! I’ve wanted to try those bottles.
And a sugar cookie martini?!? That sounds like a “must try!”
My favorites to bake are Mocha Truffle Cookies…they are little fudge-y bites of heaven!
I love gingerbread cookies!
I always make chocolate crinkles because it has been a favorite since I was a kid. Now one I always have to make is peanut butter blossoms (which my mom called brown eyed susans which I now call brown eyed Ashlyns for my daughter) because it was my mom’s favorite and since she is no longer with us here on Earth, I make them for her.
I love sugar cookies and smores.
I am definitely a sugar cookie gal!! Or at least. Thats what I play on TV.
I love baking Christmas cookies and piping and decorating them all, but a simple and delicious one is the Italian wedding cookie.
Oh gosh..I forgot to say my favorite cookie to bake over the holidays! Decorated sugar cookies!
This is such a great giveaway! I bake a lot of cookies throughout the season but a favorite is (and sucha great one to decorate) brown sugar-sugar cookies! They are decadent and so pretty once decorated!
I love to make snickerdoodles and of course chocolate chip cookies. The kids love the sugar cookies.
Sugar cookies with the thinned out confectioner’s sugar icing “paint” in every color we can come up with. It’s a great tradition. Thanks for an awesome giveaway! The cover alone on that book makes me wish it were December already.
Hands down I love to make gingerbread cookies with my little sister…it’s tradition and oh so fun!
1. AWESOME giveaway!
2. That martini sounds like a life saver! 
3. There’s too many. When I was a kid, mom, dad & I would come up with the cookie list before Tgiving- it always had at least 9 kinds (we each picked 3) and then we’d go into full cookie-production mode Black Friday. I guess my favs are still the pecan sandies, the rolled & decorated sugar cookies, and peanut butter cookies with sprinkles.
I love making sugar cookies….. mmmmm! I love to eat them even more!
AWESOME G?VEAWAY!!!!!!!YAY!
i love making gingerbread cookies
Sugar cookies are my weakness. Especially when they are super soft and just melt in your mouth. Would love to have this cookie book.
I just LOVE chocolate chip cookies! So delicious!
what a great giveaway! Thanks! I love sugar cookies with tons of fattening icing!
With sprinkles! The more pretty the better!
I love sugar cookies! You can do so many things to decorate them…they are soooo yummy! Icing and sprinkles are a must!
My daughter and I bake sugar cookies and decorate them on Christmas Eve day. It’s on of our FAVORITE holiday times.
I’ve never tried the bottles before, but would love to give it a try! Thanks for the recommendation.
My favorite kind of cookies to make are my mom’s traditional cookies — they’re not quite “sugar” cookies because they’re not that sweet, but just a plain cookie that we dress up with sprinkles and jimmies, using our favorite old Tupperware cookie cutters. Thanks for the fun giveaway contest!
We make peanut butter balls dipped in chocolate every year. They’ve got rice krispies inside, so it’s a great texture to bite into.
I really love shortbread cookies especially using a great shortbread mold!
My all time fave, is the Mexican Wedding Cookie!:P YUM
Rugelachs! They take so many steps to make, the holidays are the only time of year we have them. SO yummy, mmmmmm!!!
My favorite cookie to make and eat are those cute little spritz cookies! Yummy!
I love to make sugar cookies and then decorate them with my children!
My favorite christmas cookie are almond balls with rasberry in the middle. My mom made them and they are so good. Thank you for the give away. I just love this website.
Keri
My girlfriend and I have, for the past several years, made gingerbread house cookies! They are flat — not an entire 3-D house — but we decorate them with candies, little wreaths, etc. just like a 3-D house. They are darling, work as great gifts (you can pack up one in a larger cello bag, and it looks great), plus they taste fantastic!
Those are the prettiest cookies…I wish I could make something that pretty!. My favorite are peanut butter —old fashioned forked and all!
Gingerbread cookies!
I have cookie cutters in the shape of our dogs. One is an Airedale and one is a Poodle, so I make Pepper and Peaches (our dog’s names) cookies.
Sugar cookies- they are the most fun to decorate with my daughter!
My favorite cookies to make at Christmas are Pecan fingers. I also thank Glo D. (Bunco member) for introducing me to this fabulous site.
I love decorating sugar cookies, it was fun when i was 5 and it’s still fun now. Such a great giveaway!
Farmhouse sugar cookies with cream cheese frosting and of course cut out with Christmas cookie cutters.
I love to make Double Chocolate Crinkles for the holdiays. You can never have enought chocolate!
I love to make Peanut Butter Chocolate dips…delicious and easy…did I say easy!
wildchild
I really enjoy making an old time favorite cookie reciepe from my mom called Chinese Noodle Peanut Butter cookies and they don’t need baking and can you spell E A S Y????
Paula Wild
I love making snowman sugar cookies and decorating them with royal icing!
Snowflake short breads are easy and so elegant looking. Love making them
My favorite cookies to make are birdnest cookies. I can remember makeing them every christmas with my mother.
You can’t beat traditional sugar cookies with lots of frosting, but I also love gingersnaps this time of year
Thanks so much for the chance to win this Great Giveaway!!
My favorite cookie to make is Spritz cookies are I have the grandchildren over to help decorate and we even add food coloring to make them red and green
I just baked soft ginger cookies. I love the crackles in the cookies and the smell in the house after baking them. That is my favorite fall cookie. My favorite Christmas cookie would be a shortbread cut out cookie – the fun of decorating them.
What a great giveaway!
What a wonderful giveaway for the holidays! I have two little chefs who enjoy helping me in the kitchen, especially when it’s cookies
We are planning to make some pumpkin cookies tomorrow! Our favorite cookie has to be decorated sugar cookies!!
Always decorated sugar cookies. The kids just love them.
Great giveaway!
Hi…First – IF I win..PLEASE call me..415-655-9706 as I do not get online very often right now…
Your web site makes me want to go to the store RIGHT NOW and get everything I need to make my favorite …sugar cookies!! but I am also partial to marzipan filling and I end up eating all of the filling before making anything!!!! I need a good recipe for using the marzipan filling – the kind I get in a tube, or maybe I could actually make my own this year?? I hope I win because I need some good cutters and your site is making me soooo hungry!! Are there any runner-ups?? I sure could use a few excellent cookies!!! (in case I do not win 1st prize). I live at: 34 – 6th St. #601, SF 94103 Just in case you feel like sending me a few samples of your cookies.. I think I can even smell the cookies through this computer!! Your web site really is effective!!
Happy Holidays…Rickie Beth
I love making peanut butter cookies with my kids!