Christmas Cookies - Danger Zone

At a request from my fiancee we made cookies this past weekend. Not just a few, a ton of Christmas Cookies.  One of the things that made it easier was using the same dough to make different cookies!  I love the Nestle Toll-House Chocolate Chip cookie reciepe you can find on the back of the chocolate chip bag. This is one of the simplest (and yummiest IMO) to make. Here's the hook, make one large batch of the dough, then seperate it and add different chips to it!  We made chocolate chip, peanut butter chip, and butterscotch chip out of one dough!  Another cookie is the peanut butter thumbprint cookie. While the recipe said to dip the ball of dough in granulated sugar before baking, we dipped some in red sugar and some in green sugar.  Then as soon as they came out of the oven some of them got Hershey kisses while others got mini peanut butter cups! Five types of cookies done with only two batters!  One of Fred's favorites from his side of the family are these cream cheese log cookies. So We made those.  Then I used the same dough to encase balls of almond paste and made cookies that look like snowballs! One more classic we made were butter spritz cookies in the shape of wreaths, trees, snowmen, and stars. After all the cookies were cooled and in Tupperware for safe keeping we were eying them up to eat.  I knew the cookies wouldn't last long if there were so many sitting around, so the next day Fred and I packaged a lot of them up and went delivering them to family members out here on the Island. Now that there aren't that many cookies left, we've been rationing them so that we'll have enough to last us through Christmas! Happy Baking this holiday season!
~ The CookerLady