Cookies for Santa

[Tracyfish]

So what kind of cookies are you leaving for Santa? Do you leave out milk? Anything for the reindeer?

This year L.J. decided we need to make these since he already gets so many cookies.
http://www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/...ps-128121.aspx

[carrie1977]

Those are cute! I'm not a good cake ball maker. LOL!

Last year we left chocolate chip cookies and a few Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. We have left carrots for the reindeer before but just if we happen to have some.

[farrijc]

My 5 year old made reindeer food at school to sprinkle on the lawn, so that's done! I found some gingerbread ninja cookies that we are going to make - hopefully there will be some left for Santa

[carrie1977]

Originally Posted by farrijc

My 5 year old made reindeer food at school to sprinkle on the lawn, so that's done! I found some gingerbread ninja cookies that we are going to make - hopefully there will be some left for Santa

I saw those on Pinterest...so cute!

[Keely~B]

Santa likes gingersnaps and a beer.

[MamaBee]

we do reindeer food in the yard... and a few carrots on the plate of cookies for Santa... my mom usually brings over a few cookies for the Santa plate. This year they will be gluten free...

[lingovise]

i reallyreally LOVE Keely's Santa style!!
and now i wanna get the deets on the Ninja GB cookies ... and see if they can be converted.
because... like Rebecca... Santa gets Gluten Free goodies at our house.
[i've actually got some really good GF recipes, R]

[farrijc]

I bought a kit at Cost Market that has the gingerbread mix, icing, candies and 4 ninja cookie cutters. It was inexpensive - worth it to get the cutters out of it if you're interested!

[mariewilcox]

Originally Posted by Keely~B

Santa likes gingersnaps and a beer.

Hahaha - Cheyanne is finally too old to believe in Santa but I told her to leave out my favorite cookies (Hawaiian snowballs) and a glass of Reisling

[catgoddess]

I normally leave out cookies for Santa (Wes) who is usually up before me. Now that we have a new kitty and she likes the counters, I wont leave anything out. I might put a little something in the fridge for him instead.

[Gwendlite]

We will be making Snickerdoodles the night before with almond milk & carrots for the reindeer

[adi&co.]

those are super cute! I actually just scrapped a page of my kids making santa cookies in 2011, lol! We have a tradition of making our sugar cookie dough from scratch in the morning, making the shapes and cooking them in the afternoon and after dinner, we let the kids go crazy with the frosting. It's really fun

[Stacey42]

Last year the boys decided Santa would like a ham sandwich to offset all the sweets he was getting everywhere else DH decided he'd also like a dram of Scotch but the boys said you can't drink & drive so Santa had iced tea instead.

This year ...hard to say. There will be chocolate chip cookies and eggnog, which is the usual thing.

[sarahbhb]

My daughter left a brownie out with the cookies quite a few years ago and santa ate the whole thing (he always leaves a bite or two of the cookies). After that Santa was just left a brownie. The reindeer got carrots as well.

[julifish]

Peanut butter because they are Santa's favorite - and daddy's too!

Plus carrots for the reindeer.

It's going to be whatever we have on hand this year because I heard Santa went low carb to get off some weight and he's not eating cookies. :P

[Tracyfish]

Sounds like Santa adapts to all kinds of diets. LOL!! Low carb, gluten free, non-sweet

[Tronesia]

It's normally just chocolate chip cookies and milk for Santa here.

[kim21673]

Those are cute!!!

We leave three cookies....each boy gets to pick one out!
And a big glass of milk

Oh...and we sprinkle reindeer food out on the grass/snow before bedtime!!!

[Julie Billingsley]

this is so weird for me. My youngest is 10, so this is the first year in 21 years that we aren't doing cookies for Santa. I mean, we still will have them around the house, but I'm sad about all these "traditions" that are fading away now that Logan has matured. He wouldn't sit on Santa's lap either. I don't like this getting older business.

[adi&co.]

my parents still did all the santa traditions even after all of us knew santa wasn't "real". it was still fun!

[nun69]

we always do it still even though I am pretty sure my 2 oldest don't believe

[Kjersti]

Those are darling! One year I convinced my girls to leave out See's Candy and Diet Pepsi :P

[sczos911]

Sugar cookies, cake batter balls and milk.
We tried the pretzels and beer - the girls didn't buy it!

[Tracyfish]

Originally Posted by sczos911

We tried the pretzels and beer - the girls didn't buy it!

Darn it!