Easy Coconut BonBons, Granny's Sugar Cookies, & Buttermilk Pralines for Christmas

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7 ай бұрын

Come along as I spend time in the kitchen making some of our favorite sweet treats.
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@joyceedwards9652 7 ай бұрын

There's a lady in our church makes a big bunch of cookies and fudge then gives every family a paper plate of goodies!!

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

That is so sweet 😀

@mamamode1312 7 ай бұрын

Our Deacon's wife does it too and for the Bank Staff and some other folks around town, too.

@70schick36 7 ай бұрын

@@CelebratingAppalachiaWe used to roll the sugar cookies with powdered sugar rather than flour.

@rogersdrum1 7 ай бұрын

You are awesome Tipper. Your'e family is so lucky to have you. I hope they realize that. You make some goodies!! Merry Christmas!!

@heatherofthemountains 7 ай бұрын

@@rogersdrum1 Your KZfaq name reminds me of the Christmas song, "the Little Drummer Boy". My late Daddy's favorite song. Thank you for bringing such a sweet memory to mind. Merry Christmas!!! 🎄👏💙🎁✨ Christ is our gift!!!

@kimj.becker5527 7 ай бұрын

Matt always makes me smile when he says! “Gosh that’s good!”

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

😊

@hereigns7221 7 ай бұрын

Same! I love that! So endearing.

@mamawfrancy 7 ай бұрын

Matt is endearing & his wit & sense of self makes me smile. I older & love that he's soo much like my son.

@susanbeal3253 7 ай бұрын

I love that too! Such a joy to get a happy response when you cook something 😊

@lisabeal8615 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for inviting us to join in the Christmas baking and candy making. I enjoyed it so much and brought back lots of memories. God bless you .

@janice7467 7 ай бұрын

Yesterday my two little grandsons helped me decorate sugar cookies. So much fun seeing their messy sweet creations. In a few years you will have two new little helpers in the kitchen ❤

@littlegoldiesbooks 7 ай бұрын

People used to put paraffin in their buckeye coating. Nowadays we would use something like coconut oil. Everything looks delicious!

@victoriahanke5086 7 ай бұрын

I want to thank you for so many charming recipes and To opening up that sweet home and telling us stories of family. You are a national treasure! Your Famiky is just such a blessing. I pray for continued years of happiness, wealth and health for every member of this amazing and loving Family. Respect just isn’t enough, but you have it! Again, Bless you all, and thanks. ♥️🎄🙏🕊♥️

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

@kaymurray4851 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for past memories. My mama is in heaven now but I remember so well all the fun we had making all the Christmas goodies.

@krissyjohnson5551 7 ай бұрын

Those all look so good. The girls looked like they had fun helping with the cookies.😊

@mattm3729 8 күн бұрын

Great video, thank you for blessing us with these recipes and showing us your wonderful family.

@Sandy-mx5fr 7 ай бұрын

Won't be long and it will be memories with the grandbabies

@sandrahood1361 7 ай бұрын

I'm just so happy for your family and the blessings of two baby boys!You will be the best Granny Jr!❤

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@MelissaMounts 7 ай бұрын

That’s so sweet how you and your girls make cookies together 😊

@dolladoradolls 7 ай бұрын

Bless your dear mother,she helps you girls so much

@FoothillsofAppalachia-nj6cq 7 ай бұрын

Each year at Christmas I think of my mom and her stories of childhood. I also think of my own childhood memories. It wasn’t until after I was married that she made very many Christmas goodies. Looking back I know it was because money was so tight raising 4 kids. Her and dad barely kept us fed and housed. I’m thankful she was able to do and have more later in life. I miss her so much……

@myrakitchens2635 7 ай бұрын

It's fun watching y'all make holiday goodies. Your family is precious. But most of all, I love the way those girls love each other.❤❤

@noahsmith8988 7 ай бұрын

Sounds real good my Momma was not a baker except cornbread and biscuits some times a plain cake we eat by putting homemade cow butter on it and she made tea cakes always on a wood stove which was hard to do merry Christmas

@cherihabegger9856 7 ай бұрын

My Mother would make buckeyes and coconut balls every Christmas. She would put paraffin in the chocolate. She was a great candy maker and would also make fudge and peanut brittle and make up boxes to give out at Christmas time.

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

Love that!

@cynthiapena1141 7 ай бұрын

Enjoyed this evening's video... As I've been making Christmas cookies and treats with my granddaughters. I giggled with you on, 'why did I think this was a good idea?'😂 But we do it every year! Thank you for sharing as always. 🎄🤶🎄

@johnnymayo8534 7 ай бұрын

Watching yall make Christmas cookies brought back childhood memories when I would 'help' my mom make sugar cookies. She would bake sugar cookies and make baskets w/ handles from aluminum foil. We would load the baskets w/freshly baked & decorated cookies and deliver them to our neighbors!

@mamamode1312 7 ай бұрын

What a wonderful tradition

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

Love that so much 😊

@joyt7754 7 ай бұрын

I agree about watching the videos of the folks decorating the fancy cookies. I can watch those for hours ❤

@bravochick 7 ай бұрын

To this day, my cousins and I think fondly back to cookie day my Mother had where all us kids made Christmas cookies. Great video, Merry Christmas!

@rhodatuckey7119 7 ай бұрын

Yes, Valentine Cookies or Easter Sugar Cookies...or just because we love these cookies!

@normanjefferychester882 7 ай бұрын

God bless Granny with s Merry Christmas

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

Thank you Norman!

@normanjefferychester882 7 ай бұрын

@@CelebratingAppalachia I love you and your family, Merry Christmas Granny 🎄❤️🙏

@lina-yw5kh 7 ай бұрын

So blessed to have loving family for Christmas and to do baking. Living alone in a hotel until a week into January. Blessed to be safe, just lonely. Cherish your loved ones and traditions ❤

@along5925 7 ай бұрын

Thinking of you. Hope all goes well. Sending a little prayer.

@lina-yw5kh 7 ай бұрын

❤bless you foryour kindness❤@@along5925

@choirmom78 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas and many blessings to you and your family.

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

Thank you!!

@wandagordon6453 7 ай бұрын

Everything looks delicious! I understood what you meant about the cookie making. I started a little over 30 years ago making & decorating gingerbread cookies. Then my girls wanted to do some and then I wanted my grandchildren to experience it. It can be stressful and messy but, it has become a family Christmas tradition that we all look forward to. I can see you one day teaching those little grandsons all about your sugar cookies and telling what their mommas did. Merry Christmas and God bless! 😀❤️

@bethmiller6827 7 ай бұрын

Mama used to make Christmas cookies while we were at school. She saved a few for each of us to decorate for ourselves. We took one cookie for each child and two for the teacher as gifts.

@helenwallace2882 7 ай бұрын

I use egg white to get the sugar to stick. The Aussies put some cherry flavouring just a smidge in the coconut balls, they sell them as cherry ripe and use dark chocolate. We have to have a pavlova complete with cream then crumbled peppermint crisp and strawberries sprinkled over the top

@papaw5405 7 ай бұрын

Wax makes the chocolate shell shiny but also allows you to hold it without it melting so quick.

@Needlewich 7 ай бұрын

WooHoo!! All those Christmas goodies! Y’all got it right. Thanks for sharing!! God bless and much love! 💕🙏🏻🤗🎄🎅🏼

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

Thanks so much 😀

@roxeyserckie5414 7 ай бұрын

Making precious memories.

@CantankerousOB 7 ай бұрын

Honest, wholesome, just plain genuine. That's what makes you successful. You deserve to be successful and I hope you are for a very long time. I'm very happy to watch your videos and have seen all of them. I wouldn't ask you to change a thing.

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

I appreciate that! Thank you!!

@dottiehildebrand3123 7 ай бұрын

I can remember making sugar cookies at Christmas with my mom and brother. We always made a mess. But mom never said anything just letting us enjoy ourselves.. Thank you Tipper for making me remember the fun times while making cookies..❤

@user-fn7gg1pz7m 7 ай бұрын

My mom absolutely loved coconut and pralines❤🎉

@gingercotter9827 7 ай бұрын

My friend from Illinois always made sugar cookies at Easter time. She had a cross cookie cutter and a bunny and a carrot for the kids.

@Stephanie-kt9vh 7 ай бұрын

Tipper, I wanted to share this before I forgot, maybe you can add it to the list for the future episodes about Appalachian words... Dutton used as don't or does not. "He DUTTON need to be in there." I don't know why it never occurred to me until today, but I heard someone say it and I realized we say that a lot. Thank you for sharing these precious memories, moments and ideas with us to help make our Christmas more special. Merry Christmas

@cheriebolender8765 7 ай бұрын

You know? I say that too! Southwestern Ohio here

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

We say it that way too 😀 Thank you!!

@michaelmurphy1531 7 ай бұрын

Tipper you are a trooper!

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

😀 Thank you

@LoriCurtiss-xz6xm 7 ай бұрын

This is the first time I’ve noticed Corie’s little bump …. next Christmas will be a whole new world for all of you. I’m sure the bond between Katie & Corie will continue on through the boys. God Bless your family. Safe travels Austin & Corie and enjoy your family time. Merry Christmas to all !

@user-me4xw2cy1v 7 ай бұрын

Tipper in a few years you will have 2 more to bake cookies with. When my grandkids were little I let them help me with everything in the kitchen. One of my granddaughters thought we put paprika on potato salad because Papa liked it that way.

@Dougeb7 7 ай бұрын

This was fun! Everything looked really good. The sideburn cookies were a hoot! God bless, and Merry Christmas!

@paulaestes567 7 ай бұрын

My granny always made tons of candy for Christmas..fudge, sea foam, buckeyes, the list goes on and on... It was fun to see you and the girls making the cookies and having fun going down memory lane, with the sideburn cookies! 😂

@nickik.9037 7 ай бұрын

Love your memories. I found in making sugar cookies that it's a lot easier if I roll the dough out between waxed paper & then chill the dough (leaving the flat rolled dough in between the waxed paper). After the dough is chilled enough, all I have to do is then peel off the waxed paper off the top of each rolled out piece & cut with the cookie cutters. It's just hard for me to try to roll out the chilled dough & this works fantastic for me. Corie & Katie have such fun together. Hugs!

@MariePommer 7 ай бұрын

I Loved making Buckeyes, Peanut butter and Chocolate Fudge with my Mom. And Church Windows !! 🎶🔔Have A Blessed Christmas 🙏 🎄🎶🔔🎶⛄🎶🔔🎶🎄

@ladycobra3 7 ай бұрын

I make my Maw Maw's divinity and chocolate covered cherries recipes. I am almost 70 and I grew up on these two candies so these two recipes are very old. The cherries are so good that my ex husband use to pay me to make them for him even after he remarried. His wife could not boil water so I made them for him.

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

Oh those sound so good!!

@keelaeldridge8487 7 ай бұрын

My mother did not make holiday cookies or candy but my Dad was the one who made peanut brittle , and popcorn balls, mom made fudge some ,it was always very good. Mom did teach me to make vinegar candy, it wasn’t really for holidays just for the fall .that is when we got to have homemade candy,we were too busy in the summer. Mom is gone now, step mom too, Dad still bakes but he doesn’t make much candy anymore. This year I have made some candy, plan on making cookies tomorrow. Christmas is about here and soon will be gone, New year is approaching and hope is fills the air

@senator1295 7 ай бұрын

when it matters; i have always thrown myself into the storm (fools rush in where angels fear to tread) ...but; those are always my best moments

@lorettataylor9902 7 ай бұрын

This is my recipe three cup of sweetened coconut finely ground then add one can of sweetened condensed milk form in balls refrigerate melt chocolate chips and teaspoon of coconut oil it gives the chocolate a gloss dip coconut balls and enjoy 😊

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

Sounds so good!!

@kimberlyfranklin6899 7 ай бұрын

I made the sugar cookies this afternoon with my kids and hands down the BEST sugar cookie recipe I've ever tried! Thank you ❤

@timeisirelevnt 7 ай бұрын

On sugar cookies Use powder sugar instead of flour for rolling.

@along5925 7 ай бұрын

Oh, Matt! You are so right...coconut toenails! 😂

@davidhensley76 7 ай бұрын

Sugar pearls or dragées. Yes, Granny melted a little paraffin wax in her chocolate. It helps the chocolate set hard and be shiny.

@merrypeary 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for letting us join your family while you are getting your Christmas foods ready. It brings back a lot of memories for me. I would sit and watch my aunt and cousin bake and make candies. A lot of my family is now gone to be with the Lord now. I'm going to try some of your recipes. Thank you for sharing them with us. I wish you and your family a joyous Christmas. God Bless you all.

@pamelaparsons9046 7 ай бұрын

I have to make those coconut bonbons for my dad. He love’s coconut.

@loraann54fi10 7 ай бұрын

Tipper, you're so lucky to have Matt there for quality control inspections. 😂

@bethgiesey9405 7 ай бұрын

Years ago, my Mom, & some of the family, made cookies & sold them. The cutouts were decorated with icing, sugars, decorations, etc. We used paint brushes to get in the small places. Santa's always had a coconut beard. Each one of us had our own special touch on the cookie. That was special family time

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

Love that!

@Jean-ko4xv 7 ай бұрын

Sure enjoyed the cookie and candy making with you and the Girls. God Bless. 💕&🙏🙏'ers. Jean

@semme3072 5 ай бұрын

I remember chocolate candy recipes from the 60s that called for a bar of Paraffin melted into the chocolate chips. We started leaving that out, and it was not missed. You are the first person I've heard in years talk about wax in dipping chocolate!

@loveinthematrix 7 ай бұрын

My mom passed away on December 16th 2023. Just three months after my 30th birthday. My heart is broken but watching these videos of you with your daughters warms my heart. My mom loved baking. Thank you for always sharing your sweetness!

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

I'm so very sorry you lost her.

@joycemetheny8338 7 ай бұрын

Now I would'nt do this for just anyone but here's my family secret to truly awesome cookies ! In every recipe that calls for vanilla ( which is pretty much all of them ) add half as much pure almond extract along with the vanilla. yum-yum !

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

Great tip!

@christinej2358 7 ай бұрын

Oh making all those goodies, took me back when I made cookies and candy with my neighbor friends back in WV. We use to all get together after we each made several batches of our favorite cookies and candies, then we put them all out on the kitchen counters and kitchen table. We then filled up our Christmas tins lined with Christmas tissue paper to make them look pretty. We each had so many tins filled we all had gifts for all our kids teachers, families, church friends, co-workers and neighbor friends. Your video brought back that wonderful memory from all them many years ago. My granddaughter use to come up when she was in elementary school and I taught her how to make hard candy. We made so many flavors, it was fun. After breaking them we would shake them in powdered sugar so they wouldn’t stick together when we packed then in decorative jars. Her teachers loved them. Great memories!

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

Love that 😊

@frankscarborough1428 7 ай бұрын

Looks so delicious thanks Tipper Katie and Corey

@pamelafrazier2640 7 ай бұрын

Labor of LOVE! This is so very special. I have the flu right now and I called moma last night to check in with her. She had made tater candy. She usually makes fudge and lots of other goodies. Katie’s baby bump is looking so cute. I love seeing you and your girls giggling and working together. The sideburn cookies had me giggling. Merry Christmas

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

Hope you feel better soon!! Thank you!

@jsmith317 7 ай бұрын

My sister was the candy maker in our family. She made such fabulous fudge and yummy divinity of various flavors. Mom would also make popcorn balls, my favorite being strawberry marshmallow ones.

@KathysTube 7 ай бұрын

Now I have the munchies... enjoyed the cooking fun! 🎄🎄❤️

@patriciafitton4894 7 ай бұрын

Everything looks delicious. ❤

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

Thank you 😋

@TeressaJ1960 7 ай бұрын

Mmm mm mmmm! I bet your house smells so amazing right now! This puts me in the mood to bake!

@debbiehills2928 7 ай бұрын

❤🎉ha! I cant wait to see those 2 baby boys helping 💙 with cookies next christmas!!!❤❤😊❤❤

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

Thank you Debbie! We were just talking about you at supper 😀 about how nice you are to us all 😀

@maryjemisonMaryjay1936 7 ай бұрын

So Happy for Matt with the Precious Grandsons on the Way those Guys will have lots of Fun together ❤❤

@debbiehills2928 7 ай бұрын

Awww thanks. You all inspire me!!!

@jeanlilley3139 7 ай бұрын

This is making me want more candy and remember fixing candy for my then little boys. I loved making boiled oatmeal cookies with maple flavoring, raisons, and sometimes coconut. I always used crunchy peanut butter. I am hoping to try sugar-free sugar so my son and I can enjoy them again. It's been years since I had them.

@along5925 7 ай бұрын

Tipper, I don't know, but something tells me that sometimes, just maybe, you enjoy a sweet treat. (Can't blame you! Fabulous goodies come from your kitchen! Love to you and yours. Thank you for your lovely Christmas posts.

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

😀 Thank you!

@kimj.becker5527 7 ай бұрын

One of my girls live far away and the other lives a bit away but when we lived close we would cutout and bake the cookies and then make icing and spend several hours decorating them. Was great fun and great memories. I was a cake and cookie decorator so that was incorporated in.

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

Oh I know those were beautiful 😊

@DIYSteveH 7 ай бұрын

Tipper here’s the reason you would do it year after year. “A few minutes of clean up is worth the time keeping the kids busy” and you simply cannot fill their heads with enough good memories!

@deannawiederhold3326 7 ай бұрын

My brother in law can make Fudge and just walk away and it turns out excellent 👌

@robinchanteusedylan8326 7 ай бұрын

Even more tasty treats! Thanks for showing us & giving the recipes 🎄😊

@kimnorton3118 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas to you and your sweet family - Thank you for your wonderful videos, I have enjoyed each one!

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

You are so kind Thank you!

@patg4246 7 ай бұрын

My girlfriend loves coconut and chocolate! I’m refrigerating them now; she’s coming over tonight to exchange gifts. Wish me luck !!

@tracycassel2903 7 ай бұрын

I just love your cooking videos. Thank you for this wonderful channel.❤

@kathy.7475 7 ай бұрын

When I was a girl mom made sugar cookies like yours. She let us kids stir up the colored sugars and sprinkle them on. I did the same with my girls. Mom took a cake decorating class when I was ten and taught me, so we got a bit fancier with the cookies. My daughter makes the decorated cookies with the royal icing, outlining and then “flooding” the cookies. She gets very intricate with stencils and air brushing. The has a little cottage cookie business out of her home and has to turn business away. They truly are too pretty tty to eat.

@lindamarshall3485 7 ай бұрын

Sugar cookies are an OK cookie, not the best tasting of all the great Christmas baking. But oh, the memories of helping my mom, and then doing it all over again with my own kids.....can't be beat. Right up there among the best Christmas memories.

@lindamarshall3485 7 ай бұрын

I used to make a real simple icing from icing sugar and a bit of milk, and divide it up into different bowls, different colours. The kids would use it to stick coloured sugar or sprinkles or chocolate chips or whatever they wanted onto the cookies after they were baked. Kids can get real creative - and real silly. Just thinking about it I can hear the giggles ....

@rebeccadavis6812 7 ай бұрын

That all looks so good. I bet the orange in the cookies is really good. I have wanted to try that recipe. The coconut balls look professional. I remember my mom making haystacks but I do not remember her ever making any other candy very much, not even cookies. She made cakes and pies. When my daughter was a newborn a brand new Bi-Lo opened right down the road from us. Her first time going to the grocery store was to that Bi-Lo, set her up in her car seat on the top of the buggy. Sadly the Bi-Lo's have all closed down. There was one big store open in Gastonia until about 2020 and now they have closed too. Thanks for the video!

@roxeyserckie5414 7 ай бұрын

Good labors of a fun & productive day. Coconut oil in melted chocolate will make it shiny .

@maryjemisonMaryjay1936 7 ай бұрын

Candies look so Beautiful I know they are Delicious ❤🎄🎁

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

Thank you 😋

@senator1295 7 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

Thank you! We appreciate your support!!

@benitastevens612 3 ай бұрын

Love coconut!

@leisa2054 7 ай бұрын

I love that y'all compared hands❤

@Niueniue88 6 ай бұрын

Love this video. Thanks so much for sharing

@lisateel3248 7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas to all y'all!

@janemay8721 7 ай бұрын

All of the cookies and candy looked delicious!

@rhondabuce8348 7 ай бұрын

I'm gonna try the pralines. Sounds really good. And the coconut balls!

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

Hope you enjoy 😊

@jamespritchett1886 7 ай бұрын

It all looked absolutely delicious

@bjgigout9832 7 ай бұрын

You inspired me to make pecan pralines! Being of Canadian French descendants, my grandmother always made them. They turned out perfectly and hubby loves them. Merry Christmas! 🎁

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

Wonderful 😀

@roxeyserckie5414 7 ай бұрын

Wishing you all a very merry Christmas

@rogerlawson5833 7 ай бұрын

I made the oatmeal yeast rolls. They turned out super good. It was a lot for us so I took half the dough and made cinnamon rolls. My husband is on cloud nine. He loves sweets and good bread.

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

Wonderful!

@carolynwhitney5268 7 ай бұрын

Oh, Tipper, your baking reminds me of my Mom making her date balls. If someone offered me a date I probably wouldn’t eat it but these Christmas treats were so delicious! I wish she was still with us to make them. I remember her cooking the ingredients and adding the dates. At the end of cooking you add Rice Krispie cereal and chill. It’s kind of a sticky mixture, make into balls and roll into coconut flakes. So delicious! Merry Christmas!

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

Love those memories! I know you miss her so!

@Gqspeed13 7 ай бұрын

I love Coconut BonBons!!!

@cumberlandquiltchic1 7 ай бұрын

That’s a good praline recipe. Growing up, my mom taught me to boil pralines, or fudge, until it reached the soft boil stage. It’s dropping a bit into cold water and feeling it. It’s an acquired thing, that I think you have to be taught. I’ve never used a candy thermometer. You always make me remember things, which are happy memories. 🎄😇

@cumberlandquiltchic1 7 ай бұрын

She always had a teacup with cold water.she would drop a few drops fro her spoon. If it fell apart, it wasn’t ther yet. . She would empty annd rinse cup and put fresh water. Repeat, until the soft little ball stayed together. That’s the best I can describe it. Shed then add the nuts st the end, and vanilla. She had to work quickly because it set up really fast. As all recipes go, you just have to do things according to what works for you. Yours looked delicious!

@cumberlandquiltchic1 7 ай бұрын

They did use to put wax in their chocolate for making the candy recipes you were talking about.tempering and all the terms we have now weren’t a thing. They didn’t have microwaves, etc. I think it was a sure fire way of using chocolate and wax to thicken and harden. Nobody ever thought another thing about the dietary stuff back then. Not that it hurt you any… I remember thst like it was yesterday. My aunt had the molds like you use and made chocolates and wax was a part of the process.

@CelebratingAppalachia 7 ай бұрын

Love those memories! Granny used cold water like that too 😀