I like -

Scottish shortbread (made with butter and powdered sugar)
Lebkuchen (honey spice cookies with dried fruit)
Egg nog pound cake (regular pound cake with rum flavoring and nutmeg)
Russian tea cakes (just like everyone makes - aren't they good?)

For special occasions I like to make a big batch of plain spritz dough,
divide it into several portions, add different colors and flavorings to
each, and then squeeze out each color of dough in a suitable pattern
(green trees, pink swirls, yellow wreaths). I sandwich them with
buttercream frosting - chocolate or mint, cherry, and lemon or orange.
They look rather like storebought butter cookies, but they taste much
better since homemade filling has more zip than bland storebought.

Kathy