100 tried and tested family favorite cookies and bars for Christmas and beyond. Freezer-friendly and perfect for last minute holiday baking. They are great for eating, gifting, for parties and anytime you fancy something sweet and delicious!
Need new cookies to try this holiday season? We’ve got you covered! Here are 100 of the best holiday cookies that are perfect for eating, gifting, partying and anytime you fancy something sweet and delicious!
Easy Hot Cocoa Cookies
Warm up your winter with our irresistible Hot Cocoa Cookies! Imagine the comforting aroma of freshly baked cookies infused with the cozy essence of hot cocoa. These delightful treats capture the essence of the holiday season, all in one perfect bite. Rich chocolatey goodness, mini marshmallows, and a sprinkle of nostalgia come together to create a cookie that’s like a hug for your taste buds.
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Easy Soft Sugar Cookies
Easy, tried, and tested recipe to make delicious soft sugar cookies that are yummy on their own but also perfect for frosting! An easy royal icing or glaze is included in the recipe.
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Christmas M & M Cookie Bars
Christmas M & M Cookie Bars– soft, gooey, and loaded with both chocolate chips AND M&M’s throughout! Easy to make and perfect for cookie exchanges or goodie trays!
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Marlene’s Caramelitas
If you are looking for a rich and gooey bar to make this Christmas, caramelitas are just the thing! They have a buttery brown sugar and oatmeal crust with a gooey caramel, chocolate and pecan center that will make your sweet tooth sing!
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Double Chocolate Chip Peppermint Cookies
Double chocolate chip peppermint cookies are packed with candy cane bits and chocolate chips. They are the perfect Christmas cookie with less than 10 minutes of prep time.
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Christmas Shortbread Cookies
Buttery and with just the right amount of chew, these brown sugar Christmas Shortbread Cookies are simple to whip up and only require 5 ingredients! Perfect for cut outs or slice and bake–the rich flavor paired with a simple icing and festive sprinkles will be a winner this holiday season!
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Easy Cherry Holiday Squares
Unbelievably easy recipe for a pretty, super yummy and festive holiday dessert loaded with cherry pie filling. These Easy Cherry Holiday Squares or Bars are perfect to make for that last-minute holiday baking. Serves a crowd!
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No Bake Christmas Cherry Balls
These no bake Christmas cherry balls are easy to make with kids and can be stored in the freezer until guests arrive.
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Lemon Pecan Snowball Cookies
These buttery and crumbly shortbread style cookies dotted with chopped pecans then rolled in powdered sugar are simply irresistible! The addition of fresh lemon flavor makes these pecan snowball cookies even more scrumptious, you can’t just have one!
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German Star Cookies
German Star Cookies, also known as Zimtsterne Cinnamon Cookies are a wonderful cookie for Christmas. They're crisp, chewy and spiced with all things nice! Naturally Gluten – Free too!
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Chocolate Rugelach Recipe
These chocolate rugelach are made with a cream cheese pastry wrapped around a chocolate and orange-flavored filling. They're perfect for your big Christmas cookie plans because the dough can be made ahead and frozen, or you can freeze both unbaked or baked cookies!
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Homemade Grinch Crinkle Cookies
Homemade Grinch Cookies are fudgy Christmas crinkle cookies made from scratch without cake mix with 100% brownie texture!
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Gluten-free Sugar Cookies
This time tested, foolproof sugar cookie recipe is delicious and easy. The recipe comes with all the tips for perfect no spread cookies every time.
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Italian Anise Cookies
Very popular holiday sweets because these Italian Anise cookies are absolutely delicious and very festive looking too. This recipe makes a big batch of cookies so they’re perfect for a Christmas cookie exchange, as edible holiday gifts, or to bring along to a holiday gathering or family get-together.
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Soft Christmas Sprinkle Sugar Cookies
These buttery and soft Christmas cookies are baked with festive sprinkles for a beautiful holiday dessert! They are easy to make and taste delicious.
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Cherry Christmas Cookies
Old-Fashioned Cherry Christmas Cookies are a delicious refrigerator cookie that can be put together and kept in the freezer until ready to bake!
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Easy Cherry Holiday Squares
Unbelievably easy recipe for a pretty, super yummy and festive holiday dessert loaded with cherry pie filling. These Easy Cherry Holiday Squares or Bars are perfect to make for that last-minute holiday baking. Serves a crowd!
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Gingersnaps
Chewy spicy ginger snaps, rolled in festive holiday colors of sanding sugar are the perfect holiday cookie. These freeze beautifully.
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Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
Just 4 ingredients to make these soft, chewy, sweet and oh-so- yummy – Chocolate Crinkle Cookies! Super easy to make as well and perfect for the holiday season! Our favorite Christmas cookies for sure.
Cranberry and White Chocolate Cookies
Soft and chewy on the inside with a crispy outer crust. Loaded with white chocolate and cranberries. A perfect Christmas cookie.
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The Best Soft Gingerbread Cookies
These Soft Gingerbread Cookies are easy to make and freeze well. Perfect for cookie decorating parties, cookie exchanges, to give as holiday gifts, and they look so fun and festive at any Christmas feast.
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Best M&M Christmas Cookies
Loaded with your favorite holiday chocolate candies (M&Ms), these Christmas-inspired cookies are chewy, chocolaty, and absolutely delicious! Perfect for your holiday baking, cookie exchange, and as an edible Christmas gift!
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Biscoff Slice
Biscoff Slice is a super delicious no-bake slice recipe with a Lotus Biscoff cookie base plus a layer of chocolate and more Biscoff spread on top. Great for Biscoff lovers!
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Jam Thumbprint Biscuits (Cookies)
These Jam Thumbprint Biscuits are quick to make, ready in about 30 mins. An ideal recipe for children to make.
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How to Make Linzer Cookies
Experience the timeless delight of Linzer Cookies with our delectable recipe. These charming treats combine rich buttery goodness with a hint of almond, crowned by a jewel-like center of vibrant raspberry jam. Perfect for holidays, special occasions, or any time you crave a taste of refined sweetness.
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No-Bake Caramel Cashew Bar
Check out this no-bake caramel cashew bar recipe for sweet and salty snacks. The crunchy cashew meets the gooey caramel is a perfect blend of energy bar.
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Gluten-Free Shortbread Cookies
My Gluten-Free Shortbread Cookies are the perfect festive treat. The shortbread is rich, buttery, and melt-in-the-mouth delicious as it should be. It contains just four ingredients and is so simple to prepare. These cookies are the perfect addition to your Christmas Cookie Box!
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Pinwheel Christmas Cookies
This Pinwheel Christmas Cookie recipe is the ultimate Christmas Cookie! With the festive red, white and green swirls and a unique almond flavor, these Christmas Pinwheel cookies make a great addition to your holiday baking platter, a cookie swap or an edible Christmas gift!
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Norwegian Gingerbread Cookies
Spicy and subtly sweet, these traditional Norwegian gingerbread cookies are sure to bring joy to your kitchen this holiday season.
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Amaretti Style Cranberry and Orange Almond Cookies
These amaretti-style cookies use minimal flour and have a light airy finish, fit to accompany desserts and drinks light as a feather and fat-free too!
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Krispies
These Chocolate Peanut Butter Krispies Treats are a hit with kids and grownups alike. They're super easy and guaranteed to vanish. Switch out the colors for any occasion throughout the year. No baking involved!
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Cherry Bell Cookies
This Cherry Bell Cookie Recipe was popular in the 1960’s and is making a come back! A simple cookie dough wrapped around a stemmed cherry and covered in sugar. These Cherry Cookies are loved by all who try them!
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Gluten-free Sugar Cookies
This time tested, foolproof sugar cookie recipe is delicious and easy. The recipe comes with all the tips for perfect no spread cookies every time.
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Spiced Molasses Cookies
Perfectly spiced and so deliciously good, these Spiced Molasses Cookies will blow your tastebuds away! These are my favorite holiday cookies and they always get good reviews wherever I bring them!
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Coconut Sugar Cookies
These delicious cutout coconut sugar cookies require no chill time and are decorated for Christmas. They are ready in just 40 minutes and are freezer-friendly!
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2-Ingredient Coconut Macaroons
Sweet coconut filled macaroon cookies, with just two ingredients! And so easy to make! These 2 Ingredient Coconut Macaroons are gluten-free and super yummy! Count me in!
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Pumpkin Chocolate Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
A time-saver cookie recipe that’s simple to make but big on flavor! Loaded with pumpkin flavor, spices, chocolate and a delectable cream cheese frosting this Pumpkin Chocolate Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting hit all the right notes!
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Whipped Shortbread Cookies
These delightful holiday whipped shortbread cookies will melt in your mouth. They are light, buttery, and SO easy to make.
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Hello Dolly Cookie Bars
These Hello Dolly cookie bars are truly so delicious and super easy to make! With layers of graham crackers, coconut, pecans, butterscotch and choco chips – your tastebuds are in for a yummy treat!
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Best Chocolate Chip Sugar Cookies
The ultimate soft and gooey chocolate chip sugar cookies recipe. They are sweet, chewy, and easy to make with 8 basic ingredients. Seriously, the best cookies ever!
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Cranberry and White Chocolate Cookies
Soft and chewy on the inside with a crispy outer crust. Loaded with white chocolate and cranberries. A perfect Christmas cookie.
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Christmas Sprinkle Sugar Cookies
Christmas Sprinkle Sugar Cookies are not only fun to make, they taste as good as they look!
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Cherry and Chocolate Cheesecake Bars
Cherries and chocolate plus cream cheese all combine to make these cheesecake bars totally scrumptious! One slice is not enough for these holiday favorite cherry and chocolate cheesecake bars!
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Mincemeat Cookies with a Lemon Drizzle
This recipe for Mincemeat Cookies with a Lemon Drizzle is a lovely alternative to Mince Pies. Spice them up with Lebkuchen or your favourite spices and you have a lovely treat at Christmas.
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Soft Sugar Cookie Recipe
The recipe produces soft and chewy Sugar Cookies with a crispy edge. Cream cheese and sour cream add a nice tang keeping the cookies from being overly sweet with a nice balance of flavor.
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Cherry Pie Cookies
These pretty (and delicious!) shortbread style Cherry Pie cookies are perfect for holiday cookie exchanges or special occasions! Your guests will never guess how easy they are to make!
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Delicious Scotcheroo Cookies
Scotcheroo Cookies are a delightful twist on the classic cookie recipe. These cookies are the perfect combination of sweet, chewy, and indulgent, with a touch of butterscotch, peanut butter, and milk chocolate chips. In this blog post, we’ll take you through the step-by-step process of making these mouthwatering cookies.
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Mantecaditos (Almond-Flavored Butter Cookies)
Mantecaditos are Puerto Rican almond-flavored thumbprint cookies filled with sweet jams, fruit, or topped with sprinkles. They're a favorite cookie of children and adults alike, especially during the holiday season.
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Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Bars
Craving chocolate and cheesecake? These delicious chocolate chip cheesecake bars are the solution! Easy recipe that you will make again and again.
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Gluten-Free Vegan Gingerbread Cookies
These gluten-free, vegan gingerbread cookies have crispy edges and chewy middles. They’re spiced just right!
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Buttery Jam Thumbprint Cookies
These Buttery Jam Thumbprint Cookies are lightly crisp and melt-in-your-mouth-delicious! They're also super easy and need only a handful of ingredients. No eggs needed.
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Macaroon Kiss Cookies
Treat the coconut lovers in your life to a dessert just for them. Macaroon Kiss Cookies combine flaky sweetened coconut flakes and cream cheese for a chewy cookie everyone will enjoy!
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Cranberry Oat Bars
With a perfect balance of sweet and tart these scrumptious cranberry oat bars are the perfect holiday treat! The addition of chopped walnuts give them a nutty crunch that brings these yummy bars over the top. These bars can be made completely gluten-free and tastes as deliciously good!
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Gluten-free Ginger Molasses Cookies (Soft & Chewy)
These soft and chewy ginger molasses cookies are perfect for the Holidays. The chewy texture and the warming spices add an extra level of satisfaction, making them a favorite for Christmas cookie season and all year long for cookie lovers.
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3-Ingredient Nutella Brownies
Fudgy, nutty, yummy – everything I love in a brownie – 3-INGREDIENT NUTELLA BROWNIES! Gluten-free and all-purpose flour options for you to choose from.
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7 Layer Bars
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Chocolate Mint Cookies
These chocolate mint cookies have a crunchy edge with a soft interior, giving them a nice chew. They are easy to make and taste amazing.
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Triple Coffee Cookies
Add these triple coffee drop cookies to your cookie plans this year. Like most drop cookies, the cookie dough can be made, scooped, and frozen so you can have them ready to bake whenever you want cookies!
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Gingerbread Cookies Without Molasses
Sometimes I just want to enjoy the warmth of gingerbread cookies without the bitter edge of molasses. That is why I developed a recipe for gingerbread cookies without molasses.
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Cocoa Cream Thumbprint Cookies
Deliciously creamy and chocolaty – these Cocoa Cream Thumbprint Cookies are little bites of sweetness that are like heaven in your mouth. These chocolate cookies make a great holiday gift for Christmas and beyond. Easy recipe for dessert that you’ll make time and time again!
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Fudgy Red Velvet Cake Mix Brownies
These fudgy red velvet cake mix brownies are so easy to make with only 4 ingredients. They have white chocolate chips inside and a super moist, chewy texture that melts in your mouth. It's the perfect doctored red velvet cake mix recipe that you won't regret making!
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Candy Cane Blossom Cookies
These festive classic Candy Cane Blossom Cookies are not just gorgeous they are delicious, too. Perfect as a Christmas gift for teachers, family, and friends. I gave this as a gift in a mug and it was well-loved!
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French Butter Cookies
These French Butter Cookies (known as Sables Breton in France) may look simple, but their looks are deceiving. The addictive treats are loaded with the flavor from vanilla and butter! Make the dough in advance and freeze until you are ready to bake.
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Dutch Apple Pie Bars
All the flavors of your favorite apple pie and the delicious Dutch-style crumb topping make these bar cookies exceptionally yummy! Easy to make as well – Dutch Apple Pie Bars!
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Easy Walnut Snowball Cookies
Walnut Snowball cookies are an old fashioned recipe that will be the hit of your holiday cookie swap!
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Green Tea Cream Cheese Brownies
Matcha Green Tea provides a lovely contrast of flavors and colors in these delicious and fudgy brownies. One slice won’t be enough as it’s so yummy!
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Classic Linzer Cookies
Linzer cookies are deliciously nutty and almond flavored cookies, with a fruity filling! They are a classic during the holidays, and are so simple to make.
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Peppermint Cookies
These peppermint cookies are loaded with Oreos, white chocolate and crushed candy canes for a fun holiday treat!
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Date and Walnut Bars (food for the gods)
Known locally as “food for the gods” this is a holiday-perfect bar that’s rich, buttery, nutty, and totally delicious! Use walnut, pecan, hazelnut, or even cashews for the nuts. Regular and gluten-free options for this super yummy Date and Walnut Bars are available.
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Biscoff Butter Cookies
Soft, chewy Biscoff butter cookies are easy no-chill cookies the whole family will love. Made with Biscoff cookie butter and chocolate chips, these dense, fudgy cookies are a must for fans of Lotus Biscoff spread!
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Fresh Cranberry Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
Chewy, moist, and delicious cranberry cookies loaded with chocolate! Fresh cranberries give these yummy cookies a refreshing tangy flavor which perfectly contrasts with chocolate and cinnamon spice. A perfect sweet treat for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year!
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Traditional Rolled Sugar Cookies with a New Twist
The recipe I am sharing today is the recipe my family has used for decades. This year I baked them with my daughters and two of my three grand children for the first time, but we added a little twist to the family tradition.
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Christmas Butter Cookies
This recipe is based on the classic Italian style butter cookie recipe.
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Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Bars
Craving chocolate and cheesecake? These delicious chocolate chip cheesecake bars are the solution! Easy recipe that you will make again and again.
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Irish Shortbread Cookies
There's a secret ingredients in these Irish Shortbread Cookies that them super crunchy and deliciously irresistible. Double the batch because you'll want to nibble on these through the holidays.
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White Chocolate Raspberry Bars
Sweet and creamy white chocolate provides the perfect contrast to sweet-tart raspberries in these delicious cookie bars! With white chocolate drizzled all over, these yummy treats come out so pretty and festive. Perfect for holiday baking and as an edible Christmas present!
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Easy Brown Butter Nutella Bars
Brown butter Nutella bars are so easy to make- no mixer, no dough chilling, and out of the oven in 1 hour! With chocolate chips and a gooey Nutella center, these Nutella cookie bars are perfect for Nutella lovers!
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Easy Shortbread Cookies
These Classic Shortbread Cookies are buttery, crumbly, and light, and you only need a minimum of 3 ingredients (butter, sugar, flour) to make them! Always a favorite during the holidays!
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Hot Chocolate Cookies
Rich brownie cookies swirled with generous streaks of marshmallow fluff make these hot chocolate cookies the ultimate winter treat.
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Spiced Mincemeat Macaron
Treat yourself to something special! Spiced Mincemeat Macaron! It has a creamy filling and zesty flavors that will knock your socks off this holiday season!
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Apricot Rosemary Jewels
These bright apricot rosemary jewels are the sparkling star of your cookie trays. These are a unique buttery cookie with a festive punch of flavor.
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Easy-peasy Caramel Brownies
Fudgy, luscious, and full of chocolate and caramel deliciousness, these caramel brownies made with a cake mix are the perfect sweet treat. Absolutely scrumptious and so easy to make!
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Coconut Lemon Bars
Deliciously tangy and sweet at the same time these delectable lemon bars are made even better with the addition of shredded coconut!
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Almond Matcha Rice Crispy Bar
This bars are suitable to eat alongside with milk and hot tea in the morning or afternoon. For you who are a sweettooth will love this Almond Matcha Rice Crispy Bar.
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Molasses Cookies
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Nutella (Chocolate Hazelnut) Oatmeal Cookies
Just 4 simple ingredients to make these delightfully scrumptious cookies with lots of chocolate flavor from Nutella and a chewy tasty texture from oatmeal and nuts added. So easy to make in no time!
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Crispy Rosemary Chocolate Chip Cookies
These crispy rosemary chocolate chip cookies are SO deliciously good dipped in a nice cold glass of milk. The subtly infused rosemary flavor and dark chocolate chips are pulled together with a light sprinkle of sea salt.
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Nanaimo Bars
So addictively good, one bite and you’re hooked! A bottom crust with nuts, cocoa and coconut, a middle layer of creamy vanilla custard filling and then melted and chilled chocolate on top! This is a GLUTEN-FREE version of the Canadian classic sweet treat – No Bake Nanaimo Bars. Freezable.
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Gooey Chocolate Crackle Cookies
Everyone loves Gooey Chocolate Crackle Cookies, including the baker, because they are so easy to make! Use your favorite chocolate cake mix and just a few more ingredients to bake up these delicious chocolatey treats.
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Old-Fashioned Soft Pumpkin Cookies
These simple and easy to make Old-Fashioned Soft Pumpkin Cookies are like little pumpkin bread muffin tops with a soft texture in a puffy happy cookie that’s great year round!
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Molasses Cookies
Molasses CookiesSoft chewy Molasses Cookies recipe have a nice flavor of molasses with just the right balance of cinnamon, ginger, and cloves. They have a delicious crackly top and stay soft for days.
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Gluten-free Sugar Cookies
This time tested, foolproof sugar cookie recipe is delicious and easy. The recipe comes with all the tips for perfect no spread cookies every time.
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Italian Anise Cookies
Very popular holiday sweets because these Italian Anise cookies are absolutely delicious and very festive looking too. This recipe makes a big batch of cookies so they’re perfect for a Christmas cookie exchange, as edible holiday gifts, or to bring along to a holiday gathering or family get-together.
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Chocolate Applesauce Cookies
Chocolate and applesauce flavored cookies that are melt-in-your-mouth tender and delicious. Egg-free, flavorful and light, you simply can’t have just one!
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Cherry Christmas Cookies
Old-Fashioned Cherry Christmas Cookies are a delicious refrigerator cookie that can be put together and kept in the freezer until ready to bake!
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Easy Cherry Holiday Squares
Unbelievably easy recipe for a pretty, super yummy and festive holiday dessert loaded with cherry pie filling. These Easy Cherry Holiday Squares or Bars are perfect to make for that last-minute holiday baking. Serves a crowd!
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Gingersnaps
Chewy spicy ginger snaps, rolled in festive holiday colors of sanding sugar are the perfect holiday cookie. These freeze beautifully.
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Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
Just 4 ingredients to make these soft, chewy, sweet and oh-so- yummy – Chocolate Crinkle Cookies! Super easy to make as well and perfect for the holiday season! Our favorite Christmas cookies for sure.
Cranberry and White Chocolate Cookies
Soft and chewy on the inside with a crispy outer crust. Loaded with white chocolate and cranberries. A perfect Christmas cookie.
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Last updated on January 11th, 2024 at 01:26 am
