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Lemon extract and orange peel add a citrus touch to these cutout cookies. Top with a meringue icing or your favorite frosting, or add sprinkles before baking.
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Graham crackers form the base for this bar cookie with layers of marshmallows, brown sugar, almonds and coconut. "I've made these cookies each Christmas since 1984," says Georgine Simmonds of Genesee, Michigan. "They're one of my family's favorites."
A round cookie cutter with scalloped edges makes a nice shape for these cookies, but bell, tree or star cutters would also be good choices for the holidays.
A festive red maraschino cherry tops each cookie in this recipe, contributed by one of our Midwest Living® editors.
Orange and chocolate: a holiday cookie match that tempt every Santa to take seconds. This recipe comes from Jill Drury in Milwaukee, who loved to bake cookies with her grandmother. "For the longest time I couldn't decide which cookie I liked best, until one day Grandma had me mix my favorite flavors: chocolate and orange," she says. "We came up with this cookie that I now call my holiday favorite."
Finishing touches add a festive flair to these cookies. Dip Chocolatey Shortbread Bites in melted semisweet or white chocolate and top with a chocolate candy. Give extra zing to Lemony Spritz Cookies with Lemon Glaze and colored sugar.
Minneapolis blogger Alyssa Ruesch says it's not Christmas without these slice-and-bake cookies. It's her grandma's recipe.
For a cute twist on traditional sugar-coated cookie balls, create a snowman using melted candy coating and pretzel sticks.
Create these rich, chocolatey cookies from refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough--just add cocoa powder, chocolate sprinkles and a candy center. Use red and green sprinkles instead of chocolate if you'd like a more festive presentation.
Dried cranberries dot shortbread dough, giving holiday flair to these traditional cookies.
These gooey cookies tuck mint filling inside a soft chocolate cookie sandwich, topped with a swirl of fudgy frosting.
This slice-and-bake cookie recipe brings several favorite holiday flavors to the cookie tray. Beverly Olson of Marshfield, Wisconsin, added cranberries and orange peel to her butter cookies along with pecans. Finely chop these additions so they won't get in the way when you slice the dough.
Chocolate, nuts, coconut and more fill our easy-to-make bar cookies. Mixed dried fruit bits and candy-coated milk chocolate pieces are among the layers that make this bar cookie distinctive.
The recipe for these spiced cutout cookies comes from the Goldmoor Inn near Galena, Illinois. Decorate with Royal Icing. While the cookies are still warm, make a small hole in the top for a satin ribbon, which lets you use the cookie an ornament or gift.
"We use this recipe year-round for all of the holidays," says Laura Maychruk, co-owner of Buzz Cafe in Oak Park, Illinois (10 miles west of Chicago's Loop). "For Christmas, we make snowflakes and Christmas trees. The cookies are delicious even without the icing."
Dry-roasted peanuts, peanut butter-flavored pieces and peanut butter bring triple flavor to this make-ahead bar cookie.
You can make these chewy cookies up to three months ahead of the holidays. Just freeze undipped cookies between waxed paper in an airtight container. When you're ready to serve them, thaw and then dip bottoms in melted chocolate.
Friends and family will love any of these tiny treats. Clockwise, from front left:
-- Hamantaschen, a traditional three-cornered pastry pocket with a sweet filling;
-- Pistachio-Tangerine Fudge, a no-fail fudge with add-ins such as tangerine peel;
-- Cranberry-Coconut Tassies, like miniature pies with a cranberry, coconut and brown-sugar filling; and
-- Chocolate Cream Spritz Cookies, elegant cookie sticks dipped in semisweet chocolate and crushed peppermint.
We loaded these crisp and chewy chocolate chip cookies with white and chocolate chips along with toasted hazelnuts. They taste great with a cup of Christmas Candy-Cane Hot Cocoa.
A Decorah, Iowa, reader passed along the recipe for these much-loved treats, which she enjoys bringing to cookie exchanges.
To make our cute edible snowmen, roll out shortbread cookie dough and cut into a snowman shape. Decorate with powdered sugar icing, gumdrops and colored candies.
Slice-and-bake Candy Cane Swirl Cookies add color and minty flavor to a Yuletide cookie tray. Peanut Butter Temptations sink miniature peanut butter cups into peanut butter cookie dough. Elfin Shortbread Bites come in a variety of flavors: Lemon-Poppy Seed, Chocolate Chip and Butter-Pecan. No-bake Chocolate Balls take only minutes to make.
Packed with flavor from molasses, ginger, cinnamon and brown sugar, these cookies look especially nice when cut with a scalloped or round cutter and sprinkled with coarse sugar or crystallized ginger.
Dust off your waffle iron to bake these Belgian-style cookies. The recipe comes from Connie Shaw of Bettendorf, Iowa, who learned it from her grandmother. "As she taught me to make them, she explained that when she lived in Belgium, families served them when neighbors called," Connie says. "I sent them to my son the two Christmases he was deployed in Iraq. They are part of his Christmas memories, too."
The Cole family of Wadsworth, Ohio, bakes these each year for friends and family. The tradition started more than 50 years ago when Phrania (Fran) Cole and her sister, Ann, began making cookies as affordable gifts. The Coles like the Snowballs' tang of black walnut and the snowy, powdered-sugar coating. You can choose from two fillings when you bake the tiny, turnoverlike Nutjammers.
Lemon and nutmeg flavor these old-fashioned cakelike cookies. For a cookie exchange, make the smaller 2-inch cookies. For your family, choose the jumbo 3-inchers.
Staff at the Alexander Ramsey House in St. Paul, Minnesota, sent us this recipe for festive, ribbon-shape cookies.
The recipe for these cherry- and pecan-flecked cookies comes from a Blue Springs, Missouri, reader. She remembers baking them with her mom and sisters while growing up in Mason City, Iowa.
Kolackys (also spelled kolaches or kolaces) are a Central European pastry with a sweet center. "These cookies are time-consuming, but so worth it," says an Ohio reader who contributed the recipe.
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does anyone have a recipe for chocolate chip cookies BUT HAVE TO HAVE dates walnuts and orange juice AND be CHEWY! THANK YOU ! BEEN LOOKING FOR YEARS FOR THIS RECIPE... Used to have friend who made them.
12/11/2010 08:03:06 PM Report AbuseThis recipe is "dental fillings-removing-sticky!" Half the butter and sugar would probably be an improvement.
12/11/2010 07:41:11 PM Report AbuseThis is so easy, and delicious! A keeper as far as new recipes go.
12/8/2010 08:07:09 PM Report Abusethis is a good recipe
11/30/2009 08:44:41 PM Report Abusethis is a veryyyy awsome yummy good recipe. I <3 ( LOVE ) this recipe
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