Christmas Cookies You Need on Hand for the Holidays
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Easy Christmas Cookies You Need on Hand for the Holidays
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without festive trees, holiday music, tinsel—and cookies!
Whether you share them with friends and neighbors, participate in a cookie exchange, or make them with your children at home, there’s always a reason to have an arsenal of yummy cookie recipes.
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Easy Christmas Cookies You Need on Hand for the Holidays
All my cookie recipes are easy to make. So much so that you’ll fall in love with them and make them year after year. Plus, they’re guaranteed to bring plenty of smiles! Additionally, if you’re not into making cookies, maybe holiday-themed candy treats are more your thing.
I’ve rounded up Christmas cookie recipes that I think you’ll want to try this year and my best cookie-baking tips. From sugar and
Christmas Cookies and Cookie tips
- First, with every recipe, read through the recipe completely before starting.
- Have all ingredients at room temperature unless otherwise specified.
- The first time you make a recipe, bake for the minimum time listed on the recipe, then check it after the minimum so as not to overcook. Make notes for next time.
- Cool your cookies on the baking sheet for two minutes before transferring them to a cooling rack to cool completely.
- Use real
butter . Nothing acts likebutter does when baking! - Use a spring-release scoop (ice cream scoop) for even-shaped cookies.
- One important step in the process of making cookies is to refrigerate the dough before baking. This allows the
butter to firm up so the cookie doesn’t spread too much. As well, it allows the gluten to relax for a more tender cookie. Additionally, there’s no harm in making the dough, forming it into balls, and keeping them in the fridge for up to five days before baking them. - Cookie dough will also freeze for up to four months (unless otherwise stated in the recipe). Bake as directed whenever you’re ready to bake.
- Next, don’t over-mix the dough it will make the cookies tough.
- I highly recommend baking cookies on a Silpat mat.
- Finally, carefully and correctly measure flour.
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Best Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies
This is a basic cookie recipe with just a few simple ingredients that you probably already have in your pantry. It contains no butter , no flour, no mixer and uses just one bowl for easy making.
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Browned Butter Brown Sugar Cookie Recipe
Not your ordinary sugar cookie, this recipe for Browned Butter Brown Sugar Cookies takes the simple cookie to new levels. Browned butter provides a richer, nutty flavor while brown sugar adds a caramel note. I used a large scoop to make them extra-large and uniform.
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Mississippi Mud Cookies with Marshmallow Fluff and Chocolate Frosting
Mississippi Mud Cookies with Marshmallow Fluff and Chocolate Frosting is a delectable fudge cookie recipe topped with marshmallow fluff frosting, chocolate ganache, and pecans.
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Old Fashioned No Bake Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
Everyone will love these no-bake cookies. They're a sweet, chewy, and easy-to-make!!
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Healthy No-bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
These cookies are a healthier alternative to the classic no-bake chocolate oatmeal cookies. They taste just as good and are just as easy to make.
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Hidden Rolo Snowball Cookies
Hidden Rolo Snowball Cookies, a hidden Rolo chocolate and caramel candy make this cookie a sweet surprise. This is a fun cookie recipe alternative.
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Soft Batch Glazed Lemon Cream Cheese Cookies
Soft Batch Glazed Lemon Cream Cheese Cookies are pillowy soft, light, creamy, and sugary, This insanely good cookie is a must make.
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Chocolate Pecan Sandies Secret Kiss Cookies
Chocolate Pecan Sandies Secret Kiss Cookies is a luscious cookie with a secret! It has a decadent chocolate kiss in the center.
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Triple Chips Chocolate Chip Cookies
Triple Chips Chocolate Chip Cookies is one of my fave recipes for chocolate chip cookies. The secret lies in the method as much as the ingredients.
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Take 5 Stuffed Cookies
Take 5 Stuffed Cookies, soft cookies filled with candy bars are sandwiched with fluffy frosting in the middle!
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Quarter Pound Chocolate Candy Bar Cookie Recipe
Quarter Pound Chocolate Candy Bar Cookie Recipe is irresistibly good. When you can’t decide between a cookie and a candy bar, combine the two for an extraordinary dessert!
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Scratch-made Easy Sugar Cookies
Do not refrigerate this dough before baking. This cookie is an excellent cookie to decorate.
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Ranger Cookies with Chex
Ranger Cookies with Chex has all the goodness of Chocolate Chip Cookies with more crunch and more flavor. These are big bakery-style cookies with crispy edges and chewy centers.
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Mint Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies
Using a large scoop, I had 26 cookies. If you make them small (regular size), you’ll have about 4 dozen. Use 2 cookie sheets. Allow the cookie sheet to cool off before placing second batch of dough on them. Never place cookie dough on a hot sheet.
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Caramel stuffed sugar cookies
Thick, buttery cookies stuffed with ooey, gooey caramel makes these cookies a delicious snack! These make a sturdy cookie that’s perfect for cookie swap parties and homemade gifts. Please read my tips for these cookies in the post.
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Peanut Butter M&M Snickers Cookies
Peanut Butter M&M Snickers Cookies are soft and chewy cookies that are filled with peanut butter M&M candies and chopped Snickers candy bars.
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Blue Ribbon Chewy Molasses Ginger Cookies
Perfectly flavored, Blue Ribbon Chewy Molasses Ginger Cookies have a snap from the sugar on the outside but are soft, luscious, and chewy on the inside.
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Cream Cheese Snickerdoodles
This is a delightfully light, tender cookie. It's easy to make and great for any time of year.
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Old Fashioned Molasses Cookies
Old Fashioned Molasses Cookies are bursting with rich, warm flavor from molasses, cloves, ginger, and cinnamon. The perfect cookie for the Holiday season! #cookie #recipe #molasses #oldfashioned #ginger #cinnamon #Christmas #christmascookies #cookietray #cookieexchange
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SNICKERDOODLE WHOOPIE PIE RECIPE
Homemade cinnamon whoopie pie sandwich cookies are dressed for the party with sprinkles!
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