Drop Cookies
These are cookies that are spooned out onto a cookie sheet. They generally spread and flatten when baked.
Double Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
These delicious chocolate cookies are made using a cake mix making them very simple to make!
These cookies use mint M&Ms for a festive and delicious cookie.
Christmas Funfetti Cake Mix Cookies
Who doesn't love a sprinkle cookie? These are made using a cake mix and are fun and easy to make.
Peppermint Chocolate Chip Cookies
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A festive peppermint version of the classic chocolate chip cookie! Very easy to make and you can even make the dough ahead of time and freeze it.
Chocolate Oreo Peppermint Cake Mix Cookies
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Chocolate Oreo Peppermint Cake Mix Cookies are soft, creamy with a refreshing peppermint flavor and topped off with a little crunch.
Candied Cranberry Walnut Oatmeal Cookies
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Soft and chewy Candied Cranberry Walnut Oatmeal Cookie filled with perfect flavors and color for the Holiday Season.
Easy Snickerdoodle Recipe
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Looking for a delicious and easy snickerdoodle recipe? These are soft, delicious, and can be whipped up in no time. Make them ahead and stick them in the freezer for later.
Fudgy Crackled Chocolate Cookies
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Slightly crispy and sugary on the outside, soft and fudgy on the inside, these cookies are perfect for holidays, a celebration, or simply because you want a chocolate fix.
Eggnog Cookie Recipe
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Eggnog cookies are the perfect addition to your Christmas cookie tray. This recipe for eggnog cookies makes a delicious, soft cookie full of real eggnog flavor.
Cream Cheese Cookies Recipe
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This creamy cookie recipe makes a big batch perfect for holiday gifting. Easy and delicious! If you like shortbread cookies, try this recipe.
Hazelnut Meringue Cookies
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These German Hazelnut Meringue Cookies are light and oh so delicious! Perfect for the holidays and they only take half an hour to make!
Figgy Pudding Cookies Recipe
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This figgy pudding Christmas cookie has all of the flavors of a traditional figgy pudding in a bite-sized, adorable Christmas cookie. It's the perfect addition to your Christmas cookie tray.
Oatmeal Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Oatmeal Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Cookies with craisins and brown butter are a Christmas favorite
Santa Hat Cookies
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An adorable Christmas cookie, these are easy enough for little hands and pretty enough to serve at any party.
Georgia Tea Cakes Recipe
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Tea cakes have a buttery flavor and a wonderful cake-like texture.
Christmas M&M Cookies
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Chewy, crispy M&M cookies made with a simple sugar cookie dough. These cookies are quick to make with no chilling needed.
Grinch Cookies
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These quick and easy grinch cookies are a fluffy melt in your mouth treat. Soft cake mix cookies are given a crinkled effect with a sweet candy heart in their chewy center- they're a perfect snack or dessert to serve for both holiday dessert tables and classroom parties.
Soft Amaretti Cookies
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There are infinite variations of this classic Italian cookie. I'd like to share this simple, gluten free recipe for Soft Amaretti Cookies with all of you.
White Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
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Soft and chewy sugar cookies with creamy white chocolate chips and broken bits of peppermint candy.
Dark Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies
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The classic combination of chocolate and peppermint make these Dark Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies the perfect treat for the holidays!
Peppermint White Chocolate Pudding Cookies
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These peppermint white chocolate pudding cookies are chewy, perfectly sweet and make for a festive Holiday treat!
Cranberry Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Made with dark chocolate chips, no oatmeal, and stuffed with pecans, these cranberry cookies are a fall cookie winner!
Christmas Melt Away Cookies
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A sweet cookie with a tangy cream cheese icing that melts in your mouth every time you take a bite. They might possibly be the best Christmas Cookies ever!
Pistachio Pudding Cookies
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Soft and chewy, and a festive green! These Pistachio Pudding Cookies are excellent for cookie swapping! A holiday favorite recipe.
Andes Mint Cookies
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Chocolate Cookies with Andes Mints melted on top of the cookie.
Dee's Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
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A classic chocolate chip cookie recipe that are perfect all year long.
Melted Snowman Cookies Recipe
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Cute chocolate cookies with melted snowman.
Triple Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies
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Triple Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies are wonderful for Christmas from Serena Bakes Simply From Scratch.
Rolled Cookies
These are all cookies that are great for making cut-out cookies with.
Easiest Gingerbread Cookies
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This Gingerbread Cookie recipe is foolproof and SO easy to make. Use this easy gingerbread recipe to make gingerbread men, tree decorations or a cookie wreath.
Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies Recipe
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Gingerbread tastes amazing when dunked in a cold glass of milk, so why not celebrate that and make gingerbread cookie sticks that are designed for dunking?
Salted Dark Chocolate Dipped Toffee Shortbread Cookies Recipe
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Classic shortbread cookies recipe upgraded with toffee pieces and dipped in dark chocolate with a sprinkling of flaky sea salt.
Pine Needle Shortbread
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Melt in your mouth Pine Needle Shortbread Cookies. A twist on an old favourite with just a hint of piney, citrusy flavour. Delicate, delicious & sure to impress!
3D Christmas Cookies
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If you want to make amazing cookies that will wow your kids, friends, coworkers and family, you need to make these 3D Christmas Cookies! They’re not difficult, and they’re a show-stopper!
Pierniczki Swiateczne | Polish Christmas Cookies
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These Pierniczki świąteczne, aka Polish Christmas cookies, are the perfect make-ahead festive treat. They are easy to make, with pantry ingredients and bake in just 8 minutes.
Christmas Pudding Cookies
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Christmas pudding cookies are chocolate sugar cookies decorated to look like a traditional Christmas pudding which is a date pudding popular in the UK
Sugar Cookies with Crushed Peppermint
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Melt in your mouth sugar cookies topped with peppermint candies! These cookies are perfect for adding to your Christmas cookie tray!
Christmas Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
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Christmas Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting are perfect for the upcoming holiday – Christmas, especially for those who like sugar cookies on their Christmas plates.
Chocolate Mint Penguin Stained Glass Cookies Recipe
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These cute penguin cookies are a fun chocolate mint spin on traditional stained glass cookies - an easy treat recipe that's perfect for Christmas presents!
German Christmas Cookies: Lebkuchen
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German Christmas Cookies, also called Lebkuchen or German gingerbread cookies, are an authentic German cookie that is spicy, soft and incredibly flavorful.
Old Fashioned Tea Cake Christmas Cookies
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These Old Fashioned Tea Cake Christmas cookies are made with rolled sugar cookie dough. You can make these cookies ahead and store them in airtight containers.
Stackable Christmas Tree Cookies Recipe
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You may have seen these stackable Christmas cookies – also called stack cookies or 3-D cookies – as really really tall, brown cookie trees with white icing on the ends to reflect snow.
Cherry Red Nose Holiday Cookies
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These holiday Christmas cookies are a great way to teach kids how to bake cookies for Santa!
Lofthouse Cut Out Cookies
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Lofthouse Cut Out Cookies! Your favorite fluffy frosted sugar cookies except now you can roll them out and give them shape!
Vanilla Almond Sugar Cookies
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This thick, slightly chewy sugar cookie is just the right amount of sweet and makes perfect cut-outs, every time.
Vegan Gingerbread Cookies
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Vegan Gingerbread Cookies – this easy recipe makes perfect Vegan Gingerbread Cookies that keep their shape and require no chilling!
Christmas Homemade Thin Mints
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Who says you can't have Thin Mints for the holiday season? You sure can with these copycat Christmas Homemade Thin Mints! Crushed candy canes and sprinkles make this holiday version of the Girl Scout classic extra fun and festive.
Nutcracker Sugar Cookies
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These adorable decorated sugar cookies are easy to make following the step by step directions.
Cookie Bars
These are all cookies that are baked in bars.
Salted Caramel Shortbread Cookies
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Delicious shortbread bars with salted caramel. They are perfect for parties and gift giving.
Peppermint Bark Shortbread
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This is a cross between a cookie and a candy. Buttery shortbread topped with peppermint bark.
Christmas Cookie Bars with M&M's
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These Christmas cookie bars are packed with red and green M&M’s, chocolate chips, and sprinkles, making the buttery cookie bars a fun and festive Christmas dessert.
S'mores Cookie Bars
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S’mores Cookie Bars are layered with graham crackers, cookie dough with marshmallows, and topped with chocolate bar pieces. It’s an ooey gooey melty chocolate s’mores treat!
Molded Cookies
These cookies are molded into shapes.
Chocolate Star Cookies
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A delicious peanut butter cookie with a chocolate star in the middle making them festive and delicious.
Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies with Matcha Cream Filling
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Cocoa & matcha powder team up to make these insanely delicious chocolate thumbprint cookies filled with matcha cream. Bonus: they're vegan!
Italian Ricotta Cookies
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Italian Christmas Ricotta Cookies, the best softest sugar cookie you will ever eat.
Hidden Fudge Mint Cookies
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Looking for delicious cookies to make this holiday season? These Hidden Fudge Mint Cookies are soft sugar cookies with a surprise inside.
Soft Ginger Molasses Cookies
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These soft ginger molasses cookies are perfect for fall and winter, and make delicious holiday gifts!
Ginger Chip Spice Cookies
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Ginger Chip Spice Cookies are filled with the flavors of the holiday season. They’re easy to make and are a great addition to a holiday cookie platter!
Raspberry Bow Tie Cookies
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A soft cookie filled with raspberry jam, these raspberry bow tie cookies always get plenty of raves!
Almond Crescent Cookies
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Almond Crescent Cookies, made with almonds, pecans or walnuts, this melt in your mouth Christmas Cookie Recipe is a must make. Delicious!
Candy Cane Kiss Cookies Recipe
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Not only do these Candy Cane Hershey Kiss Cookies look festive, but these holiday cookies have a festive peppermint flavor as well.
Nanny’s Christmas Cherry Balls
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These Christmas cherry balls are so easy to make and great for making with small children.
Cherry Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies
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Cherry Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies are simple, yet decadent and even elegant holiday cookies that are so easy to put together that even a kid can make them.
Classic Snowball Cookies
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Call them whatever you like–Mexican wedding cookies, Russian tea cakes, snowball cookies–these bite-sized cookies are the perfect addition to a holiday dessert plate, cookie exchange, or for enjoying by yourself snuggled next to the Christmas tree.
Toffee & Chocolate Drizzle Whipped Shortbread Cookies Recipe
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A delicious twist on a classic shortbread cookie recipe.
Insanely Delicious Turtle Cookies
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The classic flavors of turtle candy ... chocolate, pecans, and caramel ... in soft and insanely delicious Turtle Cookies.
Chocolate Salted Caramel Thumbprint Cookies
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These delicious Chocolate Salted Caramel Thumbprint Cookies are perfect for caramel lovers! With a soft caramel center and a chocolate zig-zag, they’re excellent for the holiday season!
Gingersnap Cookie Recipe
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This Gingersnap Cookie Recipe produces the most chewy, soft cookies, and they're packed with warm spice and deep molasses flavor! They include a secret ingredient for even more flavor, and they're so easy to make!
Soft Cranberry Sugar Cookies
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These cranberry cookies are super soft with a delicate crunch on the outside. You can't go wrong with my grandma's famous cookie recipe.
Six-Ingredient Crunchy Almond Cookies
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A delicious sweet treat! Try this easy-to-make six ingredient cookie that's full of yummy almond flavour! It's ready in 30 minutes too.
Classic Chewy Gingersnap Cookies
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Check out these delicious sweet and spiced ginger molasses cookies! Makes 32 tasty classic cookies in under 30 minutes!
Jam Thumbprint Cookies
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These healthy Jam Thumbprint Cookies have the flavors of a Linzer Torte (raspberry and almond) and make the perfect classic Christmas Cookie!
Orange And Chocolate Vegan Shortbread Cookies
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These easy and delicious orange and chocolate shortbread cookies make a light, gluten free and dairy free snack for the weekend - Don't forget to add chili flakes for a spicy kick!
Greek Christmas Honey Cookies (Melomakarona)
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Gooey, sticky traditional melomakarona or Greek Christmas honey cookies with delicious festive flavours.
Raspberry Filled Sugar Cookie Cups
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Delicious sugar cookies filled with raspberry filling.
Chocolate-Dipped Orange Logs
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Orange Short bread cookies rolled into logs, dipped in melted semi-sweet chocolate, and rolled in finely chopped pecans. These Chocolate Dipped Orange Logs are a spectacular cookie for your Holiday baking trays!
Chocolate Rolo Stuffed Cookies Recipe
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These Rolo stuffed chocolate cookies are going to be a new family favorite. Delicious, soft, and chewy chocolate cookies with an ooey gooey caramel center.
Sandwich Cookies
These cookies feature fillings between cookies.
Mint Milano Cookies Recipe
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This mint milano cookies recipe creates a light, crisp, and buttery cookie, filled with a thin layer of peppermint infused dark chocolate.
Scottish Snowballs (Raspberry Jam Sandwich Cookies)
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A traditional Scottish treat with that great coconut and raspberry flavor combination!
Star-Shaped Jam Cookies
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You can be the star of the holiday party or baking exchange with these Jam Cookies. Classic jam thumbprint cookies are perfect for your holiday tray or for cookie exchanges.
Snow Storm Linzer Cookies
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Delicious and beautiful cookies that are perfect for the holidays.
Poppy Seed & Marzipan Sandwich Cookies with Plum Jam
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These pretty Poppy Seed & Marzipan Sandwich Cookies are filled with marzipan and plum jam. Try this traditional German Christmas Cookie recipe this winter!
Mini Chocolate Peppermint Chip Cookie Sandwiches
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Mini Chocolate Peppermint Chip Cookie Sandwiches, an easy holiday cookie recipe with chocolate and peppermint.
Soft Gingerdoodle Cookies
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These Sandwich Cookies are a Ginger Cookie-Snickerdoodle mix that are soft, chewy and so delicious! Filled with Cinnamon Buttercream!
Christmas Sandwich Cookies
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These Christmas Sandwich Cookies are colorful with the fluffiest buttercream frosting sandwiched between two soft and chewy cookies loaded with chocolate chips, M&M’s, and sprinkles.
No Bake Cookies
These cookies don't require any baking.
Oreo Cookies White Chocolate Snowman Pops
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Who wouldn’t love one of these festive Oreo Cookies White Chocolate Snowman Pops? I know for us these Oreo snowman pops are a must make holiday treat each year.
M&M's Butterscotch Puffed Rice Cookies with Cake batter frosting
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These no bake holiday cookies are so easy to make and super addictive! Butterscotch Chocolate M&Ms Puffed rice cookies with a creamy cake batter cheesecake frosting.
Christmas OREO Cookie Balls
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These Christmas Oreo balls are fun and easy decoration ideas for Mint Oreo Truffles! Christmas baubles truffles, hot cocoa mug truffles, pine cone truffles, and christmas tree truffles. Perfect for gifting during the holiday season!
Reindeer Grahams Cookie Recipe
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A super simple cookie recipe you can make with your children or grandchildren. These Reindeer Grahams are an adorable, tasty and just plain fun holiday treat!
Refrigerator Cookies
These cookies are chilled in logs and then sliced before baking.
Cranberry Orange Shortbread Cookies
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These slice-and-bake cranberry orange shortbread cookies are the Best. Cookies. Ever. And they're ridiculously easy. Keep a dough log in the freezer so you can slice and bake them when needed.
Peppermint Mocha Shortbread Cookies
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These peppermint mocha shortbread cookies are just like the coffee house drink but in chewable form. Put some on your Christmas cookie trays to take them to the next level!
Cranberry Orange Swirl Cookies
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Sugar cookies filled with fresh cranberries and orange peel.
Chocolate Peppermint Slice 'n Bake Christmas Cookies
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An easy shortbread cookie with all the holiday flavors.
Christmas Butter Cookies with Candy Cane and Dark Chocolate
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These Christmas butter cookies with candy cane and a drizzle of dark chocolate are great for Christmas parties.
Other Cookies
These are Christmas cookie recipes that don't fit in the other categories.
Eggnog Madeleines
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Putting a twist on an elegant classic for the holidays with these Eggnog Madeleines.
Pizzelle della Nonna
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Have you ever wondered how to make pizzelle? Come and take a look. This crisp Italian cookie recipe requires no butter and is so much fun to make!
Eggnog Macarons
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Eggnog Macarons are really very special. I think delicate and lovely Macarons could be the perfect elegant addition to your holiday table, or you can box them up and give them as gifts.
Cinnamon Roll Cookies
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Use your extra pie crust to make these easy and delicious cinnamon roll cookies for the holidays this year! Or make a pie crust just for this recipe, either way, it's a winner!
Christmas Lights Shortbread Cookies
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Delicious shortbread cookies made using a cookie press.
Italian Christmas Cookies with Chestnut Chocolate Filling
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These dainty, sugar-dusted Italian Christmas Cookies come with a rum-spiked chocolate & chestnut filling! Try this Italian Christmas recipe this winter!
Speculoos
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Speculoos, also known as Speculaas or Windmill Cookies, are a holiday cookie that is traditionally made for the Feast of St. Nicholas in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Austria.
Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Cookies
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Each chocolate covered marshmallow cookie has a graham cookie base topped with a marshmallow and coated in creamy chocolate.
