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Christmas Cookies!

Posted on Dec 3rd, 2019
by lindaBest
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Christmas cookies

It’s that time of the year! Christmas cookies are the best part of the holiday. There’s no need for any other dessert for any Christmas meal: cookies are it.

Everyone has their own collection of Christmas cookies, of course. This one has been carefully curated through the years by me and my family. We always have these cookies every Christmas, with no exceptions whatsoever.

Peanut Sitting-Pretties, Peanut Blossoms, Chocolate Peanut Butter Bonbons (I see a peanut theme here) and Roll Out Cookies are always on the menu. Although I have to modify that claim, since I have turned the Peanut Blossoms into bar cookies. They are much easier to make that way and just as delicious. In fact, the Peanut Blossom Bar Cookies are better because they are made with peanut butter cups instead of chocolate kisses!

So here are the classic Christmas Cookie recipes:

Chocolate Peanut Butter Bonbons

This homemade candy recipe is perfect. The addition of chopped dates may sound strange, but that ingredients adds a fabulous depth of flavor.

Peanut Sitting-Pretties Cookies

These wonderful and delicious cookies are fussy to make, but they are so good. Use Christmas colored-candies for this holiday.

Peanut Blossom Cookies

These fabulous little cookies are so delicious. In my version, they are made with all butter and have less flour so they are more tender.

Peanut Blossom Bars

I transformed the above recipe into this wonderful bar cookie. They are spectacular. Plus, adding more chocolate and peanut butter in the form of peanut butter cups elevates this recipe to a new realm.

Chocolate Mexican Tea Cakes

These little rich shortbread cookies are so simple to make and are a great addition to a cookie tray.

Roll Out Cookies

This recipe comes from Land O’Lakes, since I don’t make this recipe. My sister Lisa does. And she manages to make the cookies so thin and incredibly tender at the same time. I don’t know how she does it!

And here are more cookie and candy recipes I make from time to time for Christmas that are perfectly luscious:

Butter Pecan Turtle Bars

This classic recipe combines homemade butter pecan sauce with chocolate and caramel.

Caramel Cream Bars

This is another recipe where I changed a shaped cookie into a bar cookie. It’s fabulous.

Peppermint Patties

Another homemade candy! I love how this candy melts in your mouth.

Kringla

This old fashioned classic Norwegian recipe is more like a quick bread, but it belongs on a cookie tray.

Toffee Bark

This two ingredient homemade candy is simply spectacular. If you are afraid of eating toffee because it’s so hard (like me), try this recipe!

Starlight Mint Chocolate Cookies

This fabulous recipe is a must for every Christmas. Chocolate mints are wrapped in a crisp brown sugar cookie dough. Yum.

Chocolate Covered Caramels

Homemade caramel is so much better than any commercial candy. Try this one and see.

Black and White Peppermint Bark

Bark candies are perfect for the holidays because they are so delicious and so simple to make. Enjoy every bite.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Chewy Bars

This spectacular bar cookie starts with – Nutter Butters! It’s hard to believe but that cookie is used instead of flour. The bars melt in your mouth.

Nut Goodie Brownies

What could make brownies better? Add a candy topping of course!

Cookie Bark

Another two ingredient candy recipe that tastes like so much more than the sum of its parts.

Fudgy Layered Peanut Butter Bars

This recipe is another spectacular bar cookie recipe that starts with cookie dough and tops it with two kinds of frosting and chopped peanuts.

So bookmark these Christmas cookie recipes and try something new this Christmas.

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Linda is a bestselling cookbook author and home economist who has written 54 books (53 cookbooks and Medical Ethics for Dummies) since 2005. She has worked for Pillsbury since 1988, on the Bake-Off and other projects. Linda has been a web presence since 2002, developing recipes and teaching people how to cook.

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