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| Cookie Plate. Lucy Mercer/A Cook and Her Books |
It's time to fill up the Christmas cookie plate and here are my choices for buttery, sugary baked goodness from the kitchen. Many are tried and true, like my Scottish Shortbread, a recipe given to my mom from a Scottish neighbor. And Mom's Fruitcake Cookies, sure to make anyone a fruitcake believer. A few new cookies have made their way into the repertoire ~ chocolate gingerbread, absolutely lovely to decorate with pristine white icing, and Nutella cookies with cinnamon for the flavors of a Mexican hot chocolate.
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Mexican hot chocolate cookies made with Nutella and cinnamon.
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My Mom's Fruitcake Cookies These are the best ~ chewy and buttery, with your favorite candied fruits.
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Shortbread cookies with candied cherries.
This is my favorite shortbread recipe topped with traffic light-colored candied cherries. Buttery and light.
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| Shortbread cookies with candied cherries. Lucy Mercer/A Cook and Her Books |
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Glazed lemon thins Crisp and lemony. This dough can be refrigerated and brought out when you need just a dozen or so cookies.
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| Glazed lemon thins. Lucy Mercer/A Cook and Her Books |
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100 Cookies. That's the name for this everything-but-the-kitchen-sink cookie. Oatmeal, coconut and toffee bits make these cookies a sweet, sandy-textured treat.
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| 100 Cookies. Lucy Mercer/A Cook and Her Books |
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Crispy, sweet date candies. Not really a cookie, but I make them each year and hide them in the back of the fridge to bring out for special friends, or just myself.
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| Crispy date candies. Lucy Mercer/ A Cook and Her Books |
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Christmas Cut-Out Cookies . It's a fact that the best-tasting cookies are always the most homemade-looking. Forget trying for food magazine perfection, stir up some bowls of neon-colored icing, get out all the sprinkles and let the kids have fun decorating the cookies.
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| Christmas cut-out cookies. Lucy Mercer/A Cook and Her Books |
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Ginger cookies with raspberry jam. My all-time favorite cookie, even above oatmeal raisin and chocolate chip. A soft, spice cookie with a chewy circle of jam, homey and utterly addictive.
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| Ginger cookies with raspberry jam. Lucy Mercer/A Cook and Her Books |
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Pecan tassies. These sweet, Southern treats are like mini pecan pies, plunked down in a tender cream cheese pastry. I used macadamias instead of pecans here, but just substitute an equal quantity of rich, Georgia pecans for the nuts for a delicious treat.
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| Macadamia-rum tassies. Lucy Mercer/ A Cook and Her Books. |
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Chocolate Gingerbread. A new favorite adapted from Food & Wine magazine ~ spicy gingerbread meets chocolate. They were meant to be together.
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| Chocolate gingerbread. Lucy Mercer/A Cook and Her Books |
I hope you enjoy your holiday baking and perhaps give one or two of
these a try. Please let me know your holiday must-bake cookies in the
comments below.
I pulled out my Fruitcake Cookie recipe and was shocked (didn't remember it called for 5 eggs)and totally vetoed it and used your recipe!
ReplyDeleteThey are wonderful and only made 5 dz which was perfect!
Thanks for sharing all these great cookie recipes!
Thanks, @ Terry! Another convert to this recipe!
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