In case you haven't noticed, it's Cookie Week here at The Kitchn! Yes, we know that many of you have been busily baking cookies for weeks now (you're so industrious!) so please share what you're doing, and inspire us all! We'll have a lot of new recipes and ideas for you this week, but first here's a dip into the archives. From cookie ornaments and easy gingerbread houses to buttery shortbread and one or two chocolatey treats, here are some favorite cookie recipes for the holidays.
TOP ROW
• 1 Gingerbread Christmas Tree Ornaments - A guest post from Jennifer of Chocolate Shavings. We love these edible ornaments!
• 2 Peppermint Gingerbread House - From Cookie Craft Christmas. A gingerbread house that's within anyone's grasp.
• 3 Brown Sugar Cookies with a Touch of Whole Wheat - A warm, soft sugar cookie with the warmth and nice flavor of brown sugar and whole wheat flour.
• 4 Chewy Molasses Cookies with Crunchy Lemon Glaze - Super-chewy molasses cookies with a festive, sugary glaze.
• 5 Rosemary-Walnut Brown Butter Cookies - Simply the best. Browned, buttery, nutty, infused with rosemary flavor.
MIDDLE ROW
• 6 Molasses Spice Cookies with Orange Sugar - Beautiful little spice cookies with brilliant and delicious orange sugar.
• 7 Spiced Mexican Wedding Cookies - A classic holiday cookie, spicy and sweet with a dusting of snowy sugar.
• 8 Pumpkin Spice Cookies - Another soft and cakey cookie with lots of warm spice.
• 9 Chez Panisse Gingersnaps - This is our favorite gingersnap recipe. Paper-thin and delicate.
• 10 Cinnamon Walnut Dulce de Leche Bars - A chewy, indulgent bar cookie with cinnamon and gooey caramel.
BOTTOM ROW
• 11 Earl Grey Tea Cookies - The perfect cookie for an afternoon tea party.
• 12 Super-Soft Snickerdoodle Cookies - Snickerdoodles that will stay soft and chewy for days.
• 13 Michel Richard's Extremely Chocolaty Chip Cookies - A chocolate delight from an inventive chef.
• 14 French Madeleines - A sweet French classic.
• 15 Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies with Cherries & Pecans - Not a traditional holiday cookie, perhaps, but so great for cookie exchanges.
OK, your turn! We asked you about your favorite holiday cookies once already today, but if you have a recipe to share, post it here too!
Related: In a Baking Mood? 8 Cookie Recipes for Fall
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Dude, earl grey + madeleines = heaven. Take that madeleine recipe and just toss in some loose-leaf earl grey. Sooo good! Madeleines are better with tea, anyway as they soak up more teaish goodness.
I'm in the freeze for baking stage of holiday cookies and I stumbled across a better way to handle icebox cookie logs today.
Slice and bake icebox cookies are super easy, but I find it hard to consistently get uniform size within a log or from log to log. Today I realized if I put the dough in my spritz cookie gun with a blocked plate I can compress the dough to a near perfect cylinder. I then removed the blocked plate, push out the dough, and repeat with the next bit of dough. Identical logs every time.
It's as awesome as when I learned about rolling pin bands or using dishers for drop cookies.
Argh.. just when I thought I was done all of my Christmas baking... you've sucked me back in with more yummy recipes!
There is just something about baking around Christmas....
I have a massive gingerbread house to finish along with 4 sheet cakes that are going to live inside it for a christmas party, a few dozen sugar cookies left to pipe out icing on and have made a few batches of a dead on match of a recipe for Biscoff cookies (the ones you get on flights on Delta)
Been a busy baking bee. Gotta love christmas!
I'm making cheesecakes with raspberry/blueberry/strawberry sauce for everyone!
I can put about 3 in the oven and I spend about 40 minutes per batch, so it's a win-win.
My friends and I hosted a Christmas party this weekend and I made cookies. These Chez Panisse Gingersnaps were such a hit. Best part: there's still gingersnap dough in the freezer for more cookies.
Pecan tassies were always a holiday standard in my house growing up. I don't really know why. For those who aren't familiar, they're basically mini pecan pies... made in mini-muffin tins, they're tiny cups of sweet pecan goodness in individual cream-cheese spiked crusts. Soooo delicious