The Best Holiday Cookie Recipes to Try This Season
I love to bake and I have the biggest sweet tooth, so it makes sense that I love to bake holidays cookies. Gingerbread, peppermint, sugar, I love them all. There are so many great holiday cookie recipes, here are some of my favorite recipes from the past few years that I have tried and keep making.
My love of cookie baking (and eating) culminates in our annual holiday party. I bake a few kinds of cookies and see what the most popular ones are. For my ultimate cookie assortment, there are four main types of holiday cookies: slice and bake or sugar cookies, gingerbread cookies, chocolate/mint combination, and chocolate chip (they are always everyone’s favorites, so the holiday season is not a time to forget about this tried and true classic). One of the nice things about cookies, is that it is super easy to make the dough ahead of time and keep it in the freezer until you are ready to take it out and bake it, so go ahead and make a double batch and save half for whenever the cravings strike.
Slice and Bake or Sugar Cookies
There are the sugar cookies that kids love to decorate, but what I love to experiment with are the adult versions. Here are my favorites:
To take your plain sugar cookies up a notch, try this recipe from the Joy of Cooking and add 1tsp of almond extract. These are the perfect cookies for kid holiday cookie decorating parties.
Cherry Pistachio Slice and Bake
Lemony Slice and Bake – I like adding lemon to my cookie try to lighten it up a bit.
Pistachio Cardamon Butter Cookies – If you like the spices in chai, try this recipe, simple but delicious.
Gingerbread Cookies
This is my favorite gingerbread cookie from previous years: Chewy Ginger Cookies
This is a new one I tried this year and really like: Spiced Molasses Cookies
Chocolate Mint Cookies
I love making use of candy canes in our cookie making. My favorite is to combine it with a double chocolate cookie, yum! Here are a few of my favorite recipes that I have tried the last few years. They are all pretty easy and fail proof.
Chocolate Chip Peppermint Crunch Cookies
Double Chocolate Peppermint Crunch
Chocolate Chip Cookies
If you haven’t yet tried my chocolate chip cookie recipe , try it out, trust me, you will not be disappointed.
What are your favorite holiday cookie recipes? What new recipe should we try?
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Sharon | 9th May 18
WOW, Katy,
Just looking at the pictures, I can almost smell the cookies from here.
Thanks very much for such a great post.
Cheers Sharon…
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Sharon | 9th Aug 18
Hi Katy,
some excellent recipes there for the family, am trying some of them now.
Great pics also, thank you.
Cheers Sharon…T
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Chenden | 10th Mar 19
Thanks so much for this post. Chocolate cookies are loved by most people I know. And most of us discovered our love for them as small children in the comfort of grandma’s kitchen. For some reason her cookies were always much better than mom’s. Maybe it is because they were always hot and soft or because she probably let you eat as many as you wanted. Whatever the reason, one thing is sure. We loved, and maybe still do love, chocolate chip cookies.
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