12 Days of Cookies
You could choose to make these cookies for the Christmas holiday, or you could just make them for twelve random spectacular days of the year. I’m a big fan of cookies in general, and love the variety that this recipe round up provides. There are rolled cookies, sandwich cookies, drop cookies, chocolate, no chocolate, fruit filled, dusted, iced, you name it. There’s bound to be a cookie in here for your cookie monster!
Alfajores
Alfajores should definitely be a part of your cookie repertoire. Alfajores are thin sandwich cookies with dulce de leche sandwiched between two delicate, melt-in-your-mouth butter cookies. They are really delicious and really very simple to make.
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Orange Cranberry Frosted Cookies
These delicious orange cranberry flavored cookies are soft and tender, almost like little mini handheld cakes. The delicious citrus glaze gives them a holiday feel, especially with the dried cranberries and orange zest on top.
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Raspberry Cream Cheese Thumbprint Cookies
This raspberry cream cheese thumbprint cookie recipe takes your regular thumbprint cookie and elevates it to another level in the world of cookies. The addition of cream cheese to the thumbprint, along with the crunch of toasted nuts around the outside really makes it something special.
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
If presented with a tray of cookies at Christmastime, chocolate crinkle cookies are one of the first that I will reach for. (The other is shortbread!) The dusting of powdered sugar which looks so much like snow always makes me think of winter and the holidays.
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Scottish Oat Cookies with Dark Chocolate
Scottish oat cookies are thin and just a little sweet. They make a perfect afternoon cookie with coffee or tea and have become one of my favorites, for the holidays or any time of year. These are a favorite to have in my freezer for emergency cookie situations.
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3 Flavors of Shortbread
Shortbread is a tradition around Christmas and my mother used to make the very best (just ask my British piano teacher), but honestly, I wouldn’t turn it down any day of the year. This recipes gives you three different versions of delicious shortbread.
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Dark Chocolate Palmiers
These sweet treats are so simple to make because there are only three ingredients and one of them is store-bought puff pastry! This is the little treat you can make at the drop of a hat if you keep the ingredients on hand.
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Chocolate Chip Cookies
It may not scream “Holiday!”, but my favorite cookie is the classic, tried and true chocolate chip cookie – a basic cookie dough with chips (or better yet, chunks) of chocolate throughout. So, it will always earn a place in any list of cookies for me!
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Pignoli Cookies
Of all the holiday cookies on platters around the holidays, pignoli cookies might be one of the easiest to make and they are flourless, which will please your friends who are gluten-free and looking at all the rest of the cookies on the holiday platter with envy.
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Iced Oatmeal Cookies
Iced oatmeal raisin cookies are a sweet treat that you can have any time of the year, but they fit right in on a holiday tray too. Adding the icing takes your average oatmeal cookie and dresses it up a little.
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Brownie Brittle
Ok… this might not be a cookie by definition, but it is a delicious snack-able treat for any chocolate lover. It has crunchy outer edges but is tender in the center so people can choose the type of brownie they like. Top it with toffee bits, chopped nuts, chunks of caramel or even crushed candy canes.
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Nanaimo Bars
Nanaimo bars aren’t cookies either, but they are likely the first dessert nibble to disappear at any Canadian bake sale, holiday celebration or any pot luck party. So, they have earned a place in the list too. If you haven’t had one before, let me invite you to do so.
