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    Christmas Cookies

    Find the best Christmas cookie recipes for your next cookie exchange, from mincemeat cookies (made with storebought or homemade mincemeat) to gingerbread cutout cookies that you can cutout with festive cookie cutters.

    • Gingerbread cookies shaped like people decorated with white royal icing.
      Cutout Gingerbread Cookies
    • Freshly baked molasses cookies coated in turbinado sugar on a parchment-lined sheet pan.
      Molasses Sugar Cookies
    • Soft Glazed Gingerbread Cookies
    • A plate of round gingerbread cookies with crunchy turbinado sugar edges served with a cup of coffee.
      Easy Gingerbread Cookies (slice and bake)
    • Toffee Chocolate Coconut Butter Cookies
    • A plate of chocolate sugar cookies and a glass of milk.
      Chocolate Sugar Cookies
    • Freshly baked ginger cookies on a cooling rack.
      Ginger Cookies with Molasses
    • A plate of ginger cookies with white chocolate chips.
      Ginger Cookies with White Chocolate
    • A plate of fruitcake cookies ready to be served.
      Icebox Fruitcake Cookies
    • Rugelach cookies, freshly baked, lined up on parchment paper to show the beautiful swirls of cream cheese cookie dough and cinnamon walnut filling.
      Cinnamon Rugelach with Walnuts and Dried Cranberries
    • A sheet pan of freshly baked pinwheel cookies.
      Chocolate Pinwheel Cookies
    • A platter of icebox cookies with pieces crystallized ginger in them.
      Easy crystallized ginger cookies
    • Star-shaped shortbread cookie on cooling rack with mini sifter of powdered sugar to sprinkle on top of the cookies
      Egyptian shortbread
    • A plate of shortbread cookies with flecks of cocoa nibs.
      Buckwheat Shortbread Cookies with Cocoa Nibs
    • shortbread cutout cookies sandwiched with strawberry jam filling
      Jam-filled shortbread cookies
    • Freshly baked mincemeat cookies served with a glass of milk.
      Mincemeat cookies
    • cardamom snowballs
      Vegan snowball cookies
    • Spiced sugar cookies
      Spiced sugar cookies
    • Day 4 - cardamom crescents
      Walnut crescent cookies
    • A gold plate of sugar cookie stars.
      Cut out sugar cookies
    • Spritz cookies topped with colourful sprinkles on a cooling rack.
      Spritz Cookies
    • Florentines on a wire rack.
      Florentine cookies
    • Matcha gingerbread cutout cookies
    • Glazed round gingerbread cookies garnished with crushed pink peppercorns and freshly ground cardamom on a black cooling rack.
      German gingerbread cookies

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    Festive Treats

    • A piece of gingerbread cake with cream cheese frosting and lemon curd served on a dessert plate.
      Moist Gingerbread Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting and Lemon Curd
    • Nanaimo bars cut into squares and served on a marble surface.
      Nanaimo Bars
    • A round braided boule of Christmas fruit bread on a board, sliced.
      Fruit bread
    • Freshly baked mincemeat cookies served with a glass of milk.
      Mincemeat cookies
    • Transferring homemade mincemeat filling to jars to store for making mincemeat tarts.
      Homemade mincemeat
    • A plate of ginger cookies with white chocolate chips.
      Ginger Cookies with White Chocolate

    Christmas Cookies

    • A plate of fruitcake cookies ready to be served.
      Icebox Fruitcake Cookies
    • Gingerbread cookies shaped like people decorated with white royal icing.
      Cutout Gingerbread Cookies
    • shortbread cutout cookies sandwiched with strawberry jam filling
      Jam-filled shortbread cookies
    • A plate of chocolate sugar cookies and a glass of milk.
      Chocolate Sugar Cookies
    • Freshly baked molasses cookies coated in turbinado sugar on a parchment-lined sheet pan.
      Molasses Sugar Cookies
    • Soft Glazed Gingerbread Cookies

    Eggless chocolate cake

    Chocolate layer cake with cream cheese frosting and chocolate sprinkles on a cake stand.
    Learn to make an eggless chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting!

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    How to poach pears

    Poached pears on an enamelware plate.
    This easy poached pears recipe is simple and you can use the poached fruit for salads, appetizers, and desserts!

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