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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.

    • Homemade jam-filled shortbread cookies with little cutout windows shaped like hearts and stars.
      Jam Shortbread Cookies
    • Butter tarts stacked on a beige plate with one cut open with a fork to reveal the gooey filling.
      How to make butter tarts without corn syrup (including a flaky all-butter crust)
    • Freshly baked mincemeat cookies served with a glass of milk.
      Mincemeat Cookies
    • 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
    • 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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    Bake With Stone Fruit

    • Peach jam served with sourdough bread and butter on the side.
      Peach Jam Without Added Pectin
    • Transferring homemade apricot jam into jars to seal them.
      Apricot jam
    • A slice of plum cake on a pink glass plate.
      Plain Plum Cake
    • Cute pie with star design on top crust served with pile of plates and forks and a cup of coffee, striped linen
      Peach mango pie
    • Whiskey peach pie with an oat crumble topping
      Whiskey peach crumble pie
    • Plum tart recipe | @ktchnhealssoul
      Plum tart with muscovado

    Berry Season

    • Milk crumbs on a Momofuku Milk Bar style cake-layers of blackberry curd, almond cake, and almond frosting
      Blackberry almond cake — Milk Bar style
    • raspberry amaretti semifreddo slice
      Almond raspberry semifreddo
    • Vanilla cardamom tapioca pudding with strawberries
      Homemade tapioca pudding recipe with fresh strawberries
    • Rhubarb upside down cake sliced to serve it.
      Rhubarb Raspberry Upside-Down Cake
    • Bluebarb or blueberry rhubarb crumble with a marzipan oat crumble topping in a blue baking dish with a fluted edge
      Blueberry rhubarb crisp with marzipan crumble
    • A pan of baked honey blueberry muffins with streusel topping.
      Honey blueberry muffins

    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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