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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.

    • A plate of round gingerbread cookies with crunchy turbinado sugar edges served with a cup of coffee.
      Easy Gingerbread Cookies (slice and bake)
    • Butter tarts stacked on a beige plate with one cut open with a fork to reveal the gooey filling.
      Butter Tarts Without Corn Syrup + Flaky All-Butter Crust
    • Homemade jam-filled shortbread cookies with little cutout windows shaped like hearts and stars.
      Jam Shortbread Cookies
    • 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
    • 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 Pumpkin

    • Serving a slice of pumpkin cheesecake topped with whipped cream.
      Baked Pumpkin Cheesecake
    • A yellow plate of baked pumpkin donuts coated in cinnamon sugar.
      Baked pumpkin donuts
    • Scoops of pumpkin ice cream in little bowls with pie crust cookies.
      Pumpkin ice cream
    • Serving pumpkin pie on black plates.
      Pumpkin Pie Without Evaporated Milk
    • A plate with a pumpkin muffin split open and smeared with butter, with a cup of coffee on the side.
      Pumpkin Muffins With Streusel Topping
    • Slices of pumpkin bread served on dessert plates with a cup of coffee.
      Perfect Pumpkin Loaf Cake

    Apple Season

    • Double crust apple pie loaded with apples.
      Maple Apple Pie
    • Slicing into an Italian apple cake to serve it.
      Old-Fashioned Apple Yogurt Cake
    • Apple jam served on a toasted English muffin
      Cinnamon Apple Jam (no pectin)
    • Apple crumb coffee cake ready to be served with cups of tea, plates and a serrated knife
      Apple Crumble Cake
    • An apple cake baked in a square baking pan.
      Apple Butter Cake with Brandy
    • Apple butter pie stencilled with icing sugar.
      Apple Butter Pie

    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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