Bon Appetit’s Chocolate-Peppermint Bark Cookies are one of my favorite cookies of all time. They look beautiful and festive on a holiday cookie tray. Dark and white chocolates and peppermint candy form a bark on a shortbread base -- I could eat these all day long.
Cinnamon, cloves, black pepper and two kinds of ginger provide a powerful punch to these soft, slightly chewy cookies. Chocolate-Dipped Ginger Cookies are dipped in bittersweet chocolate to take them over the moon.
Who else but Pillsbury could give us the best version of this classic cookie? Swedish Tea Cakes, aka Russian Tea Cakes, Mexican Wedding Cakes, Butterballs and Snowballs, should be on every Christmas cookie tray. Everyone, including me, anticipates them at holiday time.
Santa's Spicy Gingersnappers -- This one's a $2500 Better Homes and Gardens prizewinner, and one of the best soft gingerbread-type cookies I’ve ever tasted. The texture and flavors are reminiscent of Archway cookies.
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Four Seasons Hotel’s Chocolate Ginger Cookies are ultra-rich, chocolatey, spicy and absolutely delicious.
Good Housekeeping's Blueberry Linzer Bars are soft and tender and the flavorful dough is made with hazelnuts. This is one of my new faves.
Peppermint Candy Fudge-Filled Butter Balls are a classic Christmas cookie from the 1954 Pillsbury Bake-Off. Perfect in every way.
Aunt Ann's Italian Anise Cookies have been a treat in our family for many years. You can change the flavors to vanilla or lemon, if you like.
Chocolate and ginger go so well together, and Chocolate Gingerbread Drops are super easy to make. Dried cherries combine with chocolate chips to marry the ginger-spiced cookie.
Pecan Cinnamon Crescents have a very mild cinnamon flavor. They're delicate, tender, not too sweet and absolutely delicious.
Glazed Coconut-Almond Rum Balls are a delicious and different take on the classic Mexican Wedding Cakes, and would look beautiful on your Christmas cookie tray.
Kisses will always be a top fave of mine, because I love Lekvar. If you can’t find Lekvar, all is not lost. It’s easy to make – instructions are included in the recipe. These cookies are loved by all.
A recipe I've been making for over 50 years, Scandinavian Cookies have a rich, caramel-flavored shortbread base rolled in chopped nuts and filled with tart jam. They may look like Kisses, but the dough is different and so is the flavor. It's a toss-up to see which one wins, because both cookies are to-die-for.
Fudgy Pumpkin Cranberry Cookies are delicious little morsels that have a fudgy texture but no chocolate, and a sweet cream cheese glaze.
Caramel Shortbread Sticks, from Land o’ Lakes -- a yummy delicate shortbread cookie dipped in caramel and pecans. They’re wonderful!
Amaretto Butter Balls are another delicious variation on the traditional vanilla-flavored Mexican Wedding cakes.
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Don't forget these insanely good Rugelach. This recipe is excellent, and I guarantee they won’t stay on your cookie tray very long.
Fig-Filled Bars, from Pillsbury, are deliciously reminiscent of Fig Newtons.
If you're tired of the same old thumbprint cookies, try my Chocolate Heath Bar Thumbprints.
18 comments:
My goodness, what a wonderful selection of cookies. I want to try them all!
*kisses* HH
I love ginger and shortbread so there is plenty here for me to choose from. Thanks, Diane
¡¡OMG!! I love cookies and, of course, your selection.
Regards.
Looking at those cookies make my mouth watering...
i LOVE the chocolate peppermint bark cookies! for some reason, i'd never even seen them before this year! now i've made them twice already myself and i'm seeing them everywhere! so good :)
Oh my.....it all looks just wonderful. The peppermint bark cookies are so pretty. I need ginger cookies....need them! Serious ginger/gingerbread craving going.
Thanks for the amaretto butter ball cookie recipe! My MIL makes a similar cookie and my husband was just talking about it last night.
I'll have to make them for him this year.
Hugs!
Biz
Everyone always does the favorite cookie list but what about the favorite bar list!? :)
~ingrid
i want one of each, YUMMY!
wow I am telling you Americans make the best cookies yum
Everything looks finger-licking good! My most recent post on my blog is about Rugelach. It's my first Rugelach. Very tasty! Check it out.
Judy, what a lovely selection of cookies. I've intrigued by the chocolate bark ones. They are so sophisticated.
Sam
Nice cookie round up!
These are impressive articles. Keep up the sunny handiwork.
I am soooo drooling right now!! Christmas cookies are just my favorite and these al look amazing!
They are all very tempting! Great photos;can almost taste them.
Wishing you all the best for 2012,
Rita
Such a selection! I must try the fig cookies, an all time favorite with me.
Wishing you the best for 2012!
Holy gauccamole those treats look good! Great selection hope they are more sugar than Fats Oils and Grease from used fryer oil to your stomach, that'd be mighty good!
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