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Pecan dream cookies.
When it comes to cookies, I generally have a type. If I were to sign up for a cookie-dating service, these are the characteristics I’d put into my profile: Not too sweet. Not overly complicated. Light...
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A better Christmas fruitcake (cookie).
I don’t love fruitcake, but I’ve always loved fruitcake cookies. I recall making them as a kid, using a recipe from a special-edition holiday cooking magazine. I’ve no idea what happened to that...
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The Clara Project: simple old-fashioned sugar cookies.
I love classic sugar cookies, and I’m always on the lookout for new recipes to try. For this week’s Halloween neighborhood street party, I wanted to bake a batch of pretty fall leaf cutout cookies....
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In praise of: the cookie press.
For many years as I was growing up, the Saturday after Thanksgiving was devoted to baking cookies: my mother, grandmother and I would convene in Mom’s kitchen to make several kinds of holiday treats....
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Classic almond wreath cookies.
I took Friday off and went home to bake cookies with Mom and Grandma. I’d had a jones to make an old Christmas cookie recipe that the three of us have been making for decades, but that we hadn’t done...
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Mocha twig cookies.
Since the arrival of the new (well, it’s actually rather old, as in 60′s-era) cookie press, I’ve been on the lookout for holiday cookie recipes that will allow me to put it to use. A scrap of paper in...
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Peppery chocolate refrigerator cookies.
I spent a terrific day this week with my mom, baking several batches of holiday cookies. In addition to our family-favorite classic almond wreath cookies, we baked up a batch of flavorful chocolate...
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The Clara Project: Merrie cookies.
If you’re too busy, too tired, too humbuggy to bake even a single batch of holiday cookies this year, I would urge you to reconsider and to make this recipe. Just this one. These aptly named Merrie...
View ArticleChristmas cookie recipes and tips.
Come December, I find myself baking ridiculous quantities of cookies. I’m not sure why; there are just two of us here at home, and I don’t usually go to cookie-swap parties [unless anyone wants to plan...
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Christmas Cookie-Palooza: Hermits.
One of the many reasons I love the Christmas season is that it presents the ideal opportunity for glorious, unfettered, too-many-to-fit-in-the-freezer cookie baking. So here at writes4food.com we’ll be...
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Christmas Cookie-Palooza: Pecan snowball cookies.
I love the light, powdered-sugar pecan cookies that come around during the holidays (does anyone make these any other time of year?). They’re called Pecan Dreams, or sometimes Mexican Wedding Cookies...
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Christmas Cookie-Palooza: chocolate-nut meringues.
Snowy meringue cookies, with their airy, melt-in-your-mouth texture, are a staple of many holiday cookie platters. They just look sort of wintery. And their lightness is a nice counterpoint to the...
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Christmas Cookie-Palooza: Spritz cookies.
I think of the Spritz cookie as the quintessential Christmas cookie. After all, when are you going to break out the cookie press if not during December? Buttery, with a light kiss of almond and a...
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Christmas Cookie-Palooza: Scandinavian almond bars.
Christmas cookie-baking has been a tradition in my family for as long as I can remember, and I have a notebook of old recipes that I return to year after year. Recently as I was thumbing through this...
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Christmas Cookie Palooza: dark chocolate almond blossoms.
This time of year, I turn into a real tradition freak. I adore the Christmas ornaments that I’ve had since I was a child. I break out the same wintery faux garland for over the mantel that I’ve used...
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Christmas Cookie Palooza: Snowy chocolate sea salt shortbread.
When I was thinking about posting a chocolate shortbread Christmas cookie recipe, I had in mind something fancy, with a drizzle of melted chocolate and some crushed peppermint candies. But when I...
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Christmas Cookie Palooza: 7(ish) layer bars.
If I dig waaaaayyyy back in the recesses of my memory, I can imagine a scene from a long-ago Christmas Day: a gathering of extended family (second- and third-once-removed cousins, great aunts and...
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Best Christmas cookie recipes, and a giveaway.
As this year’s installment of Christmas Cookie Palooza winds to a close, and as a way to thank you for your support and readership, I’d like to offer you a gift. Or, rather, an opportunity to win a...
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Ready to start your Christmas cookie baking? Here's a gallery of my favorite cookie recipes from Christmases past: fancy and simple, chocolatey and buttery, classic and new. Check out these Christmas...
View ArticleChristmas Cookie-palooza: Hazel’s vanilla bean cookies.
The first recipe in my Christmas Cookie-palooza comes from my great-grandmother's recipe box and was given to her by her daughter Hazel (my Grandma Dorothy's sister). They're pretty enough to feel...
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