Get all of your holiday baking done in one afternoon. Versatile and family-pleasing, this recipe makes eight different holiday cookies with a variety of flavors, textures and shapes in about three hours!

You might need to buy:
  • Chocolate-Covered Cherry:
  • crushed candy canes for decoration
  • green food coloring
  • red food coloring
  • peppermint flavoring
  • Candy Cane:
  • small pretzel sticks
  • green food coloring
  • finely chopped pistachios
  • Pistachio Trees:
  • 10x sugar
  • finely chopped walnuts
  • Snowballs:
  • any flavor of jam or jelly
  • Ribbons:
  • Fillings and Toppings:
  • Mix all ingredients until smooth; yields about 1 cup 10x sugar glaze
  • milk
  • vanilla
  • 10x sugar
  • Sugar Glaze
  • self-rising flour
  • almond extract
  • vanilla extract
  • eggs
  • Basic Dough:
  • baking chocolate or baking chips
  • Cheesecake Tarts:
  • cream cheese
  • strawberry jam or cherry pie filling
  • Pecan Tarts:
  • packed brown sugar
  • egg yolk
  • finely chopped pecans
  • Peanut Butter Cup:
  • cocoa powder
  • water
  • mini-peanut butter cups

Sugar-Free and Gluten-Free

You might need to buy:
  • eggs
  • granular Splenda or Stevia-in-the-Raw Granulated Sweetener
  • baking powder
  • coarsely chopped almonds

*Cut dough can be put placed in freezer on a baking sheet for 20 min. Remove from freezer and transfer to a ziploc bag. Freeze dough for up to 4 months. When ready to bake, place on parchment paper and bake 15 min.
*Brown Sugar Substitute – 1 cup Splenda granular and 1/4 cup sugar free maple syrup = 1 cup brown sugar

ready in about 45 minutes; serves 8
You might need to buy:
  • all purpose flour
  • whole wheat flour
  • honey
You might need to buy:
  • all-purpose flour
  • quick-cooking or old-fashioned rolled oats
  • baking powder
  • baking soda
  • salt
  • brown sugar
  • granulated sugar
  • pure vanilla extract
  • white chocolate chips
  • crushed candy canes
You might need to buy:
  • brown sugar
  • shortening
  • egg
  • soda
  • baking powder
  • salt
  • vanilla
  • flour
  • oatmeal
  • choc chip
ready in about an hour and 10 minutes; serves 6
You might need to buy:
  • Ingredients:
  • granulated sugar
  • salt
  • egg yolks
  • vanilla extract
  • Easy-Add vanilla extract Add to shopping list vanilla extract
  • all-purpose flour
  • Makes:
  • About 2 dozen cookies.
You might need to buy:
  • unsifted flour
  • salt
  • baking soda
  • crunchy peanut butter
  • cinnamon
  • nutmeg
  • packed brown sugar
  • eggs
  • water
  • quick oats
You might need to buy:
  • butter
  • white sugar
  • brown sugar
  • flour
You might need to buy:
  • flour
  • dark raisins
  • golden raisins
  • dried cranberries
  • baking powder
  • baking soda
  • salt
  • packed dk brown sugar
  • sugar
  • egg
  • cinnamon
  • vanilla
You might need to buy:
  • butter
  • br sugar
  • eggs
  • canned pumpkin
  • vanilla
  • grated lemon peel
  • lemon juice
  • flour
  • baking powder
  • salt
  • pumpkin pie spice
  • ginger
  • coarsely chopped walnuts
  • FROSTING:
  • butter
  • sifted powdered sugar
  • milk
  • vanilla