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