Find 20+ recipes to bake your spirits bright and make your holidays extra sweet! Additionally you’ll find some easy no-bake treats and food gift ideas too.
I hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving and have plenty
of leftovers to enjoy over the holiday weekend.
I’m kicking off the holiday season with my Baking Spirits Bright 3rd Annual Giveaway!
There’s nothing like the aroma of sugar, vanilla and orange zest wafting
in the air to put you in the Christmas spirit!
Whether you’re looking for a sweet treat to fill a cookie tin or a
quick bread to share with family or neighbors, you’ll find something to
satisfy your sweet tooth, including some easy no-bake treats!
Click on the links in red for the complete recipe. You’ll find the baking giveaway details at the bottom of this post.
These Melted Snowmen Cookies are fun to ‘build’!
Use your favorite cookie as a base. Add melted white chocolate chips or almond bark for ‘snow’.
Mini peanut butter cups provide a snowman top hat with
mini chocolate chips eyes and an orange sprinkle for a carrot nose!
Melt-in-Your-Mouth Snowball Cookies
Snowball Cookies are melt-in-your-mouth tender and buttery,
filled with finely chopped pecans and covered with a blizzard of confectioners’ sugar.
Christmas Wreath Macaroons are as fun to decorate as they are to eat!
Only four ingredients plus sprinkles for this recipe.
Like all macaroons, as they’re flourless, they’re gluten-free.
Chewy, Chunky, Sweet & Salty Smorgasbord Cookies
The ultimate chewy, chocolate chip cookies, packed
with sweet and salty mix-ins for a smorgasbord of flavor!
Shortcut Red Velvet-Chocolate Chip Cookies
An easy and festive Christmas cookie that uses a short cut!
Red Velvet Peppermint-White Chocolate Thumbprints
Red Velvet = Christmas to me! These festive red velvet cookies are infused
with a burst of peppermint flavor and white chocolate centers.
Bourbon-Pecan-Gingerbread Cookies
These spirited cookies combine the flavor of gingerbread and bourbon
in a fluffy muffin like texture. Make the dough ahead and chill 4 up to 12 hours.
These Easy Owl Cookies are a hoot to make!
Use your favorite sugar cookie recipe to make a parliament of owls!
Cranberry and White Chocolate Cookies
White chocolate, dried cranberries, pecans and oats make this a satisfying and delicious cookie
to add to your holiday baking! Drizzle with additional melted white chocolate if desired.
Nigella Lawson’s Christmas Chocolate Cookies
These chocolate shortbread cookies have a chocolate glaze with with decorative sprinkles.
They’re easy to whip up or in Nigella-speak, a “doddle” to make. :)
Cinnamon Swirl Apple Fritter Bread
A reader favorite recipe and a delicious to enjoy or give for the holidays!
Cranberry-Orange-Pistachio Loaves
The red and green from the cranberries and pistachios make these mini loaves of bread merry and bright,
as well as sweet, tart and nutty. A perfect little loaf to give or enjoy for the holidays!
Cranberry-Chocolate Chip Bread with Orange Glaze
Welcome cranberry season with Cranberry-Chocolate Chip Bread with Orange Glaze.
The crunchy streusel topping and orange glaze makes this quick bread a moist
and flavorful treat anytime you slice it!
And some no bake treats. . .
Quick and Easy Peanut Butter Fudge
Fudge fans and peanut butter lovers will enjoy this 3-ingredient recipe
that comes together in under 5 minutes!
Ready to enjoy or gift with 2 hours of chilling time.
5-Minute Cranberry-Pistachio-Orange Peel Fudge
Cranberry-Pistachio-Orange Peel Fudge is equal parts sweet, tart, creamy, chewy
and comes together in the microwave in 5 minutes.
Ready to enjoy or gift with 2 hours of chilling time.
No-Bake Coconut Orange Snowballs
I made countless dozens of these cookies in my former life and they are always a crowd-pleaser!
They can be made ahead and stored in the refrigerator or freezer until ready to gift and serve.
An Easy No-Bake Treat: Christmas Peanut Butter Bars
An easy, no-bake treat that is both naughty and nice!
Nice, since they’re so easy to make and naughty, because they too hard to resist!
Easy Christmas Santa and Snowman Bark
This easy no-bake treat comes together in under an hour to enjoy,
gift and share with friends and family.
Serve up sweet treats and smiles with a no-bake, fun addition to your holiday cookie tin.
Warning: Friends and family may think they’re too cute to eat!
Easy and Irresistible No Bake Peanut Butter-Chocolate Swirl Bars
Calling all peanut butter and chocolate lovers, these no-bake bars come together in 15 minutes
to make an irresistible dessert and easy food gift.
An easy, no-bake treat that’s perfect for last-minute gift giving and holiday snacking!
You can whip up a batch in about 20 minutes, almost as fast as you can say
“On Dasher, on Dancer, on Prancer and Vixen . . .”
Spicy Dark Chocolate Nut Clusters
An easy sweet treat that’s no-bake and comes together in 5 minutes!
Perfect for sharing with neighbors, teachers, friends and gifting for the holidays.
An easy no-bake Southern treat to enjoy with a cup of tea or for Christmas gift giving!
Quick and easy for seasonal sipping and ideal for gift giving!
It comes together in five minutes and is ready to use in two months, improving as it ages.
‘Tis the Season to bake and give and I’m sharing some Christmas baking love with a giveaway!
To help bake your spirits bright . . .
One baker will receive a 3 piece brownie baking set with pan, two spatulas and
red and white chevron stripe kitchen towel and fancy decorative sprinkles.
A second baker will receive a Bake Shop 17-inch cookie sheet,
cooling rack, spatulas and fancy sprinkles.
A third baker will receive a Gingerbread Man Pan, mini silicone spoon and spatula,
fancy sprinkles and ‘Let’s Bake and Watch Christmas Movies’ kitchen towel.
A fourth baker will receive a 9-inch loaf pan and an ‘O ChristmasTree’ kitchen towel
A fifth baker will receive a mini loaf pan, mini springform pan, spatula,
Lauren oven mitt and ‘Winter Blessings’ kitchen towel.
A sixth baker will receive a set of Christmas spatulas, set of 10 Christmas cookie cutters,
decorative sprinkles, Lauren oven mitt and ‘Winter Blessings’ kitchen towel.
A seventh baker will receive an 8 piece set of Christmas cookie cutters,
set of 24 baking cups with party picks, fancy sprinkles and Merry Christmas kitchen towel.
An eighth baker will receive a plaid mitten spatula with cookie cutter,
set of 50 baking or snack cups, Lauren plaid oven mit,
fancy sprinkles and red & green plaid kitchen towel.
A ninth baker will receive a set of 24 baking cups with gingerbread house party picks,
set of 2 silicone spatulas with gingerbread man cookie cutter, decorative sprinkles and an
‘O ChristmasTree’ kitchen towel.
And a tenth baker will receive a set of baking cups, set of 4 cooking cutter stamps,
spatula with 2 cookie cutters, fancy sprinkles and a
‘Let’s Bake and Watch Christmas Movies’ kitchen towel.
To enter this giveaway for a chance to win and bake your spirits bright:
🎄 Leave a comment telling me your favorite Christmas cookie or recipe to bake for the holiday season.
🎄 Subscribe by email and let me know by comment. Subscribers/followers automatically get a second entry.
🎄 For a third entry, Pin a photo from this post and leave an additional comment telling me so.
(The Pin/Save button pops up on the upper left corner of each photo.)
This giveaway is open to those living in the continental U.S. through midnight December 1st..
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Taffy’s star cookies it is a very old recipe that i cut out in star shape and put rainbow sprinkles in the center it has lemon peel and vanilla in it and it is wonderful i named it that because the first time i made it my cat taffy asked for a taste so i gave her a point to taste and she loved it i have been making them for 27 years now i make them Christmas i make them every year i lost my taffy in 2006 and i think of her every time i make them
Martha Washington candy is a family favorite at our house,
My favorite Christmas cookie/candy are the butterscotch haystacks! They are delicious!
You’re the best, Mary! I was a lucky recipient of one of these packages previously, but I’m wishing good luck to all who enter. I joyfully use all of my goodies and think of you when I do! I’ve also made a couple recipes and have thr roundup pinned for reference.
These photos are beautiful, both for the food and the table presentation.
Happy holiday weekend!
I subscribe via email
Mary, what a great post of amazing goodies!! Can’t wait to try as many as I can the next few weeks. My favorite Christmas cookie are called Santa’s whiskers. They are a shortbread cookie with cherries rolled in coconut and sliced and baked. A good cookie for Santa on Christmas Eve.
Many thanks for your beautiful posts!
I pinned the easy peanut butter fudge
Linzer tarts and peanut butter fudge. I only make these recipes at Christmas.
The snowball cookies are my favorite and a family favorite as well. I make them every Christmas.
Wow so glad I found this site, lots of great looking recipes can’t wait to try them out. Super awesome there is a giveaway too! I subscribed via email, and I like the bourbon pecan ginger bread recipe looks like my new favorite. I’m going to have to make some soon! Thank you for sharing!
I pinned the cranberry and white chocolate cookie photo. This is a recipe that I want to try. They look delicious!
So many wonderful recipes to try between now and Christmas. You have an amazing blog, Mary.
Around our house at Christmas time we love sugar cookies. We like them glazed, sprinkled, nutty. You name it, we love them.
I have always loved my mother’s date pinwheel cookies and my grandmother’s tea cake recipe made into cutout and decorated cookies at Christmas.
Thank you Mary for all the recipes!! Around our house the favorite cookies are Raisin Oatmeal, and I’ll get in a batch of sugar cookies with sprinkles sometimes!
I pinned the first photo in your blog with the pictures of all the recipe items. Thank you!
My favorite Christmas recipe to bake is red velvet brownies with cream cheese frosting. Thanks for this great compilation of recipes!
Good Morning! I am a delighted subscriber (you have a wonderful blog)!
My favorite is a recipe I received from friends in Texas. They are called Tater Delites with sweet potatoes, raisins and pecans. I often make the Chocolate Mice on your website. They are so sweet!
I am a email subscriber. Love all the wonderful recipes! Many thanks.
Wow!! What an awesome post! Everything looked delicious.
The one recipe we make each Christmas is a candy cane bread we have for Christmas morning. It is shaped yeast bread filled with dried apricots and cherries. A family favorite.
Hi Diana, I’m trying to get in touch with you. If you get this message can you check your spam folder for my email. Thank you 🎄
Just another note to say I actually pinned a few of your treats! The peppermint hot cocoa mix will be a fun friendship gift with a cute mug. My mother in law loves owls so a parliament of owls cookies on a platter is just right for her. The grandkids will love the candy mice and I’m partial to anything with cranberries! You got us all covered. Thanks!
My favorite Christmas cookies are mincemeat cookies. The recipe used to be on the package of dried mincemeat. They remind me of my mother baking them.
I have received emails about your posts for ages, and I always enjoy them.
I pinned this post to Christmas Recipes on my Pinterest account. Thank you!
I pinned the Apple Fritter bread and the main “20 Recipes and Holiday Food Gifts”
I love to bake in general, but enjoy making several recipes during the holidays. I love the Butternut Cookies for starters. They seem to be a big hit on my plate of cookies I make for my husbands work and security guards.
Love your recipes! I’ve made many over the years. I pinned the snowball cookies and chocolate mice. I also pinned the whole page. So much information and choices. Love the candy cane hot chocolate too. Great for gifts. My favorite Christmas cookie is one my mom got over 50 years ago from a magazine. It’s a candy cane cookie. So good but tedious to make. My sister has mastered the technique and I usually let her make them. I look forward to them every year.
Love all you do. Thanks for a great blog post. I always look forward to seeing your emails.
I’m Nancy, I’m trying to get in touch with you. If you get this message can you check your spam folder for my email. Thank you 🎄
Thank you! I just sent my info. So excited!!!!
Love the Christmas tea service! My favorite Christmas cookies are gingerbread cookies my daughter and I make and decorate together.
Hi Pamela, I’m trying to get in touch with you. If you get this message can you check your spam folder for my email. Thank you 🎄
I pinned the cookies image to my Merry Merry Pinterest board. Would love to host a cookie swap this year. Already a subscriber.
I love a simple lemon spritz flower-shaped cookie with a candied cherry in the center, but you must use lemon extract and not lemon flavoring. The recipe is from the recipe insert from the old, Wear-Ever cookie gun set which is my favorite way to make Christmas cookies.
Love making pecan pie bars and shortbread bites. I pinned the Smorgasbord cookies.
My favorite cookie is walnut cinnamon cookies. The cream cheese dough make these especially tasty.
I am a subscriber.
I pinned your gingerbread pecan cookies with bourbon glaxe. Yum.
I love to make Reindeer Cookies ~ which is my version of a big, soft ginger cookie rolled in sugar. They are an all-time fave! I am a subscriber
I have subscribed for years and always enjoy your amazing posts, especially at holiday time! I bake many different cookies for Christmas but I think my most favorite is when we make peanut brittle using my grandpa’s recipe which was handed down to my mom and now myself…using the marble slab he gifted mom over 60 years ago. Merry Christmastime Mary!
Hi Mary ~ Happy Real Black Friday ! WOW you find the cutest kitchen and baking ware for your giveaways. I believe that my favorite Christmas cookie are my Mexican wedding cookies. I make at least 3 batches of them. They are so scrumptious with a cup of tea. By the way I have been a subscriber for a long time now and will continue to be! Hugs, Dorinda
Hi again Mary ~ I pinned the picture that included the beautiful teapot with the cardinal on it to my “We need a little Christmas” Pinterest board. Thanks for the giveaway contest 🎅🏻🎄❤️ Dorinda
I always have to make Christmas cutout sugar cookies. When my children were young they always helped with the baking, and decorating, and I now enjoy it with my grandchildren. Thank you so much for your posts.
I have two actually. Of course the traditional sugar cookie and gingerbread cookies. Love them both! Thank you for all your wonderful posts and giveaway’s!
I’ve been a subscriber for a long time. You always post such beautiful pictures! I love to make poppy seed and banana bread every year to give as gifts
Mary, what delicious-looking cookie pics and recipes! One of my favorite cookies for Christmas is fruitcake cookies.
Sheryl R
I am a long-time follower of your wonderful blog! You never run out of fabulous posts and are just so creative!
Sheryl R
I am now inspired to get a head start on baking for Christmas thanks to this blog!
My family loves the Christmas wreath cookies make out of cornflakes and marshmallows and red hots.
I pinned the picture of the melting snowman cookies – can’t wait to make/taste them!!
I’ve been a subscriber for a few years now – yours is my favorite blog due to your talented creativeness!
Barbara
Cocoa powder, sugar, butter, coconut, quick oats drop cookies. My brothers and I made them together as children. I’m already a email subscriber
Hope you Thanksgiving celebration was good
I pinned the homemade vanilla extract.
My favorite Christmas cookies are decorated sugar cookies. Thank you for the chance to win Mary! You always have the best decorating ideas and recipes❤️
My favorite Christmas cookies are decorated sugar cookies. Thank you for the chance to win Mary! I have subscribed to your blog for a few years now. I love your creative ideas and recipes. Happy Holidays❤️
I pinned the melted snowman cookies first but plan to pin many more for my Christmas goodies board. Thanks again for the cute recipes.
Peanut butter fudge and chocolate fudge with pecans and marshmallows are my favorite thing to make and give away….ok, SOME pieces do stay at our house if they “accidentally” don’t look perfect. 😉
My family loves to decorate sugar cookies, but my Christmas favorite is Bourbon Balls. I made your little mice last year and gifted them to neighbors. They are soo cute!
Happy Holidays! My favorite cookies to bake for the holidays would have to be snowball cookies. I have made many different kinds and they never disappoint. When my 3 daughters were small, we always made cut-out sugar cookies. We have many, many happy memories from the years of baking cookies for Santa :)
I am an email subscriber. Love your blog!
I pinned the Merry Mice. Such a cute idea!
I pinned the cute little chocolate mice……they are adorable. I know my grandkids will get a kick out of them :)
I’m also a long time subscriber :)
Happy holidays! My favorite cookies to bake for the holidays are snowball cookies. I’ve made all different kinds and they never disappoint.
Mary, thank you for sharing so many delicious treats!!! One of our favorite family Christmas cookies are Poppy Seed Pillows. They are soft and they melt in your mouth. I was a previous winner and still enjoy using the pans, tea towel and spatulas. You are so generous. Thank you again for offering this contest. Wishing you & your readers a beautiful holiday season.
Thank you for your generous gift giving! My very favorite cookie is a Linzer cookie with raspberry jam. We, also, make a Sour Cream cookie recipe with powdered sugar frosting that I got from my aunt 30 years ago, and she would have been making them for years before that. Have a blessed and Merry Christmas!
I make Sherried Pecans which are a family favorite. I’m a happy subscriber:))
I Pinned your beautiful post to my Christmas cookie board. I look forward to seeing each post, and I had to show my husband your Halloween posts with the skeletons. We both got a laugh out of their clothing and table decor!
Mary, the round up has me craving all things sweet. I love the orange coconut snowballs. My mother made them every year!
I should have never read this on an empty stomach!! Everything looks mouthwatering!! Such a fun and generous giveaway Mary, let the merriness begin! 🎄🎅🏻🎄
Jenna
My favorite cookie is gingerbread/molasses cookie. I’m going to try your red velvet chocolate chip cookies.
My favorite Christmas cookie is a stamped brown sugar cardamon shortbread. They are unique and taste so good. I think I have more fun making them than eating them.
Mary, you are very generous! Merry Christmas! My favorite Christmas cookie is not one I bake. It comes from Mrs. Hanes Moravian Cookies. It is their lemon variety, followed by black walnut flavor. Just about all varieties of these cookies are wonderful, sugar, butterscotch, and of course, ginger.
I pinned the reindeer corn snack mix. I make a snack mix to give away, but I may try your recipe this year. 😀
To me you can definitely find Christmas in a big warm chewy Ginger cookie fresh out of the oven. It’s a win win with Ginger Cookies…your home is filled with the enticing sweet spicy aroma when baking them and then you get to settle down in your favorite chair and pair them with a cold glass of milk or hot cup of tea or coffee and enjoy their decadence down to the last bite. Snickerdoodles come in with a very close second.
I pinned your Baking Spirits Bright 20+ Holiday Recipe & Food Gift collage because it’s so hard to choose so why not have access to all? I also pinned your Smorgasbord Cookies because I love a chewy cookie that goes with cold milk, coffee and/or tea.
I pinned your Baking Spirits Bright 20+ Holiday Recipes & Food Gifts collage because why not have access to them all. I also pinned your Smorgasbord cookies because I love a chew cookie with a cold glass of milk, coffee and/or tea.
Christmas Linzer tarts are my favorite cookie. I am a subscriber.
Marion
I pinned the Snowmen melted cookies.
Marion
My favorite Christmas cookie is Pfferneause
Joan
Sugar cookies are my favorite of all of the Christmas ones.
Marilyn
The main cookie that I make for Christmas is a pizzelle. I have had the recipe for most of my life and always have requests for them. They are so thin that you can keep them in the freezer and just pop them out for a few minutes and they will be thawed and ready to eat. Pizzelle mark the start of the holiday season in my home. Merry Christmas everyone!
Oh my Mary, you’re the most thoughtful, generous soul. I know that your JOY comes in the giving and sharing of all these fun gifts. I can just picture you shopping and putting together these packages of love. I have been a lucky recipient recently and some other lucky readers will be happy to win one of your gifts.
Thank you for all the recipes that you rounded up for us. I’d like one of everything!
Happy rest of the weekend to you! ❤️
My favorite Christmas cookie is Cream Cheese spritz. They are so delicious!
I pinned those adorable mice. Can’t wait to try them
Oh my Mary what a very generous give away…..everything is so lovely, and a big thank you to you! My favorite Christmas treat is chocolate fudge, using the recipe I was given as a young Blue Bird then Camp Fire Girl…and that was many years ago! I remember we had to make many recipes of the fudge which we boxed up and sold at our local, small Christmas parade. But now,
Christmas has to have a big plate of the fudge, which I also gift to friends and family. Happy holiday season to you and yours.
I will try this again….it seems to never take for me!
Thank you Mary for your generosity…..all the gifts are lovely and who ever wins them will be so lucky. My must have recipe every Christmas is chocolate fudge, using a recipe from when I was a young Blue Bird/Camp Fire Girl, and that has been a long time ago! We had to make many recipes to sell at our long ago small, local Christmas parades. Happy holiday season to you and yours.
My favorite cookie or small pie as we call them to bake during the holidays are Tea Time Tassies. They are the mini pecan pies that you bake in the mini cupcake pans. No matter how many I make it it never enough!
My favorite recipe for the holidays is a pumpkin bread recipe which I took the liberty of adding chocolate chips to and I hope grandma doesn’t mind. ;o)
And I pinned the fudge picture with the bunnies. Love it!
My favorite cookies to bake for Christmas are cinnamon and wintergreen pinwheels. Yummy and so festive!
I pinned the red velvet chocolate chip cookies. Look forward to making them!
Leant nut Butter Cookie
Every year my siblings and I would go to my grandma’s to make Christmas cookies. The one that really stood out was the rosette snowflake cookie. It a very light, fried cookie and powdered sugar sprinkled on top. I still have her iron tool! I should make them for Christmas! :)
Thanks & I’m an email subscriber.
What a lovely post and fabulous giveaway! I’m a long-time subscriber/reader and several of your recipes have become staples at our house! I love baking, especially at the holidays, so it’s hard to pin-down my favorite. It might be a caramel cake recipe that I make almost every year; it was in a Southern Lady Christmas issue about 10 years ago. I also like making Lane Cake – it’s so festive and yummy. I was happy to see a Nigella recipe in your roundup – I’m going to try it this year. Have you made her pistachio fudge? It’s delish and can be kept in the freezer so you’re never without a chocolate fix!
WOW!! What a wonderful set of recipes! My favorite(s) at Christmas are a Cranberry Orange Walnut Bread. I give as gifts! The other is the Italian fried cookies my mother made! They are addictive! What a wonderful giveaway! Good luck to all! MERRY CHRISTMAS and happy/successful baking!!!!
I saved the Bourbon Gingerbread with bourbon glaze! I love bourbon balls and I also love plaid!!! Silly right??
I’m also a subscriber and have been for many years! Love this site and late entering because I have been busy with thanksgiving at our house for 21. AGAIN, GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!! Thanks Mary!!
Since I’ve never met a cookie I didn’t like it’s difficult for me to chose one. But family loves my old fashioned tea cakes. Really just a plump sugar cookie basically. Thank you Mary for the chance to win a lovely gift.
My all-time favorite Christmas recipe is Suetta Bechtel’s Cinnamon Rolls, https://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-detail.asp?recipe=326267 from Cooking from Quilt Country, by Marcia Adams. It’s a little more complicated than the usual recipe, because it requires 3 rises. But the results are heavenly.
I pinned the first pic with the Santa plate and mug, because I think they are Fitz and Floyd and I really miss that company. The new site is nowhere near the quality of the original.
I really like your site. I’ve tried many times to subscribe , but never been successful. I have no clue why.
My favorite holiday treat to make is those big soft molasses (gingerbread) cookies, and I also love to make cranberry coffee cake. I bake many kinds of cookies for the holidays, and people especially enjoy my fancy decorated sugar cookies, but they are very time consuming, so I don’t do quite as many of those anymore. Thanks for the great giveaway!! Good luck to everyone.
I’m also a long-time subscriber of your e-mails. Merry Christmas!! (“Mary Christmas!”)
My favorite cookie is almond pecan crescents. I still can’t make them as good as my Mom did, but I keep tweaking it.
I have subscribed for many years and just love the way you share so many recipes. They all look fabulous!
My very favorite holiday treats are homemade caramels. I use the recipe that my mother used and she started making them in the early 1950’s. Time consuming but the best.
Hope you have a wonderful holiday season.
Hi Mary family favorite is annisette cookies recipe passed down for 4 generations .
Mary,
Everything looks delicious!! Thank you for sharing your recipes with us; I’m going to try the apple fritter bread and the pecan gingerbread cookies.
My family always requests my chocolate chip cookies, ginger molasses cookies, English toffee, and buckeyes. It takes some time, but baking is both a stress reliever and creative outlet for me after a long day at work.
I’ve been a subscriber for at least a few years.
All the best!
What a great giveaway! There are so many Christmas cookies I love. I especially love decorated cut outs. Another favorite are gingerbread cookies. And the round wedding cookies are delicious. I’d love to win some new baking supplies. Thank you! And merry Christmas to you!
May I first start by saying I am absolutely certain I gained five pounds reading this post. I had somewhat of a sweet tooth before sitting down and catching up on my fav bloggers and my eyes popped open. Just wow.
* I am a long time reader/subscriber
* I had to hold back my trigger pinner finger – but one of my favs I pinned was the pb no bake bars. Drool.
*I have two cookies I ALWAYS make at Christmas. My personal fav are the snowball pecan cookies – you make them too I see above – we always called them Russian Wedding Cookies or something. I could eat an entire batch in one sitting if I am not careful. My other must-bake is sugar cut-out decorated cookies. No one ever wants to make them.
I had a Christmas cookie exchange annual party for something like 27 years I think – stopped when Covid hit and kinda just never got back into it. Health has been crap this year so I didn’t plan it this year. I guess it’s not too late.
Your multi give-away is WOW. Thank you! Would love any single one of those items. Please put my name in the hat!
Again, thank you for your generosity and inspiration. Hope this is a great Advent season for you and yours.
My fav is just a plain old shortbread cookie. Yum!
I pinned the red velvet thumbprint cookie post. I’m going to try it but will omit the peppermint
I am already a long time subscriber. Even though I very rarely comment, I do thoroughly enjoy all your posts. Thanks so much for the giveaway opportunity. A very Merry Christmas and happy holiday season to you!
Long time subscriber here. Thank you so much for all the inspiration. Merry Christmas to you and wishing you the best ever holiday season!
Sometimes basic is best! My favorite remains a good ole homemade warm chocolate chip cookie with cold milk or hot chocolate…Santa loves these too. I always under bake mine a tad so they are chewy. This is the only recipe I know by heart…2/3 c shortening, 1/2 c white sugar, 1/2 c brown sugar, 1 egg, 1 t vanilla…mix and add 1/2 t soda 1/2 t salt, 1 1/2 c flour…bake at 350 till done! Walla. Merry Christmas Mary…thank you FOR ALWAYS MAKING OUR SPIRITS BRIGHT!
My favorite are the snowball cookies!
My cookie tradition involves baking and icing soft buttermilk sugar cookies from a very old recipe inherited from my mother-in-law many years ago. My children have eaten these for 35 years and their father has for 65 years! I bake these three times a year, for Easter (egg shapes with multi colored rows of icing), at Halloween (pumpkins and ghosts, of course), and Christmas (tree shapes with green icing and sparkling sugar sprinkled on top).
I pinned a photo of the smorgasborg cookies
I have subscribed. Not sure where to log in.
Oh Mary…your posts/recipes just keep getting better and better! My favorite cookie is the melted snowman. I made the last year for my grands and they just loved them. I saved the melted snowman picture. Thank you so much for your contests! Peace.
I enjoy making festive Spritz cookies, Hello Dollies, Macadamia nut cookies, Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Cookies, and White Chocolate nut clusters.🎄
All the treats look scrumptious in this post! Look forward to baking some of these treats.I pinned the Reindeer snack mix!