This time of 12 months signifies a fantastic many issues: gatherings of family members, considerate reward exchanges, feasting galore. However nothing says “the vacations” greater than these special-occasion cookies, dropped at you by the Food52 crew, our group, and some star cookie-bakers, too. Whether or not these recipes have been handed right down to us from our great-great-grandparents, or introduced into the household from {a magazine} clipping or church cookbook over time, they often have a significant story, and all the time convey good vacation cheer.
To share these baked items with family members—and guarantee your cookies arrive contemporary, complete, and brimming with the festive tidings we’re all craving—we even have time-tested tips about the right way to pack and ship your edible presents. Frosted gingerbread, nutty biscotti, your well-known macaroons—if you happen to can bake them, you may make positive they arrive intact and able to be loved.
Peruse our 52 favourite, packable cookie recipes and get impressed to remind these closest to you that you just’re pondering of them.
1. Secret Cookies from Merrill Stubbs
Our co-founder, Merrill Stubbs, has been making these buttery, sparkly cookies for years: to bundle as vacation presents for her elementary-school lecturers, and pick from the cookie jar as soon as all of the presents got. She realized the recipe from her mom, who realized it from a lady who realized it from one other lady earlier than that—and now, Merrill’s taught the recipe to her personal children, and to us, too. We’re glad the key’s out.
2. Salted Rosemary Shortbread from Carla Lalli Music
Carla Lalli Music grew up not in a “embellished cookie” family, however in a “biscotti/gingersnap/shortbread” type of family. Because of this each vacation concerned some very scrumptious salted rosemary shortbread, which her mom baked in quadruple batches and despatched dwelling with each visitor leaving her dad and mom’ home (wait, can we come subsequent 12 months?). When Carla grew up and started internet hosting holidays of her personal, she carried on the custom of this rosemary shortbread, embracing its savoriness by including grapefruit zest to the dough, and additional flaky salt on prime. Enjoyable reality: This shortbread freezes actually nicely—we’re simply going to go away that data proper right here.
3. Candy Potato Rum Cookies from Chrissy Teigen
Although Chrissy Teigen, by her personal admission, has “by no means been a sweets kind of woman,” she wowed us with a vacation cookie that is not like another in our recipe field. These beauties are made with plush, silky candy potatoes in syrup, and scented with a success of allspice. Greatest but, they’re drizzled with a rummy, buttery glaze that makes issues “enjoyable for the adults” whereas being Luna-friendly, too (thanks, rum and butter extracts!). Chrissy says she likes to make further glaze for cookie-dipping, and maintain a pinch bowl of salt closeby for sprinkling on prime of every chew. Chrissy’s a sensible—nicely—cookie.
4. Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies (Aka Magic Middles) from Emma Laperruque
Meals author and recipe developer Emma Laperruque grew up consuming “magic middles” for years, earlier than she found that the time period meant various things to completely different bakers. There have been the (discontinued!) Keebler magic middles, with fudgy insides wrapped in a chewy sugar cookie blanket; there have been the Stella Parks revivalist cookies on Critical Eats; and there have been the Beta Sigma Chi/church group cookbook/newspaper-clipping variations, with peanut butter bellies and brownie-like outers. This solely means good issues: You may select your personal journey in relation to these cookies. However the chocolate-PB model would be the most scrumptious journey to decide on.
5. Ginger-Coconut Macaroons from Sam Davis
These macaroons had been impressed by Chef Samantha Davis’ favourite deal with from her childhood: Jamaican coconut drops, or spicy, candied clusters of contemporary ginger and dried coconut. When a longing for them struck, Sam used to pay a go to to her “native” Jamaican retailer to purchase them—touring to a complete completely different New York Metropolis borough to fill up—however quickly discovered a foolproof technique to recreate the flavors in her own residence with out the lengthy journey. You’ll discover Sam with these ginger-coconut macaroons in tow at nearly each get together she attends, since they’re super-simple to whip up, and an actual crowd pleaser.
6. Almond Biscotti from Amanda Hesser
Again within the ’90s, our co-founder, Amanda Hesser, thought-about beginning a biscotti biz-cotti enterprise round these almondy classics. The recipe, developed by an editor on the Atlantic again in 1987 and based mostly on the Tuscan basic, biscotti di Prato, was only a little sticky and a lot wordy. Amanda, her sister, mom, and grandmother, took it upon themselves to decode and simplify the recipe as soon as and for all, and sharpen their dough-scraping-and folding-moves as they did it. Whereas he Hessers by no means did begin the biscotti-slinging enterprise, they continued making the cookie each vacation season, and by chance for us, shared the recipe. Now, we’re excited to bake these for our vacation swapees this season, or hoard them throughout the December festivities like Amanda’s household does.
7. Orange & Brown Butter Madeleines from Aran Goyoaga
The lingering, nibbling, and dialog that occurs after a meal was—and nonetheless is—cookbook creator, meals stylist, and photographer Aran Goyoaga’s favourite a part of the vacations. There’s a Spanish phrase for simply this, sobremesa (actually “over the desk”): a time to speak about present affairs and gossip, to deeply join, and for Aran’s household, who owned a pastry store in Basque nation—all the time accompanied by madeleines. Aran’s tackle her family-favorite deal with is deeply nutty and toasty, due to the brown butter, with a zipper of freshness from a superb quantity of orange zest. The recipe is gluten-free, too.
8. Put up Punk Kitchen’s Chai Spice Snickerdoodles from Priya Krishna
Author and cookbook creator Priya Krishna has lastly made peace with the truth that she would not have a set job at vacation gatherings. She’s okay with simply being the “floater” within the room—operating out to seize forgotten cups, roasting off backup greens, greeting visitors as they file in—as a result of she is aware of she’s acquired this foolproof, crowd-pleasing cookie up her sleeve. The recipe, initially from common vegan meals blogger, Isa Chandra Moscowitz (aka Put up Punk Kitchen), mixed all her household’s favourite flavors—warming spices like ginger, cardamom, cinnamon, and cloves—in a thick and chewy bundle. Priya flippantly tailored the recipe to amp up the spices, and switched out non-dairy milk for its creamy, conventional counterpart. She landed on an actual winner—a back-pocket cookie that all the time ends with an empty platter.
9. Olive Oil Sugar Cookies With Pistachios & Lemon Glaze from Sarah Kieffer
When recipe developer and cookbook creator Sarah Kieffer was in center college, her grandmother gave her and her brother a framed {photograph} of grandma as a Christmas reward. Confused and disenchanted, Sarah nonetheless hung that picture up in her room…then her dorm, after which her first house together with her husband. She nonetheless has that framed {photograph}; grandma continues to be watching. And although grandma won’t just like the glaze on this pistachio-fied model of her pecan cookies, Sarah thinks she would approve general.
10. One Huge Cookie from Dorie Greenspan
Give the folks what they actually need this vacation season: A queen-sized cookie from the Queen of Cookies herself, Dorie Greenspan. She’s crispy, chewy, and correctly baked (“French baked,” to attain maximal butter nuttiness and caramelized-sugar toastiness). Her huge (learn: sheet-sized) cookie panorama is studded with chocolate, laced with espresso, and disrupted by nuts and spices. Or not; it’s very the eater’s selection. There are not any guidelines to this cookie right here, solely that you have to share it with household and pals.
11. Grandma Stauss’ Almond Christmas Balls from Naz Deravian
Whether or not at her husband’s grandparents’ dwelling in Battle Creek, Michigan, or her personal grandparents’ dwelling in Tabriz, Iran, cookbook creator Naz Deravian finds some issues to be the identical: the smells and sounds of a busy kitchen, the hubbub of making ready the vacation meal, post-meal digestive silence, and cookie-fueled night card video games. As almond lovers, these are the cookies Naz and her mother-in-law sit up for baking most. Naz makes Grandma Stauss’s recipe her personal by substituting dried cherries for candied.
12. Tahini Chocolate Shortbread Bars from Melissa Clark
Earlier than tahini and halvah had been cool, Melissa Clark was consuming the stuff each Sunday morning as a child, after weekly bagels and lox brunch together with her household in Brooklyn. Regardless of the dimensions of slice of halvah they took dwelling from the shop, it managed to vanish by finish of day, crumble by crumble. (And quicker nonetheless after they found there existed a chocolate taste.) Years later, as a grown-up meals author, Melissa had the genius concept to fuse her two loves, new and previous: buttery shortbread with chocolatey halvah. And so, this recipe was born.
13. Ammama’s Semolina Butter Cookies (Aka Sugee Biscuits) from Brinda Ayer
For former editor Brinda Ayer’s household—all wonderful cooks, however more-hesitant bakers—these simple-as-can-be cookies had been the right addition to the desk throughout the December holidays, Deepavali, or Hari Raya. Derived from a conventional Malaysian deal with, sugee biscuits, these crumbly, buttery confections are made with positive semolina, all-purpose flour, a pinch of salt, and a lot of ghee, then baked till crackly topped. The ensuing cookies have a melt-in-your-mouth consistency (which is why they’re lovingly generally known as “Outdated Man Biscuits” in Brinda’s household) and maintain in an hermetic container for…nicely…they’ve by no means lasted lengthy sufficient to seek out out.
14. Salted Double-Chocolate Chewies From Shauna Sever
In the course of the vacation cookie season, cookbook creator and baker extraordinaire, Shauna Sever, is guided by one perception, and one perception solely: that the cookie tin must be well-balanced. Rising up, her household’s tin all the time featured a cookie for everybody: one thing buttery, one thing chocolatey, one thing spiced, and the basic chocolate chip—however by no means the cocoa-heavy, chocolate-on-chocolate cookie Shauna actually needed. This all modified when she acquired married 17 years in the past, and she or he started her personal cookie-tin custom. Now, there’s all the time this double-chocolate cookie within the combine. It is such a easy, fuss-free recipe that Shauna will even make them outdoors of cookie-tin season.
15. Minty Oreo Meringues from Erin Alexander
When requested for a particular household cookie recipe, former editor Erin Alexander was completely stumped. She would not have many reminiscences of cooking together with her household (sorry, mother and pa!). What she does bear in mind, and treasure, are the moments outdoors the kitchen—particularly watching Will and Grace reruns together with her mother, after all of the homework was mentioned and finished, each armed with mint-chip ice cream with a splash of milk on prime. These mint-chip Oreo meringues are a cookie-fied model of that custom, and Erin will not be passing these down, however up: Over the vacations, she’ll be making these together with her mother (earlier than sitting right down to ice cream and TV, after all).
16. Caramelized White Chocolate & Toasted Milk Cookies From Hetal Vasavada (aka Milk and Cardamom)
Blogger and cookbook creator Hetal Vasavada began Milk and Cardamom so her daughter might recreate the consolation meals of her childhood (and, sometime sooner or later, share them with her children). Whereas rising up, Hetal felt like each household however hers had an heirloom cookie recipe. By re-imagining Jacques Torres’s chocolate chip cookies with Indian flavors and elements, she arrived at a recipe that completely captures the emotions, flavors, and smells of her grandmother—one that may be handed down for generations to return.
17. Buckwheat & Oat Flour Cutout Cookies From Nik Sharma
What’s extra conventional for this time of 12 months than a cutout cookie? Cookbook creator Nik Sharma’s genius addition of buckwheat provides an alluring, almost-bitter toastiness that bats forwards and backwards with the candy icing. Regardless of being tempted with—and concurrently terrorized by—vacation cookies for days on finish, the take a look at kitchen crew could not assist however sneak bites of those cookies that had been “by accident damaged,” or “a bit too darkish,” or “iced a bit too completely.”
18. Crimson Velvet Cookies From Eric Kim
Within the decade since Desk for One columnist Eric Kim bit into his inaugural Magnolia Bakery pink velvet cupcake, quite a bit has modified. He is settled into his N.Y.C. self and residential, forgotten the identify of the boyfriend that so broke his coronary heart, and watched the cupcake craze come and go. These pink velvet crinkle cookies are an homage to his first 10 years spent within the Huge Apple—nostalgic and bittersweet (however principally candy).
19. Danish Butter Cookies From Samantha Seneviratne
To meals stylist and cookbook creator, Samantha Seneviratne, Christmas was much less about Santa Claus and cookie-making, and extra about snuggling, watching Selena, and tearing via the mountain of presents given to Sam’s mom, a Montessori-school trainer. Every year, Sam and her brother unwrapped the presents speedily and wildly, taking nice pleasure in the way in which the wrapping paper littered the room like coloured birds, till hitting jackpot: a blue tin of Danish butter cookies. Excellent gasoline for one more household film session.
20. François Payard’s Flourless Chocolate-Walnut Cookies From Kristen Miglore
These cookies—so shiny, crackled, and bumpy in all the fitting methods—are made with out butter, oil, and flour. How might this be? This recipe’s curious proportions made our Genius Recipes columnist and artistic director, Kristen Miglore, do a double, double-take. She’s since found the unique recipe will be credited to François Payard, who—not wishing to compete with the American chocolate chip or snickerdoodle in his first Manhattan patisserie—as an alternative riffed on the basic French macaron.
21. Almond Cookies From Andrea Nguyen
Andrea Nguyen, of the beloved Viet World Kitchen, gifted us with two recipes hidden in a single. First, almond-perfumed cookie dough will get balled, rolled in an egg yolk caramel, and baked off till cratered and crisp. Then, after the cookie swaps are mentioned and finished, return to this thorough introduction to Nước Màu, a Vietnamese caramel sauce that serves as the bottom for a lot of savory braises, glazes, and marinades.
22. Hazelnut Gelt Cookies From Molly Yeh
Molly Yeh grew up celebrating every part. Her household threw Chrismukkah events and dumpling-making shindigs and invited everybody they knew. These days, December is simply as festive for Molly, particularly while you add in her husband’s household’s traditions (good day, lefse). The one catch: There aren’t sufficient Hanukkah cookie recipes on the market. So, this 12 months, Molly is creating her personal. These cutout cookies are hazelnut-based, which makes them extra-nutty and extra-tender, like shortbread. As soon as they’re out of the oven and cooled, you prime them with circles of melted milk chocolate (gelt!) and bathe gold sprinkles like we’re celebrating one thing. We’re.
23. The Sampler Cookie from Jerrelle Man
All year long, recipe developer and blogger, Jerrelle Man, is fairly good at planning forward. Each time she makes cookies, she mixes up further dough—rolling scraps into logs that she then stashes within the freezer. However to her, holidays usually are not about streamlining, however about loosening up a bit. Two years in the past, as an alternative of creating a brand-new batch of cookies, she reached into the freezer, mashed two odd logs of cookie dough collectively, and voila: a centaur cookie was born. The flavour combos are impressed by her household’s mashed-up favorites: her dad’s love of milk and cookies, her sister’s of pretzels and strawberries, and someplace blended in all that, her mother’s love of espresso. For max vacation cheer, Jerrelle recommends attaching the cookies proper down the center for a really visually pleasing impact.
24. Ginger-Citrus Cookies from Marcus Samuelsson
Chef, restaurateur, and cookbook creator Marcus Samuelsson was, like most youngsters, on a relentless quest for cookies rising up. Considered one of his vacation favorites was a ginger-citrus cookie impressed by his grandmother, Helga. Spending time within the kitchen with Helga was about extra than simply baking; it was about spending time collectively, listening to her tales, and contributing to the julbord, the standard Swedish vacation unfold. Cooking throughout generations is a convention Marcus hopes his son, Zion, will cross right down to his family at some point, together with the recipe for these snappy ginger cookies.
25. Nut BonBon Cookies from Ella Quittner
Meals author and recipe developer Ella Quittner is a dessert maximalist—one thing that she has in widespread together with her sisters and pa. Her mom, however, is a dessert minimalist—maybe as a result of she’s the granddaughter of Vina Slatalla, whose Melancholy-era satan’s meals cake is exceptionally easy, but magnificent. Naturally, if there’s one vacation dessert everybody within the household can agree on, it could be Vina’s golden, bonbon cookies, full of a complete nut, a chunk of darkish chocolate, or fancy maraschino cherry, relying on what you appreciated one of the best. They’re decadent, simply the correct quantity candy, and better of all, they provide one thing for everybody.
26. AK Cookies from Peter Meehan
The Powerful One, a poem of discovered textual content by meals author, Peter Meehan:
“I eat so many / I really feel just like the moon man waxing towards most weight when they’re in the home /the one comfort from the disappointment that accompanies their absence is that a minimum of I’m not consuming cookies all day lengthy. / Till she makes them once more.”
However in all seriousness, these cookies are our muse, go make them.
27. sugar cookies with vanilla frosting from Mary-Frances Heck
Typically, there’s just one cookie that can actually do it, that can actually hit the spot. No, not chocolate chip, however a cake-crumbed vanilla cookie, thickly frosted with buttercream. This vacation season, when your vitality degree is barely larger than shopping for pre-made however a lot decrease than piping meringue florets, that is the cookie for you. Meals & Wine‘s Senior Meals Editor, Mary-Frances Heck, recommends pairing them with a glass of milk or bourbon, relying on who’s having fun with these treats.
28. Chocolate & chipotle crinkle cookies from Fany Gerson
Baker and cookbook creator Fany Gerson made just a few small, super-clever tweaks to the standard crinkle that actually made her model stand out” Floor cinnamon and chipotle paste take bittersweet and darkish chocolate to new heights, leading to a super-fudgy, advanced cookie that also would not find yourself feeling like an overload of cocoa. The dough not solely will get rolled in powdered sugar for the snowy impact, however first granulated, then powdered. The granulated sugar gives a barrier between the fatty dough and powdered sugar, so the ultimate impact and crinkle is even downier.
29. Sparkle Pigs (Gingerbread Shortbread Cookies With Cranberry Curd) from Jesse Szewczyk
When meals editor and stylist Jesse Szewczyk was simply 12 years previous, he entered a model of his mother’s linzer cookies into an area baking competitors (and gained!). These are an up to date model. Buying and selling linzer dough for a spiced shortbread, jam for a cranberry curd, and the heart-shaped cookie cutter for a piglet-shaped one (a nod to Jesse’s Midwestern upbringing), Jesse’s all however ensured your cookie prowess at each swap this 12 months.
30. Shrewsbury Biscuits from Arati Menon
Considered one of former editor Arati Menon’s favourite vacation traditions befell not throughout the holidays, however proper after, when she’d return from break to her all-girls faculty in Bombay. Every January, she and her pals would return with extra baggage than they left with: suitcases and duffels stuffed with festive treats their mothers would ship to share. One 12 months, a buddy got here again with a number of packing containers of a type of biscuit she’d by no means heard of earlier than. It was from a family-owned bakery in a metropolis three hours away, and stamped with the phrase “SHREWSBURY.” This candy and buttery shortbread was mild, crisp, and splendidly crumbly. Years later, she’s developed her personal recipe—an amalgamation of a number of—that is as shut as one can get to the true factor.
31. Sausage Balls From Ben Mims
Rising up, Ben knew to depend on Aunt Dolly’s 4, famed cookies come vacation season: the crisp and chewy oatmeal raisin, crumbly and snowy wedding ceremony cookies, nutty and salty chocolate mounds, and these: orbs of Bisquick-bound sausage and cheese. Ben by no means explicitly calls these the “palate-cleanser course,” however as the one savory possibility, these sausage balls—particularly when loved with espresso—had been everybody’s favourite deal with, a welcome respite from sugar, the much-needed break earlier than diving again in.
32. Gingerbread Cookies from Ella Quittner
We will’t discuss Christmas cookies with out mentioning gingerbread cookies. As an alternative of an entire host of spices, all it takes is (quite a bit) of floor ginger, floor cloves, and molasses to make lovely gingerbread folks.
33. Russian Tea Muffins from Alice Medrich
You’ll get powdered sugar throughout your fingers while you eat these cookies all through the vacation season, nevertheless it’s so value it. These butter cookies “are the essence of Christmas,” says group member kellyhere, who makes many batches annually to share with household and pals. “The dough is ideal for raspberry jam thumbprints, too.” Recipe developer Alice Medrich recommends letting this dough sit in a single day—and even for just a few days—to let the flavors and texture of the dough develop.
34. Roasted Chestnut & Fig Thumbprint Cookies from Jillian Atkinson
“A twist on the standard thumbprint cookie and a play on the previous “chestnuts roasting on an open hearth” vibe of the vacation season, this buttery tender cookie has hints of cinnamon, candy fig, and a delicate chestnut crunch,” writes recipe developer Jillian Atkinson.
35. Yuletide Log Cookies from Hetal Vasavada
In the course of the 2021 vacation season, we made it our mission to show vacation treats—suppose: latkes, sufganiyot, and sure, a bûche de Noël—into cookies. These butter cookies are rolled into cylinders and dipped in melted chocolate to resemble wooden logs.
36. No-Bake Chocolate Peppermint Cookies from Grant Melton
Certainly you’ll have just a few further sweet canes available throughout the vacation season. Flip them into these straightforward chocolate-dipped Christmas cookies—no baking required!
37. Bizcochitos (Anise Cookies) from Connoisseur
Anise cookies are sometimes a staple in Italian-American houses. Oftentimes they’re iced and garnished with sprinkles, however these are easy cut-outs dusted generously with cinnamon sugar.
38. Spritz Butter Christmas Cookies from Kendra Vaculin
Don’t let a cookie press flip you off from making these cookies. If you happen to’ve by no means used one earlier than, it does take some getting used to however the result’s so value it. The dough is a breeze to make and you will get artistic with meals coloring and the form of the cookies.
39. Panettone Cookies from Grant Melton
Panettone, meet shortbread. As a part of our 20201 collection Vacation Classics Turned Into Cookies, these cookies are impressed by the Italian fruit-studded cake generally known as panettone. And what’s the Christmas season with out shortbread cookies anyway?
40. Dominique Ansel’s Linzer Cookies
The person himself (the well-known baker Dominique Ansel) demonstrates the right way to make this basic Christmas cookie recipe. These are stuffed with jam (you get to decide on the kind of berry you need!) and dusted with confectioners’ sugar.
41. Bien Cuit’s Masala Pecan Sandies
I used to be a late bloomer to pecan sandies, which is to say I made my first batch solely final 12 months. However then I proceeded to eat your entire batch in a single sitting and needed to bake one other spherical (I simply needed to!). This vacation cookie recipe from NYC-based bakery Bien Cuit makes use of a masala (Indian spice mix) with cardamom, fennel, cinnamon, dates, and vanilla for much more taste.
42. Italian Rainbow Cookies from Rebecca Firkser
Baking eight dozen Italian rainbow cookies takes time, however dedicate a day to baking the festive, enjoyable deal with and your loved ones and pals might be completely happy that you just did.
43. Snickerdoodle Shortbread from Emma Laperruque
“On this mashup cookie, you get one of the best of each worlds: a buttery, crumbly, tender shortbread, spiced with cinnamon, and coated in a shiny cinnamon-sugar crust,” says former meals editor Emma Laperruque.
44. Peanut Butter Cookies from Merrill Stubbs
Sure, peanut butter cookies are actually a year-round deal with, however they’re nice for vacation baking (particularly when a chocolate kiss is pressed into the dough for every one earlier than baking).
45. m&m Cookies from Coral Lee
Dump a bag of pink and inexperienced m&ms into the cookie dough for these cookies. It’s a straightforward swap that can make everybody say, “Oh now it’s Christmas!”
46. Rum Ball Cookies from Nik Sharma
We adore it when Nik Sharma shares a recipe with us as a result of his meals science background all the time lends itself to some “why didn’t I consider that” vacation baking ideas. Like this one, for instance: “Save these little luggage of silica gel beads that present up in your dried meals items and reuse them when storing the rum balls.”
47. Triple-Ginger Chocolate Chunk Cookies from Susan Spungen
These ginger-chocolate cookies had been developed by Susan Spungen, a former meals editor at Martha Stewart Dwelling. To say that they’re adored by staffers can be a extreme understatement.
48. Vacation Minimize-Out Cookies from Amanda Hesser
“That is my mom’s recipe. She’s a stickler for particulars, which performs to her benefit in relation to baking. Her cut-out cookies are all the time the thinnest and prettiest and have probably the most restrained quantity of ornament. Opposite to the plump and pale variations you usually see, cut-out cookies must be very skinny with browned edges, so that they’re crisp and nutty,” says Food52’s founder Amanda Hesser.
49. Glazed Eggnog Madeleines from Elisabet der Nederlanden
Everybody’s favourite Christmas drink within the type of a tender French cookie? Sure please!
50. Chewy Chocolate Meringues from Riki Shore
Meringues are sometimes an afterthought—suppose mini mushrooms for a bûche de Noël or piped into pink and white swirls—however not often are they a cookie that individuals take into consideration baking as a part of their vacation unfold. These three-ingredient chocolate cookies will change your thoughts.
51. Merrill Stubbs’ Cream Cheese Cookies
These cookies—procured from a Tupperware get together within the Seventies and handed down within the Stubbs household—are crisp on the perimeters, chewy within the center, and journey nicely. Be happy so as to add nutmeg or one other warming spice for extra vacation razzmatazz.
52. Chewy Gingerbread Cookies from Erin Jeanne McDowell
One final gingerbread cookie, however the one’s chewy (plus this checklist wouldn’t be full and not using a recipe from our Resident baker, Erin Jeanne McDowell). “These are the gingerbread cookies you’ll discover me slipping into cookie packing containers every vacation season—and nearly everybody who tries one asks for the recipe!” Now you have it!
This text was up to date 12/5/23.
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