Seventeenth Annual Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies: Double Chocolate Thumbprints

Welcome to the 17th Annual Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies!

Double Chocolate Thumbprints

DAY 1: Double Chocolate Thumbprints

For the chocolate lover! A chocolate cookie filled with soft chocolate ganache and festive sprinkles.

I use half of this dough to make these cookies, and half to make Chocolate Peppermint Bark Thumbprints

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Creamy Spinach Artichoke Chicken Soup

Creamy Spinach, Artichoke, Chicken Soup

When spring is inconsistent in its warm sunny days, this creamy chicken soup with spinach and artichokes, together with some homemade bread, make a perfect light supper.

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Sheet Pan Cajun Smoked Sausage & Vegetables

Sheet Pan Cajun Smoked Sausage and Vegetables

I love sheet pan dinners for their easy preparation and even easier clean-up.

This smoked sausage and vegetable combination is very easy, and very adaptable. Use your preferred linked-style smoked sausage like kielbasa, andouille, or chorizo links (not loose raw chorizo). A combination of vegetables of various colors makes for a delicious and healthy dinner. I like using sweet potatoes and/or butternut squash, red peppers, zucchini, and onion.

Start cooking the longer-cooking vegetables first, then add the quicker cooking vegetables closer to the end of cooking time.

I season this with a premixed Cajun seasoning, but you can also use a combination of salt, pepper, onion and garlic powders, thyme, oregano, smoked paprika.

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Indian Chicken Fried Rice

Indian Chicken Biryani

An Indian rice dish that is completely adaptable to any protein and vegetable combination you have on hand. Made here with chicken, zucchini, snap peas, red pepper, carrots, and onion.

This is similar in flavor to a biryani, but a simpler preparation, and packed with more vegetables.

For a low carb version, use cauliflower rice instead of basmati rice.

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Sixteenth Annual Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies Recap

Merry Christmas & Happy Baking!

Twix Thumbprint Cookies

DAY 1:  Caramel Thumbprint Cookies

Peanut Butter M&M Cookie Bars
DAY 2: Peanut Butter M&M Cookie Bars

Caramel Cinnamon Horns
DAY 3: Caramel Cinnamon Horns

Raspberry Almond Triangles
DAY 4: Raspberry Almond Triangles

Mini Maple Cut Out Cookies
DAY 5: Mini Maple Cut Out Cookies

Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies
DAY 6: Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies

Cinnamon Swirl Cookies
DAY 7: Cinnamon Swirl Cookies

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DAY 8: Boston Cream Cookie Cups

Sugar Free Chocolate Chip Cookies
DAY 9: Sugar Free Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Toffee Sprinkle Cookies
DAY 10: Toffee Sprinkle Cookies

Chocolate Orange Shortbread Sticks
DAY 11: Chocolate Orange Shortbread Sticks

Chocolate Raspberry Thumbprints
DAY 12: Chocolate Raspberry Thumbprints

 

For more cookie recipes, check out the previous fifteen years of Christmas cookie ideas:

1st Annual Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies (2009)

2nd Annual Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies (2010)

3rd Annual Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies (2011)

4th Annual Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies (2012)

5th Annual Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies (2013)

6th Annual Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies (2014)

7th Annual Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies (2015)

8th Annual Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies (2016)

9th Annual Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies (2017)

10th Annual Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies (2018)

11th Annual Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies (2019)

12th Annual Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies (2020)

13th Annual Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies (2021)

14th Annual Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies (2022)

15th Annual Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies (2023)

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Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies: Chocolate Raspberry Thumbprints

Chocolate Raspberry Thumbprints

DAY 12: Chocolate Raspberry Thumbprints

For the chocolate raspberry lover! A chocolate cookie filled with raspberry jam and drizzled with dark chocolate.

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