DAY 3: Lemon Cookie Cups
If you like lemon bars, you will love these cute little lemon cups! They are made with a rich, buttery cookie cup base and filled with homemade lemon curd filling.
Sprinkle with powdered sugar just before serving and decorate as desired.
Sweet and tart, and perfect for adding to cookie plates.
RECIPE:
DAY 2: Chocolate Chip Chocolate Pudding Cookies
This year I did some experimenting with adding pudding mix to cookie recipes. The pudding mix helps keep the cookies soft and chewy and adds a rich flavor to the dough.
This is a chocolate chocolate chip cookie dough. I dipped them in white chocolate and decorated with seasonal sprinkles for Christmas cookie plates.
RECIPE:
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Welcome to the 15th Annual Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies!
DAY 1: Apricot Shortbread Streusel Bars
An easy to make bar cookie. A shortbread crust is topped with sweet and tangy apricot jam and then topped with shortbread streusel.
You can easily substitute other jams in place of the apricot: seedless raspberry, blackberry, or peach would all be delicious.
RECIPE:
Welcome to the 12th Annual Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies! This year, I am focusing on brownies, blondies, and other bar cookies.
A note about cooking bar cookies: If you have trouble with burned edges and raw centers, try using a metal pan instead of a glass or ceramic pan. This is especially true of bigger pans, 9×13” or larger. You can also bake the batter in 2 smaller square pans instead of one larger one to get more evenly baked bars and brownies.
DAY 1: Raspberry White Chocolate Cheesecake Brownies
This is an easy to make dressed-up brownie dessert that starts with a boxed brownie mix. Raspberry jam is swirled into both the brownie layer and the cheesecake layer.
RECIPE:
A list of all 12 of this year’s Christmas Cookies:
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DAY 1: Whipped Shortbread Cookies
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DAY 2: Chocolate Caramel Pretzel Cookies
DAY 3: Bear Paw Cookies
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DAY 4: Oatmeal Coconut Cookies
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DAY 5: Raspberry Almond Thumbprints
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DAY 6: Coconut Cornflake Sandies
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DAY 7: Slow Roasted Spiced Almonds
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DAY 8: Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
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DAY 9: Christmas Sprinkle Cookies
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DAY 10: Maple Oatmeal Toffee Cookies
DAY 11: Mint Chocolate M&M’s Cookies
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DAY 12: Loaded Chocolate Chip Sandies
For more ideas of how to Light the World with kindness and service the rest of this Christmas season, here is a link to a calendar of ideas:
For more cookie recipes, check out the previous ten 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)
DAY 3: Bear Paw Cookies
An easy and fun alternative to regular chocolate chip cookies. Bake your favorite plain cookie dough (or use the dough below) and add two different sized chocolate chips after baking to make a paw print pattern.
Use a very small cookie scoop (or make 1” balls) so that the paw print pattern covers most of the cooked cookie.
Recipe adapted from Kitchen Fun
RECIPE:
¾ cup unsalted butter, softened
1 cup brown sugar
½ cup white sugar
1 egg + 1 egg yolk
1 Tbs vanilla extract
2 cups flour
2 Tbs cornstarch
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
About 1 cup of regular-sized chocolate chips plus about 1 cup of larger baking chips (like Ghirardelli dark chocolate chips)
Preheat oven to 350°F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone mats.
In a large mixing bowl, beat butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in egg, egg yolk, and vanilla. Beat in flour, cornstarch, and salt.
Using a small cookie scoop, place level scoops on baking sheets, about 2” apart (I can get 20 cookies on a baking sheet). Roll scoops of dough into balls (about 1” in diameter); return to baking sheet.
Bake for 8 minutes, or until baked through. Cookies will still look very pale. Don’t overbake. While cookies are still warm, press one large chocolate chip and three small chocolate chips into each cookie to make a paw pattern. Cool cookies completely on wire racks.
Makes about 4 dozen small cookies.
Recipe adapted from Kitchen Fun
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