DAY 10: Chocolate Peppermint Bark Dipped Cookies
Dress up a simple, but delicious, chocolate cookie by dipping half of it in white chocolate and sprinkling with crushed candy canes.
If you are lucky, you can find these pre-crushed candy canes in your Christmas baking section:
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DAY 8: Chocolate Pudding Christmas M&M Cookies
Dark chocolate cookies filled with milk chocolate m&m’s: always a crowd pleaser. And simple to make. Chocolate fudge pudding makes the dough especially rich and delicious.
I usually like to use the mini baking m&m’s; they do not bleed as much into the dough. But you can also change the flavor profile by trying one of the multitude of m&m’s flavors that are available at Christmas time.
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DAY 7: Christmas Funfetti Pudding Cookies
Another experiment adding pudding mix to a cookie dough. This festive cookie has vanilla pudding added, along with white chocolate chips and Christmas sprinkles.
NOTE: Be cautious when baking with sprinkles. Some are made to hold their shape when baking, but some melt and dissolve when heated. Unfortunately, sprinkle makers do not always label them as such. If you are unsure, make a test cookie: Remove one scoop of dough from batter before stirring in the sprinkles. Mix about 1/2 tsp of sprinkles into that ball of dough and bake.
If I have extra sprinkles at the end of my baking, I always mark the container so that I know whether they can be baked or not.
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DAY 5: Peanut Butter Paw Prints
These are fun cookies to make with kids. Use regular-sized chocolate chips for the small pads of the pawprint, and larger chocolate disks (I used dark chocolate melting chocolate wafers) for the large pad.
Use a very small cookie scoop (or make 1” balls) so that the paw print pattern covers most of the cooked cookie.
These cookies are made from a peanut butter cookie dough. If you want a nut-free cookie base, try this recipe:
For a more anatomically correct bear paw print, you should use 5 small chocolate chips, but I thought that looked too crowded, so I stuck with 3. For puppy paw prints, use 4 small chocolate chips.
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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.
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Merry Christmas!
DAY 1: Caramel Peanut Butter Thumbprints
DAY 2: Peppermint Bark Reindeer Chow
DAY 3: Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
DAY 4: Chocolate Walnut Cookies
DAY 5: Apricot Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies
DAY 6: Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
DAY 7: Cranberry Orange Cookies
DAY 8: Flourless Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies
DAY 9: Root Beer Float Fudge
DAY 10: Browned Butter Cashew Toffee Cookies
DAY 11: Sugar-Free Coconut Macaroons
DAY 12: Sugar-Free Orange Shortbread
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For more cookie recipes, check out the previous thirteen 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)
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