Welcome to the 16th Annual Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies!
DAY 1: Caramel Thumbprint Cookies
Shortbread cookie, caramel filling, chocolate drizzle: all the flavors of Twix candy bars in cookie form.
Use the back of a ½ tsp measuring spoon to make indentations in cookie dough.
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DAY 12: Sugar-Free Double Chocolate Cookies
Limiting your sugar intake doesn’t have to mean sacrificing flavor. These chocolate chocolate chip cookies are soft and rich and delicious!
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DAY 11: Christmas M&M’s Vanilla Pudding Cookies
An easy cookie dough enriched with vanilla pudding mix and studded with chocolate chips and mini m&m’s. An easy drop cookie recipe that kids (and adults) love!
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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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Raspberry Sweet Rolls
Resurrection Rolls
Peeps Cupcakes
Coconut Cream Pie Bars
Whipped Shortbread Cookies
Crescent Rolls
Lemon Meringue No-Bake Cheesecake
Ham & Zucchini Quiche
Ham & Cauliflower Chowder
Southwestern Ham & White Bean Soup
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