I love baking holiday cookies to give away to family, friends and neighbors. Just seeing the joy on their faces when I deliver a package of holiday cookies is enough to keep me baking year after year. I like to package them up, which makes them easy to deliver and extra cute. I love the little takeout style boxes you can get from Michaels.
I typically make four or five different types of cookies per year. Now, you don’t have to make that many- just one or two are more than enough! But if you want to bake a few more, here’s a trick, for certain cookies, you can make the dough a couple of weeks ahead of time and freeze it. Then, the day of, all you have to do is bake them in the oven- it’ll save you a lot of time and you won’t be nearly as overwhelmed.
Here are some holiday cookie recipes to try this holiday season!
A few favorites from some favorite food blogs:
Chocolate Sugar Cookies from A Dash of Megnut
Peppermint Meringues from The Tummy Train
Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites from Two Tiny Kitchens
Holiday Biscotti from Technicolor Kitchen
Coconut Snowballs from Sweet Potato Chronicles
Soft Frosted Sugar Cookies from Tide and Thyme
And a few favorites from my blog, Living Lou:
Let me know if you give any of these recipes a try and share pictures of your holiday cookies with us on Twitter ( and ) and Instagram ( and ) #zestydigest.
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