Easy Christmas Cookie Recipes Pt 2

Christmas is a time of joy, love, and of course, delicious treats. And what better way to spread holiday cheer than with freshly baked cookies? In part 2 of our easy Christmas cookie recipes, we have even more delectable options for you to try. From classic ginger cookies to popcorn cookies, these recipes are sure to impress your family and friends.

Cherry Snowballs - If you are looking for a festive cookie to add to your holiday dessert spread or a delicious treat to enjoy year-round, Cherry Snowballs are the perfect choice. With their soft, buttery texture and bursts of cherry flavor, these cookies are sure to become a household favorite. So, gather your ingredients and get baking – your taste buds will thank you!

Recipe courtesy of Taste of Home

Big Soft Ginger Cookies - With just a few simple ingredients and some basic kitchen tools, you can have a batch of these Big Soft Ginger Cookies ready to share with your loved ones in no time. They are perfect for a cozy night in, a holiday party, or as a homemade gift for friends and family. So go ahead and give this recipe a try, and get ready to fall in love with the irresistible flavors and textures of these Big Soft Ginger Cookies.

Recipe courtesy of Taste of Home

Basic Chocolate Pinwheel Cookies - Chocolate pinwheel cookies are a classic and delicious treat that is loved by many. These delightful cookies are made with a simple buttery dough and a rich chocolate filling, resulting in a perfect combination of flavors and textures.

Recipe courtesy of Taste of Home

Snowy Mountain Cookies - These Snowy Mountain Cookies are the perfect treat to enjoy with a warm cup of hot cocoa by the fireplace, or to share with friends and family at a holiday gathering. So why not whip up a batch of these delicious cookies and bring a taste of the snowy mountains right into your home?

Recipe courtesy of Taste of Home

Flourless Peanut Butter Thumbprints - Flourless Peanut Butter Thumbprints are a delicious and easy-to-make dessert that is perfect for anyone with a gluten-free or grain-free diet. These cookies are made with just a few simple ingredients, but pack a ton of flavor and texture.

Recipe courtesy of Taste of Home

Triple Nut Snowballs - These Triple Nut Snowballs are a great addition to any holiday cookie platter and are perfect for gift-giving. They also make a great treat to enjoy with a cup of hot cocoa or coffee on a cold winter day. So why not give this recipe a try and add these delicious and nutritious cookies to your holiday baking repertoire. Your taste buds and your loved ones will thank you.

Recipe courtesy of Taste of Home

Nuts-About-You Cookie Sticks - Not only are these Nuts-About-You Cookie Sticks delicious, but they also make for a beautiful presentation. The long, slender shape of the cookies makes them ideal for serving at parties or potlucks. You can arrange them in a jar or tin, tie them up with a pretty ribbon, and give them as a gift to your loved ones.

Recipe courtesy of Taste of Home

Coconut Cranberry Yummies - Coconut Cranberry Yummies are the perfect blend of sweet, tart, and chewy in one delicious treat. This recipe combines the tropical flavor of coconut with the tangy burst of cranberries to create a mouthwatering dessert that will leave you wanting more.

Recipe courtesy of Taste of Home

Lemon Pudding Cookies - Lemon Pudding Cookies are a delicious and refreshing twist on the classic cookie recipe. These cookies are soft, chewy, and bursting with tangy lemon flavor. The best part about these cookies is that they are incredibly easy to make, requiring only a few simple ingredients that you probably already have in your pantry.

Recipe courtesy of Taste of Home

Popcorn Cookies - Looking for a fun and unique twist on a classic cookie recipe? Look no further than Popcorn Cookies! These delicious treats are the perfect combination of sweet and salty, with a crunchy texture that will have you coming back for more.

Recipe courtesy of Taste of Home

Which one of these recipes are you going to make? 

Keep it sassy & Merry Christmas,

Kelly

from the Sassy Silver Sisters

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Easy Christmas Cookie Recipes Pt 1

Christmas cookies are a classic holiday treat that everyone loves to enjoy. Making them doesn't have to be complicated or time-consuming, however. With the right recipes and a few simple ingredients, you can whip up a batch of delicious, festive treats in no time! Whether you opt for chocolate chip or sugar cookies, these easy recipes are sure to please everyone at your holiday gathering. 

This blog post is a two-parter, as we will have more recipes next week. Stay tuned and enjoy the recipes!

Eggnog Blossoms - The spicy-rich flavors of eggnog add a new holiday twist to a classic cookie shape, and the striped chocolate candies on top make them even more festive. 

Recipe courtesy of Food Network Kitchen

Cornflake Christmas Wreaths - Cornflakes get dressed for the holidays when mixed with a green marshmallow coating. Shaped into individual wreaths and topped with festive candies, these crunchy treats are a fun no-bake recipe.

Recipe courtesy of Food Network Kitchen

Peppermint Bark Cookies - The combination of white peppermint bark atop a chocolate cookie base equals the ultimate holiday treat. This big-batch recipe is ideal for cookie swaps, festive parties or even wrapping up as gifts. It is also easy enough for baking with the whole family. Instead of forming individual cookies, you break the giant sheet into pieces, just like you would with traditional bark.

Recipe courtesy of Food Network Kitchen

Smashed Sugar Cookies - We love the imperfection of these festive smashed cookies. The addition of two eggs gives the centers a tender and soft texture, while the crinkled edges get ever so slightly golden and crisp. Top with a simple confectioners' sugar glaze for a holiday treat perfect for a cookie tin.

Recipe courtesy of Food Network Kitchen

Peppermint Muffin Tin Cookies - Thanks to the help of a muffin tin, these peppermint-spiked sugar cookies are perfectly round every single time. They're also easy enough for everyone in the family to pitch in to help. Frozen peppermint patties are stuffed in the middle to ramp up the flavor and provide a hidden surprise with the first bite. No need to decorate after baking -- the sprinkles go right on top before going into the oven so that once they are cool, they are ready to go.

Recipe courtesy of Food Network Kitchen

Holiday Swirl Sugar Cookies - How funny are these cookies?

Recipe courtesy of Food Network Kitchen

Classic Sugar Cookies - These are the familiar cookies, with crispy edges and a slightly soft middle. Superfine sugar gives them their crunchiness. The small amount of baking powder ensures that they puff just a little without spreading too much and losing their shape.

Recipe courtesy of Food Network Kitchen

Chocolate Coconut Balls - I think these are my favorite because I love coconut and chocolate together.

Recipe courtesy of Food Network Kitchen

Holiday Haystacks - Holiday Haystack Cookies are a festive treat perfect for the holidays! These easy no-bake cookies are made with just a few simple ingredients

Recipe courtesy of Food Network Kitchen

Cinnamon Spiced Hot Chocolate Cookies -  Cinnamon Spiced hot chocolate cookies are a delicious, warming treat for winter. Made with cocoa powder, cinnamon, and sugar, these cookies are a great way to enjoy hot chocolate in cookie form.

Recipe courtesy of Food Network Kitchen

Which one of these recipes is your favorite? Do you bake Christmas cookies? We'd love to hear from you.

Keep it sassy & HAPPY HOLIDAYS,

Kelly

from the Sassy Silver Sisters

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Christmas Cookie Recipes 2021

It's that time of year when we get out the flour and sugar and get to making Christmas cookies. I find myself getting bored of making the same cookies year after year. I'm always looking for new recipes and I found a boatload of them. So I'm going to share with you some links to hundreds of cookie recipes. It's going to be COOKIE OVERLOAD! 🤣

Let's get started!

The Food Network has a list of 100 Best Christmas Cookies 2021. From Holiday Monster cookies to Coconut Macaroons and everything in between. They look so yummy.

Taste of Home has 150 of Their Best Christmas Cookie Recipes.  Buttery Spritz Cookies, Ugly Sweater Cookies, Candy Cane Snowballs, and more. I think the ugly sweater cookies are adorable, not so much ugly.

Food.com has 80 of the Best Christmas Cookies. 4-Ingredient Fudge Crinkles, Chocolate Peppermint Pinwheel Cookies, Snowball Cookies, and more. The 4-ingredient cookies is right up my alley.

Betty Crocker has some Festive & Fun Christmas Character Cookies, great for the kiddos. Polar Bear Cookies, Easy Reindeer Cookie Bars, Santa Heart-Shaped Cookies, and more. I will have to make at least one of these this year with my grandson.

Good Housekeeping has 90 Best Cookies to make this season that are irresistible. Sugar Cookie Trees, Red Velvet Cookies, Gingerbread Sandwich Cookies, and more.

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I hope these recipes give you some inspiration to try a new cookie this year. I'm surely going to try at least one of these. Which one will you be trying?

Do you have a favorite cookie you make year after year? Please comment and let us know.

Happy Holidays!

Kelly

Sassy Silver Sisters 

Cathy, Rhonda & Kelly

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Kayla’s Test Kitchen Lemon Doodle Cookie Recipe Review

Hey everyone! We have the privilege of having a guest blogger today. Kayla is Rhonda's business assistant and a very good one at that. She wanted to try her hand at writing a blog post with a baking review and we happily obliged. If you enjoyed this post, please leave a comment below.

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Kayla’s Test Kitchen

While scrolling Facebook, I came across a post from a bakery about lemondoodles. Now, maybe you’re like me and your first thought was what the heck is a lemondoodle and why do I think I need it? Or maybe you have encountered lemondoodles and you’re wondering why I live under a rock. Either way, it sparked an idea. I was dead set on making lemondoodles.

When I ran the idea by Cathy, she suggested I write about my experience, so here we are.

I did a quick search and found two recipes that sounded like good contenders for my little experiment. I printed them off and I was ready to go.

Here’s something you should know about me: I sometimes, maybe, just a little bit, fail to follow instructions, especially on recipes. Keep that in mind. I know Rhonda likes to follow the recipe to a T the first time and then make the changes the second time around, but that’s just not me.

First, I started with Mary’s Lemony Doodles from Just a Pinch which can be found here: Just a Pinch - Lemony Doodles

It seemed easy enough (and I had all the ingredients!) so that’s where the adventure began.

I added my dry ingredients and zest to a small mixing bowl and then I started to go a little off script.

The recipe calls for plain shortening, but I added butter flavored shortening (I like Crisco baking sticks) and sugar to a bigger mixing bowl and creamed them together with a hand mixer. Then I added the eggs one at a time and continued to mix until it was nice and creamy.

I added the dry ingredients in batches and mixed them by hand with a large spoon to avoid overmixing (I’m told it creates more gluten and a denser cookie and I don’t like that).

Here’s where things get a little shaky in my instruction-following abilities, but I must be transparent with you so that you don’t make my mistakes. I juiced half of my zested lemon and then added the required sugar. I know. I know I messed up. Half a lemon is WAY more than a teaspoon. I know that. I do. I did it anyway and I won’t do it again.

So, my lemon sugar was very thick and not really acceptable for rolling, but oh well. I thought I would just run with it.

I pulled out the big cookie scoop. I know the recipe says a generous teaspoon, but that’s not a cookie- that’s a disappointment. I understand there’s a time and a place for little cookies. Like for children and people with sugar issues and for dieters and all those other things that I don’t consider when I’m making a cookie. I would rather have more than a single bite. Sorry, not sorry.

Anyway, I went off the rails again and made a large round and plopped it in the too-wet sugar. As you can see, it didn’t exactly roll in the sugar very well.

Some sugar stuck to the dough, but not much. So, I swirled the bowl, sending the dough around and around to coat it without having to put my fingers in the wet sugar, a method I perfected by the end.

I placed each sugary ball of dough two inches apart or so on my parchment-lined baking sheet. Typically, I use the parchment paper that is marked with a grid, but we were all out. I had to improvise, but I thought I did a good job. 

The recipe warned that the cookies would spread while baking. I was prepared for that, especially since I had used the big scoop.

I popped them in the oven at 350 for 10 minutes.

They were not done. They were super soft, still shiny, and hadn’t cracked. That one is on me though because I didn’t follow the instructions to make them small.

I stuck them back in for another 2 minutes.

Then another 2 minutes.

Finally, I took them out and they had just barely set. That’s how my family likes cookies, so that’s how I left them.

They were very light in color but had formed a nice crust on the bottom and did not fall apart when I moved them to the cooling rack, so I left them.

After a few minutes, I tried one. They were very lemony thanks to all the juice I used, but also very sugary. They had almost no chewiness to them, which I should have expected with the way they spread.

I put more in to bake for 15 minutes. It makes sense that I double or triple the cookie size that I would have to do the same to the cooking time.

It turns out 15 minutes was too long. The next batch came out crisp and not at all chewy like a doodle should be. The sugar also pooled in little spots and turned brown on the second and third batches.

Overall, not the best cookie I’ve ever made. It probably would have gone better if I had followed the instructions exactly. My dad seemed to share in my opinion, but my mom thought they were pretty good, but they’re also believers that there’s no such thing as a bad cookie.

FAMILY REVIEW:

Mom: “They’re really good. I really enjoy them. 4 out of 5 stars.”

Dad: “The first batch is better. The others are too crispy.”

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We hope you enjoyed Kayla's review. Have you ever made Lemon Doodle cookies? Do have some helpful hints or a favorite recipe? We'd love for you to share it in the comments below.

Stay safe and healthy,

The Sassy Silver Sisters

Cathy, Rhonda & Kelly

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