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Christmas Cookies And Dessert Recipes

These are delicious cookie and dessert recipes to bake for your family at Christmastime.
Black Forest Cookies
Dried cherries make these chocolate cookies perfect for Christmas.
Butter Cutout Cookies
This is a recipe for cutout butter cookies.
Candy Cane Cookies
These candy cane cookies are festive and make nice gifts for your child's teacher or for your friends.
Chewy Oatmeal Cookies
My kids love these chewy oatmeal cookies. I leave the raisins out of the recipe as they are optional.
Chewy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
This recipe combines two kid favorites: chocolate and peanut butter.
Chocolate Mints
These holiday cookies are topped with Andes Mint Candies.
Christmas Cut-Out Cookies
These tasty Christmas cookies are fun to cut out and decorate with your children.
Classic Holiday Wreath Cake
This is a beautiful, easy-to-make cake for Christmas that will impress your friends and family.
Double Chocolate Cookie Bars
With a chocolate oreo cookie crust and chocolate chips in the middle and on top, these are very rich bars. They are very easy to make, and require just a few ingredients.
Egg Nog Pound Cake
This easy cake is perfect for the holidays.
Gingerbread Cookies
Make your own homemade gingerbread cookies this Christmas with this recipe.
Gooey Chex Mix
Chewy, gooey version of chex mix is perfect for parties.
Melting Moments Cookies
Melting moment cookies only require four ingredients, and they literally melt in your mouth. They are perfect for winter holidays as they resemble round snowballs.
Mini Cheesecakes
Great for the holidays, these are individual cheesecakes.
One Bowl Chocolate Surprise Cookies
These delicious Christmas cookies have a surprise white chocolate center.
Pinwheels Cookies
These pinwheel cookies take a little bit of time, but the results are worth it.
Quick Peanut Blossoms
These are easy-to-make cookies using refrigerator peanut butter or sugar cookies. Add a chocolate kiss to the center of each cookie.
Snickerdoodles
Despite their unusual name, snickerdoodles are delicious and very easy to make. Rolled in a sugar and cinnamon mixture, these are light cookies that your family will enjoy.
Snowball Cookies
These cookies are rolled in powdered sugar and look like little snowballs.
Thimbelina Cookies
Thimbelina cookies make a colorful and delicious addition to your holiday cookie tray. Warning: these are very tasty, and it's hard to stop after eating just one.
Tin Roof Brownies
This is a very easy Christmas dessert using boxed brownie mix.
Vanilla Butter Frosting
This is an easy and delicious recipe for frosting to decorate your Christmas cookies.
White Chocolate Birds Nest Cookies
These easy, no-bake cookies feature jelly beans in the center.

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