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Holiday baking...is there anything better??? ❤️✨💚

If you're pondering Christmas cookies (or other cute treats) for this year's platter, these seasonal goodies are both festive and delicious!

So put on some Christmas music, don your favorite apron, and get ready for December fun in the kitchen! 👩‍🍳 🧈 👨‍🍳

​Eggnog Cookies​
​Soft, tender, and delicately flavored with eggnog and spices, these cheery cookies are topped with a sweet eggnog glaze and colorful Christmas sprinkles!

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​Christmas Shortbread Cookies​
​These simple slice-and-bake cookies are easy to make and bursting with festive sprinkles!

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​Classic Thumbprint Cookies​
​These delectable and traditional cookies are lightly sweet with an almost shortbread-like texture, a coating of toasty coconut or pecans, and a center of your favorite jelly or jam! (This is my mom's recipe, which I helped her make every December and now make with my kids.🥰)

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​Cowboy Cookies​

These soft, chewy, and totally addictive cookies are loaded with a variety of flavors and textures -- from oats and coconut to chocolate chips and pecans!

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​Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies​

Transform classic cookies into gourmet treats with chewy texture, crisp edges, and amazing caramel undertone and depth of flavor from brown butter, rich chocolate, and an optional sprinkle of sea salt!

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​Ginger Cookies​

These soft and chewy cookies are full of warm spice and coated in crunchy sugar for crinkly, sparkly cookies that are as pretty as they are delicious!

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​Lime Coconut Snowball Cookies​

Tender, shortbread-like snowballs are studded with lime zest and toasted coconut and generously rolled in powdered sugar for a tasty twist on the traditional holiday treat!

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​Soft No-Roll Sugar Cookies​
​These easy-to-make sugar cookies require NO ROLLING! They're puffy with tender centers, a crunchy coating of sugar, and loads of vanilla flavor!

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​Triple Chocolate Fudge Cookies​
​These cookies are rich and intensely chocolatey with chewy, gooey centers and two types of chocolate chips!

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​Easy Coconut Macaroons​
​These chewy, delicious, and easy-to-make cookies require just six simple ingredients and NO condensed milk. Dip or drizzle with melted chocolate to make them extra special!

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​Candy Cane Brownie Bites​
​Candy cane Hershey's Kisses are perched atop moist, fudgy brownie cups for a festive addition to your holiday cookie platter!

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​Christmas Tree Brownies​
​Whether you need cookies for a Christmas platter or goodies for Santa, these fudgy brownies are decorated with cream cheese frosting, colorful sprinkles, and candy cane "trunks" for a fun holiday treat!

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​Reindeer Rice Krispie Treats​
​These cute, festive treats are simple to make...a fun holiday project for the kids and a yummy treat to share with neighbors and friends!

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​Raspberry Bars​
​These cookie bars are easy to make with simple ingredients, layering a shortbread crust with raspberry jam, chocolate chips, and an additional shortbread crumble for decadent and delicious cookie bars!

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​The BEST Classic Blondies​
​This easy, classic, one-bowl recipe is quick to make and completely customizable! Load your blondies with anything from classic chocolate chips to your favorite holiday candies or sprinkles, nuts, dried fruit, coconut, and more!

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​One-Bowl Brookies​
​This recipe is quick to make with a base batter that's easy to assemble in one bowl before being transformed into a layer of brownies topped with dollops of chocolate chip cookie dough for decadent, amazing, from-scratch cookie bars!

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​Peanut Butter Brownies​
​These from-scratch brownies are rich and decadent with an amazingly fudgy texture. They're studded with peanut butter chips and swirled with peanut butter on top for a chocolate/PB lover's DREAM! And since they're also flourless, they're naturally gluten-free!

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​{One-Bowl, Big-Batch} Monster Cookie Bars​
​Brimming with oats, peanut butter, and M&Ms, these chewy (and flourless) cookie bars require only one bowl yet yield a BIG batch! Trade regular M&Ms for Christmas colors to add holiday flair!

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And in case you're looking to add some non-cookie treats to your baking plans, I have a few festive options for that as well!

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​Christmas Sheet Cake​
​Tender vanilla sheet cake is slathered in cream cheese frosting, showered with sprinkles, cut into triangles, and embellished with candy canes to make cute and festive Christmas trees!

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​Christmas "Puppy Chow"​
​Also known as "Muddy Buddies," this delicious holiday snack mix is made with white chocolate, peppermint, and Chex cereal, perfect for serving at parties, giving as a gift to neighbors and friends, and using up excess candy canes!

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​Pomegranate Cake​
​This easy and delicious recipe features a simple golden batter topped with juicy pomegranate arils and baked to sweet, tender perfection!

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​Classic Cream Cheese Frosting​
​This classic staple recipe is perfect for any of your favorite holiday treats that require creamy frosting. And it's the BEST...sweet, slightly tangy, quick and easy to make, and coming together with just FOUR ingredients!

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​Perfect Butter Pie Crust​
​Finally, this recipe is a MUST-MAKE for all of your pies...the rave reviews continue to roll in! It's flaky, tender, and simply THE BEST! This recipe is unbelievably easy to make from scratch with a few tricks and tips and just FOUR ingredients, and it's so delicious that you'll never buy a pre-made pie crust again!

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And since I couldn't fit ALL of our Christmas cookies and treats into a single e-mail, don't miss the complete round-up below...⤵️

(You can also >>>PIN IT HERE<<< ! )

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Make these goodies for family, for friends, for Santa...or even just for yourself! 🎅

But whatever you do, don't let this month pass by without whipping up a festive sweet treat -- or two. 😉

Happy December, my friends! 🎄 😘