Christmas Dessert Recipes

"These are chewy, fudgy, SUPER EASY cookies that you can probably make right now! I have watched these disappear time and again and everyone is always asking for the recipe. It is almost embarrassing to give it out, it is that easy :) Enjoy! (12/14/06: I wanted to add that Betty Crocker has updated this recipe by adding 1 tsp. vanilla extract, but I..."

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Ingredients: confectioners' sugar, devil's food cake mix...

"These are the quickest, simplest peanut butter cookies that you will ever make and they taste great!"

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Ingredients: eggs, granulated sugar...

"Mrs. Fields- step aside. Here are the best chocolate chip cookies I've ever tasted. The secret to these soft and chewy cookies is the pudding mix not found in the traditional cookie recipe. Ever wonder how the bakery comes up with a soft chewy cookie- well now you know!"

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Ingredients: chocolate chips, eggs...

"These are very easy to make shortbread cookies. They are so good that they melt in your mouth, you hardly have to chew them. I have been making them for over 35 years."

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Ingredients: green maraschino cherries, red maraschino cherries...

"You will not find a better sugar cookie anywhere you search, this will most likely be the only sugar cookie you will use, not only are these cookies buttery delicious, the dough is an absolute dream to work with, it rolls out easily and is easy to handle, also the cookies hold their shape when baked something many sugar cookies do not do --- make as..."

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Ingredients: confectioners' sugar, eggs...

"I know... Not ANOTHER chocolate chip cookie recipe... BUT, you'll find that these are sheer perfection, large bakery-style, thick and chewy, cookies that taste as good as they look with a fool-proof set of instructions. It was pointed out to me that this recipe is from Baking Illustrated, perhaps so as I wrote down the ingredients from a morning show..."

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Ingredients: chocolate chips, egg yolks...

"This is the best brownie recipe I've ever used and I've used several!"

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Ingredients: cocoa powder, eggs, pecans...

"These are so easy to make and so easy to eat! Cookies and Cream in truffle form. Divine!"

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Ingredients: cream cheese, vanilla extract...

"This is my very favorite gingerbread cookie recipe. The dough is so firm and nice to work with and is so wonderful smelling that it is almost like a stress reliever. These disappear in lightning speed in my house! This recipe is adapted from a recipe in the Joy of Cooking and according to the entry they only have 3 grams of fat per cookie! If you want..."

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Ingredients: dark brown sugar, eggs...

"I make sugar cookies for almost every holiday. A lot of fun and the kids can help."

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Ingredients: cream of tartar, colored sprinkles...

"I originally made these at the request of my old chorus director John Kelleher, who also worked at Seattle area Starbucks (I think he'd had the combo in a cookie there, once). I was surprised but very pleased they came out so tasty! These days, these are pretty much the only cookies which are requested and I make on a fairly regular basis."

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Ingredients: cinnamon, dried cranberries...