Christmas Cookie Recipes
Sugar cookies, gingerbread, peppermint, snowballs — the classics that make the holiday cookie tray.
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i made these a week ago as a part of an early christmas present and they turned out super cute! i used a recipe for christmas cookies from recipetineats.com :)
victoria :)Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 tsps orange extract
- 1 egg
- 3 cups flour
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- 3/4 tsp salt
Instructions
- 1beat the butter and sugar
- 2add the egg and orange extract
- 3add in the dry ingredients
- 4roll out the dough and use cookie cutters to cut the cookies
- 5bake in an already preheated to 180C oven for 10 minutes
- 6decorate if you want (i used decorating pens and melted chocolate)
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Christmas cookies aren’t just dessert — they’re a ritual, a gift, and a reason to spend a whole afternoon at the counter with music on.
Cooks on Pepper mix classics like snickerdoodles and gingerbread with newer favorites like peppermint bark chocolate chip and eggnog thumbprints.
The best cookie trays balance textures — something crisp, something soft, something with icing — so every bite feels different.
Quick Tips
- 1
Chill your dough
Cold dough spreads less and holds cutter shapes better.
- 2
Weigh your flour
Cookies fail most often from too much flour — a scale beats a cup every time.
- 3
Underbake by a minute
Cookies keep cooking on the pan; pulling early keeps centers soft.
- 4
Freeze dough balls
Portion, freeze, then bake straight from frozen — add 1–2 minutes.
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