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My Grandma called cookies the original comfort food, and she was serious about delivering comfort in the form of homemade cookies. There were always cookies at her house - especially around the holidays, when she would bake countless dozens, pack them into little tins, and distribute them to practically everyone she knew.
If she wasn't going to see you until weeks after Christmas, she'd just put your tin in the freezer and - lucky you! - you'd be eating Christmas cookies in February.
Likewise, I don't have one single memory of Christmas as a child (or an adult) that doesn't include platefuls of my mom's homemade Christmas cookies. In my mind, the two are intrinsically linked - Christmas and cookies. You can’t have one without the other.
So, this issue is devoted to my favorite cookie recipes. Over the years, I’ve published them on my baking blog, Of Batter and Dough.
Every second of my time is going into the final edits for the first Let’s Get Lost Cookbook, coming out in January. 🎉 So, no new recipes, but honestly, don’t we just want to eat cookies from now until the new year anyway?
Do you have a favorite family cookie recipe that you’d like to share???
Cookies are made to be shared and if you have a treasured recipe that you are willing to share with the rest of us, please send it to me! rebecca@rebeccablackwell.com. I’ll write it up and send it out in next week’s newsletter!
Swapping recipes is not quite the same as a giant cookie swap, but I can tell you from experience, that it’s so much fun to know that something from your kitchen is also being made in the kitchen’s of others. ❤️
Here are 16 of my favorite cookies to bake during the holiday season.
Happy baking, friends.
Frosted brown butter citrus shortbread Christmas cookies
These are, without a doubt, the BEST tasting decorated Christmas Cookies I've ever eaten. Brown butter citrus shortbread is delicious all on its own - buttery, not overly sweet, and laced with the subtle flavors of orange, lemon, and lime.
Dark and white chocolate fondants are easy to work with, gorgeously glossy, and taste wonderful with the brown butter citrus flavor of the cookies.
Recipe: Decorated shortbread Christmas cookies
Chewy brown sugar cookies
These little brown sugar cookies are outrageously soft and chewy with an intense toffee-like flavor that comes from brown butter, brown sugar, and vanilla.
The dough can be kept in the refrigerator for up to a week, ready to bake any time you wish. And the cookies themselves stay soft and chewy for days. Not that they're likely to last that long.
Recipe: Chewy brown sugar cookies
Cranberry pistachio cookies
These buttery pistachio shortbread cookies are baked with a dollop of cranberry orange sauce, then drizzled with vanilla icing, and topped with a crunchy sprinkle of roasted pistachios. They are pretty little jewel-like cookies with all the right flavors and colors for the holiday season.
Recipe: Cranberry pistachio cookies
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