Christmas cookie palooza: Orange butter cookies, two ways.

So here you go: The last installment of 2017’s edition of Christmas Cooke Palooza: Grandma’s Frosted Lemon Cookie recipe reimagined with orange flavoring and chocolate. Make ’em either way: Orange Kiss Cookies or Glazed Orange Cookies. Happy holidays, folks! As a thank-you for your friendship, here’s a bonus for you: Between now and midnight, December 1, hop over to writes4food.com, comment on one of the Christmas Cookie Palooza recipes, and you’ll be entered into a drawing to win a copy of The Findlay Market Cookbook. Cheers! Bryn

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Christmas cookie palooza: Salty Marcona almond cookies.

These easy almond cookies are big on flavor, thanks to a salty Marcona almond decorating each one. This is one of my Grandma Dorothy’s old recipes, and its light texture and buttery-almond flavor is perfect for your Christmas cookie assortment. Get the recipe on writes4food.com.

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Christmas Cookie Palooza 2017

I’ll admit it: I was going to sort of blow off the Christmas cookie roundup I usually share on writes4food.com this year. I just didn’t feel the mojo. Until. Until a lovely woman commented to me (as I was demonstrating a recipe from The Findlay Market Cookbook) last weekend about how much she enjoys my Christmas cookie recipes. So, here we go: Christmas Cookie Palooza 2017 feat. The Dorothy Project. Starting Friday, get your new favorite Christmas cookie recipes on writes4food.com.

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raspberry hazelnut thumbprint cookie recipe | writes4food.com

Christmas Cookie-palooza: Raspberry hazelnut thumbprints.

Quick: You have to bake a batch of Christmas cookies for the kid’s school party, or the office gift exchange, or the neighborhood caroling festivities. Here you go: an easy butter cookie rolled in toasted nuts and topped with a jewel of jam. Get the recipe on writes4food.com!

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Christmas Cookie-Palooza: Chai shortbread.

If you’re making an assortment of Christmas cookies, you’ll want a shortbread type: they’re pretty, tasty and easy to make. I’ve updated the traditional shortbread cookie recipe with warm, seasonal chai spices. Get your new favorite cookie recipe on writes4food.com!

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Christmas Cookie-Palooza 2016.

Baking friends: Are you ready? Got your fresh baking powder, your new bottle of vanilla, your nuts and colored sugars and a 5-pound bag of flour? It’s Christmas Cookie-Palooza 2016! I’ll be posting festive cookie recipes on writes4food.com through the end of December; in the meantime, enjoy these recipes from the archive!

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