Holiday Cookies and Candies

These classic Christmas cookies are made from spice-walnut dough.
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Claudia Fleming shared this recipe with us. She likes to serve these wafer-thin cookies alongside fresh apples or pears.

Dredging these melt-in-your-mouth cookies twice-first while still warm and again after they’ve cooled-insures a generous covering of powdery sugar.
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Few things evoke the memories of Christmases past like the aroma of gingerbread baking in the kitchen.
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Pecan Squares

This great recipe from Philadelphia’s Moonstruck restaurant showcases the bite-size coconut cream balls rolled in cinnamon, sugar, and cocoa. Get the recipe for Chocolate Coconut Balls »

Everybody in Miles Chapin’s family made these cookies differently, from the aunt who embellished hers with piped icing and colored sprinkles, to his mother who used a simple glaze and a dusting of plain sugar. He loved them all. See the German Butter Cookies Recipe

This quick and easy recipe, full of cashews, Peanut Butter Captain Crunch, and white chocolate, is a riff on the average Rice Krispie treat.

One of the few utterly traditional Italian specialties at Garga is these Tuscan cookies. See this Recipe

Something about the richness and varied flavor of these cookies seems to make them work best when they’re made big, but the recipe works fine for smaller cookies, too. See the Zingerman’s Funky Chunky Dark Chocolate Cookies Recipe

The recipe for this fondant-centered candy is based on one in the Candy Cookbook by Mildred Brand.
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These lollipops can be flavored any way you like, but we chose cherry and lime in celebration of the holiday season.
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Classic cookies made from butter cookie dough.
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These chocolatey confections are what author Shane Mitchell calls “Southern truffles — boozy and bad to the bone.”

The blacker the molasses, the better the cookie, which is why we use blackstrap molasses in these tasty goodies.
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The addition of butter gives these candies a silky sheen.
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These sweet and delicate Austrian cookies are a special Christmastime treat. See the Vanilla Crescent Cookies Recipe

These sugar plums taste so good you will have visions of them dancing through your head.
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Rich, chewy and oh-so-delicious, these bars put convenience store candies to shame.
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Sometimes called cathedral candies, many versions of this popular sweet abound, including some rolled in sweetened shredded coconut.
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