Oatmeal Cookies with Cranberries and Walnuts

Who doesn't love oatmeal cookies? These soft, dense, and chewy Oatmeal Cookies with cranberries and walnuts need to find a way to your holiday baking this year!

Easy Christmas Cow Pies

I love giving homemade gifts from my kitchen this time of the year and Christmas Cow Pies (aka cow pie candy) are a festive and super simple candy treats anyone can make!  Creamy milk chocolate, almonds and dried cranberries come together in this sweet holiday treat! 

Easy Cherry Pecan Stuffing

Whether it's called stuffing or dressing...it's the one side dish that speaks the holiday season to me! I just adore a good bread stuffing. This Easy Cherry Pecan Stuffing is no exception! Plump tart dried cherries give it a hint of sweet while pecans lend a little crunch and store-bought stuffing mix makes it super simple to prepare. This stuffing pairs perfectly with poultry, beef, or pork...making it a recipe you'll not only make for the holidays, but all year round!

Orange Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Cookies

Orange Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Cookies are a wonderful sweet treat during the holidays! Fresh orange zest flavors granulated sugar to give these cookies a delicate orange essence in a buttery drop cookie full of dried cranberries, white chocolate chips and pecans that is sure to become a favorite! 

White Chocolate Covered Gingerbread Oreos

Looking for a super quick and easy treat to serve or give away as a gift? Look no further, White Chocolate Covered Gingerbread Oreos are here! These quick and easy gingerbread cookies made with Gingerbread Oreos are a real crowd pleaser and make a great homemade Christmas gift from your kitchen!

 

Easy Apple Pie Parfait Jars

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Tis' the season for sharing and giving...so why not make it Easy Apple Pie Parfait Jars!  This simple and fun treat begins with a frozen pie and ends with the finishing touch of whipped topping for a perfectly portable and shareable sweet treat! 

Bacon Pineapple Jalapeño Cheese Ball

With the holidays in full swing, there will be lots of opportunities to entertain family and friends. What better way to celebrate the season than with a sweet and spicy cheese ball recipe with cream cheese?  Bacon Pineapple Jalapeño Cheese Ball and a glass of Pink Moscato wine make the perfect start to any holiday celebration!

Cheesy Hash Brown Potato Casserole

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Tis' the season to celebrate!  And celebrations call for FOOD!  I can't think of a better way to impress my guests and family than with a beautiful succulent ham and this delicious Cheesy Hash Brown Potato Casserole!

Santa's Swirl Sugar Cookies

Delight your family and friends this season with these fun Christmas cookies I call Santa's Swirl Sugar Cookies! Easy slice and bake cookie recipe is transformed into festive treats with colored sugar and red and green nonpareils.

Peppermint Crunch Chip Shortbread Cookies

Peppermint Crunch Chip Shortbread Cookies are sure to make Santa smile this year. Buttery, melt-in-your-mouth shortbread cookies dotted with crunchy peppermint chips will become your new favorite holiday cookie! If you are a fan of peppermint, you will love this easy cookie recipe.

35 Must Have Holiday Entertaining Recipes

With the holidays right around the corner, I've collaborated with my fellow Real Housemom's Creative Team members to bring you a plethora of holiday inspirations and recipes for your menus this year!

We've got you covered, from Thanksgiving to Christmas and beyond with so much deliciousness, you'll be licking your lips with anticipation for the big days!  

Easy Bourbon Butter Cake

There is something about the holidays that make me want to kick everything I make up a notch.  This Easy Bourbon Butter Cake fits into the "kicked up a notch category" just right.  Butter and bourbon take this pound cake type dessert to a whole new level of goodness! 

Almond Toffee Biscotti

Almond Toffee Biscotti and a hot steaming cup of coffee is a great way to start your day or pick you up from a busy afternoon. Almond Toffee Biscotti are crunchy, not too sweet, cookies perfect for dunking. 

Cocoa Almond Thumbprint Cookies

Cocoa Almond Thumbprint Cookies are yummies you'll want to add to your holiday baking list today!  Cocoa and almond flavored buttery shortbread cookies are coated in Planter's® Cocoa Almonds and then finished with raspberry jam and a white chocolate drizzle. These cookies are guaranteed to make any cocoa lover happy! 

Spiced Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Spiced Oatmeal Raisin Cookies are the classic cookies you've always known, but they have been kicked up a notch with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves.  They are a perfect addition for your holiday baking this year!

Cream Cheese Pesto Dip

Cream Cheese Pesto Dip is one of the easiest dips you will ever make! Reduced Fat Cream Cheese is topped with pesto, roasted red peppers, and chopped olives in this festive dip, perfect for all those last minute parties and gatherings!

Chai Kissed Gingerbread Sandwich Cookies

I love a good gingerbread cookie...and...I love a good cup of spicy chai tea.  So naturally I LOVE these Chai Kissed Gingerbread Sandwich Cookies!

Peppermint Crunch Sugar Cookies

These delightful Peppermint Crunch Sugar Cookies are elevated with Andes Mints Peppermint Crunch baking chips for a fun twist on a classic chewy sugar cookie. You'll love the peppermint flavor in these cookies and they will make a great addition to your cookie tray this holiday season. 

Candy Cane Kiss Brownie Bites

Yet another easy cookie recipe that starts with a box mix.  Candy Cane Kiss Brownie Bites start with a boxed brownie mix.  They are incredibly easy with so few ingredients.  I used candy cane kiss to top my cookies, but you could use whatever flavor you fancy. 

I know I've gone crazy posting cookie recipes this week.  To be honest, it just isn't Christmas for me without a plethora of home baked cookies.  I think I was somewhere in my teens when I started to bake a bunch of different cookies to be enjoyed around the holidays.  My mom and my grandma weren't bakers at all.  I knew many families had cookie baking traditions, but in my family, that wasn't the case.  I think I actually made a tradition for my kids, because I know they can't imagine Christmas without their own personal favorite cookie.  My daughter LOVES sugar cookies.  Not the kind like I posted about yesterday, the ones that you roll, cut out, and frost.  My husband is more into the Easy No Roll Sugar Cookies, because he will pass on the frosting.  My youngest son adores kiss cookies, particularly the peanut butter/chocolate kiss kind.  My middle son, always likes when I make the shaped candy cane cookies.  Me....I like the fancy and the gooey kinds!

This year, I've shared with you some of the new recipes I have tried.  Since I seem to be pressed for time this year, I've made a lot of quick and easy recipes like this one.  Don't be fooled though, they don't taste like you didn't spend a lot of time making them.  They are delicious.

Candy Cane Kiss Brownie Bites

adapted from Hershey's 

Printable Recipe

Yield:   approx. 2 doz. 

1 pkg of Hershey Candy Cane Kisses, unwrapped (you will end up using about 1/2 bag)

1-18.4 oz. box of Brownie Mix

1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa

1 egg

3 TBS water

1 TBS canola oil

1.  Heat oven to 350 degrees F.  Line baking sheets with parchment or use a silpat. 

2.  In large bowl of stand mixer, combine the brownie mix, cocoa, egg, water, and oil on low to med speed until it forms into dough.  If it seems too stiff, add a little bit more water until it is soft enough to roll into balls.  

3.  Shape cookies by TBS into balls.  Place on prepared baking sheets. Press in middle with fingers to make indentation.  Bake for 9 -11 minutes or until set.  Carefully place an unwrapped kiss into the indentation while hot.  Remove cookies to rack to cool completely and allow the kiss to harden again. 

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I don't know if I will have time before Christmas to come and wish you all very happy holidays.  There is so much tragedy in the world these days it seems, yet there is still so much to be grateful for.  Count your blessings everyday. 

I wish each and everyone of you a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and may you all find peace. love and health where ever life my take you!

For more great holiday cookie recipes visit my Pinterest page:  "C" is for Cookie

Easy No Roll Sugar Cookies

My family loves, loves, loves sugar cookies.  Me, I could take them or leave them.  I'm not really a fan of chilling the dough, rolling out the dough, cutting out shapes, baking, cooling, and frosting and decorating.  It's a lot of work!  When I stumbled across this recipe for Easy No Roll Sugar Cookies and saw they didn't require rolling, I decided I was going to give it a try.

The original poster of the recipe dubbed it, "the world's best sugar cookie."  While I don't know if I'd go that far, they are one of the best sugar cookie recipes I have made.  I find sugar cookies are much like wine.  Seems like everyone likes a different profile.  Some like them soft, some like them chewy, some like them crispy....  For me, it's about flavor and texture.  I like them crispy.  This cookie is nicely flavored (some sugar cookies are so bland!), crispy, and there is no refrigeration or rolling required!  Which is why I chose to name it, Easy No Roll Sugar Cookies.

Once again, this is a holiday indulgence recipe and I am not going to provide nutritional information.  Eat in moderation and enjoy! Like most baked cookies, these cookies freeze well too!

No Roll Sugar Cookies

from Eat at Allies

Yield:  approx. 4 dozen cookies

1/2 cup powdered sugar

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened

1/2 cup canola oil (or vegetable oil)

1 large egg

1 tsp pure vanilla extract

2 1/2 cups all purpose flour

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp kosher salt

1/2 tsp cream of tartar

1.  Heat oven to 350 degrees F.  Line cookie sheets with parchment paper or use silpat.  

2.  In large bowl of stand mixer, combine the butter and sugars.  Mix until light and fluffy, approx. 2-3 minutes.   Add in egg, vanilla and oil.  Mix for another 2-3 minutes. 

3.  In small bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, salt and cream of tartar.  With whisk, combine well.  Slowly add the flour to the butter/sugar mixture with the mixer running on low.  Mix until the dough comes together.

4.  With about a TBS of dough for each cookie, form into balls.  Place on prepared cookie sheet.  With the tines of a fork dipped in flour, make cross-hatch marks and then top with some colored sugar.  Bake for about 10 minutes, or until the bottoms of the cookies are lightly browned.  Remove to rack to cool completely. 

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For as long as I can remember, each holiday season, I search for the "best" sugar cookie recipe.  Over the years I have found a few I like and a few that have been total misses.  I really can't say what make a sugar cookie recipe a good one or not.  Like I said, kind of like wine...it's a personal preference sort of thing. 

I really do like this recipe.  Not only is it super easy and produces very festive looking cookies, it also makes a good tasting cookie as well.  I don't know if my family will go for this cookie as a replacement for the roll and cut version of sugar cookies...but a girl can try!  haha

Looks like we are in for a winter storm in the next day or so.  I am done (I hope!) with all my shopping.  I won't know for sure until I wrap everything...which is on my "to do" list for this weekend.  Thanks to a couple of easy and tasty cookie recipes, I've gotten closer to being done with my baking as well.  I hope to bring you just one more cookie recipe before week's end, and of coarse, it's an easy one! :)

Don't Forget to Pin Easy No Roll Sugar Cookies to your Pinterest Boards!

More Cookie Recipes to enjoy! 

Santa's Swirl Sugar Cookies

Lemon Shortbread Cookies