About.com Food features an array of talented food writers, cooks, and chefs. We started sharing our favorite Christmas cookie recipes with each other and figured we would let our readers in on the Great Digital Cookie Exchange.
Expand your Christmas cookie repertoire with one of these delicious sweets from around the cookie-baking world.
- Who can resist Scottish Shortbread ? (My middle name is McGregor, so I was raised on the stuff and will never - ever- get enough!) It's traditionally eaten on New Years Eve, but tastes just as good anytime.
- Melomakarona is a traditional Greek holiday cookie made with cinnamon and cloves, soaked in a honey syrup, and sprinkled with sesame seeds, walnuts, and cinnamon.
- A reviewer on the Vegetarian food site gave these ginger-spiced Vegan Oatmeal & Cranberry cookies 5 out of 5 stars and called them "absolutely perfect".
- Our Guide to American Food, united America's favorite gourd and America's favorite cookie to create Pumpkin Chocolate Chip cookies!
- Besitos de Coco (Coconut Kisses) which are a favorite treat in the Spanish-speaking Carribean islands.
- The recipe for soft and scrumptious Applesauce Cookies from our Guide to Cooking for Two can easily be doubled or tripled to make more.
- Homemade Fortune Cookies taste so much better than store bought - besides, it’s more fun writing up your own fortunes to put in the cookies!
- Mantecados - Crumble Cakes are traditional Spanish cookies for Christmas. They literally melt in your mouth with a a delicate anise flavor.
- It just wouldn't be Christmas in Eastern
Europe without Kolaczki. These flaky cookies start with a buttery cream cheese dough that's filled with fruit or sweet cheese filling.
- These big, fat, chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies were given 5 stars by a panel of the toughest critics our Guide to Cooking for Kids ever faced: her kids and six of their friends. Try them and see why!
- Cinnamon Hazelnut Meltaways melt in your mouth and look festive in their powdered sugar coating, making them perfect for holiday entertaining.
- These delightfully chewy Chocolate Rice Cereal Squares are a great low-fat way to get your chocolate fix.
- Alfajores - crisp buttery cookies sandwiched together with soft, rich caramel - are common throughout South America. Bonus: they keep well which makes them perfect for gifting.
- Easy but Fancy Cookies are super simple icebox cookies. Get bakery delicacy taste with little of the fuss.
- Danish Pepper Nuts are tiny, hazelnut-sized cookies traditional in Scandinavian countries. They keep well and make excellent gifts, especially when tucked into Danish woven heart baskets.
- Raspberry Raisin Rugelach are simple to make and a great addition to the traditional Christmas cookie plate.
- Bizcochitos are delicate anise-flavored cookies traditionally served in New Mexican households during the Christmas season.
- Use your imagination to create endless flavor options for Thumbprint Cookies.
- Cinnamon
Palmiers add a touch of homey cinnamon to traditional tiny, scroll-like palmiers.
- Chocolate Oat Cookies are simple and fun to make. You can decorate them with smarties, colored sprinkles or nuts.
- Mexican Wedding Cakes (a.k.a.Swedish or Russian tea cakes) are delicate nut-studded shortbread-style cookies rolled in powdered sugar. The best ones melt in your mouth but also keep well and make elegant additions to any cookie plate.
- Iced Cranberry-Orange Cookies are flavored with orange juice concentrate and filled with plump dried cranberries.
