Each year for cookie week I try to do at least one short cut cookie recipe. This means you can have a fun, tasty and elevated cookie that looks like you spent all day baking, but in a fraction of the time and little effort. The shortcut here is using premade sugar cookie dough! [amd-yrecipe-recipe:184][...]
Day 5 of my 2025 Cookie Week - These Peanut Butter Fudge Thumbprint Cookies are the thumbprint version of the classic Peanut Butter Blossoms. With a crumbly peanut butter cookies base and gooey hot fudge sauce center, these cookies are the ultimate bite! Chocolate and Peanut Butter is one of the most elite flavor combos in a cookie. A combo I knew I wanted to include in this years Cookie We[...]
These Salted Maple Thumbprints are the perfect bite of crumbly shortbread and sweet + salty in every bite. The notes of maple and cinnamon give this cookie a cozy feel for holiday baking! Day 4 of my 2025 Cookie Week includes the first of 2 thumbprint recipes I am sharing this year. I try to include at least 1 thumbprint recipe in each years line up. I use the same shortbread base for most[...]
Dark chocolate chips, crunchy pecans and gooey caramel..say less! Cookie Week 2025, Day 3 is Dark Chocolate Turtle Cookies! This epic flavor combo has it all and makes the ultimate holiday cookie. Personally, my favorite part is the big flakes of sea salt sprinkled on top. It pairs so well with the chocolate, caramel and pecans. The caramel sauce is completely optional, but reall[...]
I have very fond memories of my parents making wassail during Christmas. Always simmering throughout the day in the crockpot and filling the house with the smell of warm, cozy spices. In honor of the memory, I wanted to take the spices and concept of wassail and make it a holiday cookie. Even better, it's a cutout cookie so the kids went to town on my Christmas cookie cutters! This[...]