In Winter We Ate Pears

Almond Butter Cookies with Anise

These almond butter cookies are delicate with hints of butter, almond, anise. The cookies can be dropped or piped. Serve the almond cookies with red wine.

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Portuguese Sweet Lemon and Black Olive Wafers by David Leite

Portuguese Sweet Lemon and Black Olive Cookies

We think these conversation-starting cookies defy the laws of physics. We think you’ll agree when you experience what big flavors they flaunt for something so thin.

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Hazelnut-White Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies Recipe

Under Her Thumb(print) Cookies

Cookies filled with toasted hazelnuts are topped with a swirl of white chocolate ganache. These cookies are new twist on the classic thumbprint cookie.

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Chocolate-Fig Oatmeal Bar Recipe

Chocolate-Fig Oatmeal Bars

If you like rich, chocolate, and decadent treats, then these fig bars, studded with chocolate chips and oatmeal streusel, will have you at first bite.

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Raspberry-Truffle Brownie Bars Recipe

Raspberry-Truffle Brownie Bars

A buttery cocoa crust, a dense chocolate-raspberry filling, and a glossy chocolate topping. What chocolate brownie bar could make Christmas sweeter?

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Apple-Filled Biscuits Cookies Recipe

Apple-Filled Biscuit Cookies

Part biscuit, part cookie, all flavor, this recipe for Greek apple-filled treats are an ideal dessert, after-school snack, or cookie to munch on with tea.

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Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies

We’re bewitched, thanks to this aged dough–yes, aged dough–that indulges us in an adult cookie with notes of rich butterscotch and bitter dark chocolate. All you need is patience. And this recipe.

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Spicy Snowflake Cookies Recipe

Spicy Snowflake Cookies

From everyone’s favorite baking scientist comes these Christmas cookies, redolent of cinnamon and cloves and ginger, oh my!

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Sally's Coconut Macaroons Recipe

Sally’s Coconut Macaroons

These macaroons, from folks at The Splendid Table team, are big mounds of sweetened coconut that have been toasted to perfection.

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Monster Cookies

Monster Peanut Butter-Oatmeal-Chocolate Chip Cookies

The Frankenstein monster of cookies—one part oatmeal, one part peanut butter, one part chocolate chunk, and irresistible through and through.

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Honeycomb Bars Recipe

Honeycomb Bars

For these almond bars, almonds and dried cherries are encased in an orange-honey glaze and baked in a buttery sweet tart dough. A great teatime treat.

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Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti Recipe

Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti

The cranberries add a chewy, sweet-tartness and the pistachios are rich and buttery tasting, making these biscotti a must-have for the Christmas holiday.

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Chocolate Caramel Thumbprints Recipe

Chocolate Caramel Thumbprints

These crumbly, buttery chocolate cookies have a dollop of creamy caramel in the middle and are zigzagged with chocolate. A great Christmas treat.

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Gingersnap Dulce de Leche Ice-Cream Sandwiches Recipe

Gingersnap Dulce de Leche Ice-Cream Sandwiches

The gingery bite of the cookies is a delicious contrast to the caramel sweetness of the dulce de leche ice cream.

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The Gourmet Cookbook

Viennese Vanilla Crescents

A holiday cookie if we ever saw one, these buttery, nutty cookies have a simple yet satiating flavor revealed with the first bite.

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Ginger Crunch–Green Tea Biscotti

A great holiday gift, these homemade biscotti are made with green tea powder lending a delicate tea flavor. They are topped with a ginger and sugar coating.

Cream Cheese Swirl Brownies with Heath Bars and Pecans

These brownies are swirled with cream cheese and studded with Heath bar bits and pecans. Not too fudgy, not too cakey, these brownies strike the right balance.

Cream Puffs with Pearl Sugar by Gale Gand

Cream Puffs with Pearl Sugar

These cream puffs, called chouquettes, are infused with orange-flower water and freckled with sugar. Serve them as an after-school snack, as the do in France.

Alfajores

Alfajores | Dulce de Leche Sandwich Cookies

We know many a person who fell for these dulcet dulce de leche-filled shortbread cookies while in Latin America. Few have recovered.

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Rugelach Recipe

Rugelach

These butter-and-cream-cheese pastries are filled with cinnamon-sugared nuts, a slick of jam, currants, and a handful of chopped chocolate.

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