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Easy Fruit-Filled Pastry Heart Cookies

Submitted by: ellenz 
Home Town: Buffalo, New York, USA
Heart-shaped cut-out cookies sprinkled with sugar have a sweet jam filling. The dough has butter and cream cheese for richness. 

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Chocolate Pile-Up Cookies

Submitted by: bansidhewail Supporting Member (Click to learn more about Supporting Membership)
These cookies consist of chocolate cookie dough, filled with toasted hazelnuts and 3 different kinds of chocolate chips. There's a hint of coffee flavor, too. 

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Sugared Danish Butter Cookies with Pecan Halves

Submitted by: phoenix__rising 
Home Town: Smithsburg, Maryland, USA
Living In: Cascade, Maryland, USA
One batch of butter cookie dough makes 2 kinds of tender, elegant cookies, one decorated with coarse sugar crystals and the other with pecans. Dough is refrigerated overnight, and can be frozen for decorating and baking later. 

Rosemary Slices

Submitted by: sueb 
Living In: Prattville, Alabama, USA
When you want an elegant cookie or something nice for a fruit and cheese plate, try these delectable rosemary cookies. They're refrigerator cookies, so they can be made ahead of time and baked later. 

Candy Cane Popcorn

Submitted by: SNUBBYSGAL 
Popcorn mixed with white candy coating and crushed peppermint candy canes makes a quick, simple treat that's a little different for the cookie tray. Package it up in a pretty cellophane bag for a sweet gift. This recipe uses an air popper to make popcorn without added oil. 

Italian Christmas Bread with Eggnog Glaze

Submitted by: Nancy Ann R. 
This anise seed- and hazelnut-studded Christmas bread is made in the bread machine. 

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Rum and Eggnog Kugelhopf

Submitted by: apurpleocean Supporting Member (Click to learn more about Supporting Membership)
Home Town: Grants Pass, Oregon, USA
Living In: San Diego, California, USA
This is a sweet twist on a yeast bread (also Gugelhupf or Kugelhupf) baked in Germany, Austria, and Central Europe. It's similar to the Italian Panettone and is traditionally baked in a fluted tube pan, but a Bundt pan works as well. 

Chocolate Coffee Molasses Cookies

Submitted by: Madeleine D 
Grandmother's old-fashioned chocolate cookies are flavored with molasses, cinnamon, cloves, and a secret ingredient -- coffee.  

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Peppernotter (Scandinavian Christmas Cookies)

Submitted by: S. Sundt 
Living In: Springfield, Virginia, USA
Spice cookies from Scandinavia have a hint of lemon and a kick of black pepper, in addition to the cinnamon, ginger, and cloves that will make your kitchen smell like Christmas. 

Maraschino Cherry Almond Cookies

Submitted by: Kimmi 
Living In: Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Pretty pink refrigerator cookies, made with chopped maraschino cherries in an almond-flavored dough, have a shiny white frosting of Royal Icing.  

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My Grandma's Fruitcake Cookies

Submitted by: minky410 
These drop cookies have lots of nuts, raisins, dates, candied pineapple, and candied cherries, held together with a bit of batter that's flavored with a hint of sherry. This recipe makes a big batch. 

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Dotti's Chinese Almond Cookies

Submitted by: Mrs. M 
Home Town: Orange, California, USA
Chinese-style almond cookies bake up slightly golden brown. Each cookie is topped with a whole almond. 

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Cornmeal Coconut Cookies

Submitted by: Milly Suazo Supporting Member (Click to learn more about Supporting Membership)
Home Town: Barrio Tejas, Humacao, Puerto Rico
Living In: Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
These tender cornmeal cookies have the tropical taste of lime, coconut, and a hint of rum to take your tastebuds on a sunny trip, even in the wintertime. 

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Cream Cheese Snowball Cookies

Submitted by: Mallory 
Living In: Syracuse, New York, USA
Plump, tender little cream cheese cookies, rolled in confectioners' sugar and optional walnuts, look like little snowballs. They have a hint of almond flavor. 

Grandma's Coconut Corn Flake Cookies

Submitted by: Annexa 
Light meringue cookies get crispy flavor from corn flake cereal, coconut, and walnuts. 

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Pecan Pie Cookies

Submitted by: eibbed0001 
Mini pecan pie-shaped cookies filled with a rich pecan filling are something different for your cookie tray this year. 

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Chinese-Style Peanut Cookie

Submitted by: shin 
Plump little Chinese peanut cookies have that melt-in-your-mouth quality.  

Deep Dish Persimmon Pie

Submitted by: Cookin' Fool Supporting Member (Click to learn more about Supporting Membership)
Home Town: West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, USA
Sweet fuyu persimmons make a scrumptious alternative to the traditional fruit pie fillings. 

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Pumpkin Oat Bread

Submitted by: happiestmama 
Home Town: Salem, Oregon, USA
Living In: Oregon City, Oregon, USA
Pumpkin bread gets extra heartiness when made with rolled oats.  

Spiced Cranberry Apple Chutney

Submitted by: Kitchenkween 
Cranberries, chopped apple, golden raisins, and celery are cooked into a sweet and tangy chutney with orange zest and spices. Serve it warm in a pretty sauce bowl on Thanksgiving day, or spoon it over a baked wheel of brie cheese for a festive, elegant appetizer.  

 
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