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Strassburgare

Submitted by: LindaT

Living In: San Jose, California, USA

Tender and delicate Swedish butter cookies are made with a cookie press and your favorite decorative tip. Color the dough your desired shade of red or green if you like. Using potato flour helps eliminate toughness.

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Pennsylvania Snow Drops

Submitted by: melly

Home Town: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Living In: Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, USA

Christmas cookies are dipped in white candy coating and sprinkled with coconut and optional colorful sprinkles. They'll shine on your cookie tray. Vary the flavor by adding mint extract or other favorite flavors.

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Lime Creams

Submitted by: Terre

Living In: Denver, Colorado, USA

Buttery little thumbprint cookies have a refreshing creamy lime-flavored center for a different taste and look on your holiday cookie tray.

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Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

Submitted by: BUCHKO

These cookies have a sweet peanut butter cup center.

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Cranberry Hootycreeks

A beautifully festive cookie in a jar recipe. These make great gifts.

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Molasses Sugar Cookies

These are a wonderful chewy spice cookie. They are drop cookies that keep very well. I make them at the beginning of the holiday season and they keep all the way to New Year's!

Scandinavian Christmas Cookies

Baking is a fine art year-round in Scandinavia. But come late November, most kitchens see a flurry of flour, sugar, spices, almonds, butter, and eggs when serious Christmas baking begins.

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