It’s the final day of Christmas Cookie Week 2014, so let me present: the BEST Christmas Cookie recipes of the year. Check out ALL the lovely recipes that have been made and shared this week!
Christmas Cookie Week flew by in the blink of an eye, and I cannot believe it’s already time for this year’s recipe round-up.
It was an incredible week — the biggest Christmas Cookie Week to date! — and I am so pleased with the turnout.
It’s truly amazing to see so many bloggers coming together to all create something similar at the same time.
Not to get all sappy on y’all, but my heart is full from the turnout, the stunning cookies presented and the new blogger friends made.
Reasons to love this year’s cookie exchange:
For those of you who are curious, here’s a little breakdown of some tidbits I found interesting about this year’s Christmas Cookie Week:
Thirty-four total recipes were submitted during the week by 20 total bloggers from various countries and three separate continents. (!!!)
The most popular ingredients were chocolate and peanut butter. (Is anyone really surprised?)
There were several gluten free and food allergy-friendly recipes shared, too!
… And without further ado, here are all the gorgeous recipes and the bloggers who whipped them up in celebration of Christmas Cookie Week.
Feel free to visit all of these blog friends — new and old — and leave them some love on their posts… and then bake their cookies because they ALL look delicious!
What was your favorite recipe created during this year’s Christmas Cookie Week? Which recipes do you want to make immediately?
What is a Chocolate Chip Cookie Bronado? Also called brookie cookies, these are sturdy, cut-out style chocolate chip cookies filled with brownie batter, sliced and baked to swirled perfection.
Oatmeal Cinnamon Cookies with Maple Cream Cheese Glaze
Dense, chewy cinnamon-y oatmeal cookies, drizzled with a rich maple cream cheese glaze, are the perfect cookies for those who don't love chocolate. These Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies with Maple Cream Cheese Glaze are easy to make, require no chill and are fun to share with the people you love!
No-bake Avalanche Cookies are a quick and easy holiday cookie you can make in a pinch. With just five ingredients, these Christmas cookies will be ready in a snap!
Peanut Butter Shortbread Cookies with Raspberry-Orange Glaze
A peanut butter and jelly twist on traditional shortbread cookies for the holidays! Peanut butter shortbread is topped with a tart glaze to make these Peanut Butter Shortbread Cookies with Raspberry-Orange Glaze.
These Oatmeal Peanut Butter Pretzel Chunk Cookies are fun mix of classically favorite snack foods: peanut butter pretzels and chocolate chunk granola bars.
These thick and chewy M&M Christmas Cookie Bars are perfect for your holiday cookie exchange and holiday get-togethers! Every bite of these easy holiday cookie bars is packed with red-and-green M&M's and chocolate chips.
M&M Cookie Pie is the ultimate bar dessert. This recipe offers a beautiful balance of chewiness from the chocolate chip cookies along with a nice crispy edge of crust. This easy recipe takes little time to mix up in a single bowl and bake off.
Slightly sweet shortbread-style cookies filled with a deliciously tart raspberry filling. These Raspberry Linzer Snowflake Cookies are the perfect balance for those who love the not-so-sweet desserts!
These Bourbon-Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars were made from Joy the Baker's cookbook, Homemade Decadence. Dark chocolate, pecans and bourbon make for a flavorful dessert and combine a shortbread crust with a crunchy topping. This is the perfect combination for the holidays.
Classic Peanut Butter Blossoms, made with butter instead of shortening, get a festive holiday twist with colored sugar. A classic Hershey’s Kiss is the final touch!
White Chocolate Cranberry Brown Butter Bars are an in-your-face brown butter bar cookie, stuffed with dried cranberries and white chocolate chips, with a hint of saltiness on top. They are great for coffee dipping and nibbling for any occasion.
Fluffy, light drop cookies containing lemon zest, topped with slightly sweet and tart lemon glaze. These Lemon Drop Cookies are the perfect non-chocolate holiday cookies!
A classic snickerdoodle cookie recipe, modified into three different but equally delicious variations: Gingerdoodle, Scotchadoodle, & Double Chocolate Chunkadoodle.
A spin on the Southern pie, but in cookie form, these Chocolate Marshmallow Cookies with Pecans strike a beautiful balance. With a chocolate cookie base, mini marshmallows and pecan pieces, these Mississippi Mud Cookies are perfect for the chocolate lover in your life.
Pumpkin Butterscotch Streusel Cookies are a pillowy soft pumpkin cookie, filled with gooey butterscotch and topped with a cinnamon-gingersnap streusel.
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4 Comments
Eeeee… so excited to see so many cookie recipes. How can I choose a favourite? Your Peppermint Brownie Cookies are super tempting. The White Chocolate Cranberry Brown Butter Bars look amazing. And then there’s Cookie Pie. Ugh. Give me everything. Thanks for being the loveliest, most gracious host! I’ve enjoyed this so much. Count me in next year. And the year after 😉 I bet it’ll be even more exciting with Lady Baby coming along.
What fun to be part of this! I already have several of yours bookmarked to try, and those peppermint mocha icebox cookies are calling my name too. Love the beverage pairings post too – I did a cupcake and beer/wine pairing party over the summer and it was such a hit. Of course I should try it with cookies too!
I don’t know if it’s possible to “win” a cookie exchange, but Feast+West’s No Bake Avalanche Cookies sure earned me some cookie love this past weekend! It was really hard to choose, so obviously I’ll have to make some more cookies this weekend. You know, for research.
Eeeee… so excited to see so many cookie recipes. How can I choose a favourite? Your Peppermint Brownie Cookies are super tempting. The White Chocolate Cranberry Brown Butter Bars look amazing. And then there’s Cookie Pie. Ugh. Give me everything. Thanks for being the loveliest, most gracious host! I’ve enjoyed this so much. Count me in next year. And the year after 😉 I bet it’ll be even more exciting with Lady Baby coming along.
This was a fun cookie party…so many wonderful cookies!! Thanks for hosting!!
What fun to be part of this! I already have several of yours bookmarked to try, and those peppermint mocha icebox cookies are calling my name too. Love the beverage pairings post too – I did a cupcake and beer/wine pairing party over the summer and it was such a hit. Of course I should try it with cookies too!
I don’t know if it’s possible to “win” a cookie exchange, but Feast+West’s No Bake Avalanche Cookies sure earned me some cookie love this past weekend! It was really hard to choose, so obviously I’ll have to make some more cookies this weekend. You know, for research.