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5 Cookie Recipes You Definitely Should Be Making This Holiday Season

It's the time to indulge that sweet tooth.

Tara Sabharwal
Dec 12, 2016
Lehigh University
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5 Cookie Recipes You Definitely Should Be Making This Holiday Season
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The holidays are a time to engage in your sweet tooth and indulge in your cravings, and what better way to get started than to compile a list of the best desserts you need to make once finals, work, or just strenuous parts of life are over.

1. Gooey Butter Cookies

Recipe here

Gooey butter cookies are exactly what’s right with deserts: copious amounts of sugar, butter, cream cheese, and all the things that make baking great. They are best cold and you can get creative with the flavors since the base is a cake mix. We’ve tried red velvet, chocolate, and Funfetti and the cookies never cease to be phenomenal.

2. Ginger Bread Cookies

Recipe here

A classic for the holidays, but these cookies have just the right amount of spice to balance out the extreme sugar content in all the other cookies you’ll be making. Also, it’s a whole other level of fun to create little families of cookies, and if you’re feeling really ambitious, try to create a house or even a village.

3. Sugar Cutout Cookies

Recipe here

Another classic, but the best are the ones that have the right (by right I mean large) amounts of butter and are that perfect cream color when the dough is chilled. For added sugar, we always decorate with sprinkles and candy stars before baking so the toppings really sink into the cookie themselves

4. Chocolate Chip Cookies

Recipe here

Once again with the classics, but the fun in chocolate chip cookies, as simple as they are, is exploring different recipes to perfect them. Some come out flat and crunchy, others fluffy and chewy and the process of figuring out how you can make your best chocolate chip cookie is definitely a fun one. Little tip: recipes with shortening in them (albeit more fattening) are the best because the cookies get super soft after baking.

5. Oatmeal Whoopie Pies

Recipe here

If it’s not marshmallow filling, you’re doing it wrong. These are the best breakfast in the holiday season (it is oatmeal after all so that counts as breakfast). The combination of the marshmallow and the cookie is actually phenomenal, especially when the consistency of the cookie is super chewy so it doesn’t take away from the filling.

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