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We are in the midst of Christmas cookie baking season! Are you done baking or are you still in need of some Christmas cookie recipes? Either way, here are the most popular and the top ten Christmas cookie recipes on our site this season —

#1 Traditional Decorated Christmas Cookies – No surprise here, people want the best sugar cookies for decorating with frosting and candies.

#2 Christmas Butter Cookies – This one may be a surprise, these are much more simple cookies, rich and buttery but not as easily frostable. Though they are easy to make, perhaps the easiest Christmas cookies you can make.

#3 Auntie’s Christmas Cookies – Here is another sugar cookie recipes, traditional, good for decorating.

#4 Christmas Spice Cookies – Here is another surprise entry on the list. You would think gingerbread would fit the bill for spice cookies, but this recipe has proven to be very popular.

#5 Christmas Angel Cookies – These are some fun angel shaped cookies, great for making with kids.

#6 White Christmas Cookies – Another fun cookie to make and you get great results.

#7 Christmas Candy Cane Cookies – These cookies are actually shaped like a candy cane and with the use of double colored doughs, they look like candy canes as well. A fun cookie to make and they look fantastic as a gift or to set out for your Christmas buffet or table.

#8 Old Fashioned Soft Sugar Cookies – For those looking for a great tasting but soft sugar cookie.

#9 Christmas Ginger Cookies – A gingerbread style cookie recipe, but a bit more simple.

#10 Frosted Christmas Brownies – Here is another surprise, Christmas brownies! Yes, Christmas brownies, these are just brownies with some Christmas decorations. Easy and fun to make for Christmas and great for chocolate lovers.

You may have noticed that we are reformatting and adding more description to our recipes, starting with the Christmas cookies section. We hope this will allow people to view and print recipes easier on our site, with less clutter. We are in the midst of Christmas cookie baking season, so to celebrate, here are my favorite Christmas cookie recipes —

Decorated Christmas Cookies – Perfect for baking and decorating with your favorite cookie cutters. Don’t forget the frosting!

7 Layer Bars – I know some people who wouldn’t bother baking if they didn’t bake these lovely little morsels of yumminess. Some people also refer to them as Dream Bars. Very easy and quick to make as long as you have all the ingredients.

Mexican Christmas Cookies – These are traditional Mexican cookies, especially for Christmas time. These are a must for my family at Christmas, someone always brings along a plate of Bizcochitos, as we call them.

Candy Cane Cookies – These are amazing candy cane shaped cookies that are not nearly as complicated to make as they seem. These are very impressive cookies to bring along to parties, cookie exchanges and simply to impress your family, friends and co-workers.

Christmas Ornament Cookies – These are surprisingly easy to make, and you can hang them on your tree, you just need to cut a hole to put some string through. If you really want to make them fancy, the easy way, you can use some little tubes of store-bought frosting to make these gorgeous.

Holiday Gingerbread Cookies – No holiday season would be complete without some gingerbread at some point. These cookies are traditional and tasty, yet aren’t crazy complicated. You get the real gingerbread taste, perfect for cutting out with your handy dandy gingerbread man cookie cutter.

These are my essential holiday cookie recipes, what are yours? Check out our site for loads more Christmas cookie recipes!

Christmas is coming soon, we have just updated and reformatted many of our Christmas cookie recipes, why not check them out now so you can buy the ingredients you need beforehand — http://www.cookie-recipes.net/christmas-cookie-recipes-christmas-cookies.htm

Great recipes for Christmas cookies include —

Cutout Sugar Cookies
Gingerbread Man Cookies
Sugar Cookies
Snickerdoodles
7 Layer Bar Cookies
Peanut Butter Kisses

You will find them all on our Christmas cookie recipes category.

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Have you checked out our easy cookie recipes section lately?

Easy Cookie Recipes

Check out our recipes for saltines cookies, lemon bars, dream bars, gingerbread cookies, raspberry cookies and, of course, snickerdoodles, the classic sweet little cookies that are easy to make and fun to eat.

Also, check out this recipe for our easiest to make no bake cookies —

Easiest No Bake Cookies

2 cups Sugar
1/2 cup Butter
4 tbsp Cocoa powder
1/2 cup Evaporated milk
1/2 cup Peanut butter
3 cups Oats
1/2 tsp Vanilla extract
1/4 tsp Salt

Combine the sugar, butter, milk, salt and cocoa powder into saucepan, bring to boil for about 1 minute. Remove from heat. Stir in vanilla extract, peanut butter and oats. Mix well. Drop mixture by tablespoonfuls onto waxed paper.

You may not have seen our newest category of cookie recipes, our Oatmeal Cookie Recipes section.

We have compiled all the oatmeal cookie recipes on our site into one section, plus added a few new ones as well. Be sure to check it out, you can find all these recipes and a lot more:

* Country Oatmeal Cookies
* Amish Oatmeal Cookies
* Butterscotch Oatmeal Crinkles
* Chocolate Oatmeal Chewies
* Toasted Oatmeal Cookies
* The Ultimate Oatmeal Cookies
* Double Oat Cookies
* Oatmeal Lacies
* Oatmeal-Raisin Cookies
* Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
* Maple Syrup Oatmeal Cookies
* Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies

We’re in the middle of summer, so why not try some cookies for your picnic, camping trip or family vacation? If it’s too hot to turn on the oven, check out our no bake cookie recipes.

So much wonderful fruit is in season in the summertime, strawberries, cherries, raspberries, and don’t forget lemons. Or go for a tropical twist with a coconut cookie. Our favorite summer cookie recipes has to be the S’mores cookie bars, like the real thing only better!

In our summer cookie recipes section, we have:

* No Bake Strawberry Cookies
* S’mores Cookie Bars
* Lemon Blossom Cookies
* Cherry Pinwheel Cookies
* Chocolate Cherry Drop Cookies
* Apricot Filled Cookies
* Lemon Drop Cookies
* Cherry Cookie Pizza
* Apricot Sour Cream Cookies
* Lemon Chess Bars
* Lemon Butter Bars
* Low Fat Lemon Oat Bars
* Lemon Coconut Bars
* Toasted Coconut Cookies
* Blueberry Cookie Recipe
* Chocolate Raspberry Linzer Cookies

View all our summer cookie recipes now, click here.

Mother’s Day is just a couple days away, so now is the time to start baking some gifts. Cookies can be a super thoughtful and caring gift, after all, they are made with your own hands! What could be more heartfelt? Here are some ideas for great cookie recipes for Mother’s Day gifts:

Here is our main category of Mother’s Day Cookie Recipes.

Here’s a cool idea, why not make a cookie bouquet?

Ever seen those mixes in a jar with the fancy bows in a store? You can make those yourself with ingredients and supplies you probably already have in your home. Check out all of our cookie mix in a jar, cookie gifts in a jar recipes.

We’ve added a section of Easter cookie recipes just recently, check them out:

http://www.cookie-recipes.net/easter-cookie-recipes.htm

We’ve just added a section with our favorite easy cookie recipes for people to make quickly and with less hassle than most normal cookie recipes.

Check it out:
Easy Cookie Recipes