Christmas Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies.

Recipe makes about 32 cookies.

Cookies are rolled in red and green sugar sprinkles.

These are in my top 3 favorite Christmas cookies! Easy to make, and so good!

Don’t skimp on the red and green sugar sprinkles, the more you get on the dough, the better they will look.

Christmas Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies

 

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Prep time

10 mins

Cook time

8 mins

Total time

18 mins

 

Author: Holly

Recipe type: dessert

Serves: 32

Ingredients

• ½ cup sugar
• ½ cup packed light brown sugar
• ½ cup (1 stick) butter, melted (microwave for 25-30 seconds)
• ½ cup smooth peanut butter
• 1 egg
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1½ cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• + sugar red and green sugar sprinkles for coating
• -Hershey's Kisses

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a medium sized mixing bowl add sugar, brown sugar, & melted butter, stir until creamy. Add peanut butter, egg, & vanilla, stir until smooth & creamy.
3. Add flour & baking soda & stir until well combined.
4. Scoop or roll dough into 1 inch balls (or smaller). Roll balls in a bowl of sugar to coat. Place on ungreased cookie sheets.
5. Bake for 8-10 minutes. While the cookies are baking unwrap the Hershey's Kisses. Right after you remove the cookies from the oven place a Hershey's Kiss on top of the cookie & gently press it down.

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Christmas Whipped Shortbread Cookies.

Super easy, melt in your mouth whipped shortbread cookies! I really didn’t think there would be a difference between regular and whipped shortbread, but I was wrong! These are much lighter, softer and melt in your mouth.

Your want room temperature butter, not melty microwave butter and not too cold from the fridge.

You can press down with the fork twice if you want to make a criss cross pattern on cookie.

Christmas Whipped Shortbread Cookies

 

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Prep time

10 mins

Cook time

14 mins

Total time

24 mins

 

Author: Holly

Recipe type: Dessert

Serves: 25

Ingredients

• I cup butter at room temperature
• ½ cup powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla or almond extract (or ½ teaspoon of each)
• 1¾ cup flour
• sprinkles

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees, line baking pans with parchment paper.
2. Using an electric or stand mixer, beat the butter and powdered sugar on medium for 3-4 mins. until light and fluffy. Mix in vanilla or almond. Slowly mix in the flour.
3. Roll dough into 1" balls (if too sticky, refrigerate dough for 10-15 mins.)
4. Dip fork into a little powdered sugar or flower, then press into dough to slightly flatten cookie, repeat with all cookies. Add sprinkles.
5. Bake for 14-18 mins. May take a little more of less time depending on the size you make. Will be done when dough is not shiny anymore.

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Thanksgiving Turkey Thumbprint Cookies. Cute, and fun for the kids!

If your cookies have puffed up a little in the middle after baking, you can take the back of a spoon and push it down a little.

I could not find candy eyes at any stores near me, so I just bought a tube of black icing to use for the eyes.

Thumbprint Cookie Turkeys

 

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Prep time

15 mins

Cook time

11 mins

Total time

26 mins

 

Author: Holly

Recipe type: Dessert

Ingredients

• 4 cups flour
• ½ teaspoon baking powder
• 1 cup plus 6 tablespoons soft butter
• 1⅓ cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• ½ teaspoon almond extract (optional)
• 4-6 squares of chocolate or vanilla almond bark (candy melts)
• candy corn
• black icing or candy eyes

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In small bowl mix flour and baking powder together. In large bowl with mixer, cream together the butter and sugar, add in eggs, vanilla and almond extract until well combined. Slowly add in the flour mixture.
3. Take a tablespoon of dough, roll into ball and put on cookie sheet. Push your thumb down in the middle. Bake at 350 degrees for 11-13 mins. Remove from oven and let cool.
4. Melt almond bark according to package. Take small spoonfuls and put in the cookies. Wait for the almond bark to set up a little bit and then add the candy corn feathers. Cut the tip off of a candy corn to use as the nose. Use black icing for the eyes.

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